De Children of De Night Cafe

Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Rescuing the original "Dracula parrots," bats.

Soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Orcas chase (blue?) whale. The sea bird flies above waiting to eat whatever the loser leaves behind.

Even when a hyena is happy, it sounds weird and evil.

Unknown crashing noise spooks neighborhood.

Kangaroos pretend they weren't doin' nuffin' when humans roll up.

Sound on: Goats get their horns locked and make a racket about it.

Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old. Some call it the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth." I feel a little stupid that this is new to me. Feels like something I should have remembered from In Search Of...

If Dracula lived in the bayou, would his castle be surrounded by gators? I think so.

Playing peak-a-boo with a tiger kitten. This better not be AI.

The highway tax is one whole carrot.

A haunted tree. Okay it's not haunted but this video plays spooky carnival music and I want to keep with the post's spooky theme.

A subsun, an illusion of a glowing form caused by sunlight hitting ice particles from directly above. This must have caused a bunch of ghost sightings.

This honey badger is so aggressive he doesn't care that this elephant is sixty times his size but the elephant is going to teach him that that is an important factor in a fight.

The most demonic animal of all -- a baby penguin.

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Ghost!

hiker captures his own shadow floating in the mountain mist pic.twitter.com/iTpmpPtSqY
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1 Sure is empty in here

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:12 PM (sDNVV)

2 Hey Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:13 PM (22p5n)

3 Stop torturing that tiger cub.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (pkeXY)

4 !!driveby.

Posted by: clarence at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (GE9Fw)

5 SMH, I see you are with your youngest and granddaughters. I know you are loving it. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:16 PM (sDNVV)

6
That baby penguin could teach Big Mike a thing or two about swallowing food whole.

And that's saying something!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:16 PM (xG4kz)

7 I'm going to guess that "variety of animals show up at night" film ended with AI--the other animals were believable, but I'm not buying the bear as being real.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

8 chilly!

g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 07:17 PM (Cjt/F)

9 >>>Playing peak-a-boo with a tiger kitten.

Thought going through the cub's head: Just wait until I'm bigger.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 24, 2025 07:18 PM (8mulE)

10 I don't care what anyone says, that bird got bit.

As for Ravens, they are my favorite bird. We have tons of them around here. They will hold a "conversation" with you, if you don't mind sounding like a crazy person to everyone else around you.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (CTMu4)

11 I'm guessing the Dracula Parrot isn't a fan of garlic.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (31p00)

12 * throws sock_rat a down comforter*

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (sDNVV)

13 The most demonic animal of all -- a baby penguin.

Truth. And the normalization of penguins is Big Penguin's greatest trick.

This marks three consecutive Cafés with penguins happy footing through. Even the world-class janitorial team that Ace has assembled will have difficulty ameliorating, much less eradicating the pernicious mephiticism of their bouquet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

14 The meteor crater clip is distorted photography. You can walk to the bottom (I have) and it is not too steep.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (8VwBr)

15 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.

Wiki:
"One of the features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site."

Nah, the simulation hardware wasn't that good 50k years ago, so stuff from back then still looks kind of pixelated.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (nhCoE)

16 Stop torturing that tiger cub.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (pkeXY)

Worst part is, if you play with them, they won't learn to stay away from humans. No matter where you put them, if they encounter humans they will do what comes naturally.

And messing with them young means they can't go back in the wild, because other tigers don't want them around. Too much human stank and habits.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (CTMu4)

17 There's a meteor crater at Cumberland gap on the KY side, with a town inside of it. They didn't realize until just recently that it was a crater.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (Hw6WF)

18 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (zYpTz)

19 "hiker captures his own shadow"

It's called a glory, and despite the colors, is not related to the rainbow. (Just wait. The Alphabet People will probably claim it as their own if they are paying attention.)

You can also see it in the clouds below your airplane's shadow, if you stop staring at the screen and look out the window.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (iDFVA)

20 The meteor crater clip is distorted photography. You can walk to the bottom (I have) and it is not too steep.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (8VwBr)

Not too far from here. I haven't visited yet, but the plan is to do so in the coming months.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:25 PM (CTMu4)

21 That's a creepy looking bird.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)

22
* Alfred Hitchcock intonement *

Good evening, Dash my lace wigs!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

23 As for Ravens, they are my favorite bird. We have tons of them around here. They will hold a "conversation" with you, if you don't mind sounding like a crazy person to everyone else around you.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (CTMu4)

I have a family of crows that I feed. They talk to me too, usually at 5 am telling me it's time for breakfast. They stop by a couple of times a day and let me know they're here. I'm ready a book about Corvids (crows, raven, jays and magpies). Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0714D)

24 No noodin bastiges.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (41CYW)

25 Ubehebe Crater. Right next to the Little Hebe.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (TTak+)

26 Carolla has a funny routine about using trained assault crows as security guards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (BI5O2)

27 This honey badger is so aggressive he doesn't care that this elephant is sixty times his size but the elephant is going to teach him that that is an important factor in a fight.

Elephant needs to get some more elevation on that if he's gonna be an NFL place-kicker.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (nhCoE)

28 Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM

The latter isn't that high of a bar.

Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

29
Middlesboro crater, it's called I see looking it up. They first suspected in only in 1966.

They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

30 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.

When I visited I thought "Wow! The impact just missed the gift shop. What luck!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

31 >>>A variety of animals coming to drink water at night

Skunks are bullies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (dK+Kv)

32 Salvatore “Waddles” Ghiaccio - il pinguino de tutti pinguini - is reading the Ace of Spades comment section. He suddenly curses softly under his breath, grabs a Pilchard Perfecto from his humidor and crams it in his mouth.
“Ya know, Beaks, I don't know what's up with this Dinkletrax boid. I have reached out to da guy and tried to come to a…a… say, Marco, what is it when da Democrats and Republicans vote da same way on some scheme to fleece da taxpayer?”
“Dat’s called a bi-paisan vote, boss”.
“Yeh, dat’s it, I been lookin’ for a bi-paisan solution, and dis goomba just keeps giving’ me da raspberries. I t'ink da woild would be a better place with fewer and better Dunkletrixes. Now, I don’t know how to make ‘em better, but I got a good idea about how to make ‘em fewer. So, Beaks, I got a job for yez.”
“Yeh, boss?”
“Dunkletax hangs out in a bar called de Frisky Ewok. I want yez to drive by dere, make sure he’s inside, and lob a pineapple at ‘im. Capish?”
“Sure,sure, boss, a piece a’cake”. To be continued...

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

33 Good evening Dash!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (cYBz/)

34 Dash, check your phone, please.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (sDNVV)

35 No noodin bastiges.
Posted by: scampydog

Ben Had announced the cafe at 7:13 (willowing me at 7:12), but she didn't use the N word.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (nhCoE)

36 They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

both of which would be great names for a metal band.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

37 Continued from 32
Two hours later, Beaks returns.
“So, how’d it go, Beaks?”
“Well, I drove by da bar, and he was dere, alright, so’s I chucked a pineapple at ‘im, just like youse told me”.
“And?”
“He caught da pineapple one-handed, den he sliced it up and ate it. Said it was delicious and sends his regards.”
“What?!? I didn’t mean to t’row a pineapple like what grows on palm trees, ya moax! I meant a grenade!”
“Gee, boss, don’t take dat altitude. I didn’t know da jargon. And, when yez t’ink about it, a grenade looks more like a artichoke, wouldn’t ya say?”
Waddles’ subsequent short but vitriolic speech is redacted inasmuch as this is a family blog.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:32 PM (mADJX)

38 scampydog, what part of the Cafe is open did you miss? I'm just messing with you !

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:32 PM (sDNVV)

39 I have a family of crows that I feed. They talk to me too, usually at 5 am telling me it's time for breakfast. They stop by a couple of times a day and let me know they're here. I'm ready a book about Corvids (crows, raven, jays and magpies). Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0714D)

Crows are interesting, but they're like C student ninth graders, while Ravens are Stanford grad students in one of the hard sciences.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (CTMu4)

40
We have Fish Crows down at our place in Sussex County. They are a distinct species from the Common Crow and the Common Raven. Their calls are distinctly different from these other two corvids.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

41 24 No noodin bastiges.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (41CYW)

The declaration of nood was just.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (dK+Kv)

42 When I visited I thought "Wow! The impact just missed the gift shop. What luck!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

Heh.

Thankfully it hit not that far from the interstate.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:34 PM (CTMu4)

43 Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Polly want ~~a cracker~~ Your Soul

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (ynpvh)

44 while Ravens are Stanford grad students in one of the hard sciences.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (CTMu4)

You mean they are DEIing hard while smoking weed and dumping kn the white man and how gravity is racist?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

45 Polly want ~~a cracker~~ Your Soul
Posted by: jim

Too late! I've sold it multiple times. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (cYBz/)

46 >>> They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

both of which would be great names for a metal band.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

Astroblemes would be a prog metal group. Starwounds would be a stoner metal group.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (3uBP9)

47 Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Polly want a cracker Your Soul

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (ynpvh)

Those have red heads.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (dK+Kv)

48
I think the highest resolution dating of the Meteor Crater impact is 56Kya now. And there was a recent paper, where they think that impact event caused a landslide in the Grand Canyon, which dammed the river and let to the formation of lake, which lasted about 1000 years before it burst.

There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

49 Sign that Elephant up!

Posted by: SAINTS COACH at November 24, 2025 07:37 PM (8I4hW)

50 Geeze Ace, you've never seen that crater? Have you seen Starman?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 24, 2025 07:38 PM (r+xel)

51 33 Good evening Dash!!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (cYBz/)

Tonypete! *waves wildly

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:38 PM (zYpTz)

52 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.[i/]

It's big enough that you can clearly see the raised lip from I-40. Been there, done that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 24, 2025 07:39 PM (/HDaX)

53 You mean they are DEIing hard while smoking weed and dumping kn the white man and how gravity is racist?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

Don't tell me Stanford is full of dodo birds now too.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:39 PM (CTMu4)

54 We have Fish Crows down at our place in Sussex County. They are a distinct species from the Common Crow and the Common Raven. Their calls are distinctly different from these other two corvids.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

55 DH to dogs: Oh, is it treat time? Is that why you are following me?

Me: When is it NOT treat time?

I'm fixing up a batch of Apple Bacon Jam. The whole house smells lovely just now.

Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (6Bc88)

56 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29)

57 We're heading out on a cruise, and we'd love to have you join us!

We'll be the ones with upside-down pineapples on our cabin doors. IYKYK.

Posted by: Lena, Whoopi, Joy, Triggly, and Lizzo at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (iN5AS)

58 “Dunkletax hangs out in a bar called de Frisky Ewok. I want yez to drive by dere, make sure he’s inside, and lob a pineapple at ‘im. Capish?”

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

Dunkletax...Dinkletrax...lol

Duncanthrax is working up an eloquent thrashing for you right now. I'd lay money on it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

59 There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Could that driftwood have been put there by an ancient civilization, with an intelligence far beyond anything this planet had ever seen before?

Posted by: Graham Handcocked at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (CTMu4)

60 There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Holy cow. that is seriously cool. Imagine being around when the lake drained. What little I know of dams, is that the water erosion is slow, then sudden.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:42 PM (0aYVJ)

61
They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes"

Sounds like Miracle Max from "The Princess Bride"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (xG4kz)

62 17 There's a meteor crater at Cumberland gap on the KY side, with a town inside of it. They didn't realize until just recently that it was a crater.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (Hw6WF)

They're always in the last place you look.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (5rh/l)

63 I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

64 I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

65 Dear bastiges, my apologies for my lack of noticing the nood calls on previous thread. Consider this my formal retraction.

Posted by: scampydog - Roman Moroney at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (41CYW)

66 Could that driftwood have been put there by an ancient civilization, with an intelligence far beyond anything this planet had ever seen before?
Posted by: Graham Handcocked at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (CTMu4)

Don't be silly, at that time they were learning to build incredibly complex walls in Cuzco with flint and bearskins

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

67 tcn, Thank you again for the delicious salmon you provided for the MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)

68 Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (6Bc8

I want one of those. Even though I have no wood stove.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

69 Probably okay to play with cheetah cubs though. They're not terribly strong, and if they hang around humans then they're not getting bullied by hyenas and lions like they usually are.
Also they're friend shaped.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (gKWVE)

70 Top pic:

"Polly want carrion. Right f*cking now!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (npFr7)

71 Evening.

That dog in the last video wasn't showing live, he was showing submission.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (b3guP)

72 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

73 Consider this my formal retraction.
Posted by: scampydog - Roman Moroney at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (41CYW)

The internet is forever. You know that.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:48 PM (6Bc88)

74 67 tcn, Thank you again for the delicious salmon you provided for the MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)

Let's hope for another good year on the river, shall we?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:48 PM (6Bc88)

75 Don't be silly, at that time they were learning to build incredibly complex walls in Cuzco with flint and bearskins
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

See, that's what I find funny. I couldn't care less about his "theories" of ancient aliens, or whatever he's on about.

What I find interesting is that we keep finding out civilizations do in fact, go back further than we previously thought.

And some of the Poobahs of archeology don't like being proven wrong on the timelines.

Whether it's aliens, or just humans who were a damn lot smarter than we've given them credit for, far further back in history than we thought... all I know is there's no such thing as settled freakin' science.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (CTMu4)

76 tcn, we shall.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

77 >>> I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

Don't forget Old Crow Medicine Show

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

78
The Meteor Crater impactor was around 100m, about a football field in diameter, and impact energy was 10 MT. A pretty good nuking, but just 1/5th of a Tsar Bomba.

In contrast, the Dino-killer energy was 2 *million* Tsar Bombas.

So the AZ impact was a "local news story", not a global ELE event.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

79 My personal favorite for alternative name for a raven is "Halloween chicken."

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (wYaAc)

80 LOL, you missing Halloween, Ace?

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (AlQPO)

81 both of which would be great names for a metal band.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Astroblemes would be a prog metal group. Starwounds would be a stoner metal group.
Posted by: banana Dream

I think Astrobleme is darkwave, and Starwounds is dream pop.

.....and I saw Starwounds open for Lovespirals at First Avenue in 2003.

https://youtu.be/qrRHYl6c4AY

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (nhCoE)

82 Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Lost Dutchman Mine, the Superstition Mountains; all in Arizona. You folks in AZ ought to get out before the next severe cosmic or paranormal abnormality hits!

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (5rh/l)

83 It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Like my soul.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (j2BVb)

84 I want one of those. Even though I have no wood stove.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

Amazon:

Plow & Hearth Dragon Wood Stove Steamer | Cast Iron Fireplace Humidifier | Matte Black | Rust Resistant | Functional Kettle Alternative | 2.75 QT Capacity

Very cool, indeed.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (6Bc88)

85 If Ella married a Mr. Salmon, she'd probably hate seeing her name on an alphabetized list as Salmon, Ella.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

86 SMH, I see you are with your youngest and granddaughters. I know you are loving it. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Posted by: Ben Had
___

Not until Wednesday. Will be there over the weekend though.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (22p5n)

87 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

No, but you sure do like to shove them up your fairy backside, you skinny poofter.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (CTMu4)

88 48
I think the highest resolution dating of the Meteor Crater impact is 56Kya now. And there was a recent paper, where they think that impact event caused a landslide in the Grand Canyon, which dammed the river and let to the formation of lake, which lasted about 1000 years before it burst.

There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Reminds me of how they determined the asteroid that kilt the dinos happened during North America spring based on the fish that died having tiny glass spherules stuck in their gills and based on their bone layer growth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (ynpvh)

89 SMH, Happy Birthday on your special day.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:52 PM (sDNVV)

90 Plow & Hearth Dragon Wood Stove Steamer
Very cool, indeed.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (6Bc8

I can always stick it on the mantel of my non-functional fireplace, and just admire it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (zYpTz)

91 87 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

No, but you sure do like to shove them up your fairy backside, you skinny poofter.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (CTMu4)

::: cuts down a palm tree, leaving it's trunk at 2ft above the ground, grows a pineapple in a large pot on top of said trunk :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (ynpvh)

92 Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.
Posted by: tcn

Scaled up, wouldn't we have a Brazen Bull?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (cYBz/)

93
Sorry, Meteor Crater impactor was just half that, 50m, so half a football field. I was confusing that with something else. But energy was 10 MT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (w6EFb)

94 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (AlQPO)

95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

96 If Ella married a Mr. Salmon, she'd probably hate seeing her name on an alphabetized list as Salmon, Ella.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

A grade/high school classmate of mine - Patty Rice - was the source of 12 years of hilarity during the roll call the first day of classes.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (cYBz/)

97 It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Like my soul.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM

Nay, nay, lady. You are a nacreous and splendiferous beacon shining in our otherwise drab and dreary existences.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

98 It's definitely a 2 dog night and all I have is 1 dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

99 Dewey Crow?

Not anymore he don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (2jpkJ)

100 95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

Amazing what a large-enough iron rock traveling at 50,000 mph can do with all that momentum, even after being converted to great heat, evaporation said meteor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

101 98 It's definitely a 2 dog night and all I have is 1 dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

I have cats...do I have a cat house?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

102 LOL, you missing Halloween, Ace?
Posted by: GWB

He was looking for turkey pictures, but they're all in hiding this week.

Maybe we'll get a turkey Cafe just before Christmas.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (nhCoE)

103
nurse,

Son is driving to Seatac now from Port Townsend. His flight is at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Coming here for Thanksgiving. We're so excited.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (3ek7K)

104 SMH, it's your birthday? Happy birthday! Hope it's grand.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (zYpTz)

105 Dumbo crows >>> all other crows

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (wVcYX)

106
It's only the dense objects that make it to the ground and leave craters. Less denser objects, like comets and their fragments don't leave craters, but explode in massive airbursts. It's still a good nuking, but doesn't leave the crater.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

107 SMH, it's your birthday? Happy birthday! Hope it's grand.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
___

Wednesday. Day before Thanksgiving this year.

But thanks. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (22p5n)

108
The Tunguska Event was an example of one of those massive airbursts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (w6EFb)

109 Lol @ babylonbee

"Trump To Execute All Turkeys Pardoned By Biden's Autopen"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (BI5O2)

110 More gifts form Minneapolis Somalis.

>>@Dapper_Det
·
47s
>>🚨BREAKING: The Somali takeover of Minneapolis is worse than we thought. Fraudulent claims for autism treatment in Minnesota spiked from $3 million to $399 million in just 5 years. Illegal Alien Muslim populations are decimating our healthcare system w/ fraud in sanctuary cities.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)

111 108
The Tunguska Event was an example of one of those massive airbursts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---------
Yes, that was a biggie.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (41CYW)

112 Sheryl Crow was hot once.

On Saturday I made it a point to play “Run Baby Run”. Where were you and what were you doing (if old enough) when you found out Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis died?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (2fCWp)

113
They're all thieves.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (3ek7K)

114 Reminds me of how they determined the asteroid that kilt the dinos happened during North America spring based on the fish that died having tiny glass spherules stuck in their gills and based on their bone layer growth.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (ynpvh)

In spite of the hits science has taken, due to all the frauds and evil monsters who have given it a bad name lately, I do love science, sexually.

And to me it's like magic, that there are people who can dig in the dirt and discover things about our past, going back billions of years.

Or look up in the sky, and tell us what's going on gazillions of light years away.

Not to mention surgeons who can cut open a preemie baby's chest, and fix a heart that is tinier than one you get out of a box of Lucky Charms.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (2jpkJ)

115
These cometary airburst events are probably more frequent than thought, too, as they don't leave the crater evidence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (w6EFb)

116 On average Somalis are retarded.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (estQK)

117 Ye ole watering hole is a magnificent place for harvesting this week's stew.

Potatoes, carrots and onions, happy Thanksgiving!

Note: I've never tried skunk.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (WFC1M)

118 It's only the dense objects that make it to the ground and leave craters. Less denser objects, like comets and their fragments don't leave craters, but explode in massive airbursts. It's still a good nuking, but doesn't leave the crater.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

Hot Fudge Tuesdae @ 640,000 megatons

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (wVcYX)

119 Happy Birthday, SMH!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (npFr7)

120 AOP!

Thanks!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 08:02 PM (22p5n)

121 I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat

And Crowbot. (Crobot. local. not sure if they've hit)

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 08:03 PM (zfkPG)

122 77 >>> I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

Don't forget Old Crow Medicine Show
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

AM I CHOPPED LIVER?

Posted by: Crow T. Robot at November 24, 2025 08:03 PM (2fCWp)

123 Beware The Penguins

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (2fCWp)

124 Publius, look up the Carswell Structure, in northwest Saskatchewan. Impact crater of Proterozoic age, may have been initially 30 miles across.

And there is a large subsurface impact crater in southern Alberta, that has been delineated by seismic surveys and well drilling.

And there is a small, fairly recent, like post-glacial? one near Whitecourt, Alberta. I should go see it sometime. A day's drive for me, there and back.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (npFr7)

125
I have a question about Charlie Brown T-Giving:

Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (37Fks)

126 Old Crow was once the top-selling bourbon in the United States and gained fame among notable figures, including politicians like Henry Clay and Ulysses S. Grant, military leaders such as Confederate General Jubal Early and World War II pilot Bud Anderson, and writers like Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (wVcYX)

127 That tiger kitten is going to rip that guys arms off someday

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (+qU29)

128 100 95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

Amazing what a large-enough iron rock traveling at 50,000 mph can do with all that momentum, even after being converted to great heat, evaporation said meteor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

Kinetic energy of an object increases by the square of its velocity. That's why banging your car into a light pole at 35 miles per hour damages your car and the light pole a whole, whole, lot more than hitting the pole at 5 mph. So remember - ALWAYS stay out of the way of anything moving at 50,000 mph!!!!!

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (5rh/l)

129 On average Somalis are retarded.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Ha! That's the first thing a Minneapolis friend said about the news. Said it will make the roads *much* safer. I hope they don't give Somalis trucks to drive in the winter.

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (zfkPG)

130 Sooth I always wondered that.
And no one was at grandma's house

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (+qU29)

131 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

132 That was a good kick by the elephant, straight right into the net.

I've been to the crater. I think it's in a number of movies too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (n5tGW)

133 Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (37Fks)

Their parents went to Paris for the holidays and inadvertently left them at home

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (rbvCR)

134 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

Cuz cashews go straight to their thighs?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (442Ay)

135
And no one was at grandma's house
Posted by: Skip

Yeah, Skip, makes no sense.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:11 PM (37Fks)

136 four seasons,
I do hope you’ve been to PT for the Wooden Boat Festival.

I love that crazy logging mill town.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 08:11 PM (GtiC3)

137
The Younger-Dryas impact hypothesis, the evidence for which is coming in pretty good now, was a cometary fragment shotgun blast.

The remains of that object are likely Comet Encke and the the Taurid stream.

It think the best dating 12.8Kya now, but I'm not sure. Anyway, massive comet broke up into pieces, and the Erf plowed into that debris stream, getting a shotgun blast of dirty snowball impactors. Imagine 10 megaton nuke blasts going off all over NA, and the ice sheets.

Interestingly, Africa was apparently the safest place to be during that, suffering the least effects.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (w6EFb)

138 131 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

Because trannies hadn't yet reached the top of the oppressed victim pyramid.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (5rh/l)

139
It just occurred to me that South Park is a direct ripoff of Charlie Brown.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (37Fks)

140 >116 On average Somalis are retarded.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (estQK)

Not as retarded as the Fed Gov drones who approved the fraudulent claims. Deport. Them. All.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (GTqXr)

141 It was very windy at the Meteor Crater when we went. It was interesting but cold.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (ys6FW)

142
The Tunguska impactor was likely from the Taurid stream as well.

The problem with the Taurids is they come out of the sun when the earth crosses the stream. You can't see 'em coming. It's possible another good size chunk is lurking out there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (w6EFb)

143 Meteor Crater is right off I40. There's signage showing the exit, which indicates some sort of government recognition/status, but it's privately owned.
The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

144
Bob Newhart Show had a couple of good Thanksgiving & Christmas episodes.

Newhart show, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (37Fks)

145
nurse,

We haven't been up there for that yet.

Son loves it there. He's lived there 14 years. He says he doesn't want to live anywhere else.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

146 Marxism's goal is to crash the system then forcefully replace it if they have to.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (+qU29)

147 I'm not sure the FedGov drones who approved the fraud were retarded. They got their money, I'd bet.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (+4S8X)

148 It was very windy at the Meteor Crater when we went. It was interesting but cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (ys6FW)

Apparently it makes its own weather.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (npFr7)

149 Hot Fudge Tuesdae @ 640,000 megatons
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (wVcYX)
Lucifer's Hammer could not be made into a movie today, well, not as the book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven demands.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 08:16 PM (LHPAg)

150 I have a question about Charlie Brown T-Giving:
Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?
Posted by: Soothsayer

'70s & '80s kids were free-range, but those '50s kids were something else, huh?

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (nhCoE)

151 * waves to Barely ScaryMary and her Hubby*

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (sDNVV)

152 They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

It's heirs to the Barringer family that own the site, isn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (npFr7)

153 It just occurred to me that South Park is a direct ripoff of Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (37Fks)

I'll never forget that episode of Charlie Brown, where Schroeder's crackhead mom turns out to be a hermaphrodite, who is both Schroeder's mother AND father.

Or when Schroeder kills a guy's parents, and then feeds the kid chili made from his dead parents' flesh.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:18 PM (442Ay)

154 The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:20 PM (442Ay)

155
BurtTC,

eewwwwwww

So glad I ate the last bit of chili last night.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

156 Mom was always home. But they just did not really get phased when you said you were going to go ride your bike around the neighborhood.

And this could be repression, but I cannot remember a creepy adult. This could also be because I was always a bit antisocial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

157 Apparently it makes its own weather.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (npFr7)

So does Rosie O'Donnell's crater.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (442Ay)

158 That part of the statue of Liberty that says give us your tired, poor, bums. We need to sand blast that part off. We have more than enough

Posted by: Case at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (5Je/N)

159 *waves at Ben Had*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:22 PM (ys6FW)

160 Burt is like the Howard Stern of AoS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

161 BurtTC,

eewwwwwww

So glad I ate the last bit of chili last night.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

If you've never seen the episode, the kid had it coming.

Stupid ginger Scott Tenorman.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (5ghZ7)

162 Big jug of Old Crow - Crow Magnum.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (pkeXY)

163 Burt is like the Howard Stern of AoS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

Jeez man, what did I ever do to you?

I would prefer Don Rickles. Sure, I go hard in the paint, but none of it's meant to be mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:25 PM (5ghZ7)

164 110
'Fraudulent claims for autism treatment in Minnesota spiked from $3 million to $399 million in just 5 years. Illegal Alien Muslim populations '

Why didn't we just invite a bunch of rats to live here instead?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 08:26 PM (fd80v)

165 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Sally liked Linus, Lucy liked Schroeder. I don't think Violet or Freida crushed on anybody, and they were minor enough characters that I had to look up their names.

So, Peppermint Patty & Marcie? Or maybe just Marcie? PP might have just been a tomboy.

Charlie Brown liked the (off-screen) little red-haired girl, and, with his luck, I guess it would be on-brand for his crush to be a lesbian.....

Posted by: watch mikeski take this too seriously at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (nhCoE)

166 I would prefer Don Rickles. Sure, I go hard in the paint, but none of it's meant to be mean.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:25 PM (5ghZ7)

To be Don Rickles, you'd have to have wit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

167 That is the coolest looking parrot ever.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 08:28 PM (fGmWu)

168
Bob Newhart Show had a couple of good Thanksgiving & Christmas episodes.

Moo Goo Gai Pan!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:28 PM (pkeXY)

169 They were all like 8 years old, created like 70 years ago. None of them were really gay coded. Fucking quit it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

170 To be Don Rickles, you'd have to have wit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

I've been told I'm halfway there.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7)

171 The next to last video is the Spectre of the Brocken:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)

For further reading see:

https://is.gd/YLGHHu

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (f5j/P)

172 Why didn't we just invite a bunch of rats to live here instead?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 08:26 PM (fd80v)

We did.

Demon rats!

Aaaaahahahahahahahahaha! I crack me up.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7)

173 The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha
-----
I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.
Posted by: BurtTC

Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

174 Scott Tenorman Must Die was the one South Park episode that was sort of based on a Shakespeare play

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rbvCR)

175 Fun trivia about that guy who sees his shadow in the sky, from “connections” - the circular rainbow around him is called a glory, and it results from light refracting through a mist. An English scientist was fascinated by this so he built a cloud chamber to study it, but by accident someone realized it was even better for looking at what happens to the newly discovered X-rays when they strike a target. And from playing with that for a few years came Atomic Theory, and eventually nuclear fission.

All from someone being fascinated by pretty colors in a cloud.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:34 PM (ngbZu)

176 And the right is going after every squirrel thrown out there. It's frustrating.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025

The forums etc are sprinkled with plants. So you don't really know who is going for what.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 08:35 PM (E0p3T)

177 The rainbow flag is atomic!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (pkeXY)

178 Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

Not the kind of hole I was talking about...

The rocks sorta look like the formations that make up Devil's Tower. Apparently made by volcanic rock that heats and cools over time, forming what look like near perfect "cuts" in the rock.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (5ghZ7)

179 https://tinyurl.com/3afnh425

Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025 08:37 PM (NkA3/)

180 I've been told I'm halfway there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7

The wrong half.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:41 PM (FPBvm)

181 Not the kind of hole I was talking about...
Posted by: BurtTC

I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (QVmho)

182 The rocks sorta look like the formations that make up Devil's Tower. Apparently made by volcanic rock that heats and cools over time, forming what look like near perfect "cuts" in the rock.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (5ghZ7)

Columnar jointing. Typical of basalt and andesite lava flows. The joints are shrinkage cracks that form as the once-fluid rock hardens and cools. I don't believe there is a State in the mountain west where it cannot be found.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

183 a baby penguin.

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the best! they are THE BEST!!

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

184 Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

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Interesting. Something to add to a road trip. Thanks!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:44 PM (ys6FW)

185 179 https://tinyurl.com/3afnh425

Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025

The only real answer is to dump the research university model, which only incentivizes massive fraud. (Since promotions and pay depend on publishing)

The vast majority of “scientific” papers produced in the last 30 years are complete garbage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:47 PM (ngbZu)

186 Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025 08:37 PM (NkA3/)

This is a currently realized problem in economics, history, physics and biomedical research as well. There are some people who are claiming that this is a problem in all sciences at the moment, since it pops up whenever they look.

In economics it is not so important, and physics it is so-so, but in biomedicine it means people die.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

187 yep , Ozempic . and lots of it!

https://tinyurl.com/bdmu646f

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

188 Wolf show love until he bites your face off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:50 PM (glfD5)

189 Columnar jointing. Typical of basalt and andesite lava flows. The joints are shrinkage cracks that form as the once-fluid rock hardens and cools. I don't believe there is a State in the mountain west where it cannot be found.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

Right. Devil's Tower is unique in that all the rock surrounding it has blown away, leaving just the innards.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:52 PM (Rn0hu)

190 I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (QVmho)

I think the price was higher when I was there.

I was too chicken (and cheap) to pay though.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:53 PM (Rn0hu)

191 187 yep , Ozempic . and lots of it!

Posted by: runner
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Repulsive fat no longer cool
Repulsive skinny super hip

Where is the normal you said you'd bring to me, you said you'd give to me? Where is the normal?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:55 PM (glfD5)

192 190 I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.
Posted by: BifBewalski -
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Saw that in Times Square before Giuliani.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:56 PM (glfD5)

193 Why does it seem like so many of them overshoot on ozempic? Is it the same reason for bulimia and anorexia? They think any cushion is too much?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:57 PM (FPBvm)

194
Moo Goo Gai Pan!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Is this a Howard Borden line? I forget.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:59 PM (37Fks)

195
In the last season they "renovated" the Newhart's apartment, and all the scenes lost the magic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (37Fks)

196 The only real answer is to dump the research university model, which only incentivizes massive fraud. (Since promotions and pay depend on publishing)

The vast majority of “scientific” papers produced in the last 30 years are complete garbage.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:47 PM (ngbZu)

I have heard an argument that there is no "immune system" for research papers, and that peer review is just favors for favors at this point, with endless minutia like punctuation being the focus.

In that a PhD requires something that is unique and adding to knowledge, then the Master degree should be replicating someone else's doctoral work, or some other work in the field the student intends to PhD or graduate in.
Mastery means sufficient knowledge to understand and evaluate in one's own field, and this is the excellent way to demonstrate it.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)

197 I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.
Posted by: BurtTC
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It's obvious that you don't live in the PDX area.
If all you want to do is look, the going rate is $2-$3 per song at the rack.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (QCk9o)

198 >>>Today, the quality of academic research is often judged less by its actual scientific contribution and more by commercial metrics such as publication counts, citation numbers, or a journal’s “reputation” (impact factor).
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Not only research but quality of care. Is there a medical facility in your area that advertises itself as top in the field, best rated or something like that? It's not from quantifiable medical results it's from survey cards or online survey of patients.
Bah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 09:02 PM (glfD5)

199 I feel a little stupid that this is new to me. Feels like something I should have remembered from In Search Of...

It's real, therefore teewee is not interested.

If you would come to a TX MoMee, I could talk your ears off about this stuff!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2025 09:03 PM (ULPxl)

200 "Ice Cream For Crow" is one of my later masterpieces.

Posted by: Zombie Captain Beefheart at November 24, 2025 09:03 PM (zmYmM)

201 I never thought it could be possible to make a suckier version of "Groovy Kind of Love," but Phil Collins sure pulled it off. Man does that ever suck. Wow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 09:04 PM (BI5O2)

202 ----
Interesting. Something to add to a road trip. Thanks!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Be forewarned, the roads leading to it are deep sand. Don't attempt that unless you're in a group with drivers and vehicles equipped for it. It's beautiful, but dangerous to get to as you'll get stranded in an area where the cartels run their drugs through. Although that activity is surely curtailed to some point.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 09:05 PM (QVmho)

203 From the post on X profiles, seems a lot of people don't know whom to follow on X. Good ones here:

Depending on your definition of post-happy, these meet my postquality/postcount ratio.

@alexthechick
@Dave_in_Fla
@Nefertari_25 (Kara McKinney of OANN)
@SarahAHoyt
@EvaVlaar

I have some regional ones I follow, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM

My AceOfSpadesHQ list on X:

https://bit.ly/4p14sOs

People who either blog or comment here or people/organizations which have been shared in posts here.

I also have one for "Celebrities" which includes anyone from Libs of TikTok to Steve Inman to Wholesome Side of X to Riley Gaines to DataRepublican and MomofDataRepublican to The Critical Drinker to James Woods, etc.

https://bit.ly/3KecYKK

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 09:06 PM (P5BPp)

204 Unknown crashing noise spooks neighborhood.

__________________________________

Anyone have any guesses on this one? The sound is amplified by the weather. Too loud to be your run of the mill teenagers doing something stupid.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 09:07 PM (dIske)

205 "Anyone have any guesses on this one? The sound is amplified by the weather. Too loud to be your run of the mill teenagers doing something stupid."

Sasquatch. I blame Sasquatch.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 09:10 PM (89Sog)

206 In that a PhD requires something that is unique and adding to knowledge...
Posted by: Kindltot
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I had a friend who was working on his doctorate bitch about his dissertation subject. He had submitted his proposal to his advisor, who rejected it, and required him to narrow his subject considerably, saying that it was so broad, it was removing at least 3 or 4 future dissertations.
"Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, one silly millimeter at a time," as he poetically put it.
Cultural reference (that will be missed by the under-29 crowd) in the quote.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 09:12 PM (QCk9o)

207 Sasquatch. I blame Sasquatch.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 09:10 PM (89Sog)
____________________

Heh...you're probably right. I thought maybe there is a warehouse next to the neighborhood and someone was using a fork lift to bang dirt off of metal pallets. Still, seems way to loud for that. Maybe a Diesel Hammer, better known as a steel Pile Driver.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 09:15 PM (dIske)

208 Be forewarned, the roads leading to it are deep sand. Don't attempt that unless you're in a group with drivers and vehicles equipped for it. It's beautiful, but dangerous to get to as you'll get stranded in an area where the cartels run their drugs through. Although that activity is surely curtailed to some point.

Posted by: BifBewalski

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Thanks for the warning. We have 4x4 and experience near the border. We're not likely to be in a group to help save our butts, though. May have to give it a miss.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:17 PM (ys6FW)

209 The children of the night,
What music they make.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:18 PM (77rzZ)

210 Caw, Caw Caw!

Posted by: Lesbian Seagull at November 24, 2025 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)

211 Where’d everboddy go?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

212 >> It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Patience. At ~35N, it's close to the window of earliest sunset, which will occur on the Dec. 5th. For Seattle, that will be around the 10th.

For all practical purposes that window begins Nov 30 here, where the sunset times won't change but by a few seconds, staying in the 5:17PM window. And then, sunset gets later, even as the days get shorter until the solstice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

213 Great. I show up on the thread and everybody else leaves.

Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

214 Listen to them, children of the night. What music they make.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (YGRGv)

215 The time change has kicked my butt this year. Only 8:30 central and it feels like midnight.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (ys6FW)

216 Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

Can you do Normandy out of Once Upon a Mattress?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

217 “There’s no business
Like show business,
Like no business
I know!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (77rzZ)

218 216 “Bravo, bravo, bravissimo!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)

219 “You’ve got to pick pocket or two, Boys,
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:33 PM (77rzZ)

220 213 Great. I show up on the thread and everybody else leaves.

Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

If you dance around in seamed stockings and garters, none of the morons will ever leave.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:34 PM (6Bc88)

221 212 >> It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Patience. At ~35N, it's close to the window of earliest sunset, which will occur on the Dec. 5th. For Seattle, that will be around the 10th.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

publius, I enjoy reading your posts...always interesting.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (y171U)

222 For all practical purposes that window begins Nov 30 here, where the sunset times won't change but by a few seconds, staying in the 5:17PM window. And then, sunset gets later, even as the days get shorter until the solstice.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (6Bc88)

223 “The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)

224 Of course, in Barrow, the sun set a few days ago and won't come up until March. Consider yourselves lucky, I guess.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:36 PM (6Bc88)

225 "These vagabond shoes / Are longin' to stray"
"I wanna wake up / In a city that doesn't sleep"
"And find I'm king of the hill / Top of the heap"
"If I can make it there / I'll make it anywhere / It's up to you, New York, New York"

Posted by: Frank at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

226 223 “The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years!”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)

Did I see you feeling up Julie Andrews' backside just there?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (6Bc88)

227 224 Sunlight is sooooo overrated.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (77rzZ)

228 It's up to you, New York, New York"
Posted by: Frank at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

I put on Frank yesterday while DH was watching football. AFTER the Packers won, of course. We prefer Frank to the announcers on tv. Makes it a much better afternoon.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:38 PM (6Bc88)

229 226 Young Julie Andrews. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:38 PM (77rzZ)

230 We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

231 Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

I grew up with it, so it's normal. I have always slept more in the winter than the summer. Transplants up here have some issues, particularly in the summer when it doesn't get dark, so they put aluminum foil over their bedroom windows so they can sleep, but I have never had an issue with that. DH has adjusted after 14 years.

For me, it was weird in the Lower 48 being both dark and hot at the same time. That doesn't happen up here. And I always thought I was late during the summer, because it was getting dark, which was weird.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:43 PM (6Bc88)

232 “To life, to life, L’chaim!
L’chaim, l’chaim, to life!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

233 >> reading your posts...always interesting.

If you want to see this for your location, timeanddate is the best source there is, every accurate times. You can put your exact coordinates into this URL like so:

"www.timeanddate.com/moon/@Lat, Long",

With both in decimal degrees, with positive being north for latitude, and negative being west for long. Earliest sunset and latest sunrise are a window around the solstice. That window gets tighter at higher latitudes. Things get interesting between the tropics, where it gets a bit more complex.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

234 Crashing noise? I bet it's something like an air chisel being used on a dumpster.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (8QVSJ)

235 232 “To life, to life, L’chaim!
L’chaim, l’chaim, to life!”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

Get off the damned roof before you fall off and kill yourself!

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (6Bc88)

236 @WallStreetApes .

Lara Logan interviews Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen who explains how elections are being stolen in America

He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians, and hackers who map out every county and identify where margins can be quietly adjusted

Different techniques are used in each location so nothing matches in a recount. When a 70-30 county becomes 68-32, nobody notices. But when you add up these differences across an entire state, those tiny amounts of fraud decide outcomes

Both former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and author Ralph Pezzullo explain the strategy. They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits

https://tinyurl.com/mrx89s9r

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (glfD5)

237 I was watching a travel show about Finland, and locally grown produce was brought up. You might lose a lot of sunshine during the winter, but make it up when the lights are on 23/7.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (gm9Sb)

238 We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

That was one of the things I loved about living in Alaska, lo, these many years ago. The extremes. Very little sun, followed by nearly endless sun.

The earth fascinates me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

239 Its too bad the fiddler was probably a victim of the Dekulakization program.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

240 235 Sorry, can’t. I sold him a horse, but delivered a mule.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:47 PM (77rzZ)

241
Arrghh, I copied and pasted the Moon page, not the sun. The sun page will be this:

"www.timeanddate.com/sun/@Lat, Long",

Once you land on that with Lat,Long entered, the Moon, sun, and planets pages will be for those exact coordinates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:48 PM (w6EFb)

242 237 I was watching a travel show about Finland, and locally grown produce was brought up. You might lose a lot of sunshine during the winter, but make it up when the lights are on 23/7.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (gm9Sb)

I grow a lot of stuff up here in a few short months. Any root crop grows like crazy, but some stuff needs more heat, so I grow it in the greenhouse. Also, various veggies are better for long days than others, and after a while you figure out which are best. Green beans have been tricky but I think I have found the right seed for next year. Corn or pumpkins or watermelon is nearly impossible without a high tunnel, which is more space than I'm willing to give. But I grew a shit-ton of tomatoes, peppers, and cukes in the greenhouse, along with tons of herbs.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:48 PM (6Bc88)

243 That was one of the things I loved about living in Alaska, lo, these many years ago. The extremes. Very little sun, followed by nearly endless sun.

The earth fascinates me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

We live here for the summers. Never leave AK in the summer. Winter is for travel.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:49 PM (6Bc88)

244 They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits
Posted by: Braenyard

You know what this needs, another House resolution against "socialism".

Posted by: also, a few more $100M notes for Ukraine can't hurt at November 24, 2025 09:50 PM (gKWVE)

245 For me, it was weird in the Lower 48 being both dark and hot at the same time. That doesn't happen up here. And I always thought I was late during the summer, because it was getting dark, which was weird.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK
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Thanks. Alaska is absolutely fascinating. I would love to see one day.
Yes, it is hot and dark every night in TX summer. You get used to it. I suppose you get used to where you live.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (ys6FW)

246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (77rzZ)

247 Thanks. Alaska is absolutely fascinating. I would love to see one day.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (ys6FW)

We are right here. Door's open.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:52 PM (6Bc88)

248 246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (77rzZ)

Ach. I grew up in Phoenix and loved it - 200 days a year with no clouds whatsoever. Well that’s the he desert for ya.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 09:53 PM (ngbZu)

249 We are right here. Door's open.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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It may be our 30th anniversary trip in 2027. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (ys6FW)

250 246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.

Posted by: Bulg

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Isn't there a musical about singin in the rain?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:55 PM (ys6FW)

251 About that time, ainit?

Posted by: mindful webworker - a temporal anomoly at November 24, 2025 09:56 PM (LaTF/)

252 Isn't Monday night the orphan ONT? Are we not self-sufficient?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:57 PM (ys6FW)

253 233 >>If you want to see this for your location, timeanddate is the best source there is, every accurate times. You can put your exact coordinates into this URL like so:

"www.timeanddate.com/moon/@Lat, Long",

With both in decimal degrees, with positive being north for latitude, and negative being west for long. Earliest sunset and latest sunrise are a window around the solstice. That window gets tighter at higher latitudes. Things get interesting between the tropics, where it gets a bit more complex.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

Yes thanks. That web site is my home page.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 24, 2025 09:57 PM (y171U)

254 248 Having grown up by the Great Lakes, I could never live in the effin’ desert. I can visit there, but for permanent habitation, give me water.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:58 PM (77rzZ)

255 248 I had money down on a trailer outside of Yuma awhile back, and then Biden happened. The place was damn near 10 miles from the border and I got out of the deal with no hard feelings. Anytime I'm out there I feel relief from the worsening arthritis, and I think a final trip is coming up. One bedroom park model trailer, quiet park, and a pet tortoise keeping an eye on the grounds. Yeah, I could be happy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:59 PM (gm9Sb)

256 ONT Mis Hum

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:00 PM (ys6FW)

257 "Isn't there a musical about singin in the rain?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:55 PM (ys6FW)"

A Clockwork Orange

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