Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

I saw a lone puffin today 7 or so miles out! It was about halfway to where we were going fishing 16 miles offshore.

Japanese Breakfast's Sable soundtrack is up for preorder!!!

tuffalobuffalo got a bunch of Patagonia merino wool tuffalo buffalo socks on sale:

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Ordered two not realizing they were buffalos with socks on. Ordered 3 more pairs. I don't normally like socks with images, but this is the one exception. REALLY nice lightweight wool socks. I normally get smartwools.

I’ve been listening to the audiobook of The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck is an incredible writer. I’ve read it twice in the past but that was about 20 years ago I think. Back then I kept thinking about how relevant it still was. It’s seems to me it’s even more relevant today. Of course I know more about how the world works than I did 20 years ago. It’s probably been just as relevant all this time.

There are conversations in the book that sound exactly like a typical conversation you might overhear today. It’s uncanny!

Windows95 has a bug where it crashes after 49 days or so. Someone has set up their old machine to run for 49 days until it crashes, and is livestreaming it:

From Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop book; which I love very much.

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Nice. Win95 crash in just under 3 hours. Have to remind myself to check back in.

Stele wrote:

Nice. Win95 crash in just under 3 hours. Have to remind myself to check back in.

I mean, you could also just skip ahead in the video to the 2h40m mark. It already happened.

Haha... I thought it was live. Doh. Didn't look at the time PST, just the time left...

Had some beautiful tomatoes from my father in law’s garden, so I made a tomato sandwich! Just tomato, lettuce, and mayo on toast.

It brought me back to when I was a kid and had tons of home grown tomatoes around from my Mom’s garden. She called the sandwiches “BLTs without the B.” But I agree with J Kenji Lopez-Alt that a BLT is a tomato sandwich with bacon - and it’s okay to leave off the bacon once in a while.

A BLT is a writing prompt from middle school where you had to pick a part of the sandwich to argue that it was the most important part of the BLT. I don't remember what I picked all I remember is I don't eat BLT's anymore.

I mean, it's the bread, innit? Without that it's not a BLT, it's just a sh*tty salad with extra bacon bits.

hbi2k wrote:

I mean, it's the bread, innit? Without that it's not a BLT, it's just a sh*tty salad with extra bacon bits.

Bacon and I have decided to overlook your heresy for now, but future transgressions will invoke swift and severe repercussions. Even a “sh*tty salad” with Bacon still includes our lord and savior, Bacon.

Stealthpizza wrote:

A BLT is a writing prompt from middle school where you had to pick a part of the sandwich to argue that it was the most important part of the BLT. I don't remember what I picked all I remember is I don't eat BLT's anymore.

A good writing prompt should allow for multiple perspectives and arguments. There are none here, only the sole choice. It's the Fruity Pebbles that you crumble over the marmite.

I’ve never tried marmite or vegemite. Both of which are on my food bucket list.

I am on an absolute tear through video games right now. In the past few weeks, I have knocked out Skyward Sword HD, completed the single player story in The Ascent, got all of the achievements in the new Myst, and just this evening finished Steamworld Dig 2. And I have games lined up to play, as well.

I haven't done this much gaming in a streak in a long time. Honestly sometimes I feel like I'm losing interest in gaming entirely. Welp, not right now. I'm glad I seem to have found some interest again - it feels good.

Hope that means Steamworld Dig was fun.

PaladinTom wrote:

I’ve never tried marmite or vegemite. Both of which are on my food bucket list.

Toss a coin to your Witcher Bezos and you too can disappointed at why you ever put those awful things on your bucket list!

Stele wrote:

Hope that means Steamworld Dig was fun.

It was! I was a little surprised at how short it was, but ultimately had fun regardless. When I got to the final boss, it was really only the second boss of the game, and that's what surprised me. And it was completely kicking my butt at first, so I went back and got all the upgrades I could muster, which definitely helped.

PaladinTom wrote:

I’ve never tried marmite or vegemite. Both of which are on my food bucket list.

Vegemite is great, marmite is horrible.

charlemagne wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

I’ve never tried marmite or vegemite. Both of which are on my food bucket list.

Vegemite is great, marmite is horrible.

Say you’re from Australia without saying you’re from Australia.

Our house is sold and I have moved back from England to Scotland. Now the minor matter of finding a new house as having moved myself and family back in with my parents whilst we find a place it’s a bit crammed!

Welcome back! I’m in East Lothian

If Brexit England turns into a US-style dystopia, a devolved Scotland could easily look like quite an attractive location, something I never thought would happen

DudleySmith wrote:

If Brexit England turns into a US-style dystopia, a devolved Scotland could easily look like quite an attractive location, something I never thought would happen

What do you mean, if?

DoveBrown wrote:
charlemagne wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

I’ve never tried marmite or vegemite. Both of which are on my food bucket list.

Vegemite is great, marmite is horrible.

Say you’re from Australia without saying you’re from Australia.

I feel compelled to say as an Australian, both are awful.

Happy Dave wrote:

Welcome back! I’m in East Lothian :-)

Why thank you. 13 years away and I have returned to Glasgow!

East Lothian? You have a big rock there, if I remember my Firths correctly…

Robear wrote:

East Lothian? You have a big rock there, if I remember my Firths correctly…

Several! The place is littered with them. In Edinburgh and East Lothian there’s the Bass Rock, Trapain Law, Berwick Law, Castle Rock, Arthur’s Seat - all of them the leftover cores of long-eroded volcanoes.

No wonder you’re Happy.