My favorites are a bit too long, I’m afraid, but if you can use them...

Um... good, I guess? I mean, I’m glad she looks to be back on track but I wonder what sent her on a tear to begin with.

FB album of the cat skeleton. After I got it home I decided I was not happy with the plaque it was mounted on (which was rather rough pine and had a spray-painted coat that didn’t go on so smoothly in the SF damp), so I am preparing a plaque myself... (It’s also giving me a chance to practice some Dremel skills!)

Apparently Jon Lovitz needs to administer another beating.

That’s... all yarn, isn’t it? Good lord.

Shit. I hope she’s all right. I hope you’ll be all right.

Finished the multimeter!

If by “Interior Secretary” you mean “Secretary of the Interior”, I have definite memories of James Watt... unfortunately, probably for the same reason people are noticing Zinke now.

Oh, the confusion of “discreet” and “discrete” is a very easy one to make, especially if you’re not sure of the spelling. Truth is, I just spotted a setup for a good punchline and couldn’t resist.

a few discrete abortions

Not for Halloween exactly, but Sunday I am going into San Francisco to learn how to mount an articulated cat skeleton.

Weird— I thought wide ties were a ‘70s thing? I remember the ‘80s featuring skinny knit ties.

Somehow, the Phantom just isn’t the same playing a piano.

Stop. Digging.

“Confusingly”?

I thought he was a collector, but he did art as well? Awesome!

That’s a cute shirt!

Saw the oddest long charging cord at American Science and Surplus:

It’s fine— basically it was a fuse burn but a bit more so. I test-shorted across some of the unburned contacts there with a bit of foil and the probe could read again (this time I was doing DC current >1 amp to test, not AC), and the other functions of the meter were unharmed. Cleaned away the burnt schmutz and I…