Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ @gamehawk@mastodon.social

DANGIT UNICODE

Sometimes having moved from the Midwest to the East Coast feels a little like having moved to a foreign country. I am going to guess that this thing is for a crossing guard, and that there are manual traffic light overrides inside. Back in Kansas school kids (like other pedestrians) are just on their own. Result: parents frequently drive their kids to school even if it's just a few blocks, and schools are hotspots of bad air quality.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9503865,-75.048869,3a,64.4y,6.74h,80.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfGo8CsvBZs4_7CIiPyhPKg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Some of my hostas are blooming: also dark purple. I think we can safely say there's a theme in the plantings here.

Others of them... not so much. I think we can also safely say the deer appreciate the nice edible plantings around the birdbath. One-stop shopping! (I think we can also guess at who was pulling on the bird feeder the other day...)

America: "OMG WE HAVE TO KEEP BROWN PEOPLE OUT TO PRESERVE WHITE CULTURE"

Also America: "The hot summer decor trend is 'Fiesta' where we will decorate our houses with Spanish phrases like 'mi casa es su casa' and 'bienvenido'"

http://www.michaels.com/summer-decor-collections/summer-fiesta/981664855

It's @sanspoint !

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/things_to_do/air-guitar-championships-philadelphia-johnny-brendas-20180627.html

AMAZON. Go to your room and think about what you've done.

Update: he's already lost a lens. (They're daily disposables so it's not THE WORST but it doesn't bode well...)

Son is in the bathroom practicing installation and removal of his new contact lenses. Husband: "He's in there talking to himself."
Me: "Or livestreaming. Could be livestreaming 'Contact Lens Unboxing.' You never know."

Aaaaand it immediately throws an uncaught error. Probably because the installer whined continuously about it being node 4.9.1 (deb stable) and not > 6. 😒

Good thing I decided to install solid server (node-based) on the desktop machine instead of the Pi. Current system load (for the installer): 6.

So everybody is focusing on the part of the tweet where Senator Booker says
🍊 shouldn't get to nominate a judge and not on the part where he CONFIRMS 🍊 IS THE SUBJECT OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION? Okay.

Sometimes I think other countries must get a really distorted picture of the US from the weird products that are manufactured there for us.

Other times I think they get a pretty accurate one.

Someone has offended the neighborhood skunk. <closes windows>

*spends a nice afternoon wandering around an outdoor outlet mall helping son buy clothes*

"Well, that was pleasant, wonder what happened while I was offli... CRAP."

Son is talking about an Internet friend that is in Pennsylvania as though it's somewhere very far away.
Husband: "I *work* in Pennsylvania."
Son: "... you *do*?"
Husband: "Where did you think Philadelphia *was*?"
Son: "I hadn't really thought about it."

KIDS THESE DAYS

Today was The Plantains Are Finally Ripe Enough Day. 🎉

I mean the LEDage going on here is just ridiculous.

Apparently "we're out of couscous" has translated to me getting to the store and thinking "we're out of bulgur" on three different occasions so, yeah, having tonight's tagine over some, uh, Unprocessed Whole-Wheat Couscous, yeah, that's it.

(I plead guilty to Shopping While Attention-Deficit. Serial offender.)

So... something Germanic (which given my family could be one of several North *or* West options, and given garbling introduced by two generations of non-native speakers it's probably impossible to tell which), meaning basically, "Well, this is just *great*."

It's good to know my mother hasn't been uttering unspeakable profanities unwittingly. 😆

Mom's is probably the last generation to pass down any non-English, and that only as rote phrases. Son *may* have picked up "gesundheit" but that's it.