Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

@Cbfoley @SecularJeffrey
The Spider in its various iterations was always a really fun car to drive, though one did need a space above the garage for the mechanic to live.

@charlie_savage
You know, going after something like the FBI could have some unintended consequences. They can find all manner of things when they look. But I guess Jordan is too stupid to have thought of that. Looking forward to the outcome!

@blurrybitsphoto@mastodon.online
I tried to tune my piano once. Notice the word choice there-- once.

@prsturgeon @AnEnglishHuman@mstdn.party
"The Devils of Loudon" was an example of the kinds of things that could happen. Might have had something to do with the early American colonies' fixations on witch trials, too, from what I've read. I think I'll try to be careful to stay away from ergot.

@FlakkCatcher
I used to know a dog that would steal and drink those tiny Little Kings, once they got down to about half, if you didn't keep an eye on her.

@idoubtit
You were using the wrong kind of phone. Whatever operating system you're using now, switch to the other one.

@spocko @emptywheel @nicolesandler
Marcy and the rest of the Emptywheel crew are the bestest. Whenever I'm confused about what a Trump-arena court case might actually mean in a practical sense, all I have to do is go there and I come away enlightened.

@jayarava
Ain't that wonderful?

I sometimes like to imagine what a culture looked like at the street level, and knowing about a common type of pottery goes a long way in helping to do that. In addition to the archeological article I'll find here and there, things like Malalasekera's "Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names" have enough fun little details to help me get a better picture.

I don't know if the original begging bowls would have been that black ware, but for now I'll let myself envision them that way.

@jayarava
Speaking of Iron Age, I read a history of India a few months ago (not the whole book, just from the beginning up to about 100CE or so) that mentioned the most common style of ceramic during what was probably the Buddha's time-- something called Northern Black Polished. I doubt that's news to you, but wanted to pass along this piece I found when looking for examples:

@jayarava
Oh you.

@jayarava
And a 🙏 back atcha!

@jayarava
How could anyone NOT be enthusiastic, provided that they're of that smallish population that might be interested in the subject matter to begin with? I mean, just look at it! If I'd written just, say, the three-parter on emptiness and the other writings on just that topic, I'd be satisfied with that as a magnum opus and toddle off to do something else. 😃 But that was (I'm not going to do the actual math, just making an informed guess) a fewn thousandths of your output, and all of it well-researched with citations for every claim or assertion. This latter has been useful to me too, as I've been introduced to other writers in the field that I hadn't known existed.

I can sense the effort that's been put into every page. It's not like it can all just effortlessly pour out of you like a Stevie Ray Vaughan solo. That you do it for the love of it, for its own sake, is a source of astonishment for me, especially considering that it's done in the face of being ignored by the "big names" in the field, you know, the people who actually get paid to do that kind of work half as well as you do. 😆

And I know I'm not alone in appreciating your work, though it might look like it in this particular venue. I've seen lengthy discussions of you and your work elsewhere, so it's not like I'm just a fan club of one like Mel on The Conchords. 😉 Not that it would matter if I were, the importance of your work is self-evident.

@nosat
Shame on you. Stop it. You're killing people. Blocked.

As in the realization that all we have to go on is whatever our interface tells us. And sometimes that interface flat-out lies, like how it smooths out visual input by filling in missing parts on its own. I'd already known about that, but hadn't thought about it from the angle of having nothing fully reliable to rest on.