Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

@damianaswan
Ohhh. Pardon me while I slap my forehead, and thanks for the enlightenment. So it was basically a dastardly trick to make me go back to the store and buy a dispenser, then. 😆 Well played, 3M!

@lavenderlens
Thanks so much for the explanation, now it all makes sense.

I recently bought a few packs of Post-Its, and they're attached to each other accordion-style. Why the hell would they do that? Am I supposed to remember from sheet to sheet which way to pull them off? For god's sake, make it stop.

@MDindar
Will the finish be dark, or light? And once again, very handsome! A graceful curve at the back brings it to life.

@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.