Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

@trinsec
No, I want a wireless receiver to stick in my nose, I guess.

Having recently been put on supplemental oxygen and now having to drag a tube around behind me at home. tripping and tangling with furniture, I think I see a need for WiOx-- wireless oxygen. Let's get with it, technology masters!

@gupton68
I've been know to stay up late studying for a blood test.

I was flipping though the photos on my phone to track down a photo I wanted to send somebody, and happened across this one I'd forgotten about. It's a local cicada from their last big outbreak here a couple of years ago.

It's on my front porch, hence the detritus on the surface. The standard Zippo lighter is for scale.

Handsome, colorful beasts, ain't they?

@Rasta
Interesting that it's frequently the big, fairly expensive trucks that do this. There's a big Silverado of recent vintage here in my town that has things like "NASA is a HOAX" and "EARTH IS FLAT" all over it in duct tape.

"There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
--Samwise Gamgee

@juddlegum
For some amazement about the Republican's footdragging re MLK day, check out its history in my state of Arizona. Then-Governor Ev Mecham cancelled it as a holiday in 1987, and it stayed that way until 1992 when the NFL threatened to pull the Superbowl. 🙄

@adamdavidson
What makes you think we can land a man on the moon?

@SummerKnight @Ten
I've had so many shots I don't even KNOW what my gender is anymore. It might even be Drag; I haven't checked.

@honeymango @donmelton
You already got Don, so I'd suggest @harphat
as a good addition. Well curated posts for general interest, with intelligent humor here and there.

@engarneering @SecularJeffrey
I was born in '56 and your post just made me realize that I noticed it going on as it happened. I first spotted it in American car design and the rare Saturday cartoon I'd see (good friend had little brother) first, but couldn't put a name to it. I, too, wonder what the heck happened.

It was around the time that hilariously unsuitable-for-purpose plastics first started to be seen everywhere, like car interior dash knobs (which, if you lived in a warmer part of the country, would last a couple of years before breaking off due to sun-baking brittleness).

The majority of people stopped caring about quality all at once, somehow, or forgot that it had ever existed.

@_4_d_4_m_
Ahhh, I didn't know about that edition. Will have to order it and read the bastard one more time. 😉