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• Post #2152358

  In one of my favorite jobs, we’d have a slack channel and watch-along with any major NASA activity. In another, I’d have booked a meeting room and set up the live stream. I’d have been with people I care about, for a moment that was important to all of us in some way. Today I was so busy I didn’t even block my calendar to watch it, alone. I don’t have a definition of depression, as someone who never expected to make it out of adolescence. Cried a little when I thought about it though!

• Post #2152357

  Oh, you know, just crying at the beauty of a paper-tape-reading-machine from 1959 playing Boards of Canada’s “Olson”, as one does at 1am. https://youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg

• Post #2152355

  It’s weird to be using Swarm (née Foursquare) in the year 2026. After a congratulatory notice from the app, I think “Oh, great. I’m the mayor of CityName Medical Foundation – Cardiology building!” Where in 2010, a check in to Super Cuca’s would immediately cause a text from a friend vowing to get their crown back (and or a request to bring them back a burrito).

• Post #2152352

  Zankou Chicken was such a fixture for me in Los Angeles that when I moved to Northern California I had to figure out copycat recipes. And I did, for the most part (I never perfected the chicken tarna, but I knew that wasn’t going to happen without a spit and a lot of effort). It’s all a lot of work to do in a home kitchen, though. So I’ve tended to just wait and get extra pickles when visiting.

• Post #2152349

  There is something weirdly serene about the clock jumping from 5pm to 7pm when sick. I have a fever and have basically been lying down as close to the bathroom as possible without being in said bathroom. I am literally not capable of doing anything. I could not have accomplished anything with the missing time even if I had wanted to.