Notices by Reay (reay@beige.party)

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever seen someone driving super aggressively to get ahead of everyone and then, even keeping a steady, decent speed and driving politely, pulled up next to them at the next red light?

Does anyone have any suggestions for books for a young teen who likes (modern/urban/bit of classic) fantasy (Lord of the Rings movies — books were too verbose and old timey, Fairy Tale by Stephen King), science fiction and/or same with some fantasy mixed in (Star Wars, bit of Star Trek, lighter Dr. Who, will almost certainly enjoy @scalzi books soon) real science (Hidden Figures, chemistry demonstrations on videos are big right now), superheroes (Marvel movies are big), with moving (but not sad) and/or funny aspects being wide open, and a dash of coming of age stories be they LGBTQ or otherwise (Heartstopper)?

Not all in one book, I can’t imagine — that would be one hell of a winding tale — but anything with an element or two or three of those things included would be great.

Looking for a present for this year’s Jolabokaflod — https://www.reayjespersen.com/blog-1/2021/12/24/happy-jolabokaflod/ — and normally we’ve had some solid ideas for books or series that the kiddo wants, but tastes are changing plus the teenagerism angle is making the options more obscure and I have zero doubt there’s plenty out there none of us have heard about or would know to hunt down.

Thanks!

#books

Pulled into a Home Depot parking lot next to a guy I’m pretty sure is a hitman biding his time because he’s sitting in the driver’s seat allegedly *reading a newspaper*.

You know who does that?

NO ONE.

He’s a hitman and/or a psychopath. Those are the only options that explain this behaviour.

@killyourfm Timely. I just got a new (to me) laptop with Windows on it. No more excuses to not finally get a harddrive partitioned (that’s… that’s what one does, yes?) and get Linux set up with a dual boot option to dip a toe in.

It occurred to me when I saw this link on the defector.com website that I’m so out of the loop of the rap world, I didn’t know if it meant about uneasiness and discomfort living outside a city core, or if there’s literally a rapper named Suburban Malaise.

@feld @tomiahonen @martlund YOU DON’T GET IT, MAN.

@tomiahonen @martlund Be curious to know where they get info this detailed about an event that seems to happen riiiiiight before U.S. elections. God knows hordes of would-be immigrants can just hang around for 3 years and 11 months — why act then? — but then they somehow need to make a big rush for the border to make it in just under the wire. 🙄

Stunned that anyone still buys into what is clear nonsense when even cursory questions poke holes in the fiction of jt.

Just sitting in the car in my kid’s high school parking lot with lunch to hand off, blaring Tool.

… as one does.

Please take a moment to appreciate this fine example of dog coat Photoshoppery.

Yeah, so about truck sizes these days…

This truck is legit as far back as it can get in the parking space, but this is how it looks on the aisle side. 🙄

Related: In the next aisle over there was another new model pickup. One full-grown woman walked past it and the hood was up past her chin. From the driver’s seat you’d only see her from the nose up at best.

Another woman walked beside it and literally was entirely under the level of the side windows. Looking straight out from the seats, you wouldn’t have seen her at all.

Sincerely, is there some/any reason for the crazy size of trucks these days? We’ve gotten long just fine with them already larger than most vehicles on the road for decades. Why the recent push for them to be so long and so tall?

@tenzochris @lisamelton Hard same with our dog.

*I brought ball back. Now you throw ball.*

“I can’t throw the ball until you drop it.”

*Now you throw ball.*

“Buddy, drop the ball. Drop it.”

*I’m wag tail. Why no throw ball? Throw.*

“BUDDY…”

@thomasfuchs Such a forward-thinking bunch.

@TheBreadmonkey Fan-CY!