Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 2

@catsalad They should have used the technical term for this, which is "spicy pillow."

@Tarnport I'll never forget the story of surrealist movie director Luis Buñuel, who used to work at the Prado in Madrid, giving tours to tourists.

He would skip past the undisputed masterpieces like Las Meninas by Velázquez, and instead heap praise on some unremarkable portrait from some obscure, long forgotten painter. It happened only rarely, he said, that a member of the tour group would approach him afterward to ask for an explanation.

Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.

@Tarnport I googled the sculptor, and it turns out that his father was Anthony Quinn. I wonder how many tourists took a picture of this sculpture thinking it was some renaissance masterpiece, when in reality it was made 30 years ago by the son of Zorba the Greek.

#Art Saint Anthony, Intercessor between Heaven (Christ child) and humankind by Lorenzo Quinn (1995)

Sculpture in "Il Santo," the basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.

#Frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Toyota's tree frog (Sarcohyla toyota) photographed by Chris Grünwald.

This is the last frog of the Sarcohyla genus. Many species in this genus have no photo, because the genus is endangered.

When David Lynch, dead at 78, was making his first major film, "Eraserhead," he was desperate for money. Fortunately, he was friends with Sissy Spacek, who was Hollywood gold at the time. She managed to arrange for some Hollywood big shot to attend a screening of the movie. The guy sat in an empty cinema, watched some scenes, and then jumped up and shouted: "This is stupid! People don't talk like this! People don't act like this!" and stormed out.

Be like David Lynch, not like that guy.

Here's an old joke about the English: "Where there is one Englishman, there will be a garden. Where there are two Englishmen, there will be a club. But this does not mean a decrease of the number of gardens: the club will have one, too."

I think we can modernize this: "Where there is one American man, there will be a Reddit account. Where there are two American men, there will be a podcast. But this does not mean a decrease of the number of Reddit accounts: the podcast will have one, too."

#Art My number one reason for visiting Padova (also called Padua), a university town of some 200K people, was the Scrovegni Chapel. This tiny church, unassuming from the outside, contains a series of frescoes by Giotto, painted around the year 1300. The chapel miraculously survived WW2 bombings. You can only stay in the chapel for 15 minutes --unless you have a good friend who recommends you buy 2 tickets for consecutive time slots, like I did. Even 30 minutes is not enough to appreciate it.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Adler's Mottled Tree Frog (Sarcohyla thorectes) photographed by iNaturalist user hfranz

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Mute Tree Frog (Sarcohyla siopela) photographed by Division of Herpetology University of Kansas

@Mrfunkedude The host of a cooking show here in the Netherlands once enumerated the three things you should absolutely not do after handling chillies: rub your eyes, pick your nose and... masturbate.

@jaykuo Glad to see Jack Smith is ready to resume his surfing vacation and ride those waves again. You've earned it, Sir.

Perhaps my favorite thing on TikTok is the flurry of Chinese people recording “goodbye from your Chinese spy” videos, overlayed with the song “When I see you again”

The problem with online recommendation algorithms is that they provide you with absurd options like "Find authors similar to Dorothy Parker" when everybody knows there _are_ no authors similar to Dorothy Parker.

@256 The lack of alt descriptions for these two screen captures is intentional in an ironic way, surely?

(For visually impaired people: the left image shows a man and a woman sitting facing each other at a table. The woman is sitting behind two laptops side by side. A caption shows that she says, "And actually, I surf with image off." The right images shows just the woman, with the caption reading, "I just want to get in there, get my informaiton, and get out.")

@samuele963 @jon That Frecciarossa would be a real game changer, but I don't find it in the bahn.de site. And here's a webpage promising the same thing approximately one year ago: https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/high-speed-connection-between-milan-and-ljubljana/ Any idea what the holdup is?

@jon Quickest connection seems to be 5h31m with a switch in Trieste.

@jon *clicks Follow button* thanks for the tip! I was aware of bahn.de's status, just didn't realize GMaps was so bad...

@jon There is? Google Maps appears unaware of it.