Meet the guys who tape Trump’s papers back together: “Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building, standing over a desk with scraps of paper spread out in front of him.”
The book After Man: A Zoology of the Future imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct, and absolutely captivated me when I was a kid. Neat to see a new edition is being released. Recommended!
To my friends old and new, family born into or chosen, and loved ones however defined: you’re valid, valued, and loved, and my world is a better place because you’re in it. I hope you can remember that even when it’s tough, and that you’re around for a long time to come.
Got my Women of NASA Lego set!
Today’s bit of awesomeness: the THX “Deep Note” sound…acapella!
After taking a year off for job switch, move, settling in to life back in the Seattle area, etc., I finally decided to re-start my exercise routine this morning.
My legs are so, so, very not happy with me right now.
Ow.
/whimper/
Book nineteen of 2018: Crossplay, by Niki Smith. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book eighteen of 2018: Cormorant Run, by Lilith Saintcrow. ⭐️⭐️
Increasingly convinced that Trump’s tariffs will manage to crash the economy right after the Nov. elections, so that if we do get a “blue wave”, Dems will get blamed for the crash, setting up either Trump’s re-election or some other racist, sexist piece of trash’s win in 2020.
“The Deep Note, the distinctive synthesized crescendo that is THX’s audio trademark, is one of the most iconic sounds in all of film. For the effects firm’s 35th anniversary, they’ve now shared the sheet music behind the sound.”