Eurobubba

Not sure how to pronounce this. (The food is pretty good actually.)

Still figuring out how multiple Micro.blog blogs work. Right now I have two and I’m considering a third for “business”. It seems posts appear at the respective blogs’ URLs, but someone following my username through the Micro.blog app sees posts from both (all)? Is that the expected behavior? @help

Finally got around to setting up cross-posting from Micro.blog to Mastodon and Bluesky. Greetings, fellow mastonauts and blewskis!

Dammit, bought a little portable scanner after reading a review that said it supports two-sided scanning, only to discover once I got it that it doesn’t. I’m not sure I would have shelled out the extra money for a duplex model if I’d known, but it’s disappointing to find out this way.

Any non-US native English speakers here? Is “How do you do?” something people actually still say in your community?

Czech habits: never make eye contact with strangers on the sidewalk, but always greet the staff when entering a shop or restaurant.

Worrying trend of beer being sold in 0.4 l. glasses.

Well hell, seems I slept through the aurora.

Coffee shop life (Coffee Corner Bakery, Prague)

Back in the ‘Ha

No Boeings today. Just might make it to the other side alive.

Just read a reference to Constellation and discovered that I remember watching it, but have completely and utterly forgotten everything about it.

I think I already posted this photo shortly after I took it, but since the photo challenge prompt for today is ‘train’ I might as well well pop it up again. This is a locomotive of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railway in New Mexico and Colorado.

My electric company just informed me that I’m at risk of losing my $50 credit for not wasting enough electricity this month. Should I try bitcoin mining?

Half of the supposed differences between US and British English taught to foreign English learners are wrong. Contrary to this article, for example, Americans are perfectly comfortable with words like autumn, anywhere (!), crossroads, curtains, luggage, etc. www.languagepointtraining.com/post/amer…

I haven’t seen anyone point out that Dune is basically Lawrence of Arabia in spaaace. Just too obvious?

You can always tell when someone has served time in the helium mines. The voice… it never completely fades away.

Only one prisoner has ever escaped the helium mines of Saturn.

Love this line from Patrick Rothfuss: “But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.”

Also great for fighting xenomorph queens. www.globaltrademag.com/enter-the…