Christopher Weeks

That's really cool, but it seems like a bunch of them are gone. I wonder what new has popped up in the intervening decade.

Do any permies use Mastodon for social networking on the Fediverse? I've been thinking about trying to move there for several years, but it sounds harder than usual and haven't ever got up the gumption.

It's funny, I just read this and didn't remember it from when it was new. But I see that I answered 17 months ago! Now I'm going to answer the opposite -- I'm contrarian even to myself. Assuming that the same real-life level of ability to terminate my own life exists, then I'll take the 1000 years. From this:

For the first option, say, when you’re two hundred years old, you feel physically like you’re twenty. Five hundred, fifty. Etc.

it sounds like I'd get three hundred years basically never getting sick anyway, so that's a win over 100 years of never getting sick. And if I want to linger on with gradually increasing infirmity, I can make that choice day by day, just like I do right now.

I take from that video up top that there's some kind of competition between the villages to create water-catchment/seepage systems and one of them wins a prize. The prize is fine, I guess, but the really great thing is that even the losers presumably have improved their lot. It's a neat structure.

I do love how the pileated woodpeckers tell me which trees are infested with insects! And they're obviously quite personally charming too.

Wow. Is that really Paul? How old is that picture?

Blue Jays, for sure! I have been encouraging them with peanuts for 3-4 years because I needed them to run the crows off. I love crows, but crows love my corn and that I can't have.

The only time I 'saved' someone that I can think of was a ~5 year old in Target. She was standing there alone, crying so hard she was shuddering and people were just pushing carts past her like it was nothing. I stopped, figured out she was physically OK, picked her up and started talking to her. She was just separated from her family. So I spoke soothingly to her while we walked around looking for them. five minutes later, they acted like I was a weirdo when we found them, but she was sure glad to wriggle down and run over to be with them.

ETA: I've spent a lot more time and effort "saving" stray pets -- that might say something about me (for better or worse).

You used this section of hugelbeds in your waves pattern post. What principle would you draw on to decide whether that's waves or lobes?

Here's a more modern exploratory tool! https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/tau-ceti-e/