ravenreyamidala replied to your post “Hey Sam, as a kid what was your favorite game or family activity?”
...my mother taught me multiplication tables for 1 up to 12 before I was in kindergarten? oh my god I cannot actually think of an activity I did as a child with my parents. i can't even remember if they read me books at night which makes me suspect they didn't. aside from maybe religious festivals...oh my god. this explains so much about my life. oh! i think one or two summers my mother sister and I would go to see movies at the local movie theatre chain for two bucks a person?
I mean, if it helps, you aren’t alone in that experience. My grandmother was a great woman and she was very engaged with us when she was older, but she was also suffering from severe depression and in a deeply unhappy marriage when she was raising my mother. My mum had a similar experience to yours -- it’s why she was heavily invested in making sure my siblings and I didn’t grow up with childhood memories primarily of the television and other peoples’ parents the way she did. And the way a lot of my peers did too, honestly. We were really lucky that she was able to do that.
amy-vic replied to your post “Hey Sam, as a kid what was your favorite game or family activity?”
My grandparents had boxes and boxes of family slides, and we'd watch them probably 3x a year. Man, I'd forgotten how much I like the 'dim room/noises from the projector' sensory combo...thanks for bringing that back :)
And the smell of the dust on the lightbulb burning! :D Yeah, it’s a good sense memory.
ignescent replied to your post “Congratulations on your fall cleaning, mine has involved rubber ducks,...”
I don't know why, but an unexpected bin of stuffed animal stuffing reads as ominous to me. Like, will the stuffed animals you make be possessed by whomever left you the craft supplies? Possibly I'm still bitter about my house spirits stealing all of my silk leaves...
Maybe Ghost left it! I should sew a little ghost for some of it.
bootleg-garrison-keillor replied to your post “Sam I have an important Chicago question: just north of the DuSable...”
Correction: Johnson is from the family that founded Johnson & Johnson, not SCJ. There's a difference and no relation.
Good catch! I’ve changed it in the original. If I were SC Johnson I certainly wouldn’t want to be affiliated against my will :D
lucifel-lurks mentioned you on a post “The Meowstro Sings — Guster’s Keep It Together is an album created by...”
@copperbadge It's flooding. Madonna used to do this. You release 3000 seeds of the cat album and maybe a person pirating releases 30. The person who wants to download now only has a 1/300 chance of getting what they're actually looking for so they give up.
Yeah, thinking about it, with Kazaa that would be much more effective than with modern day torrent downloading. Still not entirely so, but probably helpful. And also...
debz0rz replied to your photo “ultrafacts: The Meowstro Sings — Guster’s Keep It Together is an...”
I would totally guess that Guster was trolling and being ridiculous - I'm pretty sure they made some live recordings of their shows available for free. They're generally pretty chill, it seems.
...there’s this explanation. I do think they must have had fun with it :D
njelruch replied to your post “If you don't want to open this jar of annelids, I won't blame you at...”
I think the issue was further complicated by the nature of the land purchase. The reason the Catholic Church was selling its property in the first place was to pay for reparations to victims of church-related sexual abuse. A lot of Burlington's donors were pissed that money they had earmarked to "help students" was going into the Church's coffers instead. I am not an expert, but I think someone dropped the ball wrt PR.
Yeah, I can see that, especially if most of the donors were alumni of that particular institution. I can’t imagine they had especially friendly feelings for the Catholic church, particularly in a case where their money was going to help the church pay sex-abuse reparations. Though by all accounts they got the land for a STEAL, so with good spin they could have handled it better.
I actually ran this story past a couple of colleagues at work -- it’s not something that was super well-covered nationally so most of us only had the barest understanding of it -- and most of them agreed with me that a) they should never have run a capital campaign and b) probably the misrepresentation to the bank was equal parts “crazy NFP bookkeeping” and “Letting the bank think we had more pledges than we did”.
adventures-in-asexuality replied to your post “If you don't want to open this jar of annelids, I won't blame you at...”
is that twice-yearly payments of $10K or $100K? (and if the former, how does that work, or can I just not do maths all of a sudden?)
Ah, that’s $100K, not $10K. You can see why I don’t do pledge structuring :D
hellenhighwater replied to your post “awriter314 replied to your photo “Early morning pretzel bites, so I...”
I did not even know that honey existed in that form, and now I gotta get my grubby little hands on some. I need honey in every form!
Spreadable honey in particular is pretty great. I started researching seed honey because Trader Joe’s has a “three ingredient” peppermint patty where the filling is literally just mint flavoring and seed honey. It was pretty easy to make in the end -- I just dug some crystallized honey out of the bottom of a bottle, whipped it until it was smooth, then carefully whipped in non-crystallized honey, and it crystallized beautifully. I’ve got a tupperware tub of it in my kitchen, I save it for when I’m feeling Fancy.
nightshadezombie replied to your post “molly-ren replied to your link “Hurricane Harvey Grants Roundup” ...”
Well, in my HeadCanonIsh world, (in which Civil War never happened) Tony probably made Steve a trustee. He says it's because Steve is great fundraiser, but really, its because if he has to go 4 galas a year, and ALL those Trustee meetings, well, he's not gonna be alone in his misery.
LOL! Yeah, Steve would probably be like “Well, this is fine, I’d like to be more involved in charitable work....wait I have to wear a tuxedo? What?”
