357. Let's Be Each Other's Encrypted Off-Site Backup

Lords:

• Rebecca
  
• Martin

Topics:

• Running a home server: Easier than you might think and very useful to do
  
• The best place to find poetry is on vacation
  
• Winston reading every sign in Target
  
• Zampiceni's Marketplace, by Margaret Szumonski
  
  • https://toots.ravenoak.dev/@rebecca/116899616527167036
    
• Hot dog research thursdays and bad dracula nights

Microtopics:

• Tomato season: the tomatoes look pretty good.
  
• Mozart in the Park.
  
• Actors: they're not fussy like cellists.
  
• Ancient Greek plays where they stab each other.
  
• 10 hours of Star Trek engine noises.
  
• An illicit hacker breaking into your Jellyfin server and watching your Star Trek.
  
• Listen to Data putter around.
  
• A recurring thing with a database that you have to keep debugging.
  
• Building a normal computer out of normal parts.
  
• Everybody being each other's encrypted off-site backup.
  
• Opening books and closing them, then opening them again and closing them again.
  
• The one about the horny grocery store.
  
• Having a difficult time finding delicious food in Massachusetts.
  
• The kind of food they feed you on a weaving retreat.
  
• Sitting in a Starbucks, staring at the internet and rotting.
  
• Walking into an indie music store and perusing the local music section.
  
• Getting mad on vacation because you miss your cats.
  
• Nothing Beats Doing Nothing.
  
• Buying grape juice from vineyards and making wine at home.
  
• All the little guys that help you make wine and cheese.
  
• Wrapping your wine fermentation vats in blankets so all the bacteria are more comfortable.
  
• Folks who assume you know about wine because you're from California.
  
• An advertisement exhorting you to go where you already are.
  
• Abag & Iclei?? What does that mean?
  
• Puzzling out the vanity plates.
  
• Growing up watching only PBS and then falling for every ad as an adult because you have no ad literacy.
  
• Seeing a targeted ad and feeling like you failed as a person because you want to buy the thing.
  
• How Instagram ruined hash tags.
  
• Getting off-topic but it's okay because it's a different topic.
  
• Prose poems and deconstructed sandwiches.
  
• Absolutely! No parking! For Buca di Beppo!
  
• Having notes on this sign.
  
• Seeing a sign and thinking "hmm, someone must've parked for Buca di Beppo here."
  
• Your tight five on East Coast Fallouts ruined the Fallout TV series.
  
• The grocer cutting open the pomegranates so you can touch them.
  
• Muscles building like coconuts, lifting whole regimes of bananas.
  
• Why are husbands so wrong about Zampiceni's Marketplace?
  
• Moammar Gaddafi's obsession with Condoleezza Rice.
  
• Getting curious what Danny Devito was doing in the 1970s.
  
• The invention of No-Fault Divorce.
  
• Be sure to marry someone you can go to the grocery store with. (Especially the sexy grocery store.)
  
• Saving the horny onions for your next appearance.
  
• What to do with all the write-in topics now that we don't have a write-in segment.
  
• Who to turn to for pizza research now that the Pizza Research Institute has shut down.
  
• A pizza that's more like a heaping roasted salad.
  
• Inventing the peanut butter and pickle hot dog once a week.
  
• Putting peanut butter on noodles.
  
• Food wizards.
  
• As much star anise as you could possibly ever use.
  
• Learning to cook in a no-onion environment.
  
• Fermenty Black Beans.
  
• Medium to high-effort hot dogs.
  
• Dracula just trying to be a good dad.
  
• Quitting Bad Dracula Day for good.
  
• Lucy pulling the football away. (The football is good Dracula movies.)
  
• A movie where karate guys do kick-ass moves while children are being trafficked.
  
• Michelle Yeoh as Cop Lady.
  
• Fast forward 200 years and it's 1972 and there's a funk soundtrack.
  
• Hosting your own patreon, and other ideas that will definitely work.
  
• Being on the Fediverse to post and on Bluesky to cry.
  
• What Gene Siskel thinks of the Blacula sequel.

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