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MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

My neighbor's mom made me a plate. Underneath all those delicious vegetables are tortillas rolled up and stuffed with chicken

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

Just saw some graffiti that reads, "Cream is bought with cash for cheap!"

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

Two of our actors and our stage manager have COVID right now, so tonight is going to be a little bit of a wild ride at the theater

MLE_online, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

This is wild. One of the duck eggs I got from my boss is almost entirely yolk.

Mega yolk!

MLE_online, 5 days ago to random

When are we going to get a Jurassic Park / Planet of the Apes crossover film?

Hollywood has no imagination anymore.

MLE_online, 6 days ago to random

I designed and printed a connector that plugs in to a Toyota coil-on-plug pack. Will it work? We will see

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MLE_online, 7 days ago to random

Finanal sale

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

Tonight's show at the theater made up for last night's disaster. The actors were all in great form. The lighting equipment behaved. I got all the light and sound cues right. The stage crew was on their game. And the audience was wonderful. They were maybe our best audience so far.

MLE_online, 8 days ago to random

Ceramics class! Today was the last day for glazing, and I gota few things back. First is this really excellent bowl.

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MLE_online, 7 days ago to random

Some lady at the grocery-store bike rack: Oh shit! You're tall!

Me: Yea

Lady: How tall are you?

Me: 6'3"

Lady: Are your parents tall?

Me: No, they're normal height

Lady: Oh, so you are some kind of giant!

MLE_online, 7 days ago to random

Intriguing. Confusing.

MLE_online, 7 days ago to random

I saw a big, burly Harley guy, all long gray beard and smeary old tattoos blasting Santa Monica by Everclear while astride his "hog."

MLE_online, 7 days ago to random

Does this belong to one person with wide-ranging aesthetic preferences, or a couple who can't agree on one style for their apartment?

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MLE_online, 10 days ago to random

I got home around 1 am after last night's performance and saw that someone had put a desk/table with nice metal legs and an oak top out on the street.

I've been needing a new desk, so I dragged it home.

I went out and looked at it this morning and the top is not oak. It is bamboo. It's bamboo stamped with a fake oak wood grain pattern. lol. I'll still use it though.

MLE_online, 10 days ago to random

A graveyard of shopping carts stopped dead in their tracks by the anti-shopping cart theft perimeter at the edge of the parking lot

MLE_online, 3 days ago to random

Last night's performance at the theater is going to be a strong contender for the "Oh, god!" award they give out to one production each year.

On top of two of our actors, including the lead, and our stage manager being out sick with covid, the city's lighting system broke down and we couldn't fix it before the show started.

When it's working, it allows the booth operator (me) to move through all the preprogrammed lighting cues that are designed to evoke moods at certain points in the play or highlight an actor standing in a specific spot on stage.

We had none of that control. The stage lighting was unresponsive. Five minutes before the house was open, the director discovered that we could still control the lights through the four basic lighting presets built into the system. None of them were designed for the play, but at least they put some light on the stage.

And we didn't figure out until intermission how to do a blackout on stage.

I spent the entire production manually turning the lights on and off to try and light the stage as appropriately as we could manage.

Phew....