California parents, grew up in Colorado in the 60s and 70s. Super middle class. We ate quite a lot of canned cream of mushroom as an ingredient, never standalone. I've used it only a handful of times as an adult. But still yields quick reasonably tasty meals that nobody complains about.

Nothing directly on point, but this article about TNR in Hawaii was interesting: www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

We got our two outdoor cats from a group that purportedly does a variation ("feral" cats to "barn" cats). They turned out to be not very feral, but they are effective mousers.

This trial court decision (Martel v Matt) summarizes and cites precedent as I understand it in NY. You get a jury trial for claims at law. Disgorgement is an equitable remedy. barneslegal.sharefile.com/d-sd532db837...

To pick just one recent example of how retail companies can take risks and then regret them, see: www.forbes.com/sites/peterc...

One of my first assignments in biglaw in 2006 was related to a big retail bankruptcy, and I worked on several after that. They happen All The Time because retail expansion is risky and predictions are hard, especially about the future. I'm sceptical that it's now "crime" and not "business as usual".

Retail stores have risen and fallen over the years, often leading to waves of closings. They do it in waves because it's easier to handle one big wave of bad PR than multiple ones. Theft is just an excuse to deflect from better / more common reasons that someone in management could be blamed for.

I would say that ones 12-year-old son asking about Andrew Tate is at least as concerning.

Fortunately he just wanted ammunition to throw back at his classmates, among whom he is disturbingly popular.

Party idea was mine; Eric was only one of the people who posted it on lists. Tim came (I think) because Russell W posted the invite to an Extropian list. While I was not expecting the level of turnout, it was a lot of fun. I will admit to being the person who told Tim to smoke outside.

S3 of Serial is indeed brilliant, but would be tough & expensive to duplicate.

Not a podcast, but @scotthech.bsky.social has posted stuff on Twitter over the years that captures the day to day brokenness of the system, e.g. twitter.com/ScottHech/st...

Also found myself revisiting Above the Law's "Biglaw Lawyers Behaving Badly" March Madness bracket, featuring two former colleagues (neither of which made the final four, sadly). abovethelaw.com/2017/03/and-...

It's been four days since I read the original post, and it's still bouncing in my head every time I take the dog out (also 15 lbs., inconsistently housebroken).

Here is a breakdown of the *second* NHK documentary that you and I are both in: www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

To be clear - not including you under "randos", you were deliberately invited. :-)

Someone had the idea to put butcher paper all over the walls and people drew on it - I know Tim had a good time with this and I wish I'd saved the stuff he drew/wrote. At some point I saw the NHK show but have not been able to find it since - it had quite a bit of footage from my crappy apartment.

Probably my housewarming in '95 when I first moved to MV. The invite was forwarded to a bunch of mailing lists and all kinds of randos showed up, including Tim and a video crew from NHK. Next day a neighbor was like: "wow, that was some party man! I could have sworn I saw Timonthy Leary there."