When I was a tween-teen my mom and I would thoroughly decorate our front yard and porch every year (for 5 or 6 years running) as a mini-haunted house. A lot of homemade decorations including a coffin my grandfather built for us. Then Halloween night I’d be in the coffin (which was on our porch) and she’d be there tending her cauldron or whatever worked for costume that year. When kids would come to the house she’d lift the coffin lid and I’d be in there with the bucket of candy. There was spooky music / sound effects, and some gloomy lighting. It was a mildly spooky vibe.

Very little kids (3 or 4) were often too scared to come up to the house and so one of the adults would have to come get their candy for them. I remember that, the last year we ended up doing it, one of the parents came up afterward and told us that their kid had been too scared to come up the year before and they talked about seeing “what was up there” on-and-off all year. And that year there were very proud to have gotten their own candy.

It’s fun to think that my mom and I are part of that family’s holiday memories.

I had a HS science teachers in the early 90s who was very insistent that, “day-ta is a name, dah-ta is information.” And between Star Trek and The Goonies, that made sense to me.

Alternatively you could buy from a dollar store where it’s 12 times the price but in a smaller package so it seems cheaper.

You know if a candy line has a fruit punch flavor you’re in for an iffy time.

My wife and I contribute to a few local organizations on a regular basis. They all offer donations on their websites. There’s a clinic we donate to. The shelters where we got our cats get regular small donations. We also donate to the local food panty plus warming centers in the winter.

We also exchange donations in lieu of gifts with our parents at the holidays. We’re all in positions where we don’t need more stuff, and it’s a nice way to still exchange something. My mom encourages donations to the rescue where she got her dog. I ask that she makes a donation to an organization that maintains and protects a local river basin.

My initial thought was, “that title can end after the 3rd word.”

Cellular modems with lifetime contracts from a telco are also increasingly common.

The is Lemmy Shitpost, the lower the quality the harder I click upvote.

I keep telling people! That’s why the correct spelling of urban is “qurbangg”

I mostly use the clipboard for moving images around, but I guess DL’d this gif when Linda Ronstadt was last in the news. I don’t remember if I posted it anywhere.

I died there

“Off the Wall” must be one of his albums.

Certainly! Let me ignore half the details in your prompt and suggest a course of action for v2 of this package even though you said it was version 15.

I’m sorry that isn’t working for you. Here are the troubleshooting steps for a Samsung convection oven that went out of production in 2018.

You are correct, your question did not involve baking tips, here’s that same course of action from v2 of this software package.

British TV leads me to believe their diet is entirely doner kebobs, indian food, fried fish, and the most expertly crafted baked goods an oven in a tent can produce.

I’m also confused when I wake up on the toilet.

My grandmother ended up with a cat because it came with the house she bought. Midnight’s first family took her with them when they moved out but she came back to the house a couple weeks later and wouldn’t leave. They came and got her, and a day or two later she was back at my grandmother’s door. After the 3rd or 4th time, my grandmother had a cat.

She was en excellent mouser who would beg for popcorn (and nothing else).

I had’t thought of that, but it is kind of weird that no-one has gone all in with a ST themed Lemmy frontend.

Independent of Logitech and other HID makers turning to shit, I’ve been eying some open source / DIY mice (like the Ploopy) for a while. Seems like a fun project that also helps me keep control of my own systems. And it’d give me something to tinker with.

Voyager runs Arch, BTW.

Not really, of course. LCARS is based on Hannah Montana Linux.

I would have assumed he was already on route to Martha’s Vineyard.