Random question for the fediverse... Have a relative with a SimpliSafe system (old), just door sensors and an alarm. Might need a refresh. Thoughts on open/non subscription replacements? General thoughts? (aside from the fact that security companies seem to prey on little old ladies... when all they do is call the cops if an alarm goes off. 🤨 ) Main requirement is detecting if a door opens and sounding an alarm if nobody hits a keypad or remote. (ie scare the opportunistic burglar sort of thing) #random
Also, "Mexican food" which is this menu... must include shredded iceberg lettuce. I think there is a rubber-stamp "ethnic" food genre (Chinese, Mexican, Italian, Indian) which gets replicated across every large and small town due to 1950's and 1960's Americans tiptoeing into "ethnic" food, and only later (or never) do you get more authentic, non-American versioned restaurants... 🤔 #random #food
Dan York
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If you're making a New Year's resolution
Maybe there's really only one solution
If you never ever get any of them done
Maybe you shouldn't even make one
Why make plans you won't carry through
I say, the only way to make do
Make plans for tomorrow or next week
And keep on getting them done on a streak
It's a lot better than a lofty list
Which every item you have missed
My goal tomorrow is to wake up with my wits intact
That is my only goal, in fact.
If you're making a New Year's resolution
Maybe there's really only one solution
If you never ever get any of them done
Maybe you shouldn't even make one
Why make plans you won't carry through
I say, the only way to make do
Make plans for tomorrow or next week
And keep on getting them done on a streak
It's a lot better than a lofty list
Which every item you have missed
My goal tomorrow is to wake up with my wits intact
That is my only goal, in fact.
slims :miyagi: 🐟⁂
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Odysseus neemt afscheid van Alcinoüs, Theodoor van Thulden, 1632 - 1633
etching, h 196mm × w 250mm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-66.760
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Odysseus neemt afscheid van Alcinoüs, Theodoor van Thulden, 1632 - 1633
etching, h 196mm × w 250mm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-66.760
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
waiting for the cultured collective to start playing. #random #yerevan #erevan #theculturedcollective.
Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦
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Violin, anonymous, c. 1705 - c. 1710
This tin-glazed earthenware violin cannot be played, for it is a decorative object. When the collector John Loudon purchased it for a record 1500 guilders in 1876, this violin was considered to be the absolute masterpiece of Delft earthenware. The modelling and painted decoration
certainly make it an exceptional object.
Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
earthenware, h c.63cm × w c.23cm × d c.10cm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-NM-12400-91
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Global Museum
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Prostanthera Melissifolia from Volume 2, 1873-6, Educational collections of Australian plants
Botanical specimen mounted on paper with label "Prostanthera melissifolia / Order Labiatae / Locality Gellibrand River / Contributor C. Walter".
Ink, Paper, Plant material - non specific
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/112557
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
Prostanthera Melissifolia from Volume 2, 1873-6, Educational collections of Australian plants
Botanical specimen mounted on paper with label "Prostanthera melissifolia / Order Labiatae / Locality Gellibrand River / Contributor C. Walter".
Ink, Paper, Plant material - non specific
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
https://collectionsearch.nma.gov.au/s/hw/EMU.EMUIRN/112557
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
Stefan Bohacek
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slims :miyagi: 🐟⁂
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Drip-filter coffee pot, Fa. Diemont, 1816
Gift of Mr and Mrs Jaffé-Pierson, Huizen
silver (metal), h 29.5cm × w 24.5cm × d 11.2cm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1978-126
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Violin, anonymous, c. 1705 - c. 1710
This tin-glazed earthenware violin cannot be played, for it is a decorative object. When the collector John Loudon purchased it for a record 1500 guilders in 1876, this violin was considered to be the absolute masterpiece of Delft earthenware. The modelling and painted decoration
certainly make it an exceptional object.
Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
earthenware, h c.63cm × w c.23cm × d c.10cm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-NM-12400-91
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Drip-filter coffee pot, Fa. Diemont, 1816
Gift of Mr and Mrs Jaffé-Pierson, Huizen
silver (metal), h 29.5cm × w 24.5cm × d 11.2cm
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1978-126
#rijksmuseum #musea #collection #art #mastodonart #mastoart #random
Wow, UK vacation time is 42 days a year for a university lecturer. (I can't imagine anyone not in academia in the US taking that much vacation , EVEN IF their employer gave it to them... darn workaholic culture). I don't know anyone in the US who still has a pension plan, either.
"...26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance..."
November 24
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`By that date the stench from the box was so overpowering that the cooly in alarm removed them to a dry ditch in the vicinity, where they were discovered by the police on November 24th.`
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“The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch, 1672-1916” by S. M. Edwardes
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62798
slims :miyagi: 🐟⁂
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title: Untitled (transfer drawing for Bear Creek Canyon, Denver, Colorado)
artist: George Elbert Burr, born Monroe Falls, OH 1859-died Phoenix, AZ 1939
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=3397
Global Museum
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title: The Signal Fire
artist: Ralph Albert Blakelock, born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
notes: Ralph Albert Blakelock traveled the American West between 1869 and 1872 to
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71307
