@jakkalbessie what sound are you hoping for?

All three are so yummy and great from the Farmer’s Market. Of course, here is Santa Fe, the green chiles being roasted add to the good things coming from the Farmer’s Market.

When buying cantaloupe from the local grocers, always thump them and sniff the end where they are pulled from the vine. Seems to work for me and sometimes pass them when don’t pass the thump test. One day was thumping and sniffing melons when a lady walked and asked what I was doing. Told her my theory on good melon hunting and she asked me to find her one. Did my best and them while we were discussing this, a man walked up and asked me to find him one as well. Kind of fun interacting with others with no real agenda in mind except a good melon.

Have a good day and I am off for breakfast of fresh melon and boiled egg!

@jakkalbessie
here in the PNW.
I always get a slew of 'em, roast, peel, bag, and into the freezer.
Have tried growing my own, not the same. Has to be from Hatch Valley, NM.
Have a great day.

All three are so yummy and great from the Farmer’s Market. Of course, here is Santa Fe, the green chiles being roasted add to the good things coming from the Farmer’s Market.

When buying cantaloupe from the local grocers, always thump them and sniff the end where they are pulled from the vine. Seems to work for me and sometimes pass them when don’t pass the thump test. One day was thumping and sniffing melons when a lady walked and asked what I was doing. Told her my theory on good melon hunting and she asked me to find her one. Did my best and them while we were discussing this, a man walked up and asked me to find him one as well. Kind of fun interacting with others with no real agenda in mind except a good melon.

Have a good day and I am off for breakfast of fresh melon and boiled egg!

@CB This time any claim for victory will fail as the entire world watched the debacle as we retreat in disgrace.

What I like best about this clip is that it is not Just Saigon, 1975, it is every endeavor we undertake. We have failed the human race, but oh, how wealthy our .001 % has become.

Enraged boomer two thumbs up rating.

who not only lit the spark, they maintain the rage to this day.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0d8_JCWpI]

@CB
Thanks for that, CB.

who not only lit the spark, they maintain the rage to this day.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0d8_JCWpI]

@CB

history twice in the past few days for folks who were unaware of anything pre-dating our invasion. Yes kids, it really is Jimmy Carter who was behind it all way back in the day.

be well and have a good one

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/533018-west-destroyed-afghanistan-pdpa-revolution/

As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.

In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Daud, the cousin of King Zahir Shar. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise.

Foreign journalists in Kabul, reported the New York Times, were surprised to find that “nearly every Afghan they interviewed said [they were] delighted with the coup.” The Wall Street Journal reported that “150,000 persons… marched to honour the new flag… the participants appeared genuinely enthusiastic.”
...
For women, the gains had no precedent; by the late 1980s, half the university students were women, and women made up 40% of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70% of its teachers and 30% of its civil servants.
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“Every girl could go to high school and university. We could go where we wanted and wear what we liked… We used to go to cafes and the cinema to see the latest Indian films on a Friday... it all started to go wrong when the Mujahedin started winning… these were the people the West supported.”

For the United States, the problem with the PDPA government was that it was supported by the Soviet Union. Yet it was never the “puppet” derided in the West, neither was the coup against the monarchy “Soviet backed,” as the American and British press claimed at the time.

President Jimmy Carter’s secretary of state, Cyrus Vance, later wrote in his memoirs: “We had no evidence of any Soviet complicity in the coup.”
...
In 2010, I was in Washington and arranged to interview the mastermind of Afghanistan’s modern era of suffering, Zbigniew Brzezinski. I quoted to him his autobiography in which he admitted that his grand scheme for drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan had created “a few stirred up Muslims.”

“Do you have any regrets?” I asked.

“Regrets! Regrets! What regrets?”

When we watch the current scenes of panic at Kabul airport, and listen to journalists and generals in distant TV studios bewailing the withdrawal of “our protection,” isn’t it time to heed the truth of the past so that all this suffering never happens again?

@lotlizard

who did this? This is definitely an act or war, and Biden better gear up and come up with an appropriate response this time.

/snark?

be well and have a good one

https://nos.nl/artikel/2395076-ijzeretende-bacterie-gevonden-in-kanaal-v...

An iron-eating bacterium has been found in the canal connecting Ghent and Terneuzen, a phenomenon known as MIC (microbiologically influenced corrosion). It eats its way right through iron and even through steel. In the marina of Zelzate, just across the border in Belgium, several boats have already been badly damaged. Belgian researchers are very concerned.

The bacterium is not only a danger to boats; steel from sheet piling along the canal can also be affected.

Researchers from the Antwerp Maritime Academy and the universities of Ghent and Leuven discovered the bacterium. They are surprised by its power. Where normally steel under water corrodes at the rate of about 0.1 millimeters per year, this bacterium eats away up to half a centimeter annually, say the researchers.

The iron disappears fifty times faster than normal. "I have already examined hundreds of sea-going vessels, but this is unprecedented. The bacteria eat up the ship, as it were. Never seen how fast this bacterium strikes," professor Kris De Baere of the Antwerp Maritime Academy told public broadcaster Omroep Zeeland.

De Baere does not rule out the bacterium also being present on the Dutch side of the canal. "The open water means the bacterium can easily spread and for the time being we have no idea where else the bacterium is." He calls for a major study into the bacterium and its spread.

@QMS  
Obligatory plug for Ting Wong’s in Philly Chinatown…
https://www.phillymag.com/best-of-philly-archive/ting-wong-4/

@enhyra lutris

some better than others
depending on the goals of said beings
the money / power grabbers tend more toward
competition whereas the rest of us find
cooperation more productive

According to the wiki world Qbert doesn't resemble a pickle. Unless they grow Qpickles in Qberg?

Q*bert segments between 1983 and 1984. The show is set in a United States, 1950s era town called "Q-Burg", and stars Q*bert as a high school student, altered to include arms, hands, jacket, and sneakers. He shoots black projectiles from his nose, what he calls "Slippy Dew", to make his enemies slip. Characters frequently say puns that add the letter "Q" to words.

bitter melon

@on the cusp

a Coloradan, we can introduce you to the Rocky Ford canteloupe. You'll like 'em. (;-) Rocky Ford is to canteloupes as Hatch is to chiles, Palisade is to peaches, or Olathe is to corn (and I won't hold the fact that Olathe is actually in Kansas against the corn!)...

There are no local farmers selling them here. I am never satisfied with the ones from the stores, and just do not have the time to tend a garden.
When I did garden, I raised red and yellow watermelons, regular and small round ones, and cantaloupes. I raised honey dews occasionally.
Good times.
I am taking in all kinds of cases, civil and criminal, involving family violence. Lots of stressors in the country right now. These are the bad times.

@on the cusp
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTbEC1prcs]

There are no local farmers selling them here. I am never satisfied with the ones from the stores, and just do not have the time to tend a garden.
When I did garden, I raised red and yellow watermelons, regular and small round ones, and cantaloupes. I raised honey dews occasionally.
Good times.
I am taking in all kinds of cases, civil and criminal, involving family violence. Lots of stressors in the country right now. These are the bad times.