Nice, but you swapped the two alt texts, I think. 😉

This may get me blocked, but … I don't get the passion for soft serve ice cream. But I have fond memories of the Berkey Creamery on the Penn State U campus in College Station, PA. They had an ice cream called Death by Chocolate, a name well deserved. And yet, I survived to tell the tale. Yummy!

That is pretty shocking indeed. I'm about the age of your mom, and I had no idea. But of course the Soviet Union was pretty much a closed book to us in the west. I have Timothy Snyder's book Bloodlands on my reading list. It covers the Holodomor, but I don't know how close to the present it gets.

So today is equinox for sure, but is it really the “official start“ of spring/autumn? In Norway, the closest to an “official” start of autumn is the meteorological one: When the mean temperature drops below 10 °C.

Redtailed hawk, if memory serves.

Classic tsundoku. (Look it up!)

43 years? Youngster, you! I wrote my first BASIC code probably around 54 years ago. I'll give you credit for meticulous archiving, though: I have no idea what my first program did.

A living willow fence. It was planted in a circle and woven together, with more fences inside, creating a sort of miniature maze. #photography#noticing

The fact checkers will face an impossible task, unless they add a third category in addition to true and false: NOT EVEN WRONG. Thanks to Wolfgang Pauli for giving us this wonderful phrase.

I can't wait (but I'll have to). Quite miffed by Amazon: I preordered the (kindle) book on August 16, then a few days ago they canceled my preorder. I had to preorder again, at nearly twice the price. I hope – but don't believe - that you'll receive a substantial part of the increase.