I can't read your mind and I can't write your name

[sovay]

How I am doing at the moment is extremely not great. spatch took a picture of me craning into frame like a cat. I took a picture of a blinkie my father made for me.



The dekatron currently running was manufactured about fifty or sixty years ago in the Soviet Union. I loved this shot because I caught the flare of neon transferring from one cathode to the next.



Trusting one of my husbands telling me that I look like a person, whatever I feel like.

I was unironically charmed to discover The Wonderful World of Tupperware (1965). The hard sell can get a little hard to take, but the technical details are as good as all those short films from the Children's Television Workshop about the manufacture of peanut butter or saxophones.

The rediscovered 1983 Thomas the Tank Engine pilot which I had seen linked around my friendlist turns out to have been more like a screen test for the model work, which honestly makes it even neater to watch. I wrote a letter once to the Island of Sodor. It did occur to me years after the fact that my parents answered it.

If Richard Brody would just edit the collected film criticism of Virginia Tracy and Andre Sennwald, I would buy the books like two shots and consider it a service to art.

Comments

[cmcmck]

That's a lovely shot of you!

[sovay]

That's a lovely shot of you!

Thank you!

[lauradi7dw]

Sometime in the mid-1980s, we visited the Tupperware museum. I am surprised to see that it might still/again be open.
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I no longer have anything that burps*, but still have some items from long ago.

* one of the bowls with such a lid was lidless by the time Flo was small, and it was turned into the throw-up bowl. Does every household have such a thing? In my childhood it was a metal pan.

[sorcyress]

McDonalds, ages ago, used to do these Halloween buckets which came with lids, and that was a _critical_ part of throw-up infrastructure, since both me and my youngest sister got hideously carsick on basically every trip ever.

Nowadays, I use one of the several small-blue-hard plastic recycle bins that I have floating around the house (because if I have to dump out my recycling to get to it, that's usually just annoying not filthy).

Sorry Sovay for the puke digression! I like your strange little blinkie!

~Sor

[sovay]

Sorry Sovay for the puke digression! I like your strange little blinkie!

It doesn't bother me! I'm glad you do!

(Good for your family for finding neat infrastructure for the carsickness problem.)

[sovay]

Sometime in the mid-1980s, we visited the Tupperware museum. I am surprised to see that it might still/again be open.

If it weren't in Florida, I'd go!

Does every household have such a thing?

I don't think ours did. One of the very few times I can remember throwing up as a child, a wastebasket with a garbage bag inside was suitable. I don't really vomit. I'd probably have to be tear-gassed or something.

[moon_custafer]

I tend to be slightly wary of twentieth-century Soviet-made devices, ever since an online friend bought a second Geiger counter to cannibalize for parts to repair his boyfriend’s Geiger counter, and the check source that came with it turned out to be an actual chunk of plutonium. He put it in a lead container—the real problem was that Homeland Security paid him a visit a couple of days later, and it took him a while to get his laptop back.

[sovay]

and the check source that came with it turned out to be an actual chunk of plutonium. He put it in a lead container—the real problem was that Homeland Security paid him a visit a couple of days later, and it took him a while to get his laptop back.

The dekatron is fortunately devoid of potentially radioactive parts! My father owned it for ages before turning it into this installation.

[asakiyume]

"Dekatron" is a new thing for me. I looked it up to see what it is. Is yours in constant operation?

Definitely want to check out The Wonderful World of Tupperware--love history like this!

You're looking human to me! In the good sense.

[sovay]

"Dekatron" is a new thing for me. I looked it up to see what it is. Is yours in constant operation?

I can't leave it on because it generates a distinct high-pitched frequency, but I plug it in to look at it circling round in tens. It makes me happy.

Definitely want to check out The Wonderful World of Tupperware--love history like this!

Enjoy! Content warning for Anita Bryant, although she is at least appearing in her capacity as an entertainer rather than a crusader against civil rights? I didn't recognize her—spatch did. In fairness I have usually seen pictures of her when she was pied.

You're looking human to me! In the good sense.

Thank you!

[foxmoth]

:support:

[sovay]

:support:

*hugs*

[selkie]

You look like a person to me. *hugs*
That is an oddly adorable blinkie!

[sovay]

You look like a person to me.

*hugs*

That is an oddly adorable blinkie!

It has a lot of personality! Let's hear it for analog.

[umadoshi]

*quiet hugs*

[sovay]

*quiet hugs*

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

I like the blinkie!

You do look human, I would agree, but a little more drawn than usual, and I do hope you feel to some degree betterer soon. <3

[sovay]

I like the blinkie!

Thank you! I should tell it that it is widely appreciated.

You do look human, I would agree, but a little more drawn than usual, and I do hope you feel to some degree betterer soon.

*hugs*

Thank you. Less dead tiredness would help, but we'll see.

[gullyfoyle]

I hope you feel better soon.

I actually attended a Tupperware party or two with my Mom as a kid in the 1970s. We had plenty of it. Got an early start in plasticizing my brain.

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you!

I actually attended a Tupperware party or two with my Mom as a kid in the 1970s. We had plenty of it. Got an early start in plasticizing my brain.

Did you also irradiate with Fiestaware?

[gullyfoyle]

Did you also irradiate with Fiestaware?

Missed that. With 5 boys, I think my parents tried to avoid buying anything easily breakable.

[ashlyme]

It's good to see your face. *Hugs* The dekatron is pretty cool.

Tupperware had some good jazz. I think that's the first Thomas the Tank Engine I've ever seen! I grew up on Ivor the Engine.

[sovay]

It's good to see your face.

Thank you. I am doing my best to stay with it.

*hugs*

The dekatron is pretty cool.

Analog, my beloved.

Tupperware had some good jazz. I think that's the first Thomas the Tank Engine I've ever seen! I grew up on Ivor the Engine.

I've never seen Ivor! The watercolor animation technique looks lovely.

[ashlyme]

*Analog, my beloved.*

Testify! I'd love to see a row of these on top of a retro synth.

*I've never seen Ivor!*

You're in for a treat if you watch it! There's much to love about it: bassoon theme, Idris the Dragon, and a train in the local choir, among them.

[sovay]

Testify! I'd love to see a row of these on top of a retro synth.

Oh, you could absolutely make these interact. It would be either very blinky or very noisy and worth it either way.

You're in for a treat if you watch it! There's much to love about it: bassoon theme, Idris the Dragon, and a train in the local choir, among them.

IDRIS THE DRAGON.

[ashlyme]

*IDRIS THE DRAGON.*

He is very cute, and I'm trying not to imagine a Pern crossover.

[sovay]

He is very cute, and I'm trying not to imagine a Pern crossover.

I should think it would be a considerable honor to Impress a heraldic Welsh dragon.

[thawrecka]

You look great! Very human and warm.

[sovay]

You look great! Very human and warm.

Thank you!