Pretty much... hehe

With little Kokomo chan, I remember quite fondly sitting up playing pub games in the dead hours. I also used to sit up and read Jeeves & Wooster to my wife as she fed him in the night. Good times. So far with kokiriña it’s mostly been pretty painful, but it’s early days.

bought 2 amazon firesticks to get that Kodi thing all the kids are talking about. So long Roku!

Ram on the left, ewe on the right, note the green smudge on the ewe’s rump.

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I'm pretty sure they're both male

A fight, then.

kokiri's sheep have better lives than i do

They also know not to call three bets oop with trash, or to put their portfolio entirely in volatile, highly correlated stocks. Coincidence?

They didn't go long bitcoin in 2012, though. Not least because they weren't born.

To be fair, fv, no one cut your horns off with tree loppers.

It wouldn't take that much to change your life so that it matches theirs you know. A little grass, a little paint, a litle wool.

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Okay okay okay, this is 8 years old but I ran into this on twitter today. It's a really well done explanation of AES encryption.

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

A solid read for the curious.

i went back to the 5 dollar store today. it was a lot like hell in there. i bought 3 pink flowery hats, and i was wearing a 4th one.

Should have got the matching gloves and socks.

My loco Rheumatologist wants to shoot Botox into my neck to relieve chronic pain. I'm up for all non-surgical options but I don't know about all that. I had her give me some muscle relaxers while I think about it and I'll stretch out and see how it goes.

Behold the unnervingly rectangular livestock of Victorian pastoral art (from BoingBoing)

At the risk of take it to the sheep thread, Hoss...

In the Medieval era, sheep were bred mostly for wool - it was the heart of the English economy, hence the ‘woolsack’ on which the speaker of the House of Commons sits (found to actually be stuffed with horsehair some time in the c19/c20).

In the 18th century, this changed to the meat being the most valuable portion, and sheep were selectively bred to find a meatier carcass.

In particular, Robert Bakewell(?) bred the “dishley leicester” a sheep with a particularly prime build. It was especially meaty.


The dishley Leicester lives on in weird looking breeds such as the border Leicester

And the blue faced Leicester.
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Sheep breeding developed a pyramid structure where hardy and maternal upland sheep like mine would be crossed with a Leicester ram to make eiether a mule (blue face) or halfbreed (border), with the qualities of the mother and the frame of the ram. Then a second cross would be done between the mule ewes and a “down breed” - a squatter meatier lowland sheep, to give the final commercial lamb destined for prime cuts.

(Southdown)

In recent years, continental rams like the texel or the beltex have become common in this second ‘terminal sire’ position, for their extreme meatiness. They’re ugly as hell though.

beltex

As the meat has become more specialised, the value of the wool has fallen, to the extent that a modern sheep costs more to shear than you get for the fleece.

So there’s more to the square sheep portrait than just a bad painter.

I was trying to decide this morning whether to specialise in a particular Welsh hill breed -
badger face(torddu), but small perhaps but good looking


Hill Radnor - nice chunky sheep, rare breed but maybe a bit hard to source/expensive as a result.

bkack Welsh mountain.

kerry hill - big and meaty but a bit weird looking (& no horns on the ram )

the Nelson - what we have Now but a bit generic?

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