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Mid-Mod mom, editor, nit-picker, N95 wearer. #COVIDIsAirborne {she/her} Free, universal healthcare is a vital part of infrastructure. 📍New Orleans

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mcboingboing@mcboingboing· 26d

Thanks to being #CovidCautious and #StillMasking, I haven’t caught a single contagious illness since my probable Covid infection in March 2020.

mcboingboing at her desk on one of the rare days she has to work in the office downtown. She’s wearing an N95 respirator, a valveless Drager X-plore 1950.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Jul 2

Do they always cluster on the same stalk? We have a handful of two-spotted longhorns that overnight on a leaf of African iris, and I’m pretty sure they always return to the same one. (Sorry about the poor photo quality.)

A cluster of 5 or 6 two-spotted longhorn bees on a long, thin iris leaf

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Jun 17

Live long and prosper, baybeee! 🖖 bsky.app/profile/mcbo...

Selfie in the office, wearing a Dräger X-plore 1950 (valveless) model N95 respirator. So comfy I forget I'm wearing it.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Jun 10

Old census records are fascinating. On this page from the 1850 census, where info is recorded about people who died in New Orleans that year, there's a German pilot named Miller (could it have been Müller?) who died from a common occupational hazard: as the census taker wrote, he was "Blown up!"

Line 12 of the census form says that a 30-year-old married white man from Germany named Miller (no first name listed), who was a pilot, died in February. Cause of death is "Blown up!" In last column, which asks for the number of days the person was ill, it just says "sudden."

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· May 1

Well into the 1980s, Barq’s root beer’s slogan was “Drink Barq’s. It’s good.”

An old (1950’s maybe?) metal sign with the Barq’s slogan

An old Barq’s bottle that bears their understated slogan

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Apr 20

Bonus: it's in the middle of nowhere!!

Screenshot from Google Maps, with the house marked with a pin in the center, showing it's surrounded by miles and miles of farmland.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Apr 18

I wear my N95 whenever I'm out in public. It's so comfortable I forget it's there. I haven't caught anything contagious since March 2020. Pretty great, actually.

Selfie at the office, wearing a Dräger X-plor 1950 model N94 mask. Available at https://www.amazon.com/Dr%C3%A4ger-respirator-NIOSH-approved-construction-improvement/dp/B09WB65XWK

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Apr 3

The Archdiocese of New Orleans’s website says that Good Friday is the only day that Catholics don’t hold Mass, but they do hold a a Passion Liturgy that day.

Text from the Archdiocese of New Orleans website, which says, “Many Catholics in the archdiocese maintain a somber tradition of walking to nine churches in the area, symbolically following in the footsteps of Jesus as he carries his cross to Calvary.” A Passion Liturgy is given at each of those churches.

Moore from the archdiocese of New Orleans website: “This is the only day of the year that Mass may not be celebrated.” However, it also says that the archbishop will preside over Good Friday services at 3 PM on Good Friday at St. Louis Cathedral.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Apr 3

My friend was shopping at TJ’s, and an employee gave her this bouquet just because she’s so sweet!

A large bouquet of lilies, mums, and alstroemeria in pinks and purples, plus baby’s breath and greenery.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Apr 1

News from #NewOrleans: it’s mulberry season, y’all!

Four shiny mulberries in the palm of my hand. They look like small blackberries or dark-red raspberries.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Mar 25

Bound to be as successful and well-adapted to the site as his famous rescue pod for the kids stuck in the cave…

Thai Cave Rescuer Explains Why Elon Musk's Rescue Idea Wouldn't Have Worked.
Expert caver Vern Unsworth dismissed
Musk's submarine as "just a PR stunt."

"It just had absolutely no chance of working," Unsworth contined. "He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. The submarine, I believe, was about 5-foot-6 long, rigid, so it wouldn't have gone around corners, gone around any obstacles. It wouldn't have made it the first 50 meters into the cave from the dive start point."

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Mar 11

Hubba. Hubba. #HistoricalHotties — this one from the collection of the Opelousas Museum in Louisiana. opelousasmuseum.org

A late 19th- or early 20th-century photograph of a Black cowboy wearing a typical hat, a bandana around his neck, a plaid flannel shirt, and chaps covered in long fur. His face is a long oval shape, and his dreamy eyes are gazing deep into your soul.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Mar 9

This is why we have a Lifestraw water puifier/dispenser. It not only filters out heavy metals, microplastics, and PFAS, but also bacteria and parasites. The website has a store locator, too. lifestraw.com

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans’s map of today’s boil water advisory, which covers well over 1/2 of the city’s population.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Mar 7

iPhone plant ID agrees with you.

Screenshot with two images. On top is a closeup of part of El Spotto’s image of the flowers. On bottom is a matching image of flowering plants, identified as bird eye speedwell.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 23

Another day, another boil water advisory. And heads up—this morning's advisory has been expanded to cover everything up to Canal Street. swbno.org/news/boilwater

A map from the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans showing the extent of the boil water advisory announced today. It's bordered by South Carrollton Avenue, Canal Street, and the Mississippi River.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 21

We went from no snow to about 5 inches overnight in NE Iowa. So pretty. Here’s a doe nibbling at an evergreen tree.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Aw, nice!

A black and white drawing of Gerald McBoing-Boing smiling and looking upwards.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Comus dukes wear kinky boots!

A row of 16 masked men dressed in velvet medieval garb trimmed with gold sequins. They all have knee-high thrown suede boots.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

#rexcomus trending at No. 3 among posts in English!

Screenshot of a post from an account called Trending—English (Beta). Number 1 is Trump, number 2 is Energy.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Errol, the giant dancing heads are the one thing we are NOT snarky about! We love them madly, deeply.

Costumed characters with huge, papier-mâché heads at the Comus Mardi Gras ball.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Yea! We did it! #rexcomus is trending ahead of #furryart!

Screenshot of a post from an account called Trending Tags (Beta).

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

A page named Smallpage!! 🤭 #RexComus

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Watching #RexComus this year from my Iowa hometown, and my daughter just noticed there’s a house in the next block with actual Mardi Gras lights.

A very blurry photo of a string of purple, green, and gold lights on the eaves of a house.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 18

Their flower arrangement is really nice—I’ll give them that.

The three TV hosts/commentators for the Rex-Comus ball are sitting at a table bedecked with a fine display of bright purple and yellow flowers with green leaves scattered throughout.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 17

TV screen displaying preview of 7 pm (Central) broadcast of the Rex and Comus Mardi Gras balls—a spectacle of New Orleans upper crust inbreeding

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 12

Rouses on Freret. Better get ‘em quick, before they sell out!

A pan of food(?) from the deli case: roast Brussels sprouts for $7.99 per pound. They are wrinkled like prunes and nearly white—barely any green detectable. Bizarre.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 12

Post trees you photographed.

Closeup of sweet osmanthus branches—slender, vertical twigs with thickly growing leaves and clusters of tiny orange flowers.

Closeup of sweet olive branches, much the same as the sweet osmanthus but with pale yellow flowers instead of orange ones.

A picture of the whole crown of a sweet olive tree with so many flowers that it’s more yellow than green.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 10

St. Augustine Church, the spiritual heart of the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, as seen in 1859 and today. Anyone remember which hurricane knocked over the wrought-iron cross on the steeple? @granzombi.bsky.social, do you know? catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/se...

An engraving depicting Saint Augustine Church, from a 19th-century magazine called Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. The church is visible in the center background. In the foreground, there are pedestrians, a covered wagon, and a man on horseback in the street and on the sidewalks in front of the buildings that line the street, including a dry goods store.

2021 Google Street View showing the same scene, mostly unchanged. There are cars parked along one side of Henriette Delille Street as well as power lines and poles, but the buildings on either side of the street in the foreground appear mostly unchanged since the 1859 view.

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 9

I love, 💕, LOVE the trend back to glass beads as Mardi Gras throws! These were from Krewe of Carrollton and King Arthur today.

Nineteen multicolored glass bead necklaces

mcboingboing@mcboingboing· Feb 9

It was a PERFECT day for Mardi Gras parades.