How come none of these extoll the virtuous delight of reading, the joy of deep and heartfelt communication or the comfort of self reliance?

It is not the tools, it is the carpenter. The tools set the choices, the carpenter makes the decision.

I see a generous OOC settlement in the future.

A bit on searching on a slow Saturday morning resulted in the delightful site Yokai.com. It has hundreds of illustrated Yokai along with complete descriptions. I believe an invitation to make t-shirts is in order. Perhaps even a post of its own.

http://yokai.com

Poetically, the video stalled at 0:55.

The floor plan that always baffled me was on the British SitCom "As Time Goes By."

Your link to food network has a long list of advertisements and a pop-up. If they are a sponsor, great! If not, ...

This was a memory jogger. How many times did I hear about the Austrailian Ballot in Civics Class?

http://thememorypalace.us/2016/05/open-road/

A podcast that contains much of the information in the article, but compliments it by being more emotionally evocative.

While this is a funny bit, the offender as much admits to (frequently) parking where he should not and then makes sport of people only trying to do their job. Not a nice person at all.

Whew! I was worried about the downstream property owners. The second video show that the dam is just upstream from a lake that could easily tolerate the flooding.

Power tools vs. pumpkins.

Practice for the zombie apocalypse.

Go Cubbies!

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

Larry Niven addressed this 40 years ago, "Man of Steal, Woman of Kleenex."

Going to a Big 10 university, all of my classes were in some sort of lecture hall. Even the high level science classes had at least 30 students: Individual seats, bolted to the floor, no cushions. One of the reasons to own a down jacket.