BetsyB

@betsyphd.bsky.social

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I am looking for a dare to be great situation.

Raygun t-shirt showing "America's Famous Potato-Corn-Tire State: IDAWAHIO! So big, you would've thought t were 3 different states."
A young child rings our doorbell before he runs away. He’s got his arm across his face to avoid detection by our doorbell camera.
Sign for the Woofboard shop that sells dog charcuterie and dog goods in Campbell, CA.
“This is the world we want to believe in, one where a tiny island nation can make its first appearance in the World Cup and tie the team that took home the trophy last time. An existence where a teacher and her student can bump into each other after 35 years and 6,000 miles away on a sunny June afternoon because amazing things happen when we let them.”
Image of Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly saying, “Women? Liking sex? Groundbreaking.”
Reddit post from @texasslim2080 that says, “ The real villain in Obsession is young people’s lack of communication skills.”
Selfie with me and Wyna Liu, editor of the NYT Connections puzzle.
Picture of me in a black and white gingham shirt.
A back-of-seat car caddy containing various amenities for the backseat passenger in a Lyft.
Ye olde Twitter is over capacity fail whale.
Result from the Cal Matters quiz that matches your views with California’s candidates for governor. My result said, “Your answers did not align with any of this candidates positions” regarding Republican Steve Hilton.
Museum display on the USS Hornet about the Japanese internment camps and the discrimination that continued once the Japanese Americans returned home. Sound familiar?
Picture of the USS Hornet in Alameda, CA and a beautiful blue sky.
A screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee showing that THETAN is not a word.
The book "Infinite Jeffs" (parody of Infinite Jest), cover on wooden floor, with gift note bookmark visible "a gift for you" that says "Jeff, Jeff jeff jeff, jeff, jeff jeff. Jeff jeff jeff! Jeff jeff, Greg From Greg Knauss. Also cat head visible at top right, clearly curious about the stench of so much printed jeff.
Black and gold sign showing when the Chabot College men’s and women’s teams were established in 1963 and 1977, respectively.
A young woman helps an older woman using a walker and says, “Okay grandma, time to get to work and earn that new hip.”
Review of UC Berkeley that is generally positive but claims “the food scene is rather lackluster.”
The inside of an ultracentrifuge after an accident.
Photo of an ultracentrifuge swinging bucket rotor. The tubes are only attached at the top so they can swing out to a horizontal position when the centrifuge runs.
Red banner with white lettering that says “No kings but us” and features a white sword with a droplet on the end.
Peanuts’ Lucy van Pelt sits in front of a TV and says, “Christ, what an asshole.”
Comic book cover with the tagline "How to make enemies and irritate people."
Photo of a piece of mail addressed to someone in Gilbert, AZ (addressed redacted) that is allegedly being delivered to our house in CA.
A selfie of me in my “What if we didn’t suck?” shirt supporting Kat Abughazaleh.
Auction listing for the Tom Cruise Coconut Cake.
Scout the cat, trapped under our bed, peeking out.
Sign for an Emily Bender seminar at the University of Washington.
A robot that looks like a cooler on wheels on the campus of Oregon State University.
Black and white sticker that says, “Sorry I’m late, the bridge was up.”
Walkman and a Prince 1999 cassette.
Description of the University of Washington that says out-of-state admission is harder than the University of Oregon but easier than UC Berkeley and UCLA.
A book titled “Sorry Everybody: an apology to the world for the re-election of George W. Bush”.
House with a flag displayed that says “This sucks”.
Building with the words “Levee Street Marketplace” painted in the style of Comic Sans.
Lyft driver named Jesus with a description of his car and his five-star rating.
Receipt for coffee for someone named Bethsy.
Graffiti that says, “Fuck ICE”.
Packaging that says “LLIVE, LLAUGH, LLAMINATE”.
Map of the USA with colors denoting whether I’ve lived, stayed, visited, stopped, passed each state.
Photo of 3 children (probably 1917-1918-ish). The child on the right appears to be about 6 years old and is the husband of my great aunt. The center child is a toddler standing on a chair. The child on the right appears to be about 4 years old and is holding a cigarette.
Wheels of cheese aging at the Valley Ford Creamery.
A woman wearing an apron with the same floral pattern as the wallpaper behind her.
A woman and two teens riding in a driverless car.
A bar with a line of people wearing Santa hats waiting to get inside.
A picture of a 5’3” inch woman holding up a 39-inch receipt from CVS.
The original Gen X-ers offer some clarity: Douglas Coupland, the author of the 1991 novel "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture," which gave the cohort its name, was born in 1961. The title, he's said, was inspired by the cultural historian Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" (1983), in which Fussell designates an "X" category of people who, as Coupland once put it, "wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money and social climbing that so often frames modern existence" — an inclination shared by the trio of disengaged characters in Coupland's book. The media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, who edited 1994's "The GenX Reader" was also born in 1961; he tells me he's part of "original Gen X ... the Michael Stipe generation of Gen X-ers," referring to the R.E.M. frontman (who was born in 1960), and agrees the dates have been retroactively tweaked. When I reach the other Gen X Doug - Coupland - by phone in Vancouver, he simplifies the entire issue for me: "If you were born in the '60s and you don't remember the J.E.K. assassination, you're X. Boom, it's a given." I am unaccountably relieved. It would have been a tad too Gen X if the person who coined the term was excluded from it.
Eight! Advent calendars! Ready to go for December 1. This year’s calendars have chocolate (x3), caramels, jam, French condiments, tea, and a puzzle.
Cross section of a Mechanical Turk, the “autonomous” chess player.
Screenshot from Amazon saying “Black Friday Week starts tomorrow. Shop up to 45% off”.
Medical appointment check-in questions such as "You worried that your food would run out before you got the money to buy more", "Were you homeless or living in a shelter (including now)", "Has lack of transportation kept you from medical appointments or from getting medications", and "How hard is it for you to pay for the very basics like food, housing, medical care, and heating?".
The character Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley showing off his billionaire status with Tres Comas tequila. Guess we’re going to need Quatro Comas now.
Email verifying that my vote has been counted.
Cabinet-on-Stand attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle.
Image of a shirt with a skeleton riding in a casket with the words “I put the fun in funeral.”
828 pieces of candy, ready for Halloween night.
Graph from the National Retail Foundation on U.S. Halloween spending from 2014-2024.