What's everyone up to right now?

[Clueless Morgan]

Going to rebuild Fergus's aquarium this weekend.

This piece of driftwood is going in:


Obviously those aren't the actual plants that will go in the tank. Don't even, y'all.

Doing the Susan G Koman Race for the Cure on Sunday. Don't know how excited I am for that.

[Joods]

Waiting at the DMV because, you know, I have nothing else to do today.

[Angrboda]

[Joods]

That's a typical day for me.

[emjay]

Something really weird happened last night, and it continues to be an unsolvable mystery.

I was trying to put the top on a jar of pickles when it slipped from my fingers and fell through a portal into a parallel universe. I heard it clatter but didn't hear it hit the floor. It couldn't have fallen on the floor because I was too close to the counter for it to get past me. But it wasn't on the counter. I brushed the floor with my foot, but it wasn't there.

It vanished. It must have fallen into a world where pickle jar lids are sentient beings with thoughts and feelings of their own, and now it doesn't want to come back and be my inanimate tool anymore.

I dumped the pickles into a plastic storage bag, but I still want my lid. I don't want to be stuck with this unfalsifiable mystery hanging over my head.

Could it have fell down the gaps between units in your kitchen? Or fell down and rolled underneath one?

[Fireball]

Something really weird happened last night, and it continues to be an unsolvable mystery.

I was trying to put the top on a jar of pickles when it slipped from my fingers and fell through a portal into a parallel universe. I heard it clatter but didn't hear it hit the floor. It couldn't have  fallen on the floor because I was too close to the counter for it to get past me. But it wasn't on the counter. I brushed the floor with my foot, but it wasn't there.

It vanished. It must have fallen into a world where pickle jar lids are sentient beings with thoughts and feelings of their own, and now it doesn't want to come back and be my inanimate tool anymore.

I dumped the pickles into a plastic storage bag, but I still want my lid. I don't want to be stuck with this unfalsifiable mystery hanging over my head.

Could it have fell down the gaps between units in your kitchen? Or fell down and rolled underneath one?

Yes, to the geometric center. That or it rolled into the spot where maximum contortion is required to find or retrieve it.

[Joods]

I would like to take a nap now.

[pocaracas]

Waiting at the DMV because, you know, I have nothing else to do today.

Around here, a DMV is a Disruption Mitigation Valve... It's used to dump a bunch of gas into the vacuum vessel, when a disruption is detected, so the gas can absorb most of the energy in the plasma and then radiate it as light... much better than a bunch of protons smashing into the beryllium wall, likely melting the surface.

Unfortunately, it has melted...

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And here's the whole thing, when it was new, for perspective:

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[brewer]

Something really weird happened last night, and it continues to be an unsolvable mystery.

I was trying to put the top on a jar of pickles when it slipped from my fingers and fell through a portal into a parallel universe. I heard it clatter but didn't hear it hit the floor. It couldn't have  fallen on the floor because I was too close to the counter for it to get past me. But it wasn't on the counter. I brushed the floor with my foot, but it wasn't there.

It vanished. It must have fallen into a world where pickle jar lids are sentient beings with thoughts and feelings of their own, and now it doesn't want to come back and be my inanimate tool anymore.

I dumped the pickles into a plastic storage bag, but I still want my lid. I don't want to be stuck with this unfalsifiable mystery hanging over my head.

bold mine

That's known as under the stove.

[Rhondazvous]

Could it have fell down the gaps between units in your kitchen? Or fell down and rolled underneath one?

Yes, to the geometric center. That or it rolled into the spot where maximum contortion is required to find or retrieve it.

Or it may have fallen down a rabbit hole. will have to take the red pill to find out how deep it rolled.