Mark Gresham

From yesterday, March 24: Allatoona Dam. Lake Allatoona empties into the Etowah River which flows westward to Rome Georgia, then merges with the Oostanaula River to form the Coosa River.

@seanonolennon @skylar_moody Birthdays are good for you. People who have more birthdays live longer. 😉

@skylar_moody Birthdays are weird and hard to enjoy if you’re normally sensitive.

unfortunately i hate on my birthday the way noel gallagher hates on christmas

@seanonolennon @skylar_moody I just turned 70 this month, and recognize that at my age Mozart was very dead. And yet I am enjoying life more and more. "Live like you have another 30 years left," says my pianist friend Giorgio Koukl, who just turned 73 this week. He's right.

Policy meets reality real quick.

@RandPaul How about cutting $0.05 from each dollar spent instead, and balance the budget faster, maybe in one year?

We borrow money to pay interest on money we already borrowed, and now that the bill exceeds the entire defense budget, it's absurd. My Penny Plan fixes this by cutting just one cent from every dollar spent and will balance the budget in 5 years. forbes.com/sites/dougmelv…

@R_A_Belcher @EWErickson Perhaps the best move would be for Atlanta to turn the airport over to the Georgia Ports Authority. But they won't, because of the money. The State might develop a better relationship with TSA.

@EWErickson Hmmm, what kind of liquidity would a private company need if it oversaw security at Hartsfield Jackson and had to go weeks w/o reimbursement from DC while still paying hundreds of screeners. But, yeah, ATL should ask how San Francisco does it

It is malpractice by the City of Atlanta to not privatize TSA. cnn.com/2026/03/21/us/…

@JohnCleese Better still: just don't kill infidels.

My advice would be... Don't be so vocal about your intention to kill 'infidels'

@Sassafrass_84 Also: My mother never would have called it SOS, at least not out loud. That was just completely out of scope for her.

Not specifically that, which I would rather call "shit on a spud." Our SOS was Armour corned beef from a jar (so my mother could collect the tiny glasses) on white toast with a creamy white gravy. Haven't had it in decades! Yes, my mother did the same with Bama jelly jars and saved them for drinking glasses. Sweet tea, of course. For those unfamiliar: All of these jars were not standard jars, but essentially drinking glasses with a pressure sealed snap-on/off lid. Hefty glass, not the kind of fragile thin glass that many kitchenware glasses are made of. Very unstylish, but very pragmatic.

I still have a ton of mashed potaoes from my short rib dinner Sunday night. So tonight, I am repurposing it. I'm going to make SOS. Something I grew up on as a kid. Poor people food. I think I have only ever made this once or twice when the kids were younger. I guess we will see what the fam thinks about it tonight. Have you ever had this? Shit on a shingle. California version.

@Sassafrass_84 This is it.

Yea, some of you are thinking of this version. Creamed chipped beef. Lol. This one is soooo good too.

@jameszimmermann A few vowel movements there.

“I’d like to buy a vowel.”

Today, March 25th, is day 77 of "van life" and it's going to be a full work day. Got started early. One review posted this morning already, so taking a break at a Chick-fil-A, or the chicken biscuit and black coffee, and that first cup of coffee will not be the last. @ChickfilA

Assad Brothers’ farewell tour reveals a lifetime of seamless musical unity earrelevant.net/2026/03/assad-…

The ironic thing about that is the militant urbanist call for more public transportation to promote population density, because the public transportation does not work for them unless there is high density. The theory that New York City's subway system worked against increasing density in Manhattan runs so contrary to so much of the narrative that we hear. Except for one thing in Atlanta: the screaming by militant urbanists for completion of light rail on what's called the Atlanta Beltline. because it's a circular loop around the inner city, and they also want to connect it to a trolley that goes into downtown. (Which non-urbanists call "A Streetcar Udesired.") So there it is again: that persistent urbanist desire for the obsolete 1940s downtown-focused city. And at the same time they want to extend the MARTA heavy rail farther out into the deep suburbs (again to get people from the suburbs to go downtown) in metro area counties that do not want it, not only because of issues with going downtown, but because they do not want downtown Atlanta to come to them.

NYC sprawl map from 100 years ago. It's easy to blame subway construction for encouraging low densities in the outer boroughs, but people wanted to have more living space. The urbanist alternative would have been creating an urban growth boundary around Manhattan to protect green space and to ensure compact human-scaled development. Imagine a Brooklyn filled with pastoral farmland with an even denser Manhattan! But no, the subways ruined it all.

🎶 His hair is Wall Street gold His smile’s a sharp surprise His conscience never shows He’s got Patrick Bateman vibes He’ll quote the right designer While he carves another state He’s smooth as California wine But empty underneath the hate He’s got Patrick Bateman vibes Patrick Bateman vibes He’s got those empty killer eyes And a soul that’s been revised Preens in the mirror nightly Memorizes every line Talks compassion so politely While the body count keeps climbing He’s got Patrick Bateman vibes Patrick Bateman vibes Polished surface, zero soul Just a suit that eats it all (Yeah, he’s got those…) Patrick Bateman vibes 🎶

@GavinNewsom do you not know who patrick bateman is ?

For so many years people have been saying that Patrick Bateman and I look alike. Now this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think?

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.

ELON MUSK: "In the future, the robots will make so many robots, that they will actually saturate all human needs, meaning you won't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for at a certain point, like there will be such an abundance of goods and services. There'll be more robots than people. I think everyone on earth is going to have one humanoid robot because you would want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet, take care of elderly parents. I'm very optimistic about the future. I think we're headed for a future of amazing abundance, which is very cool. Definitely we are in the most interesting time in history."

@evanwch @_rotimia @Tyler_A_Harper Maybe a news outlet (or a podcaster) should host a debate that is just between the five or six lowest polling candidates in the race? That should be fun at the very least.

@_rotimia @Tyler_A_Harper 😆

We have to stop doing stuff like this man

@GAFollowers "N' hakko, nte maŋ Mandinka kango moy."

Atlanta ranks around the middle in WalletHub’s most diverse cities. It has a moderate mix of cultures, but most households are similar in size and most residents earn similar incomes, limiting household and economic diversity.

@TiffanyFong Just tell them, "N' hakko, nte maŋ Mandinka kango moy."

how do you get your uber driver to shut the fuck up ?