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@Lyle I recommend reading "Redwall" first. Then read the rest in convenience order: whatever happens to be available, read it.

It's hard to find a wrong way to read Redwall!

@csalzman ooma has a "buy the hardware and service is free" option, but things like caller id and voicemail are i think $10/mo.

@csalzman yes, my household and multiple kid friend households have ooma voip house phones - https://www.ooma.com/

They virtually never use them - "dad, thats not how it works!" - because they want to instead grab an iPad and text their friends instead (and then go on to sneak extra screen time under the guise of waiting for a response).

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@hypomodern land value specifically vs total parcel value including improvements? See if Regrid separates them out maybe? https://regrid.com/ (Paging @matth )

Otherwise I think you're writing a scraper for the BS&A website, or making friends with somebody in county government to ask a favor.

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@spiegelmama @Soozcat @stefan @muckrock please, "being exploited" is such a negative term.

The austerity sanctioned term is that they are "doing more with less."

In other news, i posted a creative writing exercise about aliens and the existential horror of food service

#fiction #aliens #stories

http://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/09/20/burrito-chime/

First Contact at Burrito Chime

Lately, I’ve been trying to shake off some of the rust on my creative writing. Here’s something I wrote about aliens, burritos, and the existential horror of food service. I’m not sure if it’s funny, but I gave it a shot.

blog.lmorchard.com

Shout out to my local #Ypsilanti #foodcoop for continuing to grow and thrive: this graph from the 2024 annual report is super impressive, remembering the worrisome straits the coop was in a decade ago.

Not that "up and to the right" is _per se_ the goal of a cooperative, but the sales reflect offering a broader selection of food to more people while also increasing employee wages 22% faster than inflation, increasing local sourcing, and increasing on-site production, all of which are good.

(Hardly an original observation, just always entertained when, as just now, I walk out a door in downtown Detroit and am momentarily disoriented by catching a glimpse of the Stott and thinking it's the Guardian.)
Detroit's historic architecture goes so hard that it not only has a Guardian Building (left), but a spare Guardian Building (apologies to the David Stott Building, right).