"My plumage is a pattern I like to call mansplaid"

SHERLOCK felt kind of like Holmes was a cross between Merlin and a Time Lord. Cumberbatch is super-fun to watch, but the SHERLOCK series doesn't really move the "Sherlock Holmes-ish" needle for me.

ELEMENTARY is my favorite Sherlock Holmes, and I'm including the original.

A wide shot of a carpeted hotel convention space. The words "Mr. Right" are overlaid. Sam Rockwell is all the way at the right side of the screen, having walk-danced his way across the screen.

Here's a screen-grab.

The opening Sam Rockwell dance in MR. RIGHT, in which he dance-walks across the screen while the first horn licks of "Just My Type" by St. Motel play? It's one of those moments that buys the filmmakers an entire movie for me.

I could not find a GIF of it.

I suspect there's an alternate timeline in which the term "footloose" is medical terminology for some sort of disease of the ankle.

Were I close with an actual paleontologist (spouse, kiddo, inner circle, whatever) I might consider using other words because my relationships with the living are more important than my terminology for the very-long-long dead, but the word "might" is doing some heavy lifting here.

I will accept Pluto being a "dwarf" type of planet, but I'll call any long-necked sauropod a "brontosaurus" long before I bother to check to see if that's correct.

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance, or you're eliminated.

In the spirit of providing evergreen content, I wish you a day that does not have issues throughout it.

Outtages last night. Services like this are basically distributed, massively-multi-user databases so even a few minor outtages can dramatically affect things like timelines, reply sequences, and notifications.

There's anxiety of influence, and then there's frustration over anxiety of influence, and somewhere further along that scale there's how I feel when people send me stuff that they think is similar to what I'm working on.

Something something "heffatrumps and losers"

The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

That's gonna carry me further than just Wednesday.

Regardless, with all three fans in place I can drive an external 4k monitor for a movie (or just a big screen full of reference art) while working on 8.5"x11" 600 dpi pages. The machine never gets hot, and doesn't hit performance walls.

That could be part of it, but the test for me was whether the device itself was getting hot. There are three hotspots on the back of the Surface Pro but until I put a big cooling fan on the biggest one I didn't notice the smaller ones.

I think the big one is CPU/GPU, and the others are bus hubs.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

My Surface Pro used to get super-hot and then super-frame-droppy when I worked with big files, or tried to stream video. I got some magnetic cooling fans for it and the problem went away. The processors have the juice, but the tablet form-factor doesn't have the cooling power to match.

Wow. I like that you're leaning all the way into the problematics.

That might be a name for the deck.
THE PROBLEMATICS.

Of course that title would rule out the use of JKR because "problematic" doesn't begin to hint at the outer edges of whatever she has become.

I'm not laying down any sort of hard-and-fast rule here, because A) I don't like hard-and-fast rules, and B) nobody authorized me to make rules. Sometimes a long intro works. I think it's usually because the book/movie/game needs to establish mood and tone, which is difficult to do quickly.

"But people need to know what KIND of book/movie/game this is!"

True. That's what trailers are for.

The biggest recent violation of this? The Rudd/Black ANACONDA. The trailer gave me the premise, and I was on board. Then the first 30 minutes of the actual movie were spent developing the premise.

This feels like it can be more broadly applied.

Consider ditching the prologue, the opening crawl, and everything you think you need to use to set the stage. Try opening with an immediate call to action. Trust your readers/viewers/players to catch up as the story unfolds.

modern rpgs: you need a 20 min opening cutscene or you won't be into it

XCom: aliens invaded, you're up, Commander, good luck and all that

Dunno, I haven't played for a year.

I had to step away from all the daily "play for the love of FOMO" games for several reasons, which I won't enumerate here. Suffice it to say that I can't answer your question, but I kind of wish I could.

Satisfaction vs savings: a tale as old as time management.

Anyway, if you want to block Attie for any reason, you might as well subscribe to the "AI Slop" block list and solve more than just the one problem.

A BlueSky profile screen crop for "Attie," @attie.ai, with a label that says User Blocked by "AI Slop"

Mainstream news source told me that Bloosk had an AI feature that lots and lots of people are blocking.

Turns out I already blocked it!

A very happy crafter holding DnD Crochet by Stacy King

Look what arrived at our house today! So happy to get started crafting! @stacyking.com @jimzub.bsky.social

I'm hoping there's a dosage (low) and a frequency (quarterly?) that will improve quality of life while minimizing the other problems... or at least pushing them a couple of decades into the future.

Gotta do some research.