Video: did you ever stop to think about all the engineering that’s gone into a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk?
Me: of course we did. we didn’t have the internet. What the hell else were we going to do? Shoot more football notes at the other students?
#Pinball QOTD
Player standing in front of Bally Wizard!: I miss Quicksilver.
please tell me more about the universal dumpling law because i think i may have accidentally reinvented it
"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."
The witch did not roll her eyes.
"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."
"She asked."
"You've made her a monster!"
"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."
"Removing what?"
"Someone's right to be who they are."
There was a faint puff of smoke from the bottle, and a small genie appeared.
"You have freed me," it said, "so I'm obliged to grant you a wish."
It hesitated. "But I am not very powerful."
I nodded. "Of all things I need, give me the greatest you can."
Suddenly, I held a large mug of hot cocoa.
Paging @lynnemthomas.com to the white courtesy Lego phone, @lynnemthomas.com to the white courtesy Lego phone... www.amazon.com/LEGO-Tribute...
I am still incredibly proud of this line.
i have a tee shirt with the bug on it that i wear to places where people will recognize the bug :)
it is a hard decision on whether to go back or to crack into writing instead, and doing both might break my brain
otoh, this is why i saved a lot of money for retirement i guess?
From the musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton, dressed in his congressional costume, is on the left, facing President Washington, who is holding out a quill pen. The scene is from Washington singing about retiring. The caption is from earlier in the musical. It says winning was easy, young man. Governing's harder
SFFH writers: any experience with Chill Subs? www.chillsubs.com Am I better off with Submission Grinder? How do you track your work?
(I'm currently using a Numbers spreadsheet and it is painful.)
the crip tax on paying your taxes when you need to know what you spent to be able to deduct it is astoundingly bad
i think next year i’m going to double-entry-bookkeep all the medical bullshit
thank you Vanguard and Quicken for teaching me bookkeeping, sort of
typo of the day:
is it possible that one of these two (screenshot attacked) is the one I’m looking for?
I’m not your dad but this is good advice
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A white JRT with brown spots standing on an orange chuck it brand squirrel style frisbee looking up at the camera while heavily panting, with tongue way out and curled.
I can’t throw it if you’re standing on it!
I am not throwing the frisbee in the house, you little goober!
I swear you can tell when I’ve launched the camera app
#ThingsISaidToTheDogsToday
I think the world would be a better place if more people spent more time playing fetch with their dogs.
@tkingfisher.com Learned Edmund of the Sith?
So you really don’t have anything to fear from timeline mistakes except dorky 13 year olds ;)
I was roleplaying her with my friends and we spent way too long puzzling over it. Anthony did write back essentially with “oops”. And said she was whatever age I wanted to role play her.
When I was 13 I sent a letter to Piers Anthony asking how old one of the Incarnations characters is because she’s said to live a few years after her marriage and then said that 6 weeks after her marriage she was killed
Since I’m trying to organize camp movie Fridays at my house it sounds awesome
Amen brother
Dear app folks: the software update space is not where to advertise your app. I already downloaded it. I want to know what you fixed not an ad. Knock it off. Love anne
This is not the “interesting times” I signed up for
Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.
I just learned that ECRI, the independent research group that assesses safety and risk issues in healthcare, has elevated "AI" in diagnostics as the *number one risk* to patient safety for their 2026 report. home.ecri.org/pages/top-10...
Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight:
(cat wailing)
Person: No!!
(cat wails some more)
Person: You do not want that! Spit it out!
(even louder wailing)
Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!!
#ahcats #lifeinapartments
Oh so now copyright matters.
That’s definitely better than a rejection in my book :)