I will bet you several dollars that this technology will eventually be used primarily for military/police/surveillance work, rather than running into burning buildings.

They are 11 years apart

This one gets you blocked. Not funny or cute.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams was everything I’d been told it was. Amazing.

Exactly. They don’t care, they just mold their ‘belief’ to whatever Trump and good people say and do. We’ve already seen Catholics taking his side.

And the exact same failure happened

When I got fired by NC State, I had about 70 NC State t-shirts and all kinds of athletic gear/jackets etc. The local Goodwill had a very good day.

This sucks. Whose ass I gotta beat?

Much much worse. Not sure of the humidity, but it feels high

These two guys (James Smolinski and Harold Blake) invented a flying car out of a Pinto. You will never in a million years guess how they died!

Won’t be missing this one!

YES 🙏

Seeing ‘Cave of Forgetten Dreams’ Sunday in IMAX. Never seen it, but saw people raving about it & now my expectations are probably too high.

I will. I’m 59 😅 got some years to keep working before retirement tho.

Yeah I just checked and there’s really nothing here in Raleigh. We are planning to move away soon anyway tho, so I’ll keep looking

You could have a soda empire if you wanted one

Damn that’s great. I’m increasingly looking for something that’s neither teaching nor soccer, the only two industries I’ve ever really worked in.

To paraphrase Mitch Hedburg about Mr Pibb compared to Dr Pepper - dude didn’t even get his degree

Is that for real a job? Because it sounds great.

I’m just about to read the new Matthiessen biography - makes sense to follow it up with this one.

Gargantua by Justin Bryant The first time I saw the spider, I was two bites into a midnight bowl of store-brand generic Cheerios.  Movement caught my eye, something fast and primal, flashing behind years-old jars of pasta Li…

Today’s a great day to read my story ‘Gargantua’ in Bandit Fiction from a few years ago, since, be honest, you didn’t read it back then.

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Exactly. I haven’t made it past 70, for one.

Dick Van Dyke

You’re the best Jeff!

👏👏👏

Real ones remember

Drift by Craig Rodgers wins Dactyl Award Nominated by Charlies Holdefer with this excellent review, Rodgers’ novel, Drift delivers what the title promises. The hero of the story is a traveling Bible salesman who is unclear about the…

Drift, a novel by @abasketofcraig.bsky.social published under our Death of Print imprint, has won the Dactyl Award!

dactylreview.com/2026/04/14/d...

Having a beer with the author @joshuatrentbrown.com

I’ve heard that one, or one similar?