Maybe DnD 6e should make it canon that palindromes are an important part of the culture for elves in the Underdark—that the ability to drop one effortlessly into conversation is as much a sign of one’s station as good dancing was in 18th Century England. Then we can call a palindrome a “Drow word.”

What video game world would you most like to live in once the final boss has been beaten?

On some level I must believe that if I sigh completely enough, my bones will evaporate, and I will be truly free.

I named my fists Adobe Premiere and Microsoft Access, because I don’t know how to use either one effectively!

My Louisiana in-laws sounding Bostonian as we plan our trio to the movies: “Get there before the Wicked showtime. I’ll be by the Wicked display? You wearing your Wicked shirt?”

Gotta respect when parody lyrics keep the original scansion!

Mandatory BonziBuddy

Leaving Twitter when Musk bought it is like putting down The King in Yellow before Act II

Part of the issue is that Good at Words people are generally inclined to accept that people are all different ways and to think that’s just fine. Good at Math people have been allowed too much room to think that only they have the thoughts that matter.

Ozyman, Ozyman- dias does what no mortal can and his works? are they there? no, but maybe still despair

On top of everything else, who’d want to see Tim Fishandchips in Rocky Horror?

Quare lactucam odiunt?

Is it just me or are the grammar “corrections” (blue double underline) in Microsoft Word objectively wrong with increasing frequency? Half of them in my document admonish me to remove the closing quotation mark—and only the closing one—from dialogue.

On my walk to work, got distracted by the thought of all the Jane Austen heroines combining into one like in the climax of an episode of Power Rangers

Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.

Subtly downgrade a band: Ben Takes Five Out of the Drier, Puts Them in the Hamper, and Puts the Hamper on His Bed

“So I says to Mabel, I says…”

Just saw A Gardener’s Year, which is not a direct adaptation of Karel Čapek’s essay collection of that title, but which uses its text as a framing device. It was wonderful and difficult without teetering into easy bleakness. Some of the most amazing, subtle performances I’ve ever seen on film.

CHOTINER: …Well? VILLAGER: We *did* do the nose. CHOTINER: The nose? VILLAGER: And the hat. VILLAGER: Oh, but she’s a witch! 🧙‍♀️

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice: A Tribe Called Rehnquist

I go to a themepark for the shows. Point me toward the radiator

Slightly diminish a book: Friend Request with Rama

“Lucky” = won in a raffle Not this

If we’re going to be talking about A.I. this much, can we at least gain the ability to change the iPhone display font so the uppercase i is distinct from the lowercase L?

I know it really doesn’t matter but somehow, despite being a college writing professor, this is the A.I. balderdash that I took personally:

This is all my fault. I solved the golf-tee puzzle in an eldritch configuration and inadvertently freed Barrel Bob

I forget the museum, but daily I think of the touchscreen “What Would You Be In the Middle Ages?” display I once saw. Visitors could carefully enter their skills and their interests—and irrespective of any of that it just told them “Peasant.”

We must increase bands. Bens Fold Five

As someone with an irrational affection for square numbers, I hate that 2025 is the only square I will live through.

Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window. “Debbie?” Wallace asks. “No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol. “I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”

Wallace Shawn gets home. A shadowy figure disturbs the narrow beam of light from the window. “Debbie?” Wallace asks. “No, Wally,” answers a man’s voice. The figure steps into the light of the doorway. It’s Andy Warhol. “I’m here to talk to you,” he says, “about absolutely nothing.”

Almost daily, I think of that episode of SLIDERS in which there’s a totalitarian government that the gang takes down by putting a .jpeg of the original Constitution online.

TFW you envy the customer service in SNOW CRASH

Sometimes I punch myself Hard as I can Shouting “Nobody cares” Hoping someone will tell me how Wrong I am

Been busting out some old PS2 RPGs, and although that was one of my favorite eras of gaming, I really hate the “everything is secretly missable” design choice that dominated back then.

Poetry.

I want to see a full evening of the symphony accompanied by WinAmp visualizations.

UHF is one of my absolute favorite movies. Weird Al said in an interview that he went ham with evil broadcasting magnate RJ Fletcher’s comeuppance because we so rarely see justice served to corrupt execs in real life. Also kindled my socialist heart at 6 with Channel 62 going to the community!

Yo! One like, one book I loved!

21. City of Heroes should not have hewed so closely to the then-established conventions of fantasy MMOs. Having to unlock travel powers and earn capes might have made sense in relation to similar parallels in the MMO genre, but was at odds with the superhero milieu.

So my new business is basically a food truck, but no food. It’s a mobile, free-standing porch that I drive to apartment complexes, and for $20 a pop, people sit on it for 10 minutes watching the traffic while I play recordings of cicadas.

So my new business is basically a food truck, but no food. It’s a mobile, free-standing porch that I drive to apartment complexes, and for $20 a pop, people sit on it for 10 minutes watching the traffic while I play recordings of cicadas.

A Model UN-type exercise set in the Warhammer 40k universe. Is this anything?

Question for all #FirstYearWriting teachers: Do you teach research? Are you spending more time on the fundamentals of academic writing and reading? What kind of institution are you at? How many semesters is your composition class? #AcademicSky

Question for all #FirstYearWriting teachers: Do you teach research? Are you spending more time on the fundamentals of academic writing and reading? What kind of institution are you at? How many semesters is your composition class? #AcademicSky

THORIN OAKENSHIELD: My grandfather was King Under the Mountain, but Smaug has taken our lands and seized our assets. But you can help me, Biblo: a small deposit of 1 hudnerd gold pieces will allow me to unfreez my assets adn pay you back tenflod…

Are there any persistent livestreams of the inner workings of interesting clocks? I would love to put such a video on and have it playing in the background, like one of those 8-hour train rides from southern Norway into Antarctica. Yes, I do have a box of fidgets on my desk, why do you ask?

Are there any persistent livestreams of the inner workings of interesting clocks? I would love to put such a video on and have it playing in the background, like one of those 8-hour train rides from southern Norway into Antarctica. Yes, I do have a box of fidgets on my desk, why do you ask?

Alt text is good. I have my account set so that I can’t post images without alt text, which is also good. Sometimes this discourages me from posting, though, and that is the greatest good of all.