William Stiteler

I hope not. That sort of coincidence would make me think someone was just changing rules in the middle of the game.

So annoying that now whenever I see "Weird Al" in a post I have to take a beat before experiencing the natural joy that mention of @alyankovic.bsky.social should bring to make sure we aren't talking about generative AI doing something weird again.

If, like me, you wondered if Howard County Executive Calvin Ball was named after the sport in "Calvin and Hobbes", you should be aware that not only is he too old for that to be true, he is Calvin Ball III. So if anything, Bill Watterson has some questions to answer.

The protagonist in Jack London's "To Build a Fire" had a tough time, I guess, but he didn't have to take off a glove in this weather to answer a bunch of text messages while HE was snowshoeing like I just did.

Getting sedecordle, sedecorder, and savior all in exactly 16 guesses leaves one feeling like unto a god.

The fun thing about pictures like this is that the dog always has an expression that says "This is a deadly serious matter. I don't know why you are treating it so lightly."

Gmail popping up to tell me that Gemini can "help me write an email" once again reminds me that a lot of "No, thanks" buttons need to be replaced with "Never bring this up again, scum" buttons.

You are correct, it is the best.

Between the strawman characters and the "Oops, I already did that scene two episodes ago" stuff, he does strike me as someone who did better when he was edited.

Yeah, but if he keeps writing that scene where Billy Bob's character explains to his ex wife why she's dumb after a ruckus at dinner enough times, maybe he'll get better.

Pff. I ordered one (1) fork from a replacement tableware company 8 years ago, and I've gotten an average of 3 emails per day from them ever since.

Fair enough.

Ooh, I was just confronted with this fact about my own writing recently when I had to put together pitches for various of my manuscripts (also the thing you mention elsewhere about needing to outline for other people at a certain point even if my brain doesn't want to do it for me).

New Daniel Pinkwater novel, everyone! At some point, anyway.

You think it's over after "Where the Truckee's waters flow, "where the cattle are a-browsin' and the Spanish ponies grow." or at least after the next bit about the northers and the prairie dogs sneezing, but it goes on for 4 more "where the"s - why not another 20?

Every time I hear "The Cowboy's Christmas Ball" by the Killers, I hope that maybe this is the time they just keep going with the "where the [noun] are [verb]" structure for the whole song.

Didn't we all agree that the live action Grinch movie was a crime against cinema? Why is it being used in ads?

I got used to it taking a long time to recover from using a chainsaw, but now it's gotten to the point where I have to add in another week of recovery time just to forget what it felt like on day 2 of the recovery before I can get back to it.

Think of all the thrilling airborne (inadvertent) pyrotechnics we'll be able to enjoy!

I'm rewatching Fall of the House of Usher, and I've been reminded that the best part is @markhamillofficial.bsky.social's Pym explaining that just zooming in on a surveillance video doesn't "enhance" it.

When I first started using Bluesky, you made up about 60% of my feed, so I reckon your choices single-handedly molded the user experience of most people here, assuming I am the median user.

I mean, it seems like I need one, yeah.

Hmm, but what about "disliking animals"? I guess there are valid reasons to at least be nervous around some animals, though I'd be concerned about anyone who just disliked hamsters out of hand, for instance.

Nextdoor post: "Why in tarnation can't I buy a bag of potato chips that isn't all smashed..."

Sometimes I think I'm not getting much out of Nextdoor, but then something like this is elevated to popular post status to demonstrate its value

Good news, everyone! I probably won't get any money in the Anthropic settlement for either the fiction or academic publications they stole from me, but I just got a notification that Anthropic are looking to hire an "Honesty Engineer", so it sounds like they have that stealing thing sorted out.

This kind of thing is so bad that I just stayed at a hotel with no tub, just a regular shower with a simple knob, and after I turned it and had warm water cascading down, I stood there for a few seconds trying to figure out what I needed to do next, because I assumed there must be SOMETHING more.

I've run into this same one, though they did at least post the diagram near (not in) the shower.

Personally, I have to restrain the urge to huck my book at the head of anyone who asks what I'm reading ion public. If they start taking pics I might not be able to resust.

To be fair, it also won't replace the jobs of people that someone at Microsoft thinks are geographers (GIS techs, at a guess).

It took a certain amount of power to point that out, on my part. Is that anything?