KBTibbs rejoined the workforce!

Is the smartphone a decent landmark for scale of the box?

Plus, Whedon's dialogue is like Tarantino's or Sorkin's. It's so idiosyncratic that people only fail to emulate it.

I don't want.

To underscore how nothing it is, get less sleep.

Every speech on the subject given by any involved party begins by deploring even the idea of war. A war here would not be legal or useful. It is not necessary or appropriate. It must be avoided. Immediately following this proud declamation comes a series of circumlocutions, circumventions and rhetorico-circumambulations which make it clear that we will go to war, but not really, because we don’t want to and aren’t allowed to, so what we’re doing is in fact some kind of hyper-violent peace in which people will die. We are going to un-war.

The difficulty is what happens next, which is that various nations and groups of nations who are notionally friendly to one another and here for identical, similar or compatible purposes get into disagreements. The good kind of disagreement comes to an end with harsh words and apologies, but disagreements between men and women trained to kill and armed with the best weapons available, who know that they are disagreeing with people who are similarly trained and equipped, are generally the other sort. Giving someone a jolly good talking-to becomes an exchange of warning shots and suddenly there’s a minor battle going on. Minor battles become international incidents; international incidents foster distrust; distrust fosters conflict.

It’s almost as if, now that this place exists as a war zone, everyone feels it would be rude not to use it.

Cover of the UK paperback of The Gone-Away World: black with red spatters or cracks stretching horizontally across the middle. What text with the title abd my name.

It is SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE, you bastards

Quite blurry of some definitions, but Hades and Persephone. Especially the some more modern takes on their relationship.

I am just now watching this episode myself. Many, many emotional noises were made.

An ancient green dragon laid on its side on top of a gaming table

Finished a 3 year homebrew campaign tonight.

I played a wild magic sorcerer until his death at level 10, and picked up an Oath of Vengeance Paladin.

Zamophere, the Unseelie Queen is dead.

So many emotions. #dnd5e #dnd #ttrpg

Generally, I want the past to stay the past, especially beloved media that we don't need to resurrect and flog for those nostalgia dollars.

(I'm lookin' hard at _you_ Heat 2.)

On the other hand, dang do i need some of that new Scrubs in my life.

It makes sense. I should have realized!

The texture on those curtains is so cool. I didn't know needlepoint could do that!

I just feel like a kid my parents are trying to explain something bad to me.

An error message proclaiming that "Something happened"

This was frustrating when going from Windows 7 to 10.

I have known that my nephew has been making youtube videos for a while and to my shame until now I haven't watched any of his videos and ...

He has 31,000 followers? What? Wild.

48 hours later, he's transferred from the ICU onto the general floor.

*Deep, worried breath*

Dad was rushed to the ER this evening. A minor surgery later, he's spending the night in the ICU.

So damn scared.

You can take the white people out of colonization, but...

Because that's a team sport.

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies Mr. Beale Has Meddled With the Primal Forces of Nature (Clip) | Network (1976) | TCM

YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE.

AND YOU
WILL
ATTONE!

youtu.be/sOt-G2LVgfI?...

What a great monologue

You're going to get a uptick in weird questions.

I hear this is sometimes how they come from the store.

I'm beginning to think that the shift to 8-10 episodes per season of television is causing an increasing build up of Narrative and it's starting to leak out in unusual places.

Ardra, from Star Trek The Next Generation's episode "Devil's Due" She has brown curly hair piled high on her head and prosthetics making ridges on her forehead.

G'Kar from Babylon 5. A Lizard-like humanoid with spotted head and red eyes.

Thane, the assassin from Mass Effect 3. He is an amphibious, green humanoid with scales and large black eyes.

Zhaan from Farscape. A feminine alien with blue/white marbled skin.

So... I added a rule that to be "alien" they couldn't simply be a human actor (eg. Deanna Troi). They cannot be easily mistaken for human.

Also I'm bad at picking one '-iest' anything, so in no order:
Ardra from TNG, G'kar from Babylon 5, Thane from Mass Effect 3 and Zhaan from Farscape.

A picture of a computer screen that has a computer mouse with speed lines. It says "Throwing Attacks. Throwing objects a other people."

Working training today.
Learning a lot. I hope ninjas show up in this video.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

AI tools *shift* your time.
Research is still dubious that it saves you time.
metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Ugh. I hate water cooling.
This evening has been a nightmare.

It's only three hours into the work week and I already need a weekend.

Occasionally Cassandramatic