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Today’s successful bot tips:Comments
Create Art to deal with Being Artistic
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The new episode of Radio Browser is about malls in the Philippines, which are apparently central to life. They seem very inclusive, too. People who live in shanty towns go there for air conditioning and reliable bathrooms.Comments
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20 minutes of treadmill, 5 deadlifts of 100 lbs. Determined to not ruin my back!Comments
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Inbox 5!Comments
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Here are some more good questions, this time about D&D campaign settings:Comments
1. Is there weaponized Squid?
15. Can my character not be real , but a hallucination of another character?
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A piece of family slang I wrote up in response to the Good Question newsletter:Comments
“Skerping” — to chew on something that’s not edible, like tape or wood. A decade ago, my wife got knockoff Sharpies that were named “Skerples.” We liked to imagine that our cat, Bonus Cat, had an unscrupulous corporation named Smidgeo that would sell shady products and services like Skerples. So when he’d chew on non-foods, we called it skerpin’.
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The guy: Are there 60 minutes in an hour?Comments
Me: Yes.
The guy: Are there 60 hours in a day?
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These phone repair instructions are fascinating, but the “use a lot of force but not too much force” stuff in them is convincing me that I’d destroy my phone the rest of the way if I attempted screen replacement. I’ve already lost a few shards of glass by pulling off the packing tape to replace it with fresh packing tape.Comments
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I got from inbox 300 to inbox 14 today, which I feel is good enough!Comments
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The new episode of Small Findings is mostly about the time I got paid for art.Comments
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10-4-4-4-4-12. I’m now out at the playground and actually kind of warm, even though it’s 34°F out.Comments
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Hey, I got email notifications working in Isso! So, now I'll get emailed when someone comments here. Again, sorry about missing earlier comments!Comments
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I just noticed that the skrool has this teeth flag. I’m into Boborpian graphic design.Comments
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Martin pointed out that, much like the Illuminati card there really is a chain of convenience stores in Germany named Consume whose origins lie in East Germany! (Or Konsum to be more accurate.)Comments
I think there may have been an East Germany Illuminati card to place by Konsum's inbound arrow!
Also, apologies to Martin and esjay for not noticing they had commented. I guess I should work on getting the emailing notifications part of Isso working again. (Perversely, I bet it would be easier to write a scraper to do the same job.) Until then, I promise to check for comments regularly! -
I spent most of the day redesigning the layout on the Small Findings site. I went with a flexbox-based three-column thing that'll take advantage of a full-screen browser on a laptop, but if it's at half-width, it'll probably break to two and drop to one on mobile (unless you have a huge phone).Comments
A lot of what I did was make sure the spaces between various elements were consistent, which goes a long way toward conveying visual unity. CSS variables make this way easier, and I'm still kind of surprised they're natively supported by browsers.
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I am so into this album cover. The drawing and photo are hilarious + great. Also, if you like Emperor, this is a good album. She's sort of like Immortal, in that she's able to create really heavy music but is also willing to be ridiculous.Comments
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I think they arrived at this sound via convergent evolution, rather than a conscious attempt to sound video gamey, but Athar Aghanon sometimes sounds incredibly Castlevania.Comments
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Smooth as hell: Navalny tricked a Russian intelligence officer into thinking he was a military official and got him to admit he tried to kill him on a recorded call.Comments
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Short (15-minute?) run, 13 pull-ups. It’s not a full run, but it did let me mash both getting home from school and working out into one thing.Comments
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Heh, in addition to breaking my phone today, I set the sous vide 60°F too high and used window cleaner on our dining room table, seemingly stripping the gloss off of it(!).Comments
I think I’m a little tired today. This is the downside of having fairly rich and full days this week. -
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I think I’d like to have a job that’s just entirely making transitional jingles for podcasts.Comments
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