Digital Mark

It’s OK, just tell Abe you’re there to kill vampires and he’ll let you into his secret society.

I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they’re often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven’t lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it’s some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn’t trust any of my work output there.

But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Well now I just want to watch young people try to beat the unbeatable games of my yout’.

Prince of Persia, Mega Man X, Ghosts & Goblins, Ecco the Dolphin (my favorite, but I screamed so much at Ecco dying one pixel away from air). Zork without a walkthru. Solve all the puzzles yourself or by talking to friends also playing it blind.

And you paid $60 ($200 in today’s bullshit money) for this, you can’t get another for 3 months.

Change is bad. We fear change.

Actual soap, Lever 2000 boring odor, a bar lasts quite a while even with hard scrubbing. Shower gel is weird and wasteful, you have water right there in the shower.

I have some deodorant thing but it’s unscented, just for the antiperspirant.

There’s a movie with a sure-fire method, Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye. Just find someone willing to “help you” like Quitters Inc.

I still use my iPod classic for jogging, and I have an iPod touch as backup. My watch can do emergency calls so I don’t need or want a phone with me.

The low-gravity planets/moons we have access to have rather harsh radiation environments, too, so neither. Dig into the ground. You would put a bunker or dome up on the surface for observations and airlocks, but it’d be foolish to live that exposed on a surface without a deep well of atmosphere & Van Allen belts.

Ignore it or mock it. I start preaching about Great Cthulhu at people who have loonie beliefs, and let them try to debunk me.

I’ve got good at reciting “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!” in a high-pitched preacher voice.

I’ve never had that happen, within the same type. I had some loose-fit Levis 568 which were very different, but the 501s never change. Just switched from 40w to 38w, got exactly the size change I expected.

Levis. Cheap pants are never worth it, the 501 is always in style and perfect.

1. Pythonista. Great Python editor, REPL, and platform-specific libraries.
2. Editorial. Same author, Markdown editor which can be scripted in Python. I routinely write al new features for it, like dice rollers, list renumbering, etc.
3. Documents by Readdle. PDF & epub reading, file management, bunch of optional features.
4. iCabMobile. Browser with a ton of ad-blocking, filters, good file management, I routinely use it as a private browser.

Space Battleship Yamato, original model

Serenity. Just the nicest “home” you can keep flying.

Penny Royal, from Neal Asher’s Technician and Dark Intelligence.

Would you prefer they eat live animals?

“The War to End All Wars” was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.

Every day can be an episode of MacGyver if you try hard enough.

I can hear the theme song now.

But nobody’s doing anything about it. Me, either.

Thanks for your completely useless post.

Now this is the story all about how, My life got flipped-turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

In West Philadelphia, born and raised On the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin all cool, And all shootin’ some B-ball outside of the school.

When a couple of guys who were up to no good, Started makin’ trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared, And said “You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air.”

I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, The license plate said “fresh” and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, But I thought “Nah forget it, Yo home to Bel Air.”

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby “Yo homes, smell ya later.” Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.