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Published: September 24, 2024 21:01

I just started thinking about the in-jokes you don’t put on social media, which means my AI revenant is not going to supply the correct SpongeBob or Riddick line in the married call-and-response. And then I thought, maybe these tech bros don’t have…

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Published: September 24, 2024 20:53

ME: I have dealt with the mortgage people AGAIN. I have answered email. I have taken the dog to the vet. Now, at last, I shall get some writing done. MICROSOFT WORD: Applying automatic update… STRONG HYSTERICS [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: September 24, 2024 20:36

And the bank asks for another piece of paperwork, which I A) uploaded last Thursday and B) sent directly to the underwriter, also last Thursday. Kevin has also uploaded it, after highlighting all the relevant transaction details. I’m about to channel my…

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Published: September 23, 2024 22:35

Today I did pack triage for nearly three hours and achieved…*checks* Virtually nothing! Woo! I’m getting movers for the main bit but a lot of this is still at the “deciding what I actually want to keep” stage.

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Published: September 23, 2024 20:19

Good Lord. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 23, 2024 18:08

Did Friendship is Magic ever address what happens when a pony encounters a cheap knockoff? Do they go “Hello, new friend of a different species?” or “AAAAUGH UNCANNY VALLEY KILL IT WITH FIRE!!”

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Published: September 23, 2024 16:50

Arrrrghh the bank pushed closing back to the 4th and my nerves can’t take much more.

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Published: September 23, 2024 03:53

Hey, @neolithicsheep.bsky.social, I need a naval engineering question answered. The Carpathia, which rescued the survivors of the Titanic, had a top speed of 14 knots. In order to arrive at the time they did, mathematically, they ran at 17 knots, in the…

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Published: September 23, 2024 00:02

Kevin, because he is the best, informed me that today is Hobbit Day and he acquired the Rankin-Bass Hobbit because he knows I love it. That Gollum will always be the one I think of. Sorry, Andy Serkis.

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Published: September 22, 2024 19:48

The first time you vow to rebuild after a natural disaster, it’s a triumph of the human spirit. The tenth time…not so much. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 21, 2024 23:41

Whatever publisher has the rights on Eva Ibbotsen’s romances, that you have not brought the last two out in ebook is a CRIME. Do you hate joy? Charm? MONEY? A Countess Below Stairs is an absolute absurd delight and A Company of Swans is a treasure and I…

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Published: September 21, 2024 00:03

Well, well, well. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 20, 2024 21:23

The first POD has arrived. It looks enormous and thus will hold approximately one tenth of our belongings.

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Published: September 20, 2024 17:35

I’m sitting at the kitchen table about to start writing and Hound comes up and lays her head on my knee so she can look up at me with maximum tragedy. HOUND: PET MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUND WHO IS DYING OF UNPETTEDNESS? ME: I question this diagnosis, but ok.…

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Published: September 19, 2024 18:13

So I go out, eat lunch, and then my truck won’t start. I call Kevin. He comes and jumps the battery, I go to the AutoZone to have them check it. My mortgage person calls to say she needs more papers. I attempt to listen to this while trying to start the…

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Published: September 19, 2024 17:04

Now, I don’t work in film, but I just have this vague feeling that storyboarding is not the sort of thing AI is good at? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 19, 2024 16:57

Not exactly a boss, but my driving instructor kept asking me to stop places, would go into a building for 15 min, then come out and we’d drive somewhere else. Eventually I realized I was a drug mule. I admired his schtick, though—nobody is gonna pull over…

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Published: September 18, 2024 23:41

Insert “This is what visual learning algorithms aregood for! Use it for that!” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 18, 2024 23:20

Assuming that we leave off the practical ones, like “I would like to provide for myself and my family until my death?” Miyazaki movie. No question. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 18, 2024 22:35

…no, Google AI, I do not think Animal House is the source of the song “I Gave My Love A Cherry,” nor do I think it is a parody of a Welsh song from 1975.

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Published: September 18, 2024 18:25

Oh! Hey! I have just remembered that a few months ago, a friend of Kevin’s solved a mystery that had been making me nuts for years! (A brief thread)

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Published: September 18, 2024 18:15

I have an advance copy of @amalelmohtar.com’s The River Has Roots and it is LOVELY. You’re gonna want this one.

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Published: September 17, 2024 18:40

In further Adventures in Home Buying, the bank has informed me they’re getting a second appraisal done, because, quote, “the loan department didn’t like this one.”

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Published: September 17, 2024 14:57

I really like the mysterious bug that erased all footage of the incident from the car. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 16, 2024 18:46

AHA! As I half-expected, the right hand didn’t know the left had automated a process. Apparently the unknown publisher is their ebook distributor, and this would have worked great if I was a big US publishing house without a UK edition, but choked here. …

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Published: September 16, 2024 18:32

It is so weird, after a week of mad travel and house buying stuff, to have a day that’s just “Okay! Write a book now!” I’m usually very good at getting back in the headspace, but my brain is looking at this fictional person’s problems and going “Yeah, but…

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Published: September 16, 2024 17:56

Gosh, if only there was some way we could prevent things like this from happening… [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 16, 2024 17:55

Tango is a buddy of mine, and one of my D&D players! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 16, 2024 17:33

The pharmacy I go to is remodeling and I was in line behind a woman asking about it. PHARMACIST: Yeah, they put me in the corner. THREE MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN SIMULTANEOUSLY: Nobody puts Baby in the corner! (It was the woman in line, me, and one of the…