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Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!

Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!!

Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?

Legend has it that he was handed a live bat at a concert and thought it was a prop -- was almost more surprised than the bat.

Also - animal rights were still gaining traction re: the arts. It was only in 1972 that the first "No animals were harmed in this film" was aired.

SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories.

The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because you are always gas-lit, so you believe nothing. :-)

A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book.

The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impressive:

* She also created atlases for the worlds of fantasy authors Anne McCaffrey, creator of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series, and Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant” series.

*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool.

Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's optional, extensions anyone can build in javascript )

Macros that help me do redundant things with a keystroke, a calendar that automatically populates with my custom template when I click on the date ( could set it to do it when I log in every day but not always in My-Day mode.)

I pay for replication because it supports the devs -- you can customize replication yourself with existent tools --- dropbox, syncthing, etc.

If you're an author, there are tools that make it more Scrivener-like. If you're a TTRPG player, there's tutorials on importing rules, rolling dice and autogenerating from tables, etc.

Anyway, I thoroughly recommend

Nurdle Patrol 2 years ago

I think they meant "not unlike" as - we didn't think asbestos was bad, then we thought it could be bad, then yes, after studies, this is really awful. Similarly, we might find that ingested plastics cause more damage than we realize now.

I wonder if it would be easy to figure out, given a set of coordinates, if there would be a totality in the next 100 years there and when. I cant figure it from the examples but that would be a neat website.

What are your opinions on the book? I started it, expecting a modern day Poor Richards, and couldn't shake the feeling it was a wealthy person giving advice from a vaulted position --- like "life tips from Bill Gates." CMO.

With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations and new playlists.

Waited a while for this -- exciting! Uses Artistic License 2.0 license

The GUI isn't available until 3rd party developers release it in May --- currently it's command line only.