Woke up thinking about Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It was a sad day when I aged out of the Scholastic Book Club. 📚
Graffiti near the University of Florida campus on Highway 441. 📚
I miss convenience stores selling men’s adventure paperbacks like they did in the 1970s. Go in for Schlitz and smokes, walk out with book 45 of a series about a guy who calls himself the Destroyer, Killmaster or Defenestrator. 📚
Met a fellow Jaguars fan in Gainesville and almost made a derisive comment about Urban Meyer. Didn’t feel right to say it within sight of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Back in my day people like Joe Rogan and Logan Paul only found an audience as wacky morning deejays. They weren’t free-range crapping all over the place. We had them penned to FM radio.
Time’s running out for the public to vote in the #SPFBO cover contest. I need to know what circumstances compelled this Vermont teddy bear to take up the sword. 📚 www.facebook.com/groups/12…
I can’t eat food while wearing headphones for a work call. Even though I’m muted the sound horrifies myself.
The #SPSFC finalist Iron Truth by @tholin only has 14 reviews on GoodReads, which blows my mind. It’s a massive epic so ambitious in its telling you have to marvel at the author for her audacity. 📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show…
The Glitch sale closes the book on Fog Creek Software and its amazing run of bootstrapping successful sites and software. www.theverge.com/2022/5/19…
Leave Rose alone, you rapscallion. She belongs with Jack!
Out of 300 books in #SPSFC, 7 just made the finals. File 770 heaps some praise on the book that ranked eighth: Rebecca Crunden’s apocalyptic authoritarian tale A Touch of Death. File 770 file770.com/review-a-… 📚
I’m fighting some !important styles in CSS that I can’t modify. Fun fact: If you have less selectors than the style you’re overriding, your !important loses to their !important. This feels like a job for !importanter and !importantest.
It’s hard to appreciate the name your parents gave you when somebody else got Titus Welliver.
“The city is our oyster so let’s get to shucking.”
The author of Daros, the highly amusing book I’m currently reading for the SPSFC semifinals, is the creator of Snood. 🕮
I encountered some ServiceNow platform code today that was last updated in 2005 by Fred Luddy when he was the company’s only employee.
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Post to Twitter from my Micro.blog to reduce time on Twitter.
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Go to Twitter to see if it showed up.
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Spend time on Twitter until it does.
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Spend more time on Twitter.
It’s interesting that Kyrie Irving says he and Kevin Durant are co-managing the Nets with the owner and GM, instead of blaming the team’s troubles entirely on them. ESPN
While Elon Musk ruins everything I will be hanging out on my new Micro.blog, copying posts to Twitter and yon. It’s very chill here. One of the major categories is knitting. rcade.micro.blog
Kindle’s feature to look up a word without leaving the page of your book is nice. I just used it to learn that a klick is a kilometer.
Saluton, mondo!