Sublight Monster

I got in the good graces of my wife around then when I had a one-day job up in Saitama and found a less-mobbed KK. Brought home a few dozen so she could share with the neighbors and be the local Big Woman of the Danchi for a bit.

My neighborhood just had all-day lines down the street for a new Baskin Robbins (sorry, 31) that just opened. Some things never change

Hadn’t realized until seeing these photos just how completely white my hair had gone

A fat gaijin in kimono

I only hate-read one book last year, and that was just so I could feel justified in writing a review. Will try to avoid doing that in the future.

“Immigrants are eating my lunch!”

Visited Nikko over the weekend and spent yesterday climbing about 50 flights of stairs to visit Ieyasu’s grave, all while wearing kimono and zori. Those Tokugawas must have had killer quads. #TeamIenari

She looks like she’s channeling Leona Helmsley

Paternal: school teacher, resistance member, died in Bergen Belsen

Maternal: civil engineer, worked in shipyards and on bridge construction projects, died of mesothelioma

Mr Grim, why are there so many discussions on conservative message boards from men asking how to trick liberal women into dating them?

Meanwhile on r/conservative: “How do I trick liberal women into going out with me?”

Leaving aside the matter that Mr. Grim’s main gotcha point appears to be completely false.

I’ve never seen a racist want to have sex with someone they didn’t respect and thought was undeserving of basic human rights.

Hasty edit as I realized at the last moment his name wasn’t Corrigan

54-year-old white guy, been a fan of rock since childhood. Every year, I’m finding something new and interesting to listen to that captures my imagination in unexpected ways. And in all that time I haven’t listened to Mr. Corgan in… ever.

We already have illegal war at home.

It’s like the flip side of “you get what you pay for” is “they respect you for what they pay.”

What I learned from working as a creative is that a person will think carefully about what they want, respect your decisions, and pay $50K without complaint, but then turn into a screaming spoiled toddler when you give them a freebie.

It really bothered me how the press treated it like nonsense. Like, you dipsticks act like this then then have the gall to look butthurt when your own actions blow up in your face.

I’d finished reading Gödel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid just before watching it, which may have influenced things.

The Architect’s speech in Matrix: Reloaded made perfect sense. A logic system complex enough for recursion will contain a nonanswerable paradox. Incorporating that paradox yields a new system with a new paradox. Neo is the paradox who establishes the next matrix by deciding his own truth value.

Hear me out: Dr. Oz’s political career was backed and funded by elements within the Turkish government in retaliation for the Biden administration’s official recognition of the Armenian genocide of 1919.

Cartoon rabbit with a number 1 on its chest. Still from the music video “Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me”

Author file photo:

Yeah, just read his wiki page. Thought he was usually more thorough than that.

Wow, I’d lost track of Ted Frank after alt.folklore.urban on Usenet.

Chris Hemsworth thinks Alexa+ is scary good | Big Game Commercial YouTube video by Amazon Alexa

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That was their actual superbowl ad with Chris Hemsworth. He mistrusts Alexa being able to control the house and starts listing ways it could kill him (like closing the pool cover while he’s swimming). Alexa just says “Oh, I’d never do that. Shall I order you a massage?” and Chris comes round.

Amazon ad presents ways your Alexa could get you killed, then addresses it with “haha, as if that would happen. Purchase consumer goods and stop worrying.”

Fair play to Seattle, NE just wasn’t up to it.

He’s apparently back here. Instead of doing actual work, he’s just glomming onto more successful people in an effort to raise his own profile. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be working.