Aaron V. Humphrey

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Canada is not a Christian nation. It is a nation where you are free to be a Christian — or any other faith, or no faith at all.

I did another blog post, about the books I read in February. www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/8099...

Veronica Mars has the best theme song ever.

Our 8th grade English teacher showed us "Fame". Presumably thinking it would be as clean as the then-current TV series. We also got to see "Norma Rae" in Social Studies when we were covering unions. And "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" in Grade 10 English. None of these were G-rated...

Yeah, I watch Claude lobotomize itself multiple times per day.

Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

I've been doing monthly book roundups on tumblr for a while (www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/tagg...) and now I've done a post about my 2025 reading (www.tumblr.com/alfvaen/8054...). (Why tumblr? I often ask myself the same thing.)

Yeah, I find that interesting compared to a puzzle game like, e.g. Sherlock, where if you guess correctly it'll just accept it. Here, you can't reason in advance of your evidence. Even with tagging, sometimes I need an extra sheet of paper for reasoning like "A or not A -> B".

Is it wrong that I am now wondering if this could be automated and randomized? Make up a bunch of lists and auto-generate the page based on random selections from them? Because if there's one thing I love, it is making lists.

I got to a point of having to guess "is this person a poet, a vice president, or a comedian?" "Is this a fallacy or a legal term?" Not to mention that I apparently knew less than half of the cheeses. Apart from that my problems were mostly logistical because the whole puzzle didn't fit on the screen

A dear friend has made the most delightfully deranged puzzle I've done in some time:

"2025 = 45 * 45, so I made you a 45 by 45 connections puzzle to enjoy.... doing it over several days with help from others is encouraged.)"

thomaswc.com/2025.html

Our final issue is now available. Twice as many stories as most of our issues!

"Sex ages"? I'm Al

Okay, I'm not sure if I've slept on one either.

But my brother had one. So I've helped him move it. Draining it. And refilling it. I don't know if that carpet ever got dry again. He sure never got his damage deposit back. Anyway, I think it counts.

Sorry, can't relate. Over 5000 songs into my "songs that wander into my head" playlist.

I can relate on the furnace filters. Killed one furnace fan in this house already because in the last house we hardly ever needed to change filters so I didn't do it for...a few years.

Also looking forward to the podcast! And hope you have a great holiday season...

Nineteen. I never had AOL.

It's always heartening to find an example of actual Canadian culture that we don't realize.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

U2 (with Derryl's tickets)
Prince
Barenaked Ladies
They Might Be Giants
Sarah McLachlan

Jean-louis Trudel nous a quitté. C'est une info très triste qui nous est parvenue. L'auteur canadien Jean-Louis Trudel est décédé ces jours ci lors d'une résidence d'auteur à Vilnius en Lituan

We are greatly saddened to learn of Jean-Louis Trudel's passing. What a staggering loss for our community. Our sincere condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.

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Interesting

Why does "confused" need so many words? "Discombobulated" also means "confused" but what it should mean is, like, "completely breaking down and falling apart".
Well, be the change you want to see in this world. They can't stop us all from using it to mean something else! It worked for 'decimate'!

happy Halloween

I feel like it's something a lot of people have in common.

A sign reading "No Kings Just Prince"

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

Oh, didn't recognize the name at first, but of course I am already looking forward to the new Cameron Reed. I loved The Fortunate Fall.

The Steerswoman books are amazing, and Hellspark as well. (I will take Lady Maggy over Heinlein's Mycroft for fictional AIs any day.) Janet Kagan also wrote Uhura's Song, one of the best of the original Star Trek novels.

So apparently I'll have to check out those other two.

Just in case I've not made it clear, I believe everybody on the planet should get free healthcare.

Yep, those people too.

Some folks aren't down with socialised medicine, and that's their opinion. This is mine.

Ask me about my stance on UBI....