Morning is when I have coffee, so it gets a pass.

For now.

A child, moved by forces they don't understand, sneaks into the kitchen to steal a cookie. A mouse watches hungrily from the shadows.

Their greed knows no bounds.

Many of these poems by Piet Hein were accompanied by little pen illustrations, and Consolation Grook had this illustration:

I think the question wasn't why the unlock was a thing, but more a why was that written the way that it was.

"t < 2m or t < 1m or t < 1m 40s" is logically the same as "t < 2m", because when you chain or statements together the whole thing is true if any part of it is true.

Also @cstross.bsky.social appears to be a pretty standup dude overall.

I particularly liked the perspectives from the New Management trilogy, and him going back to write some stories from the perspective of Mhari from the first Laundry Files book.

Man, I forgot about this one.

I read it when I was in high school and probably right after I read Snow Crash for the first time.

Adversarial poetry: not just diss tracks.

A monopoly on magnets? I'd have expected a dipoly on them.

There's a Tumblr post for that.

Why can't I use some of this brain space I use on remembering silly posts on something useful, like phone numbers or people's names?

www.tumblr.com/desertleviat...

If you really want to blame a meme though, blame the shift away from showing roommates in sitcoms. The death of the three-camera show filmed in front of a live studio audience basically removed the concept of roommates from media, and we started seeing "roommates are bad" jokes almost immediately.

Honestly, there's just no real infrastructure to enable finding them outside your friend group anymore.

The go to for finding roommates outside your friend group used to be classified ads, and later craigslist. They are both atrophied at best, filled with ai-generated spam at worst.

To quote my favorite mathematician, tom7:

I do enjoy a beautiful math result where everything is in its right place, but to be honest, what really titillates me is when the problem is beautiful but the solution is upsetting.

There's a video of a panel that Frank Turner did with Henry Rollins, and it's a great watch. Rollins is just an all-around good dude, and I adore him.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=COE2...

That's for when you need to keep interactions short by any means necessary.

There's a le petite mort joke to make here, but it died prematurely.

This is incredibly good timing for me because:
- I'll have a week off in there to mess around with the new skill.
- I'll be on an actual sailboat and can make the dumb "training x skill while training x skill" post this deserves.

It is frankly bullshit that Scrabble wasn't designed to be accessible to those with paws.