W. Dow Rieder
@riderius.bsky.social
Mathematician, writer, lover of books, rememberer of computers past.
Writing at Dreamwidth: https://riderius.dreamwidth.org/
My old writing tumblr: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/
Old Stories archive: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
Writing at Dreamwidth: https://riderius.dreamwidth.org/
My old writing tumblr: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/
Old Stories archive: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Oops! Nuclear war--but funny
- You killed my father, prepare to die
- "This *is* Ceti Alpha V!"
- "We're on a mission from God."
- "Henry?" "Yes, Eleanor?" "I don't like our children."
- Oops! Nuclear war--but funny
- You killed my father, prepare to die
- "This *is* Ceti Alpha V!"
- "We're on a mission from God."
- "Henry?" "Yes, Eleanor?" "I don't like our children."
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Oops! Nuclear war--but funny
- You killed my father, prepare to die
- "This *is* Ceti Alpha V!"
- "We're on a mission from God."
- "Henry?" "Yes, Eleanor?" "I don't like our children."
- Oops! Nuclear war--but funny
- You killed my father, prepare to die
- "This *is* Ceti Alpha V!"
- "We're on a mission from God."
- "Henry?" "Yes, Eleanor?" "I don't like our children."
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People kept claiming AI will enable malware to automatically rewrite itself to avoid antivirus detections. So to make a point l spend 30 minutes building this joke application. It rewrites itself ever 0.5 second, except without using AI. Every variant simply just outputs "Hello World".
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
People kept claiming AI will enable malware to automatically rewrite itself to avoid antivirus detections. So to make a point l spend 30 minutes building this joke application. It rewrites itself ever 0.5 second, except without using AI. Every variant simply just outputs "Hello World".
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Here Alan Taylor shares @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social's recent picture, spoiled by someone #photobomb -ing the Sun.
Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos.
With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.
Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos.
With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.
This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here Alan Taylor shares @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social's recent picture, spoiled by someone #photobomb -ing the Sun.
Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos.
With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.
Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos.
With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.
They now have two different flavors of vampire, a sumo nun of stone, a flying fox werewolf, and a junkbot with a raygun. These sessions spark so much joy 8-)
And we’re back! Time to visit the Wasteland Barter Town! www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
They now have two different flavors of vampire, a sumo nun of stone, a flying fox werewolf, and a junkbot with a raygun. These sessions spark so much joy 8-)
Here they go again! More fun times! They've already been ambushed from behind by a tank while fighting vampires...
And the twitch stream is live! Join Team SENSIBLE SHOES as we play and fundraiser for the kids for Extra Life. www.twitch.tv/blarkytopia?...
blarkytopia - Twitch
I play video games and board games badly, but usually for a good cause.
www.twitch.tv
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Here they go again! More fun times! They've already been ambushed from behind by a tank while fighting vampires...
Been watching this and con confirm is Best Stream
Basically, this game is going fantastically and I am ready to bite a tank.
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Been watching this and con confirm is Best Stream
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AND WE’RE LIVE! The Team SENSIBLE SHOES Extra Life 2025 stream begins! Twitch steam is running on the page.
Let the games begin with the traditional introduction of the characters.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Let the games begin with the traditional introduction of the characters.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
AND WE’RE LIVE! The Team SENSIBLE SHOES Extra Life 2025 stream begins! Twitch steam is running on the page.
Let the games begin with the traditional introduction of the characters.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Let the games begin with the traditional introduction of the characters.
www.extra-life.org/participants...
Start's in an hour! I will be watching and cheering. They are very skilled players but hoo boy do the incentives ramp things up.
While driving down, a FOURTH tank was purchased for us to fight. You people sure do love kids and tanks!
24hrs to game time! At 9am tomorrow morning, technical issues permitting, we fire up the stream and start playing with our customary introduction of the characters, abilities, and the many mutations kind donors have given us. And all the game day incentives go live.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Start's in an hour! I will be watching and cheering. They are very skilled players but hoo boy do the incentives ramp things up.
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan
(read both multiple times)
What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan
(read both multiple times)
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan
(read both multiple times)
What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan
(read both multiple times)
This is gonna be great 8-)
24hrs to game time! At 9am tomorrow morning, technical issues permitting, we fire up the stream and start playing with our customary introduction of the characters, abilities, and the many mutations kind donors have given us. And all the game day incentives go live.
Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.
www.extra-life.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is gonna be great 8-)
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The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Tales of Pope Leo, the Blues Brothers fan ‘on a mission from God’
Friends and family of the young Robert Prevost share tales of his Chicago antics before he became head of the Catholic church
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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As I get ready for Extra Life play on Saturday starting at 9am, it is also time to make another announcement:
THE DECEMBERING 2025 IS AT HAND!
That's right, the first officially designated holiday order of BBotE rolled in yesterday, so it's time to put this post up.
THE DECEMBERING 2025 IS AT HAND!
That's right, the first officially designated holiday order of BBotE rolled in yesterday, so it's time to put this post up.
The Decembering 2025 - Yes, It's That Time Again - Funranium Labs
One of the ways I mark the change of the seasons is when I get my first order designating it as a holiday gift. It’s my sign that I need to revise this post for a new year and gird my loins for the MA...
www.funraniumlabs.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
As I get ready for Extra Life play on Saturday starting at 9am, it is also time to make another announcement:
THE DECEMBERING 2025 IS AT HAND!
That's right, the first officially designated holiday order of BBotE rolled in yesterday, so it's time to put this post up.
THE DECEMBERING 2025 IS AT HAND!
That's right, the first officially designated holiday order of BBotE rolled in yesterday, so it's time to put this post up.
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Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty
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(If you’re unaware of this, Superior is so cold and the depths so anoxic that bodies do not decompose. Everyone who’s gone down in it is still there, barring heroic recovery efforts. Many of them may have saponified and become “soap mummies,” which can effectively preserve them forever.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
(If you’re unaware of this, Superior is so cold and the depths so anoxic that bodies do not decompose. Everyone who’s gone down in it is still there, barring heroic recovery efforts. Many of them may have saponified and become “soap mummies,” which can effectively preserve them forever.
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One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
One more skeet for Edmund Fitzgerald Day. Behind this historical marker is the famed Whitefish Bay. Today the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Mich., rang the recovered bell 31 times, 29 for the victims of the wreck, once for all Great Lakes shipwreck victims, and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
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I never used a Walkman(8) - unless they mean generic portable tape player with headphones. Blockbuster(13) was after I stopped watching movies. So either 1 or 2.
WTF is with people who can't read a physical map?
WTF is with people who can't read a physical map?
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I never used a Walkman(8) - unless they mean generic portable tape player with headphones. Blockbuster(13) was after I stopped watching movies. So either 1 or 2.
WTF is with people who can't read a physical map?
WTF is with people who can't read a physical map?
Can confirm. I try to avoid driving at all on First Snow day but many don't have that option.
While lots of snow in the middle of winter can cause dangerous travel conditions, the FIRST snow of the season can also cause accidents. Be careful as you and other drivers adjust to poor conditions. Don’t let the first snow sneak up on you!
Stay up to date with the latest forecast at weather.gov.
Stay up to date with the latest forecast at weather.gov.
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can confirm. I try to avoid driving at all on First Snow day but many don't have that option.
A fascinating thread of "Okay, we are going to need to research this."
So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project
…so there isn’t some department that is empowered to deal with this stuff that can just override the inevitable objections, I guess? rough, if so
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A fascinating thread of "Okay, we are going to need to research this."
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To celebrate the earlier occasion.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN RADIATION ADVENTURE - Mailing Cheney's Heart - Funranium Labs
With the exception of the old Pu-238 pacemaker, as hospitals & mortuaries prefer FedEx for some reason, all of these things have been sent through the mail by the USPS. Whether they should have is the...
www.funraniumlabs.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
To celebrate the earlier occasion.
For NYC:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvH...
Theme From "Mr. Broadway"
YouTube video by Dave Brubeck - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
For NYC:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvH...
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Good night, friends.
a man in a blue shirt and white hat says hey everybody we 're all gonna get laid .
Alt: Rodney Dangerfield from CADDYSHACK says hey everybody we 're all gonna get laid .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Good night, friends.
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I firmly believe the Jays would have won had Diefenbaker not cancelled the Avro Arrow.
November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I firmly believe the Jays would have won had Diefenbaker not cancelled the Avro Arrow.
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Got in one of my extremely rare art moods and wound up with a little goblin monk dude with a jar.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Got in one of my extremely rare art moods and wound up with a little goblin monk dude with a jar.