yeast-riseman @aysamanra@sometimes.when.computer

Unauthorized reprints of the Jeeves and Wooster books where you insert exactly one f-bomb into each one and then attribute them to the author PG-13 Wodehouse.

I've been going back and forth, but I think I've decided to get a laser-cutter. Gonna cut me some lasers.

I think there's a lot of potential for AI-as-artist-assistant—Emily Short's recent work on this is a good example—but there's also just a massive amount of garbage out there that will seem boring in just a year or two.

AI art used to be boring, then there was a brief period recently where it seemed to develop style that was interesting, but now I've found it boring again. "Oh, cool, another formless blob. Yay. How innovative."

Last night I didn't get to sleep until late because I was inventing hypothetical future poker variants for a science fiction book my brother is writing. You know. That old normal reason.

English likes to take participle-noun phrases and drop the participial ending over time: for example, 'iced cream' became 'ice cream', 'roasted beef' became 'roast beef', 'popped tart' became 'pop tart'...

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going to invent a significantly more complicated and hard-to-reason-about resource isolation mechanism for Linux so I can call it C++Groups

Also the ideal web browser would display errors under a header that says the word "Error", in the most boring IBM-ass font you can muster. None of this "Oh Snap!" nonsense.

I have said this before, but in light of recent Firefox changes, I reiterate: the ideal web browser would just be a modern browser engine, embedded within a UI from 2006 and with the JS Notifications API permanently disabled.

People on 🐦site keep posting "without downloading new pictures […]?" prompts, and I don't really download pictures so I expected I wouldn't have good responses to any of them. That said, I just went through my pictures directory, and I don't know, maybe this IS where I'm at mentally:

Trying to organize my music library and having to face difficult multifaced questions like, "Why and how do I have a copy of Guns & Roses' album Chinese Democracy in Ogg Vorbis?"

@rx I still check Mastodon regularly, but also, I absolutely still feel this bootstrapping problem. (I mean, I also don't post much here, either, so it's not like I'm doing much to make it an interesting destination.)

…one reason this is a bad comparison is that I had the book ~90% finished back in January of 2020, so in reality it's less "I wrote a book in quarantine" and more "during quarantine it took me a full year to finish the last 15k words."

I don't want to draw no conclusions or nothin', but George R. R. Martin didn't finish writing a novel during the quarantine while I did. Just sayin', is all.

I recently made a San Francisco→Portland drive with a dash-mounted camera, so here is a time-lapse video of that drive where each hour of real time maps to a minute of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb61wE4U2PY

This is the whey.

...money used to buy an italian car, that is to say: fiat currency

✏️ The first post in a new series: "In Praise of Netpbm", where I demonstrate how to create procedural pixel art with no library support in basically any programming language: https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/how-i-do-generative-art-in-praise-of-netpbm

Someone should design a percussive computer: that is to say, a machine capable of cymbalic computation.