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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-02-03 at 01:31

Is it a sign of aging that I typed “end” on my phone, and the type-ahead considered “endoscopy” a more likely completion than “ending”?

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-30 at 23:30

“The Democrats would give you an education of evil, folks! They deny the proof that humans are cubic forms that rotate a 4-corner face lifetime! Caltech professors, straight out of Central Casting, practice obscurantism and can not ever allow Time Cube Debate. Sad!”

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-24 at 00:56

Soon we will know all there is to know about the assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Francis Kennedy, and Martin Luther Kennedy!

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-21 at 04:21

Hoping this movie is about a wayward son

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-21 at 00:43

Disappointed that none of the news headlines seem to have gone with “Musk’s salute raises furor.”

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-20 at 19:30

It’s sick the price of medicine

Stand up, we’ll put you on your feet again

Open up your eyes just to check that you’re asleep again

President Gas is President Gas again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCH3HN2S7E

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-16 at 02:38

Not sure about the Les Nessman in this WKRP remake

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-10 at 03:02

I’m reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach books.

First book was written in first person.

Second book was written in third person.

Started the third, saw that it opens in second person, and thought “What the heck is he going to do for the fourth one?!”

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-07 at 23:41

Also killed: Jean Cabut (aka Cabut), Elsa Cayat, Stéphane Charbonnier (aka Charb), Philippe Honoré, Bernard Maris, Mustapha Ourrad, Georges Wolinski, Frédéric Boisseau, Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet, and Michel Renaud.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-07 at 23:41

Was reminded that today’s the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which Bernard Verlhac (aka Tignous) was killed.

Among Tignous’s last works was the artwork for the boardgame Les Poilus (released in English as The Grizzled), a coop game about friends trying to survive WW1.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2025-01-07 at 20:12

New wallet game from Button Shy just arrived. It’s called A NICE CUPPA, and it’s a solo game about making tea, by Scott Almes.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-12-23 at 01:01

Me: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and da Bears!

Chris: …

Me: Is that anything?

Chris: It’s… something.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-12-16 at 02:48

It somehow never occurred to me to wonder till now: Was the iconic BOSTON guitar-spaceship-cities album cover from 1976 (designed by Paula Scher, illustrated by Roger Huyssen) inspired by James Blish’s CITIES IN FLIGHT?

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-12-13 at 21:25

To make sure my fountain pens don’t dry out from lack of use, I write a line every day when I sit down at my desk. Kind of a Jack Torrance “All work and no play” vibe here.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-12-12 at 01:56

Chris: “A game by Kobayashi.” Is this the same Kobayashi who eats all the hot dogs?

Me: No.

Chris: Are you sure?

Me: … No.

[#]ttRPG

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-12-02 at 22:50

When Fred Gwynne woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a Munsterous Herman.

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-11-30 at 02:42

I vaguely recall @brainwane writing something about shm-reduplication (“fancy-schmancy,” “Linux-Schminux”), but can’t remember where.

Anyway, I just learned about the Schmalkaldic Wars, and thought about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmalkaldic_War

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-11-13 at 02:41

This is a 3 oz bottle of Noodler’s 54th Massachusetts ink, a lovely blue-black ink that I’ve been using as my main writing ink since I bought it in May 2017.

Current ink level is just around the top edge of the label, after seven years of use. This thing’s gonna outlast me.

[#]ink #fountainpens

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-11-10 at 00:11

Brom Helstrom is a meta-logician, analyzing the workings of logic itself. But will that help when his city is beset by skinless man-eating giants? Find out in— ATTACK ON TRITON!

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Written by Avram Grumer on 2024-11-07 at 03:03

I just bought an empty ink bottle!

This is an empty inkwell bottle of Skrip, a fountain-pen ink made by Shaeffer. The bottle (this is an old one; current bottles lack this feature) has an internal reservoir to make it easier to reach the ink when the level is low.

I’m pretty sure I remember my father having a bottle like this on his desk back in the ’70s.

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