My fingers were one key to the left of where they should be and I just tried to type ‘will’ and got autocorrected to ‘quokka’ 😃

My mom sent me some papers that belonged to my grandfather, Darwin Randall Crum, which included a collection of “Disfrustrating Puzzles” he created

Ooh, remember to buy whatever’s in your bandcamp cart while it’s still bandcamp Friday! isitbandcampfriday.com

Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?

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I love the meaningless trademarked terms made up by cosmetics companies to make their products sound scientific. I remember a cream the 90s featuring the ‘Absoludrum molecule’. Now I have shampoo with ‘Bloomboost technology’. Any other good ones?

Note to self: just because it’s not an extraction so the dentist doesn’t say not to drink from a straw, doesn’t mean I can safely drink a dark chocolate frap through a straw while I’m wearing light-coloured jeans and half my mouth is still numb.

Patrick Stewart story: Night before my GCSE Chemistry, I waited for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart backstage after Waiting For Godot. Patrick asked what’s in my bag, I told him about my exam. So Stewart and McKellen told the Green Room to “shush” as they both tested me on the Periodic Table. RIP

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RIP to one of the realest who ever did it www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

It's only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I'm staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up.

I wish I really were a Traveler of all of space and time.

It’s only been like ten minutes since I found out, just before it hit the press, so I’m staggered and doing my best to process everything, while my phone is blowing up. There will be wonderful obituaries and reflections from so many people who knew him. I’m going to do...

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A couple Christmases ago we turned on the radio (KTOO), just to catch the weather, only to hear Patrick Stewart's voice – he was reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We were transfixed by his reading. We listened to the whole thing, that's how we spent the day. It's now an annual tradition.

Well fuck. To the best captain 🍷

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stage giant Patrick Stewart, of ‘Star Trek’ and 'X-Men' fame, dies at 86. -

It just occurred to me that amalgam and composite are pretty much synonyms, although they’re different kinds of fillings.

They brought back the glowing Apple logo 🥹

I tend to avoid subscriptions. I don't have TV or music subs (unless you count TheFuMP and musician patreons), or many software/services subs. But those domain names I've had for decades, for the websites I rarely update? Well of *course* I keep paying for them. You can't just *drop* a domain name!

One weird thing about the buses in Seattle is that there are no buttons to open the doors either from the inside or the outside, so people have to yell at the driver to open the doors if someone doesn’t manage to get in or out while they’re open.

In case you’re wondering what to name your ferret, last night I dreamed the name Ferret Streep. It was a play on Feryl Streep. I only realised after I woke up that that could be spelled Feral Streep, which would also be a good name for an animal.

The zipper on my jeans is breaking, and I’ve just realised that since the jeans aren’t really worth donating, they are literally on their last legs.

It would be fun to put a grey and white checkerboard pattern in a frame and hang it on the wall, and tell graphics people it’s a window.

I’m finally reading a memoir that I bought from the author at the Geneva Writers Group many years ago, and I was briefly surprised when I got to the part where she moved to Geneva. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

I keep forgetting to mention something I liked about the latest Apple keynote: They showed Siri dictation using the Oxford comma. 😀

Here to promote Mur Lafferty's "Lonesome October Club". Write a chapter of a novel each day in October, just like Zelazny did in "A Night in the Lonesome October". Maybe. To sign up, go to Mur's Patreon page (you don't have to be a patron of hers to participate): www.patreon.com/mightymur/po...

I upgraded to an iPad that has FaceID (instead of Touch ID) late last year and the only issue is FaceID needs the device to be farther away from my face than my eyes do. This is fine for a phone; I’m holding it with one hand so I just move it farther away for a second. But it’s a pain with an iPad.

Really cute robots should be called computie pies.

Richard Ayoade on Taskmaster has real “no and” energy.

Watching the ‘Context is King’ episode of Star Trek: Discovery with audio description because the regular audio track doesn’t work for some reason. It’s interesting to hear what gets described, and another weird way that accessibility helps everyone.

Even though mornings technically have nothing to do with lunar rovers, it’s somehow a useful mnemonic for me that the kanji for morning 朝 is a combination of the ones for car 車 and moon/month. 月

We’re binging Widow’s Bay and I was excited to notice K Callan in the credits! I don’t typically follow or recognise actors, but I was a big fan of Lois & Clark, so that’s a name I know well.

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I didn't record this song the times they were in the UK before the cruise, so that saves a couple of hours of playtime.

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In the spirit of Apple Watch vs Macintosh Classic startup race youtu.be/Ug3Rv8zep30 I hope someone compares the startup times or other specs of the iPhone Duo and PowerBook Duo.

Apple Watch vs Macintosh Classic startup race

YouTube video by Angela Brett

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A chonki kererū snarfing down some kōwhai flowers in our front garden today. #spring

Live Translation on the new foldable iPhone: Duo lingo

Apple event in 4 minutes! 😁