It’s Moby Duck.

Man, I went to a coffee shop with a girl once. This coffee shop sat maybe 24 people, okay? It’s a shallow, wide building. There’s the counter with two baristas working, in front of the counter along the front wall of the building are those narrow “table for two” booths, like 2 or 3 of them. Both the counter and those booths run to the right wall of the building. To the left is a small more open area with maybe 4 four-seat tables.

There was this guy. This male homo sapiens. Who brought an acoustic-electric guitar. A microphone. And two, count them in the eyes of sweet zombie Jesus TWO. 60+ watt amplifiers. Because this was the artistic opportunity of this existing organism’s life. This creature, this placental mammal, was going to REACH his audience on this night. Through all the noise of a commercial AC unit and the single digit number of people that I ever saw in the building, his Green Day covers would be HEARD!

That happened during the winter of 2011. My headcanon is that guy wheezed to death of covid on one of those 3D printed ventilators they tried to get me to help make. I didn’t do those, I did the 3-ring binder slip cover face mask visors.

I’ve only read the first book. Are the others worth putting up with the author being a shitheel?

Reminds me of that show Air Crash Investigations, you might know it as Mayday.

They did the episode on the collision of two 747s on Tenerife fairly early in the show’s run, so they’d shot the “worst aviation accident in history” wad. And yet the format demanded they quantify the subject’s exact place in history. So they start going “It was the worst aviation accident involving an American-manufactured plane flown by a non-American crew in American airspace to occur on a summer Tuesday.”

I dated a girl who had been raised by a single mother, one sister no brothers, then she went to an all-girl’s college. At 25, I was her first boyfriend. I’m not sure I convinced her we’re the same species. A 5’7" 200 pound man dating a 5’1" 110 pound woman, I was almost twice her size and casually lifted or moved things she utterly couldn’t. She very nearly screamed the first time I picked her up.

I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father’s fall to the dark side.

As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say “Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it’s actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I’m a good guy, QED.”

Then Vader goes “Like this?” and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.

Moral of the story: Extremely hurt bad people.

🇧🇷 Portuguese.

“Lank,” he lanked.

Imagine you’re a fighter pilot, and you’re going to do a hull run to blow up some important part of some giant space ship. You have a mental map of the ship’s structure, and it’s probably “right side up”, so while navigating along the hull you’re probably going to orient your fighter to your mental model to take that much off your very heavy cognitive load.

I’m not “trying” anything. I’ve encountered a lot of websites with Choose Your Language dropdowns where English is represented by Old Glory and not the Union Jack.

I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you’re talking about, but very few were actually adopted.

The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn’t commonly spoken.

There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.

Nothing. I’ve heard it used occasionally for decades.

🇺🇸 English

Reminds me of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey. “Dude! Hell sucks!”

I kinda miss Pontiac. For my entire lifetime, they were “What if GM products were just a little more ridiculous?”

The Trans Am is a Z-28 with mutton chops. Prove me wrong.

Untitled Goose Car.

I have an old Roku 3 that is, basically, a Raspberry Pi. Like, if you could swap out the OS it could do Raspberry Pi like things.

I give Minnesota permission to annex one county from any surrounding state. Which is it?