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if there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other one with a rock would that be fucked up or what

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so, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!

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Got this message on gchat last night from someone letting me know that they can’t be reached on text and the suggested responses were 😂😂😂 not quite there yet. Especially that middle one.

i really want to get my old bike back so i can have something to ride around more carelessly but doing so is going to be such an ordeal

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roommates cat kind of getting all 7/8 with the water drinking tonight

Every organizational system ever designed starts with a blog post like "I put a red notebook on my desk for stuff that's important" and in like 5 years theres several competing Red Notebook instagram accounts with several million followers each and they all sell their own branded Red Notebooks which are like red notebooks but they say Red Notebook on the cover and cost 50 dollars

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sorry I'm late, there were complex micro-architectural conditions
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now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

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The Milwaukee airport has my favorite airport sign in the country, hands down.

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using the toilet after taking a shower, instead of before, is known as "wet shitting" and is an example of koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance)

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Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory

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Many of us have now heard of Rust's "being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.

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