Now that this comic has ended, I feel compelled to go back and re-read the whole thing again: Back by KC Green and Anthony Clark. Highly recommended.
I don’t mind if Matt Bors' comics come out weekly or annually. I’ll be there to read them nonetheless. Happy that he’s going to continue running The Nib, one of the best publications out there. Matt Bors: I’m Quitting Politcial Cartooning
New Shirt, Old Memories
Prior to Holiday World, my jobs had all been farm work, putting up hay or working tobacco for neighbors and getting paid in cash out of a farmer’s wallet at the end of the week. In the summer of 1987, I made $3.35 an hour – minus taxes and the rent on 5 SaniClean uniforms a week (name in a …
Zach Weinersmith accidentally provides the first compelling argument that we do live in a simulated universe: Users
I’ve spent the last several months implementing programmatic advertising and because of this have had cause to think a lot about this dictum: “The purpose of a system is what it does.” I can tell you, this has not helped my natural cynicism.
He wrote a lot of good books, made a lot of good movies, but The Last Picture Show will always be my favorite of his in both categories. RIP, Larry McMurtry
I realize I’ve arrived terribly late to this particular party but, friends who have read the novel by Iain M. Banks, “Matter,” was that just a great big middle finger to the writers and readers of epic fantasy?
In other news, SecondLife is actually still a thing. Why Second Life’s Most Famous Cyberpunk City Now Has A Homeless Camp
Horrifying, dystopian, late-capitalist nightmare fuel: neurosity.co Naturally they use a white, male, brogrammer for the model. A MediaPost article on this POS (regwall: bit.ly/3lBsGPv) raised the spectre of “neuromarketing,” at which point I bailed.
Evidence that you never stop acquiring new language, even at my advanced age. Today I learned “echt” (eKHt: “authentic and typical”), a word I had never heard nor seen before, apparently derived from German and Yiddish.
<medium.com/pragmatic…> I’ll admit that I bought a membership to Medium solely out of annoyance. I ran into too many articles on software development lodged behind the paywall. (In particular, discussions of open source projects.) I considered the annual fee a nuisance cost. With …
There once was a time when I wanted a tiny house. Please enjoy “Tiny House Living” by Kristiana Willsey in Fantasy Magazine.
Not a bad list for only six years on the job. Most everything is subject to endless debate, but two things I find true after over thirty years doing this: If your software doesn’t solve a real problem that real people have, no matter how well-written it may be, it isn’t interesting. …
A horror story in the Late-Stage Capitalism sub-genre: <www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-…>
I spend entirely too much time thinking about the “Six-Fingered Hand” storyline in “The Defenders” from 1981. Shown here, IIRC: The entire town of Citrusville, FL is sent to Hell, leaving only a steaming crater.
Today’s episode of “The Next Liar Doesn’t Stand a Chance”: <www.thenation.com/article/p…>
As I lifelong anosmic, I have lots of advice for those suffering the loss of their sense of smell due to COVID-19. Here’s the most important bit for foodies and cooks: Your sense of taste will adjust, but you should try to get familiar with a lot more spices.
Whole bunch of dummies yesterday feeling like Marvin the Martian, I’ll wager. <www.youtube.com/watch>
Don’t let the missing ‘n’ fool you: 45 pardoned a Harkonen. Even though it was “Scott” and not Feyd-Rautha or Vladimir, this was clearly still meant as a slap in the face of House Atreides.
Today’s recommended reading by Tom Nichols: Trump Destroyed the Most Important Virtue in America. Here’s hoping for a return to seriousness.
Amanda Gorman will read at the inauguration, the youngest poet to receive the honor. Just going by her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric)", I’d argue that she understands actual patriotism a hell of a lot better than most folks who rage behind the word.
This weekend, my wife and I watched A Face in the Crowd, which we found remarkably current for a 64-year old movie. Highly recommended watching.
I hope whoever strangles Old Man 2020 at the stroke of midnight tomorrow night makes damn certain that Baby New Year 2021 witnesses its fate should it not learn from its predecessor’s behavior. But then they never do learn, do they.
Mildly #nsfw but hilarious #comics from @thenib today: The Kama Sutra for Quarantined Couples
“[F]ocus on using topic centric data to target web pages – not people… [C]reate systems to place ads on relevant pages that don’t scale reach but scale conversions.” @judyshapiro touches on the things we think about at @publicgood in “Imagine Digital Marketing Without …