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…look at all those pockets for storing remote controllers, phones, and snacks!..

…awww, man, i thought that was a pop swatch from the thumbnail!..

…our kerrygold comes in slabs, not sticks…

…looks more like i’m you, gonna right, stop there…

YYYY.MM.DD HH.MM.SS, as eru ilúvatar intended

…i adore this depiction of moria from the one ring, plan and section both set against surrounding terrain to give a sense of scale…

…likewise, each character is different distillation of some aspect of my own personality; it’s kind of an integral part of the character creation process for me to figure out who they are and properly get into character…

…i, too, had to text-message my coworker…

…new sourcebooks coming next year, but fourth-edition maps kind of butchered the realms and third-edition maps compressed them into a fantasy theme park: i appreciate the proper scale of the fifth-edition map even if broader setting resources mostly entail tracking down older reference material…

…fifth edition does offer officially-sanctioned sourcebooks for the moonshaes, border kingdoms, thay, chult, and icewind dale in addition to the sword coast, though; you just have to delve into the DM’s guild for adept and adventurers’ league material…

…third-edition maps do alright in a pinch as long as you double the distances…

…we have a couple of industrial fans but the sound’s not quite right by comparison to cross-flow impellers…

…at some level i secretly suspect that sleeping under omnipresent white noise has only made my tinnitus worse over time, but that could also be a natural consequence of my ears aging-out…

(could also come from driving a convertible at speed while blasting music on a three-hour commute every day, if i’m honest)

…i don’t doubt it: when i left the bay area for cheaper lands twenty years ago, 650sf apartments were going for $1600 and i’m sure prices have only inflated since…my data points are all the cheap minima on my housing curve over the past three four decades…

edit: …f*ck, i forgot how old i am; it happens on the north end of the century mark…

…ringworld, johnny mnemonic, and cube all taught me that monofilament is material to be feared…

…white noise drowns out the ringing in my ears and calms the voices in my head…

…my fan broke earlier this year; i’m shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator…

…when our central air conditioner failed during this summer’s hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans…

…it’s pretty common knowledge and readily explains his propensity for late-night toilet tweets when he’s not busy watching TV…

JHUNK-JHUNK!

…she’s half caribbean and half south-asian…

…is that black?..that’s on you…
…does it matter?..that’s on you, too…

…any issue says more about the person asking the questions than it does about the candidate; what i think is noteworthy is that nobody’s talking about her gender, a fact which constitutes a substantial milestone for cultural progress…

…well there’s always rice-and-beans but with the way finance, insurance, and real estate are going these days you’ll need rice-and-beans just to survive, not to save up…

…in `98 i was paying $500 to rent a 650sf one-bedroom apartment at $30k salary; in 2008 i was paying $750 to rent a 650sf one-bedroom apartment at $45k salary; in 2018 i was paying $1250 mortgage on a 1500sf house at $85k salary: today i pay that same $1250 mortage at $105k salary and thank god i managed to save that down payment within twenty years, before the real estate speculators completely overran my local market…

…not sure what that illustrates other than 2024 is brutally expensive relative to pay: we bought three nectarines last night for six dollars at the local discount grocer, which would have cost less than a dollar thirty years ago…