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Tag Archives: irony
Han Solo — old news
Han Solo. I’m the captain of the Millennium Falcon.You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon?It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.What? Parsecs is a unit of distance? Damn. Always thought it was time.Maybe the … Continue reading
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Windows 10 SSSD Floppy Disk Installation Notes
I was looking at this today:
Carmine
Red Alert: carmine Blue Red Ecco—cognitive dissonance.
A Surfeit of Warnings
Lately (well, perhaps not that lately) (OK, maybe it was a couple months ago) (but still, there was a time) there have been more warnings than I ever intended. My apologies to one and all. And my apologies to the rest … Continue reading
A Modest Proposal #17
If we open up the ear canals on the inside of the brainpan (removing the brain, of course), then the whole head can become a Helmholtz resonator and absorb from the collective cacophony at least the resonant frequency of the … Continue reading
Prosthetic Gods
To whomever it was (a clandestine agglomeration of you, no doubt) who dropped off that funny yellow volume between my front doors: Yes, I do like prosthetic gods, as a concept, though I haven’t much enjoyed the book, and lately … Continue reading
Text-ing
I throw a lot of text around, but nobody seems to “get” it. It seems to me that by now, with all this text activity I’m doing, just about all my text (or a goodly chunk of it) should be on … Continue reading
Response to Dr. (Y) about patient (X).
Dear Dr. Y, As you know all too well by now, Mr. X is one dumb bunny. Need I say more? I can’t refuse: He has no friends, or even acquaintances. Even people using adjacent machines at the laudromat have … Continue reading
Response to (X) regarding Dr. (Y)
My dear X, Dr. Y is an idiot. You have no friends, especially Dr. Y. The drugs were your only hope, but can only be tried once. Now that you’re off them, they cannot be restarted. The laughter is a sham. … Continue reading