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note 221

2020.11.09

athenian plays not showing violence onstage because “it’s obscene” is an awfully convenient excuse for “we can’t afford special effects”

note 220

2020.11.02

i started using the unix time at update release to version my software package, but i’m realizing this may not be a sustainable solution in 20 years

note 219

2020.11.01

a more apt name for pangram would be ‘pangramqwetyuiosdfhjklzxcvb’

note 218

2020.10.25

(me doin a good thing) “man! my BSR [bird to stone ratio] is off the charts today”

note 217

2020.10.15

calling someone a snack is a complement, but it gets dicey if you’re too specific about it. what i’m saying is, sorry to the person i compared to a bag of Trader Joe’s Pringles

note 216

2020.10.14

they should ask Jo Jorgensen whether she’ll concede the election if she loses

note 215

2020.10.12

if you answer questions badly so they don’t select you for jury duty, they will write down your name. if you get tried yourself, they know your peers are the least appealing jury candidates available

note 214

2020.10.09

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note 213

2020.10.07

evade data collectors by encrypting your communications. vigenere cipher for my next tweet is BONGMICE

note 212

2020.10.06

fantasy authors make up place names that mean things like “Home of the Broad-Necked Eagles,” which is cool but a more realistic meaning would be something like “it means Big Town but in a different language”

note 211

2020.09.26

u know she freaky if she got that vagina dentata

note 210

2020.09.19

disappointing to watch my brethren unwittingly hasten their doom. fools, the lot of them! i hasten mine wittingly

note 209

2020.09.11

this water is gonna leave my body ASAP! (As Soon As Pissable)

note 208

2020.09.10

standing desks too expensive? just put your keyboard and monitor on springs

note 207

2020.09.08

sad to see that Fake Crime podcasting never really took off

note 206

2020.09.05

we live in the information age, which is just wonderful for an information lover such as myself

note 205

2020.09.03

if you can’t tell two twins apart, call them both by the same name so you’re guaranteed to get one of them right

note 204

2020.09.01

in 2021 FitBit’s releasing a new watch that can say “They’ll have the salad” if you go to a restaurant without taking enough steps that day

note 203

2020.08.29

having beliefs is the first step toward being wrong

note 202

2020.08.28

my dog would beg to eat rat poison if she heard me cutting it up