Alterations Underway

@thedonz5 The one on the right is a second cousin twice removed of the one on the left.

@dougbenson Delighted to see (and hear) a Mini in the feed!

@BarbiturateCat Not to be any more That Guy than I clearly am, but you might find a comfortable and welcoming community on the mastodon.art server. Nothing will ever be what this place was, sadly.

I came back here because I have no other other dopamine producing outlet for my absolutely unhinged thoughts on the Internet and I’m very sad to realize this shit hits different now and is no longer dopamine producing.

@deadpilotspod @andrewlreich @BenBlacker @MaxFunHQ @thecomedybureau @ComedyCake @vulture @latimes @timeoutla Why do so few episodes get released as video?

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! @deadpilotspod producers @andrewlreich + @BenBlacker are doing a special ep in which they answer YOUR questions about pilots, the TV business + writing. Reply with your Qs + they'll provide the A's in a March ep!

I should really get a medal for all the times I decide not to post something. And then lose it for having posted this.

Every so often I wonder if the ex who got very into Gaia Consort dropped that as hard and quickly as she dropped being poly.

Finished with work for the year. Possibly finished with this engagement forever. Won’t miss the (lack of) management, if so.

@BarbiturateCat I ran a mailing list in the ’90s, and I’m sure I was perceived (perhaps with some justice) as capricious, when I really just wanted people to stay somewhere in the neighborhood of the topic. I could write a (short, boring) book.

Hey Internet Olds, remember in the 90s when you’d be a member of a forum and suddenly the forum owner would freak out and start banning everyone who was also a member of some random other tangentially related forum because they had some wacky secret personal drama?

I was at a party (years ago, before [gestures broadly]) with somebody in a position to see Neil G and Amanda P’s life close up, and they said N and A were perfectly lovely, and—especially after they split—I’ve wondered what that person’s real views were. Probably NDAd, anyway.

Relieved.

The Aimee Mann lyric “Carmen Sternwood prob’ly pulled that trigger for fun” always hits my cocktail-party reflex. For reasons.

No

Rare schadenfreude from watching someone in an electric bro-mobile take (literally) ten minutes to negotiate a slightly tricky driveway. With external help. I mean, can’t the thing just drive itself out?

Can’t bring myself to cross the conspiracy streams on main, but I do wonder a little bit if any of the official relaxation of/hostility to masking is because it interferes with surveillance.

Fun! Just got to call 911 for somebody (I think) having been hit-and-run a block from my home. Medics are working on the presumed victim.

It’s kind of a bummer the person I used to know who would be most interested in this podcast is no longer on Twitter. Maybe just to avoid me. overcast.fm/+2VD0TWVjU

Glad my mom is relatively healthy, as I think flying to visit her now would be riskier than it was (not quite in time) when my dad was dying in Fall 2020.

@BarbiturateCat Glad you’re there; I was just a day or few ago hoping things were good with you.

Hello - I’m still alive! I’m doing fine. Just trying to figure out who I am as a person without the Internet, so, something I’ve had as part of my personality since 1994. If you want to email or hit me up on messenger/whatsapp DM for info.

As if on cue, another interviewer notes that today’s candidate is looking because of pending layoffs at [redacted].

I am interviewing candidates, and something like 80% of them are working at the same place, one of two nearby large companies in the field. Makes me wonder if something’s going on over there.