I got halfway through the second book and it just wasn’t what I wanted anymore. My brother told me to keep going but it’s been a while.

Maybe this?

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/sunscreen-corals.html

Seems bad for coral.

We’re two years out from the API apocalypse. I think. That’s how I got here.

I think time wasn’t super kind to it. And I don’t remember how clear it was in the movie that Scott’s just not a good dude. My memory of the story is that the core is: Scott is bad. Scott accepts that. Scott starts doing better. But maybe that’s just my headcannon.

It’s a good lesson though! Just because you were bad doesn’t mean you are bad. You can change. Life isn’t a simplistic video game. It’s a lesson I’ve needed from time to time.

Would we remember Batman the Animated a series without Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill? Maybe.

I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.

My what?

Brandt said he enjoyed being a meme, and he did frequently use the catchphrase, although he did say that his high school English teacher would not have approved of his usage of “ain’t”.[6][20]

I imagine it emulates all the system calls. It sure would have been easier to copy bits from Linux for that. But you don’t have to. Wine sure didn’t.

I probably should go read the code and not guess.

I turn off biters and play on 100x research because it’s calming.

And yet Haymarket was in Chicago.

A government stipend to make public art or open source software or literature or whatever sounds pretty great. It’s hard to see how we get there from here. But it’d be great.

France has something like it for artists I think.

I’m the other way. I always thought “picture an apple” was a metaphor.

I tell myself Stardust turned out this way. It sure doesn’t start that way. And it’s Neil Gaiman which… Feh. I want to remember it as a movie where everyone respects everyone else in the end.

PKD is special somehow. He’s the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it’s luck or my flawed opinion.

I’ve not read them all but that sort of feels like how the culture novels are.

I’m not super involved, but I believe it’s possible to engage with Wikipedia ethically and well as a PR firm or the like. But being honest is part one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PR_Professionals_%26_Editing

Thank you!

I love the idea Kylo Ren. Unhinged man child who worships Vader for all the wrong reasons. His soldiers are afraid of him and work around him and pity him. I love having such a broken villain.

I loved when Rey’s parents were nobodies.

I loved that Luke was a scared and broken. Should have felt crippling pity for that guard he force choked in a Jabba’s palace. Still. I loved it.

And while I’m at it. Frozen. I wanted so desperately for Hans to be entirely sympathetic and just not in love will Anna. Movie is mostly the same until Anna gets back and needs the kiss to fix her and he tries and… Nothing. Then. I dunno. Finish the movie some other way.

I worked for them ten years ago. I was excited to do something important for once. And it was better than competing with Amazon for book sales. I was really helping.

I eventually left because I didn’t think we were being a great steward of donor money. And I didnt have the best relationship with my boss. Nice guy, but we didn’t clock.

Back then they spent like half their money on donations and programs trying to get more editors. That included supporting projects in smaller languages and diversity on current projects. Mostly good stuff as far as I could tell.

Where they invested their money for tech was where I disagreed. But even so, I’ve donated since then. They are supporting important work. Everyone makes mistakes.

Ultimately, I dunno.