Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial@hackers.town

In our grimdark WHFRP game tonight, we are enroute to Kemperbad for the annual Stilwoche "We're pretending to be in a fantasy world, where we can gather in large groups without spreading plague!"

Feeling ready to roll into Gotham National Bank

TFW you've put out the last urgent fire, and now you have to pick something from the giant accumulated pile of important-but-not-urgent tasks to work on next, and you have _no idea_ what to do

Our long-time Friendly Neighbourhood Comic Store Guy is moving on from retail as his store falls to the current unpleasantness. He's reinventing himself as a writer and reviewer on all sorts of sequential imagery! Check out his website and Patreon: https://www.trustyhenchman.com/
https://www.patreon.com/trustyhenchman

From the following statement, I can only conclude that St. Augustine dabbled in software engineering: "What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not."

Floor update: it seems we must delve one layer deeper. Current score is wood veneer glued to what seemed to be strips of pine formed into long rows with string(?!) glued to particle board nailed to plywood. We'll be building back up from the plywood.

Going into the weekend with my living room in a bit of a state…

TFW the heat coming off the bottom of your laptop is an essential component of how you are staying warm

This leads right into my second favorite movie: "Student physicist seeking belonging investigates corrupt government contractor"

Okay, I think I figured out my entry in the "describe your favorite movie in the most boring terms" game: "Amateur physicist dealing with the death of his wife investigates corrupt government contractors"

Here's how out of touch I've gotten. I'm wandering around the house thinking "why are people setting off fireworks all of a sudden" and then suddenly realize "oh, yes, it's July now..."

"When using with a drink, be careful. Do not use during continuous rotation."

(via Google Translate using text recognition)

OMG, I didn't know this was shipping. I am 😭😭😭😭 that I cannot get it on a real table immediately!

_That_ had to be from the 120 whose picture I posted earlier.

Woah, my Newton MessagePad powered online journal was a going thing in '96, and the Wayback Machine captured it! https://web.archive.org/web/20040410154206/http://www.rit.com/~rafial/travel/us.html

I wanna go plug this into a payphone somewhere, and hack @thegibson

Busting in to the pandemic deep stash!