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Programming for work and fun. My eyes like movies, my ears like music. https://modal-marginalia.com
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Interviewing friends is always delightful, especially when it's @jonaskyratzes.bsky.social & Verena Kyratzes discussing the writing of The Talos Principle & Serious Sam games. Join us and @d6learning.bsky.social for a live discussion tomorrow, March 5, 17:00 CET: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-writin...

When life gives you lemons, lemons give you life. They are one.

One of the funniest features of Urban Dictionary is that looking up basically any first name will just bring up pages upon pages of occasionally edgy compliments, probably written by teenagers with a crush.

me: good morning Killbot killbot: good morning sir, shall i kill you this morning sir or prepare a smoothie me: smoothie please killbot: excellent choice sir i shall try again tomorrow

Wondering if this is a common experience: When I listen to a song early in the morning, it somehow sounds much faster than when I listen to it later during the day. It's probably just me still being tired, but if my brain had trouble keeping up, shouldn't it seem to go by faster instead of slower?

The other website is pretty much done

They say that originally George Lucas was torn between 3 movie ideas: Start Warts, Stare Wares, or Star Wars. He decided to pursue the project with the least amount of letters. So always remember: Efficiency is key.

Officially licensed 2005 T-shirt with a bizarrely suggestive "What happens in the Mushroom Kingdom stays in the Mushroom Kingdom" slogan.

Throwback to when the Perfect Chaos destroying Station Square FMV from Sonic Adventure used to trigger the 9/11 footage detection bot on YouTube

So how can anyone still think that the war on drugs is winnable in any way? From what I've seen, there are literal Drug Stores in every American town. It's clearly over.

If your wife blows you a kiss but she has a cold and accidentally blows you a cough, do you still catch it?

The idea that someone could be prosecuted based on some messy AI interpretation of bodycam audio sounds like the plot of a Philip K. Dick novel. For context: This isn't (just) officers randomly using ChatGPT, there's software (Draft One) directly marketed for that purpose. it's nuts.

Had a bit of a Nosferatu movie marathon with my wife during the last few weeks. We watched: - Nosferatu (1922), Murnau - Nosferatu (1979), Herzog - Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Merhige - Juno (2007), Reitman - Nosferatu (2024), Eggers #Movies #Nosferatu

Every time I see an actual photograph of moons and planets as opposed to artists' renditions, I'm struck by just how counterintuitive light and shadow look at this scale.

If write and you are asking yourself if your metaphors are too bizarre or too strained or too flowery, just remember that The Atlantic publishes sentences like this:

America has the worst luck right now. The slimy and shady organization currently undermining their government doesn't even have a cool name. They're basically getting harassed by the Paw Patrol.

At some point it seems we stopped doing the thing where we show the internet as a literal web with malware/scammers/other bad things depicted as a big evil spider preying on users. Maybe we should start doing that again, it could fix a lot of issues.

New blog post! Let's move to ESM! 😈 👀 antfu.me/posts/move-o...

just want it known that i created the original paul blart flesh mall image some years ago. now there is bootleg paul blart flesh mall merchandise for sale on jeff bezo's flesh mall

Incredible new WcDonalds style Denny's variant.

Helping my parents set up their new LG TV so they can use it to watch TV just like they did 20 years ago was a dystopian experience. So many useless apps, ads, logins and subscriptions. Can't record anything anymore, but your TV will remember what you watched tell the ad companies all about it.

Time to review some music. 40 years and 15 albums worth of music to be exact. www.modal-marginalia.com/post/7-the-b... #dreamtheater #music #metal

Unfortunately the Constitution did not foresee a situation where the president does whatever he wants and says "What are you gonna do about it dork"

Anyone else sometimes find a band that's very similar to a band you already like but it actually stops you from ever listening to them? Like, I love Heilung so I'd probably also dig Wardruna but something in me just says: "There's only room for ONE strange neopagan viking folk thingy in your life"

today I learned that Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego Enhanced (DOS, 1990) shows a different ACME Detective Agency scene based on your system's date.

It's funny how the name of German candy manufacturer "Hitschler" was only changed to "Hitschies" in 2021, considering their name was always an accident waiting to happen ...especially when your mouth is full of candy.

If Google thought I was the kind of person who wouldn't precisely time my trip and figure out that the route that Maps claims takes 37 minutes to walk only takes me 27 minutes to walk, they were wrong. #walking #aboveraveragewalkingspeed

From Don Quixote: "Thus, from his lit­tle sleep and con­sid­er­able read­ing, his brain dried up and he lost his san­ity." ...Funny how the idea of "brain rot", now mostly applied to teens on their apps, is used here in the context of reading too many shitty books about knights. #books #booksky

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

So I guess the Oscar nominations are getting announced and I'm sure all the movies and actors are great. But really, all I want is a public vote on who Will Smith should slap at this year's ceremony. #Oscars

2018.4.12

In the process of updating my website with fancy floating popovers for footnotes, and the footnotes can have toenotes which can pop over the footnote popover. I'm impressed the #vue <Teleport> tag handles even this kind of silliness without any problems. #webdesign #webdev

Hot take: Chili is just wet food for humans. #food #eatingwithyourmouth #learningtousehashtags

A smart home sounds really cool actually, if companies didn't pretend that being connected to the network meant being connected to the INTERNET in general and their proprietary apps/servers specifically.

Currently switching from VSCode to VSCodium for less MS bullshit. Would recommend. -Getting the MS Marketplace to work again only takes 5 minutes. - Extensions WILL work unless the dev went the extra mile to be an asshole. - Great time to throw out the like 200 extensions you don't actually use.

As a fundamentally unsocial person, figuring out what social media expects of me is very confusing, but perhaps this is a good place to start.