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submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

I'm not going to use it, but I was just thinking about the last scene of WarGames* for the millionth time in my life, and it occurred to me a great password would be something like Nnnnnnnnnn10! *McKittrick: General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I just re-read THE GREAT BRAIN (1967) and it holds up really well. I must have read this series a dozen times as a kid, and I remembered the broad strokes, but I found a lot to like about the writing and the observations as an adult. The illustrations are grand, too.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I just want a screen saver that shows the Death Star coming into range of Yavin IV

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THERE'S ONLY ROOM IN THIS TOWN FOR ONE SHERIFF OF SAVINGS

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Davros says: "safety first"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

one thing I miss about being a kid was needing to make up lore about other people, e.g. my friend and I deciding that one of our peers was secretly a male model who used the stage name "Fullerton" and appeared in ads for "teen-oriented cigarettes". "Steppin' Out... With Fullerton!" was the slogan

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I think about "is caviar pretty good stuff Pat" way more often than any other 23-year-old webcomic throwaway line about caviar you could care to name

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Now That's What I Called Valentine's Day 2016

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@epmcool.bsky.social a light, breezy, and most importantly tough as hell book for after Blood Meridian #epmcool #revengereading

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You know, despite running a whole account dedicated to commercial nostalgia, I'm not particularly big on actual, physical retro ephemera. That said, I've always wanted one of these lighted 7-Up wall clocks you'd see in diners and such way back when. Something about that amber glow is so comforting.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Thanks to a 12-year-old (!) video, I was finally able to see all the screens in the quite difficult WILLY THE WORM (MS-DOS, 1985). I could never get too far in this as a kid, but it was very influential on me, and I used to draw levels like these all the time.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

learning "good cat" in every language in case it turns out my cats magically were born understanding one other than English

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

if I had zero impulse control I'd be constantly quoting from his stories because the man was wise and could put together some goddamn words. in FELICIA (1976) he describes an unhappy woman's living room as "her pitiable meaningless territory"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

so I recently discovered George Alec Effinger when I grabbed THE WOLVES OF MEMORY (1981) off a paperback spinner in a used bookstore on the strength of the title and the brief on the back of the book. excellent decision. this author is absolutely terrific, rest his soul, and I have much to read.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I just read the phrase "A QVC+ Original Holiday Movie" and took about six points of psychic damage

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

because Kyle MacLachlan is super duper handsome, simple as

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@epmcool.bsky.social I was just fucking around with my Plex server and saw it was doing this, which is incredibly tough

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

sure, I believe in the holy trinity

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I am the densest element on the periodic table because I just now realized Mathnet was basically Police Squad! for kids

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

questioning a fruiterer: "What are you getting for bananas?" "...money?"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I'm watching a Square One Television episode at 2:03 am (because my life is absolutely cool and normal) and I am delighted to (re-)discover that Mathnet legitimately holds up as funny

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A conversation about cuddling with my cat.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

me, walking into a hail of gunfire: you SEE, what a lot of people don't REALIZE is

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Do not talk to me or my purple sons ever again (cc: @danlarson.bsky.social whose SG-X1 has asked for an every other weekend exemption)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about wishes is that you need to keep them simple and humble if you don't want to get screwed by irony. for example, "the power to give a mild electric shock to someone chewing with their mouth open" is a fine and arguably admirable thing to wish for

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I have eaten a "2x4" candy bar by Standard Candy exactly once in my life (9th grade), but I never forgot it. Not because it was particularly good, but because the idea of naming a candy bar after a plank of lumber was incredibly funny to me. The weird corners of candy history are worth exploring!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

She's right.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments