Slarnos

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Quiet New Englander, still ill-suited to this format but loving it anyway. Scale modeling, wargaming, history, overly complex PC gaming, jeremiads.

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The very first assignment I had in college was contrasting Hobbes' and Rousseau's views on the human being in a state of nature. Decades later it is still a framework I return to, and my answer to which model is the more accurate has changed and will no doubt keep changing.

Summer Olympics Boycott

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy: My Hotmail email address predates the Microsoft purchase

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Math Rescue

Wrong guesses only

Now THAT is a birthday present.

Progress is slow due to work and life, but it'd starting to actually look like a thing.

Not typically one for this sort of thing, but a friend and former coworker asked me to share her gofundme on my socials, so I am.

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2024 YTD

Burn After Reading - What Did We Learn?www.youtube.com

ROU Pardon Our Progress!

Slowly hauling myself back to the workbench after work, life, and depression pulled me away. Decided I needed a quick build to pick myself up.

When it comes to sitting around feeling sorry for yourself country music has any sort of goth nonsense beat by a mile.

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A flippant "just be yourself!" is probably the least helpful advice possible. Do you have any idea how many problems being me has caused for me?

Woke up early, fell back asleep, dreamed about getting ready for work, then slept in.

Sat down at my desk chair this morning and nearly ended up on my back. Looks like the mounting plate has sheared through.

“‘Abort, Retry, Fail?’ was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, [...] we’d remind them: if you see this message, always choose ‘Retry.'” — Bad’l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

Today's mood.

Everyone needs a friend who can help justify unreasonable purchases by providing alternatives so outrageous they make the first choice look frugal.

Also, I just won the work NCAA pool on a tiebreaker. Only off by one point. No money, but they'll have to box up their precious trophy and ship it out to Connecticut for me to keep by my workstation.

Up and back into the Path of Totality in 24 hours. Absolutely worth it. I am writing this mostly to remind myself when I wake up early tomorrow for an appointment.

Outdoor temperature of 23, indoor temperature of 36. Time for a quick nap

Watching the.sun rise from a scenic overlook off the interstate in Vermont.

The play, Caryl Churchill's "Escaped Alone," was quite enjoyable, provided you can handle a somewhat antagonistic viewing experience. I had only seen her first play, "Owners," before, and am glad to know that my antipathy was for either the production or the play itself, not her whole body of work.

A dreary, drizzly Thursday, only made palatable by the promise of dinner, drinks, and the theater after work.

Amazing how being up too late receiving good news feels exactly like being up too late receiving bad news when it's time to wake up.

MechWarrior 2 Startup Sequencewww.youtube.com Reactor online. Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal.

If things I've been putting off keep being surprisingly painless I'm going to need to find a whole new set of things to worry about.

Any day you make it to the ballpark is a good one.

And today's lesson is why you always check the weather before leaving the house. Walked out into sun and clear skies, arrived at work to a small craft warning and 85% chance of rain.

Restarted my journal after a long hiatus, and few things are as intimidating as a first, blank page and a freshly inked pen.

Wikipedia needs a tilt function where you can't search for 15 minutes when you make too many unhappy sounds.

The most beautiful day of the year to date and the streets of old New Haven have turned into the Akria bike chase.

You know you're in for a bad time when the ISP proactively acknowledges the outage.