misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

tired: Complaining that everything's all about touchscreen keyboards these days.

wired: Watching my wife successfully type her phone's password with the tip of her nose.

inspired: "Gee, babe, you really put the 'wipe' in 'Swype'."

Fortunately, my browser history came through quickly enough. Whew!

Dear Future Keet:

When you find resources for a project, be sure to note where you found them. Even if you're pretty sure you got everything you needed, you never know when you may have to revisit the project, and ten seconds of copying and pasting a URL will save you a great deal of embarrassment and frustration later.

With love,
Present (a.k.a. Past) Keet

@egypturnash @zebratron2084 Okay, you folks get credit for the development of the Belt spiders in the 12Fold/13Ribbons settings, but you gotta give props to @literorrery for giving them a name that's too perfect:

Tesserachnids.

It's days like this I'm tempted to make and wear a tee-shirt that reads simply, "IVO SHANDOR WAS RIGHT".

You know how sometimes a physician has to do something apparently harmful to reduce harm overall? Like, say, amputating an unrecoverable limb, or providing euthanasia to the terminally ill?

When do we start applying that to the parasitic motherfuckers who would gladly prolong illness and misery in any number of people simply to make sure their stock prices go up?

*reads up* Wait, assisted suicide is still illegal in 43.9 states? WHAT THE F—

Ooh, here's a good one from the TOS at https://www.virtru.com/terms-of-service/ :

2.2 Restrictions. You shall not, without the prior written consent of Virtru:
[...]
(g) perform, or release the results of, benchmark tests or other comparisons of the Materials or Virtru Basic Services with other programs or services

*laughs* So you can't even compare it to others to see who sucks worst.

Oops, I think I violated 2.2(d) just by quoting that bit. *snickers*

Why is it that a licensed medical provider is allowed to put my personal information into a system that:

• is proprietary and closed-source;
• requires JavaScript just to display a login page;
• has a lengthy legalese "terms and conditions" that purports to automatically apply upon my use of the service before I've even read it;
• explicitly states that they aren't obligated to keep backups or make the info available to anyone;
• was implemented without notifying me?

How is this even legal?

THE FUTURE!

I'll be undergoing a treatment for depression called deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (deep TMS) that has a reasonable chance of working where pharmaceutical means have failed. It works by pulsing a strong magnet at the right part of my head to coax things to start working right.

BUT IT'S THE SHADOWRUN FUTURE!

This all relies on my insurance company deciding to pay for it and not trying to reject it because of cannabis use in a state where it's legal. No, really.

FUTUUUUUU—

Ah, yes. Thank you so much, back muscles, for rescuing me from getting anything done today for anyone but myself.

*sighs* I require a more suitable host body.