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Today's awesome person you've never heard of:

Alberto Jose González
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_

Unless you're European and into videogames, you probably haven't heard his work, but it's good – doubly so when you get to the part about him having _zero_ formal music training. The arc of his career is basically what I kinda wish I could have managed.

Give a quick listen (and please don't be put off by the game's title!):
youtube.com/watch?v=UnzHTkRLcE

So far, I like Mastodon. It's got the breezier aspects of Twitter without the downsides. But I'll miss the jokes about the 140 character lim

Is there an important email you've been meaning to write, but left off so long it feels like you can no longer reasonably send it? April 30 is Email Debt Forgiveness Day.
email.gimletmedia.com

Adventures in attention disorders:

"Hey, I feel great! I'm gonna get breakfast, then get to shopping online for a gift for my niece's birthday!"

"Mm, PB&J-on-English-muffin sandwiches. Best breakfast ever!"

"Okay, now it's time to batch-convert screenshots to make album art files for my SNES music collection."

"Whoa, brain! You skipped something there. Isn't that funny? You should toot about that—"

Oh. Ohhhhhhhh.

Though now I kinda wanna commission art of a vampire hedgehog eating pretzels out of a takeout box while riding a flying saucer they bought with Bitcoin.

This is my character. Do not steal.

The Unicode 10.0 spec adds code points for vampires, hedgehogs, pretzels, flying saucers, Chinese-delivery-style takeout boxes, and the Bitcoin currency symbol (which may as well just be the Thai baht symbol)...

...but they still have nothing for cannabis, which has been around far longer than any of these things.

I just don't understand some folks' priorities. I mean, seriously, I challenge any of you to name a single person who smokes hedgehogs. Am I right?

There once was an Electric Keet
Whose limericks were rarely complete
She spent so much time
Devising a rhyme

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