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Maybe the one thing I accomplish tonight will have ended up being "closing an idle game window and leaving it closed."

Cannabutter is bubbling.
Chickpeas are cooked, about half-peeled before I exhausted my fuck supply.
Story has had two sentences added to it and some research on aggressive bird behavior done.
Still need time on the bike and a shower.

Dockside's selling trim now, half an ounce for $30.

Guess who's lost her thumb privileges and is making medibles for the Glowtide party?

... okay, yeah, I just said, "Well, I've written the sex scene, but there's not nearly enough paw or talon worship in this."

I blame @Elanna​, at least in part, for the story I'm writing to submit to _Fantastic Beasts_.

Has anybody looked at building a web-enabled asynchronous distributed social media platform using Secure Scuttlebutt yet?

Run a SSB full-duplex server, tie a read address, a write address, and the last-known-good location of a public key in a well-formatted key repo to a consistent name scheme. Set up a "friends list" poller of sites to check for updates and a threadpool to do it asychronously in the background.

The student destined for full membership in the Guild is the one that, presented an empty flask and instructions to describe its contents, fills the flask first, the more esoteric the reagent the better. Top honors to the student who finds a different container, or refits the flask to accommodate some other substance entirely. The more accurate and thorough the analysis, the better; an encyclopedic breakdown of water beats a cursory inspection of orichalcum.

The student of barest licensure will write a simple paper on the properties of the holofoil, the air sample within the flask, or perhaps the lining of the flask itself. These will receive probationary accreditation but must be assigned a mentor to monitor their growth within the organization.

The student that refutes that there is anything in the flask to describe will be referred to the philosophy department.

Students who ask the proctor for the final will instead receive a flask and be told to proceed to one of the primary labs at a nearby academy and present it. Students who follow directions will receive instructions on how to dissolve the flask's seal without damaging its contents.

The flask is always empty aside from a single holofoil leaf, on which are the words, "DESCRIBE THE CONTENTS."

Membership in Merkur's Principal Chymists' Guild looks like stodgy and stolid affair -- a massive stack of holofoil paperwork on the proctor's desk. Unwary or inattentive students will take the stack and begin to work. These, to a one, will fail. Those who complete more than half the exam will not be given a second examination for at least seven years or one good cranial trauma have passed.

@Fuego "Do easy." http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/solving-hard-problems-with-simple-ideas/

I've just seen a live Darmok at Tanagra. It's happened. We're communicating in shared culture. (( And yes, the fact that I, too, am referencing Darmok at Tanagra _as_ a "Darmok at Tanagra" expecting people will understand, and they will, is itself a use of cultural referent in place of literal content, a cultural metasyntactic variable, and memetic $FOO.

I really should implement a rule that, unless I can get a specific exemption from someone else in the house, I'm not allowed to eat any junk food I don't bake myself while I'm high. It will either ensure that I make really wild and insane junk food, that I don't eat any junk food, or that I have an amazing story to tell the insurance adjustors.

I've spent the entire day hearing on debugging Docker build files, I'm not enjoying it, my opinion of the technology is worsening by the moment, and that much more convinced that the real solution is to build a distributed web platform like GCP that will build and run my code in a completely virtualized environment, rather than deal with AWS' IaaS nonsense. But GCP doesn't feel ready either; the code metaphors aren't there yet.

... Java really is the new Perl. Cripes.

... Kaz, apologies.