SXSW band description: "Hailing from Berlin, Germany, is this dreamy duo..."
Actual band: born outside London, lives in Hanover, label studio in Brandenburg...
@cory Apps are just shitty web browsers that only go to one website, which also have access to your camera, microphone, contact list, home network, location....
@atomicpoet
assistant director (to extras): "don't look at the lead actors directly in the eyes"
That one extra, fake chatting: (casually glances mid-take)
Me: "sonofabitch, he did it!"
My spouse is watching Wheel of Fortune and one of the contestants just claimed to be a Lord in Scotland because his spouse bought him one of those title scams.
@kitoconnell I have a buddy who says has an official duchy somewhere on the British isles because he bought a square foot of land intended to be held as a nature preserve.
"Can you visit your land?"
"Sure!"
"But, have you ever visited?"
"No, not yet. Not like I can build anything. Probably couldn't even find it. I mean, yeah, it's all a joke, but I have the papers."
The only thing Ray Bradbury got wrong in "Fahrenheit 451" is that we would build our houses out of fireproof plastic (eliminating the core mission of firefighters). Everything else is on track.
JFC it doesn't take much lately to trigger endless hiccups in me these days. Just look at what this reflux is doing to me, and now on the slightest provocation (inhaling a fleck of drink), it's a 30-minute string of hiccups every 10 seconds. I hate my life. I hate everything I've brought to it.
The thing about writing #Python unit tests is that it betrays just how little I understand about Python under the hood. I hate it. I hate my job. I hate my life.
Resisting a corporate-owned world and media won’t be easy, especially when the media present enthralling sports spectacles. But it’s necessary in order to save democracy from slipping into plutocracy.
so i did the thinkable last night and signed up for nebula, because my favo y'alltoobers kept telling me to do it. s'why i was up til, what, 3am watching nonsense? shameful.
