Ice cubes and artificial sweetener?

So no.

If I had to describe my feelings about this, I would have to say that I am bivalent.

Any floury potato will do. In England we would probably use Maris Piper potatoes.

Baked potatoes fancy? I love a baked potato with beans and cheese, but it’s hardly fancy.

Fondant potatoes are what you want for fancy (and delicious).

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?

I also love Jasper Fforde, and it is because he was guest of honour at a Jodi Taylor event that I also got into her books. She writes a series about time-travelling historians which I would recommend.

She also writes at a much faster pace than Fforde does these days, so that’s a plus. I was never half as annoyed waiting for GRR Martin to write A Dance With Dragons as I was waiting for Red Side Story!

Ah, fair enough! I forgot therapy dogs and guide dogs are a thing for a moment, there.

I’d be looking askance at whoever it was that said “good girl”, TBH. I can’t imagine saying that in a workplace to anyone who isn’t a literal child.

I sought an ADHD diagnosis.

I’d warn you that it’s a pretty horny film, but Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (by Clive Barker /j) was also very horny, so that may not be an issue.

A fellow Plan 9 enjoyer?

Jonathan Harker proves that he can’t do accent work, but he did do some decent acting in The Devil’s Advocate.

I am an introvert. But I’d really prefer to have a five minute call to a text message conversation taking place over an hour. Organising plans with people is infinitely more painful over text messages than it is over a group call. Am I unique in this?

Edit: I do appreciate it when people text to ask if now is a good time to call, though.

“Regards.” Neutral.

“Best regards.” Gushing.

“Best.” I want you to die.

“The iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the sons and daughters—unto the third and fourth generation.”

Exodus 20:5

I think there’s a difference, though, between liking it in private, and talking it up publicly.

If someone still listened to their Lostprophets albums I’m not going to judge, but if they spent a lot of time posting about how much they loved and still love Lostprophets… that still feels a bit off.

I say we should go back to calling engineering crafting. Furthermore, physics ought to be natureken, and science ought to be worldken. We could call atomic theory uncleftish beholding.

The prevailing consensus is that the gospels of Matthew and Luke were cribbing from the gospel of Mark and a text that is lost to us that is referred to as Q. The gospel of John is original as far as we know.

Also, a lot of the Pauline epistles weren’t even written by Paul.

You mean y’all don’t re-read your email 20 times before you hit send?