Yes, it’s just lingo

I don’t like yours

de/reprogram

not exactly deprogramming. Not quite reprogramming either…hmmm … I think they’re distro hopping.

Ah I believe you mean intensive porpoises

It’s for men with already broke dicks. Usually these rings come in pairs, with a clockwise and counterclockwise group based on broke-dick-handedness.

Real large gatherings do end up with further segmentation based on severity of the hook

That shit made me laugh every god damn time. Sometimes just replaying it my mind gets me

Thanks for the link!

That is fucking awesome.

Somehow I’ve not really paying that much attention, which is weird cause I’ve been on this reading marathon after not really reading since I was a kid, and it’s all sci-fi. Lots of space.

That first orbit maneuver is so cool. Distances scaled correctly? I guess I just mean 1px in x and in y are equal? I’m often telling people the moon is quite far away. It would be even better with earth and moon diameter to scale.

“I’m Spartacus!”

Cool

Meanwhile the others gave me odd looks and stares

The mindset that I struggle to understand/relate to is that of those who seem to be unable or unwilling to accept how different another mind might be.

Seems kinda funny to say that, akin to the tolerance “paradox” I suppose.

Happy to answer questions about the setup.

Tell me about the hardware, please and thank you.

Man, that’s the kind of AI usage of really want to do locally

Scaramuchi

Oh, 1.0, what fun we had

The whole missile warfare game the tennis kids play was wild.

And for some reason, Hal laying on the floor imagining the amount of food he eats in a year filling the room and just being nauseous about it (I think he was also dealing with quitting the Bob Hope), really got into my head.

Man, I came across DFW when I was sitting in a very boring seminar at University of Illinois with my first smartphone in hand, enjoying the new ability to find something else to learn about while stuck there. No idea how exactly I came across it, but I read how cruise ship article and loved it. Started reading about him and was like, oh, this guy group up right here. And his parents are still here. It really caught my attention (again, boring seminar) and I was excited to read his stuff. I must have read some interviews of him or something.

Hit me hard when I learned of his suicide. Such a chilling feeling when a good communicator, like one that is able to capture parts of your inner monologue so well, through writing, speaking, of music, takes their own life.

Ah thank you. I’ve been meaning to watch this

Holy shit I totally forgot about that. I’ve been meaning to reread for years now but haven’t felt ready lol. I loved it but got to the end and was like, wait, what? I thought this was going to wrap back around to the beginning. Am I too dumb for this book?

There was so many parts of that book that pop into my head randomly. I can hardly brush my teeth without thinking of Pemulis(sp?) passing out, and directly proper use of, floss after dinner at the Incandenzas (sp?). Tennis always had me thinking about it. Punts in football too. Selfie filters (the masks everyone starting having in their house for video calls.

E: oh, and nevermind infinite scroll and the basis of the plot

Cats and coyotes?

Beautiful

Well the show didn’t finish the story.

E: though, it didn’t get less “magical”, just more explained in a soft-scifi sense.

Yes. This is definitely it. Gov’t shutdowns are going to get way more intense once this is not a reliable bet.