Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?

Me: Yes, that’s what’s called a lacuna.  It refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. For example, the Epic of Gilgamesh has…

Hi, yeah, I know I’ve been on this medication for eight years, but I need one more month, please. I’ll call you in a month to request another month. Thanks. Bye. Love you.

Pearl claimed the rugs as her own for her birthday.

Speedy little skunk this morning on the backyard cam

#skunk #backyardzoo #roanokeva

Day 20,543

It’s Pearl’s fifth birthday! (Mayday might be more appropriate, given her personality.)

Waldeinsamkeit is a German word that refers to the feeling one has while being alone in the woods, usually a sublime or spiritual one.

(You are never alone in the woods)

Random Scotto Factoid: I know how to use a slide rule. This is only one of my many skills that have no real-world use these days, but might be handy after the apocalypse.

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Monty Python – May Day 1971 – British May Day in England Special

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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are *Moby-Dick* (1851), *Typee* (1846), and *Billy Budd, Sailor*, a posthumously published novella.

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Refactoring…

‘Describe your experience as a programmer in one word’

Me:

Verschlimmbessern:

To make something worse by trying to improve it.

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How have we gone from,
“I’ll lower the price of groceries” to “everything is going to cost more and your kids are just going to have to have less toys,” and his approval rating is still around 40%?

So I started playing Blue Prince for a 90 min last night, and I’m going in with no knowledge of any of the puzzles or requirements to get to the end.

[No spoilers are here]

What I have discovered so far –

No colorblindness mode seems like a bad idea

No tool permanence seems rather rough.

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I think that if you show you can solve a puzzle, there should be an option to skip it after you have solved it a few times. Darts is easy, but tedious.

I’ve got about 5 hours / 4 houses in. Some very nifty rooms, and I’m glad to see there are some ways to establish a little object permanence, but man, can you get some bad luck of the draw.

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