I'm not a mathematical naif and yet exponents still never cease to amaze me. Like the fact that every time you shuffle a deck of cards you create an order that has, statistically, never happened in the lifetime of our universe nor ever will again.

Absolutely confirm. I am an excellent C# coder who has vibe coded several python solutions and will honestly admit that doing so has taught me absolutely nothing about python short of the names of several popular packages.

I appreciate this sentiment. I read The Shattering Peace on and off again over the span of a few weeks and it felt weird, given your previously stated delivery timelines, that it likely took me longer to read a book than it did for the author to write it.

I believe the insistence on people referring to you as "Jolly" hides a dark past.

Rally's fries with a half banana / half chocolate shake are an S-tier fast food gustatory experience.

I trashed my very old iPad mini when they stopped providing updates and all my apps slowly stopped working as they refused to run on older versions.

Really wish I'd have thought of jailbreaking it, if that's possible. I don't like Apple's ecosystem, but damn was that a nice piece of hardware.

I'm in the camp of e-readers increasing profits for authors. I bought hard covers new, but literally never bought a mass market paperback new off the rack. They all came from library sales, garage sales, etc. I have bought ebooks, though.

...think about the implications
of diving in *too* [voice box shatters]

That's one thing I love about the woodworking community. In some spheres people would be crying plagiarism, but we're all like, "Hey that's a pretty cool interpretation of that."

I spent an entire day angry at my Bose headphones for constantly dropping during meetings.

Later that evening, my wife told me the Google TV kept interrupting her show that day to say she could use the saved paired device.

Now I'm angry at Bose and Google.

Aquaxena
Kreeji
Dasana'vi

I'll see myself out

Bob's 2002 Access Database

I had dozens of these and read them to tatters as a kid.

This is more of an unintended insult to the receiver, insinuating they are unaware of this person's body of work, than an artist zombie apocalypse warning.

Or are we riffing on the ambiguity of English, and I'm missing the joke again?

-25

Some dark horse contenders, based on the many, many ratings I've reviewed (I built a website to visualize this kind of data).

- The Originals
- Person of Interest
- Dark
- Bosch

[based on consistently high ratings across all episodes and seasons]

...can die
Clearly not, since he posted this

...stop producing
Think I remember John having like an 812-book contract or something like that

...at GenCon...blow up in scandals
You made a breaded pork tenderloin and sugar cream pie burrito, didn't you?

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