Posts tagged “North Carolina”

  • The Falconer time travel sketch is genius, and I can’t believe it took me almost twenty years to see it.
  • Space Pants is almost as good. (Check out its Reddit thread and backstory, too.)
  • Ballad of a Thin Man has always reminded me of The Second Coming. It’s more than a little disturbing that they’re equally relevant these days. – via my dad
  • The Roman Empire’s original smartwatch: portable sundials
  • I have been using Dotster as my registrar for this site for more than 25 years. I was a little miffed to learn last year that they were acquired by Web.com, but didn’t think much of it because my site’s registration is paid far in advance and I rarely think about it. Today I got an email telling me that Web.com was acquired by Network Solutions, and I cannot stand their platform. Most of my 50+ domains are registered at Dreamhost, so I’ll likely be switching soon.
  • Cat ButtsMere anarchy is loosed upon the world:
    • “The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. […] We’re screwed.
    • [Current] administration officials are placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway.
    • POTUS pardons Nevada politician who paid for cosmetic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer.
    • A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk, and POTUS could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees.
    • Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina.
    • Please understand that when 2A cultists point their fingers at bizarre tragedies – like what happened recently in Vancouver – as some sort of justification for their infantile predilection for firearms, an excruciatingly rational response is that the entire automobile industrial complex is also misguided, cancerous, and evil.

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