Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@Gargron Pretty sure the top influencer is @catstar

At least with "player" supporting Carmen now they're no longer the worst player ever, but seriously, the character adds nothing interesting and only serves to remind the viewer of just how pointless anything that happens during the rest of the show really is (because it's just a video game, precluding the possibility of consequences).

Found out which class is immediately after mine in Boston this April. It's a really good pairing because Anne and I tackle some of the same concepts from completely different (but still valid) directions.

Noticed that Netflix has a new Carmen Sandiego cartoon. Sadly, it has the same fatal flaw as the previous one: the existence of "player".

Local plow keeps blocking my driveway.

Evening plan: cat and ice cream

Did a search for a product to see if it existed and the first result was a company selling not at all what I was searching for where the top of their site shows a video that, while it didn't auto-play, the still showed what appeared to be some lady in bed with Satan.

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@gnomon @codingquark Good luck! A lot of coffee with that story is really bad, but not all of it.

Also had trouble getting back in the driveway today. Now I'm letting the cat give me some heat. She's very good at that.

Finished drafting another chapter. I've got a couple notes on things I'll want to go back to after checking references and calculating statistics. The next chapter is long and I don't think I have it in me to work on that tonight.

Yesterday's handwritten notes are likely to turn into another chapter.

With the snow, business is slow today. Had time to move my latest set of notes into the hybrid outline/draft of the book, fixed a couple typos, and cleaned up some of the existing draft. Hopefully I'll have time to draft a few more pages today.

Plowing on my street was bad so it took about as long to get out of my driveway as it did to get the rest of the way to work. I'm lucky that I can take emergency routes all the way which get attention earlier. One of my employees needed to shovel her car out of the snow twice on her route. #wisconsin

It's snowing and the roads are very slippery. Now that I'm home the cat wants me to pick her up and carry her around the house.

@SelfsameSynonym @malevolent_usb_drive@octodon.social That last one seems doubtful to survive the selection part of natural selection. Can't breed if you can't breathe.

In an alternate universe Brother Benny said, "you want a white captain? I'll give you a white captain." And then he wrote Voyager (which also got pulped because you can't have a woman in command).

@malevolent_usb_drive@octodon.social I'm assuming this is under the theory that all the bad episodes of Star Trek were really just stories written by Brother Benny before he went to the asylum?

@malevolent_usb_drive@octodon.social Wasn't this the next step in human evolution?