The_Blade's comments

On: Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

[The_Blade]

the sound is better than an hour with a high-end therapist, er, executive coach

On: US hospital told family their daughter had checked...

[The_Blade]

Blind date with the chancer

We had oysters and dry lancers

And the check when it arrived we went dutch, dutch, dutch, dutch

A redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash

And this emory board is giving me a rash

I'm flat out

You're so beautiful to look at when you cry

Freeze, don't move

You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life

On: Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Poll...

[The_Blade]

you just equivocated / moved the goalposts on that climate comment. are you a software engineer at Union Carbide?

also would you point out an example of ProPublica being as grossly unscientific as you claim? i'll wait

On: Elephants use namelike calls

[The_Blade]

My cats will happily eat raccoons.

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Humans will happily feed and then eat their farm animals.

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until no things grow no more, that our farm animals could eat

On: Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to...

[The_Blade]

Bowdlerize as a verb literally came from Thomas Bowdler gutting Shakespeare

Ophelia was randy AF if you study her verses closer especially the "mad scene" (act 4, scene 5)

Shakespeare wrote for the groundlings

On: The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on No...

[The_Blade]

i read Homage to Catalonia on the TGV to... Catalonia drinking a bottle from De Wijnerij in Amsterdam. it was fantastic

2018. Rebellion broke out on the Spanish side of Catalonia a week later.

On: From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text g...

[The_Blade]

80 Days is perfect. take your favorite artist recording 400 songs and you only get to listen to 40 of them and you just want more

Meg Jayanth++

Choose Your Own Adventure++

On: Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

[The_Blade]

plus a billion for Turgenev. Bazarov is the original hipster

also Pushkin's Queen of Spades

On: Don't be terrified of Pale Fire

[The_Blade]

It is sandwiched between Pnin and Speak, Memory

But I really love Invitation to a Beheading. he wrote in three languages!

On: The Student Syndrome: Delaying until right before ...

[The_Blade]

i would argue it can turn into positive outcomes given the right problem and certain personality. often times, if i start something too early, i end up overdoing it (from the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step). instead i'll background process, hash out an online on the side as merited, and when the time comes knock it out without thinking too hard because you don't have time

for 2 - 3 day trips (personally or professionally) i always pack the morning of a flight after making a list the night before. the one time i actually packed the night before... i nearly forgot my wallet / missed my flight (i didn't)