Saw the phrase “The Inspiration for Neil Gaiman’s Death” in a headline and briefly thought someone had like … murdered Neil Gaiman as an act of conceptual art
IIRC @ranma-official‘s (?) blog subtitle used to be “Eliezer Yudkowsky did not die for this,” and now that phrase pops into my head whenever any character talks about Apollo Mojave
The tenure of Kerr “SELF SEALING” WIDE MOUTH MASON was brief and uneventful, and he is now remembered only by students of history and users of the convenient jars which, for obscure political reasons, are still required to bear his name
The names of Kierkegaard’s works have that unique sound otherwise found only in the English-language titles of anime series, and I get the sense this is not an just artifact of their journey from Danish to English
(Either/Or is about the blazing rivalry of two CLAMP-esque bishounen; Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a paranomal adventure; Works of Love is shoujo; The Sickness Unto Death is some kind of grimdark chuunibyou thing)
So many little GUIs around these days, in mobile device apps and stuff – makes life feel a little more like navigating a video game
[me, phone in hand, leaving a building] “okay, now to press the button that shows me my position on the World Map”
I recently moved house, and after seeing my new place, my father cautioned that I should be careful walking around in the dark because my room is on the second floor and the stairs are pretty steep.
I think there’s a very small chance I’ll ever significantly hurt myself by falling down those stairs, but I just realized that if I do, I won’t be able to get the “warned you about stairs, bro” meme out of my head afterwards
Don’t look so scared, Mr. Santaros. The future is just like you imagined.
nature is amazing