Notices by Lew Perin (wrenpile@mastodon.social), page 21

@natecull But where?!

@Gargron Steven Wilson’s solo projects, too?

@clacke @natecull Good thing they don’t have lawyers and lobbyists!

Mindfulness = nerd immunity.

@jk It knows there’s only one way to do things.

@morganth La commedia è finita.

So the NT Times decided that the #AfD’s chief ideologue is #Kubitschek — not a very Teutonic name — and sent someone to interview him: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/magazine/the-prophet-of-germanys-new-right.html

The article is interesting as far as it goes, but the reporter never asked some really obvious tough questions.

#nazi #or #not

@dredmorbius Remember Sandy? Starts with “S”? It hit NYC at the end of October.

@ajroach42 Not only that, does Margaret Dumont appear in any of those kinescopes?!

@natecull Why has there been no sequel to _Earth Girls Are Easy_?

@mattskala It isn’t every day some kind person saves me $9.

Tired: Pony Express
Wired: transcontinental telegraphy
Inspired: spirit mediums

#goodolddays

@natecull s/Sir/Siri/

@jk 3. “Fingertips” by Little Stevie Wonder.

@smays That’s a simpler coat of arms, probably easier to analyze.🙃

If I had the slightest interest in #heraldry plus a bunch of free time, I might try to devise a way to decompose coats of arms into standard components.

It would probably be fun to expose heraldic #plagiarism.

@natecull Imagine a Unicode committee assigned to decompose emoji into components …

@natecull Does Unicode hate us or are you asking for Unicode mission creep?

@natecull That’s a huge boatload of characters they flubbed, then. The cǎo component is one of the most common in the whole repertoire.