Ailsean

three spaces walk into a bar. it is a space bar.

I'd say we deserve better, but guitar players are the sort who will literally wire an arcade button ahead of the output jack and use it as a kill switch like we were throwing a light switch rave.

This is a good read. Adding on, a basic mute button is the analog-world version of turning off "edit at zero crossings" and cutting off clips mid-content without fading them. It seems like tuners usually do something to mitigate the abrupt transition. A lot of pedals just... don't.

Your calculator lacks imaginary.

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Arnold Rimmer did not die for your sins only to be disrespected like this.

“I’m going on an adventure!!!”
#matthewart #thehobbit

Gandalf filter.

No, see. It's REMARKABLY CONSISTENT. That's why the exception is so weird. Because the consistency is weird.

Why doesn't contact follow the weird emphasis rule like other words? Like something can get smaller and contract, or you can sign a contract. Or you get a permit to show some authority permits you to do something. But you can totally contact a contact.

It may be a roguelike, though.

The NYT Crossword is not a Metroidvania.

What know ye of the Night Yorb?

Make a star out of it when you're done?

The BOC + Pokemon mashup we didn't know we needed.

VGMCon was a great time as usual.

I also brought some more flavorful sauces with me this year, not just painful ones.

A flowery decorated paper plate with two peppermints positioned to look like eyes beneath flowery hair. Generic branding text forms a smile below them. The mints have dollops of an angry, viscous red hot sauce made to look like pupils.

If you put Da Bomb hot sauce on an Altoid, the intense mint and spice cancel each other out nearly completely. It's quite pleasant.

Brick wall in a hotel atrium with a banner giving directions to VGMCon badge pickup

Sitting in an empty hotel lobby drinking free coffee and The Girl from Ipanema is playing over the sound system. Surreal.

Related, you ever get Bob-omb Battlefield stuck in your head for like, a decade at a time?

Wait... Are they ASKING who watches over the canary? I always heard it as them describing a canary who watches over them! Who is doing the watching and who is the watched? I -HAVE- a blue canary night light, and I assumed it was watching over me. Was I meant to be watching over it!?

Wild. Related, The number of times I've had to fill in what appears to be a New Patient Intake form is... well, it's not every appointment, but it's weird that it's SIGNIFICANTLY more than one, right? Like, I've been with them 20 years at this point. I'm not running off. Please do not delet

Do people frequently no-show for dental appointments? I've got a cleaning scheduled today, and in the past few days I got 4 emails and 3 texts of varying levels of desperation basically begging me to remember to show up or call if I have to cancel. I replied to the first one. Is this a real issue?

You teach me and I'll teach you ...
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SAX
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PHOOOONE

I learned to play
The sax-o-phone

Like no one ever was

Mashup you never wanted: Deacon Blues and Pokemon.

I guess I should say it's not her first time being an art vendor, just the first time at MAG lol

Hey MAGFest friends, I won't be there this year, but one of my coworkers is going and doing the art vendor thing for the first time. She makes rad stuff you should check out. bsky.app/profile/tabr...

Popcorn chicken in a waffle cone.

NO U!

Usually it's a Smash Brothers concert and I haven't learned any of the music. Then there's the travel dreams. There's a specific gas station in dream-Virginia that always pops up. I kind of wish it were also in real-Virginia, because it has even better gas station snacks.