call a drug dealer

call a pimp

give them money

great album, one of few I can listen to all the way through

highlight it from the other direction and go menu > edit > copy to clipboard

horny little me as an undiagnosed bisexual, it made me feel very peculiar as a kid

this but unironically. that would actually be pretty sweet

Continuing to improve

it’s called decomposition

I mean it took me all of 20 minutes. They have the screenshots saved in the folder, the JSON just is a time stamp and a list of urls I looked at in that time.

• physical mouse “jiggler” (mine is a turntable) that isn’t connected to the work device
• physical key presser on a switch to press ESC every few seconds for when I’m pooping (this way the software shows both m n k activity)

I’ve even gone so far as to write a bash script that monitors the userdata folder that stores the JSON for activity and overwrite it with plausible but fake random activity data and screenshots, then name the process the same as the software so it’s virtually undetectable- logs will show “Productivity Software Name” writing to its userdata directory at the same time the actual software is writing to it.

Arguably Georges Perec, too

and recognize it for what it is: gambling on whether some dudes think this company is worth more today than yesterday.

if you were gambling on what some dudes thought about an egg you’d take it a lot less seriously.

I mean because you don’t use it doesn’t mean no one does.

Book desc:

"In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian equivalents do not carry the pejorative connotations borne by the modern terms and their Greek antecedents; magic and demons can be forces for good as well as evil. Indeed, the practice of magic and the conceptualisation of personified demonic agents are central to the Egyptian understanding of the workings of the world from the very continuation of the cosmos itself down to the vicissitudes of existence faced by individuals.

"In particular, the broader practice of magic and articulation of the involvement of demonic agency form one of the crucial links in Ancient Egypt between individual existence on the human level and the level of nature or the cosmos, the realm of the gods. Unlike, though, the explicit recognition of the term demon in the ancient Greek language and religion, as the intermediary between god and mortals, the majority of the demonic names in the Egyptian literature do not possess an apparent ontological essence, or a clearly defined denotation. Their characteristics and role depended momentously on the verbal and performative ritual environment they were part of. The relation between the name of a demon and its cosmic-natural personification is not contradictory as it may seem, but it is closely interwoven in a well established ritual framework of words and actions.

“This multi-authored volume of 10 essays comprises an up-to-date authorized account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology, including the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, nightmares and underworld demons, dream rituals and magic, categories of demonic entities and the vague distinction between the divine and the demonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, the theological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic, and demons as reflections of human society.”

From the authors blog:

“The aim of this ambitious, trandisciplinary research project is to study certain lexical, iconographical and chronological criteria for the formation of a category or categories of beings that could be mapped together and systemized to become a “demonology” within the cultural framework of Ancient Egypt. The time span covered is large (from the Old Kingdom through the Roman Period, roughly 3000 B.C. - A.D. 400) as are the source materials.”

https://kousoulis.blogspot.com/p/egyptian-demonology-project.html?m=1

mega fan, from the Eminem f/t Dido song Stan about an obsessive fan.

how are you defining wheel?

a door handle has a latch assembly which is arguably a wheel, as is the turning cylinder, if it has a lock it could have a bunch more “wheels” too, and the "rose’ (the round part that covers the hole the cylinder passes through to connect the two handles) could also be a “wheel” depending on your definition.

One could count a hinge as a wheel as well.

Most people are on the internet. I learned quickly that Americans, despite being online, aren’t familiar with the phrase “don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs”

mine says “made me smile” - not sure if that’s what you’re complaining about.

But also, I often don’t read the titles, and might not notice if they disappeared so I guess it depends on the user.

there will always be exceptions and innovation. One of the things that shaped They Might Be Giants style is they used to release songs via a telephone number and if they held a note too long the phone service would think it was a dial tone and hang up.

guy who loves string theory: inhales

don’t call me that.

I hate the monarchy