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January 8, 2022
01/08/22 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Not-cows!
Patreon!It’s not true that you can see a not-cow herd from orbit. I mean, sure, you can see anything from orbit if your camera’s good enough. But you need to be pretty far down the gravity well before you can see the smashed trees and churned-up ground.
“You eat those?” Oft found them horrifying and fascinating, which is fair. I’d love to meet the joker who decided to name them ‘not-cows.’ Because people who’ve never seen one tend to think that they probably look bovine, and the name is just there to remind everybody that they’re not actually cows. Which is… well, that’s not even wrong.
“Just their legs,” I said. “Well, they’re sort of legs. Anyway, they don’t mind; the legs pop off anyway. It’s good for them. See how none of ‘em are above twenty feet tall? That’s how you can tell if a herd’s not being harvested regularly.”
Computer nonsense. Fixed now.
Good night.
January 7, 2022
Tweet of the Day, I Look Forward To Funding This Bad Decision of @philipjreed’s edition.
Phil Reed’s good at his job.
On Tuesday, January 11, I'm going to make a huge mistake and unleash this on the world. I am very, very sorry and will sit in the corner and think about what I have done. https://t.co/L0if2rCesg
— philipjreed (@philipjreed) January 7, 2022
Tweet of the Day, This T-Shirt Absolutely SINGS To Me edition.
Pre-ordered!
2022 update: I'm putting a 2nd round of Grilled Cheese Truck shirts up in my shop because I've gotten a dozen messages about them today because its blown up again. I also have a $3700 dog surgery on Monday*, so please buy a shirt? or a print? or a puzzle?https://t.co/Q0Ij7aM6f4 pic.twitter.com/mftoGXx2gO
— Daniel Danger (@tinymediaempire) January 7, 2022
January 6, 2022
More snow tonight…
…and another two hour delay for school tomorrow. My kids are kind of holding out hope for a full snow day, but who knows? The weather people are starting to sound like we should be able to miss the worst bits, and my county doesn’t particularly want to shut down the schools anyway. And yes, I’m grateful for that.
Besides, the important thing is, my kids got their homework done anyway. That way there’s no surprises, and they can zone out a little when the teachers lecture the rest of the class about being prepared.
I mention all of this because that’s a large part of what I’ve been dealing with, tonight. Oh, and THE STARS ARE WRONG got rejected! Impressively fast, too. So I sent it right back out again. It’s good for me, really.
Moe Lane
Tweet of the Day, …Damn edition.
All demos are fake, it’s apparently the Royal Marines, not ours, and there are obvious problems with the prototype that need to be addressed. Still… damn.
USA USA USA https://t.co/eG6svCarZl
— Moves Product (@tomabella) January 7, 2022
01/16/21 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Right now I’m just adding bits in my head that I know I’ll need later. Actually making it all coherent will take more time. At least, that’s the plan.
Patreon!I wasn’t looking forward to trying to get a straight answer from Oft about the Scout site at Erebus. I didn’t get one, either. And it was for a really annoying reason: he legitimately didn’t have one.
“I’m sorry, Pam,” he told me as we drank our beers. Including the Anticipant, who was surprisingly easier to handle once everybody had a couple of drinks in them. “If I knew what brought the Scouts there at the start, I would have told you. I was hoping the Anticipant would glean something from the site, but she could not.”
“How would you know?” I muttered.
Oft raised an eyebrow. “She may find it difficult to give details in a manner that you or even I can understand — no offense — but she knows what the phrase ‘This is important’ means, and she’s capable of saying it. If she doesn’t know, she can say that, too. And she has perfectly good ears.”
January 5, 2022
Ooh, interesting: Apple TV orders series on Booth manhunt.
This looks interesting:
Apple has ordered the limited series “Manhunt,” which tells the story of the hunt for U.S President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
The series hails from Monica Beletsky and is based on the book “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer” by James Swanson.
I’ve actually read Manhunt: from what I remember, it’s a pretty good book. Certainly the kind to lend itself to a dramatic retelling of the story, which is pretty much what you want out of a miniseries. And it’s not like actual events weren’t dramatic, from start to finish, either. I might actually make time to watch this.
#commissionearned
