Posts in "wastebook"

If you’re wondering how cold fusion produces pollution, let alone a lot of it, don’t worry, this is explained in a chapter by one teenaged prodigy tennis player to another, wherein the latter is wearing a blindfold to improve his other senses but can’t find a bathroom, so he asks the other player for help, but instead, the other player explains cold fusion in exhaustive detail over such a long period of time that the blindfolded player is nearly peeing in his pants, and it all turns out to be a ploy by the explainer to pressure the blindfolded player (who is a Muslim and drug-free) to give away his urine so the other player and his friends can pass a drug test. Stuff like this happens a lot in IJ. Infinite Jest Extraction

Best review of The Sound and The Fury, in Mad Men, s2e11: “Sex is good. This book is just OK.”

The weird bastion stuff in D&D 5e 2024 makes a lot more sense after reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I suppose it can be said that I’m an absent-minded driver. It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

Glenn Gould

No, no…AI won’t replace you.

A person using AI will replace you and 4,999 other people.

“Labor is valuable only insofar as it occupies a constraint the firm hasn’t yet automated.”

“Your brain hates unbounded risk. When there’s no plan, it escalates into dread.”