Jim Stormdancer @mogwai_poet@mastodon.social

In the spirit of Halloween, here's the most terrifying story I know, about how Dave Mustaine lost the use of his arm by sleeping in a chair.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeth-s-dave-mustaine-how-i-injured-my-arm/

Blendo's new thing has a fucking incredible announcement trailer:

http://blendogames.com/skindeep/

So, Mystic River.

It's weird, it's really weird, to see this film that's incredibly professionally crafted in most respects, but also has this meandering, awful score that's like an out of focus drunken clown photobombing every scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdDfTn57Bgc

S3M facts: the S3M sample structure is 80 bytes, so even though it's a binary format, you can open it an 80-column text viewer and the sample names will be a contiguous readable block onscreen.

Impulse Tracker stores more info per sample but shortens the sample name, to retain this feature.

My aesthetic: when tracker musicians put credits or poetry or ascii art in the song's sample names, and then you make a new song by loading samples out of a bunch of different songs, so your sample list looks like a Burroughs cut-up.

I really liked this short story about thanking your younger self for surviving.

https://nextworldover.tumblr.com/post/177853531563

I could see the argument for every week, but every *time*? When you're just going to poop again the next day? Heck, why stop there? Why not wipe *while* pooping if being continuously clean is the goal. You could wipe the left half of your butthole while pooping out of the right, and then switch. See how ridiculous that sounds?

Life hack: to maximize crispy edge in your next batch of brownies, cook them by pouring the batter into your CPU's heat sink.

Have you ever found a taste, smell or texture to be comedic? Like you're rubbing some sandpaper and are like "Ha! Hilarious!"

I never have, and suddenly I'm wondering why.

Baby update: I've figured out that if I strap Winston to my chest I can work from 10pm to 3am like my usual schedule, and he'll sleep through most of it. Babies: solved!

Rice pilaf and Rice-A-Roni are basically the same thing

... then the clerk said "but GameStop bought EB in 2005!" #tooterchillers

Do I know anyone who's messed with developing in Forth? Or, like, vector displays?

Just learned that the "Boxer Rebellion" was called that because the British called the rebels' form of martial arts "Chinese Boxing." Then I found out what to call it in order to not be colonialist and forgot it immediately because it's in a foreign language.