Christopher "the" Agocs

As with many things

"Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way..."

In the case of monolingual English speakers, it probably boils down to "some European countries do it like that, and so it looks fancy. There's an exhaustive table of who does what here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotati...

I used to work at a Caribou Coffee that was open until 2am. I can't think of any 24hr (or even open-absurdly-late) coffee shops any more.

About a dozen elephant seals basking on the beach

On our honeymoon, driving up Highway 1 in California, my wife and I saw a sign for ELEPHANT SEALS NEXT LEFT. It was pup season, so there were a bunch of baby elephant seals with their mothers. Also a couple big males fighting. There was a docent answering questions and just giving seal facts.

Can confirm, Sabrina's dark passenger commands her to stab. Fortunately she has volunteers

I love that some human drew that with just a pen and a drafting table and a rocks glass to bourbon

"Don't call me without telexing first! I haven't had my morning cigarette yet!"

Did people in the 70s think "damn, this phone call could have been a telegram but the Western Union is all the way across town"?

Which came first, the aversion to phone calls or the myriad of better alternatives?

This dovetails nicely with "who the hell makes phonecalls anymore?" discourse. If I must make a phone call that will last longer than the time required to order food, or I'm expecting a phone call, I get settled down in my cozy little office with my Bluetooth headphones and ideally a soothing tea

I am told they go to Afterlife365 For Workgroups

Please, we prefer SiMPS

I will rage that permanent DST is significantly worse than permanent standard time

I will accept your unimpeachable word, thank you

We don't know for sure about the presence/absence of grass stains on Nobr's pants, though

Apple Maps, am I right?

Four year old: "What's that?"

I turn to look at him, and he's wandering around the house carrying a stack of UniFi 6 wireless access points

Years ago, I was discussing threat models with a friend / potential co-founder and I brought up "somebody dropping bombs on our datacenter". NOT SO FAR-FETCHED NOW, IS IT NEIL?!

My favorite part of the Collected Works of R.F. Kuang was when the main character said "It's keening time" and then she keened all over those guys

That's Angela Collier's whole shtick though, and frankly it's fantastic

I'll be right over

SINK RATE

Nah. I wouldn't mind it, but that was a special time in my life (about to be laid off from the last job, so I was technically employed but had a lot of time to kill during the week)

I was looking at pictures of that, and it does look really intriguing

I found it interesting that the experience lasted basically *just* long enough for me to get bored, and then they piped in the music that let me know time is up.

Oh! I forgot. There's a shower in every room, and you're given time to shower before and after floating

Yeah, it was a sensory deprivation tank. Interesting experience, once I got past the feeling of claustrophobia. You can't get the water in your eye (it hurts), so you're carefully trying to avoid moving your head and kind of gently bouncing around inside a coffin

I did a regular float last fall. They have a big filter, and the entire tank gets cycled though it between uses. Also, the water is dead sea salty. I don't know what could live in there.

Otoh it's oppressively humid; takes a minute to convince yourself to breathe

Folks who really know how to fly RC helicopters are amazing. Quadcopters ain't shit in comparison

I do have a hacked up plastic storage bin protecting some antenna stuff in my back yard, but the bottom is open