Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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Cake day: August 13th, 2024

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  • You can do most if not all of this in Perl if you’re twisted enough. Some hoop jumping may be required*, but I can think of ways to do something that looks like each of these.

    *: The braces are especially tricky if warnings are turned on. I’d probably abuse the deprecated multidimensional syntax and tie a hash to the actual function.




  • Jam-filled donuts usually aren’t the sort with a hole, and these look like they might be rings. I am conflicted.

    It is possible to jam-fill a ring donut, and the ones pictured might not be rings, only sunken, but either way, something here tells me there’s not a lot of jam in them and it’s bothering me far more than it should.

    … I’d say I was hangry, but it’s not long since I ate. Maybe I just really want a donut.




  • Many men will remember the first bit of mail they received with Mr <Surname> on it and it wasn’t for their father, but I also remember being cut to the core being referred to as the subject of “watch out for that man” as a child escaped its parent and barrelled obliviously in my direction. To them I was merely an NPC.

    My thoughts were along the lines of ’ “That man”?! Me?! Well… I suppose so. But, “man”? What? No. I’m just me. ’

    I mean, I’m sure as heck not a woman, nor am I non-binary, but “man” is way too strong a term. “Adult male human” doesn’t even feel right, because much of the time I’m who I was at 7 years of age, just in a shell that’s 7 times that age.

    But er, maybe that’s just me.









  • Edit: I would like to learn from the downvotes, but neither has been helpful enough to leave a comment.

    Mmm. Delicious free hydrogen radicals. So refreshing. Not harmful at all.

    But if you really want “light water”, may I suggest replacing all 10 necessary protons with anti-muons? It won’t last long*, but it would reduce the theoretical mass of the molecule down to less than 1/8th**

    And the resulting nuclear explosion would be a great topic for an xkcd What-If.

    *: Muonium is a thing. It’s “hydrogen” made from an anti-muon nucleus and an electron orbiting it. It decays as the muon does unless there’s some kind of matter-antimatter annihilation in which case it’s a bit more vigorous. I am not sure whether you can put anti-muons in a nucleus along with regular neutrons though. No harm in trying, right?

    **: Excluding quantum weirdness affecting the mass in other ways.