Yes, sleep is an agenda item.
Fanny Power, Sheena
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You know it’s gonna be a fun one when the computer says, Look, you may want to have this one go off overnight. Clearly, this is a hint to go to sleep, if the bleary eyes and sore throat wasn’t enough of one. Night!
I did this for the weekend push for the The Fermi Resolution Worldbook Backerkit. I think it didn’t come out half bad. Four days to go!
Actual in the mail, too: supposedly House of Leaves is one of those books whose fans insist that it be read in dead-tree form. Supposedly it’s one of those books that will completely blow your mind, man. …Look, I’m not saying that it won’t, sure. I’m sure there are books out there that can. It’s just that I’ve never read one that came even close to duplicating the mind-altering effects of three margaritas in two hours.
So, yeah, kid of jaundiced about these claims.
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I am apparently downloading Windows 11 right now, so this is a bit of a ‘get this up now’ job.
Continue reading 01/30/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOST.Not much oomph this month, to be fair, and all of it’s being sucked up by the Backerkit. Is this part of the problem with having a long lead time? I don’t think about anything else? Well, at least January’s a slow month anyway.
Heck, you’d think there would be an Operator’s Manual. For kids, I mean. Nope, they just send you and your spouse home from the hospital with a highly complex, multi-decade project in tow, with nary a bit of real documentation. If you press them, maybe they give you some website links. Maybe.
I meant this as a joke, but now I’m maybe getting a little peeved about this. Or maybe I’m just hungry.
This is stupidly difficult to find online, so I’m going to fix that now. This was checked against Pournelle’s compilation book Falkenberg’s Legion; there are slightly different versions elsewhere.
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