I have had this dumb idea in my head for like six years and am taking advantage of #MakeATerribleComicDay to put it into reality

The part of the internet where people hang out and talk about old Maxis games, also called "the SimAnt-ic Web".

Concept: Purrdito Street Station by China Meowville

(...I also got some punches and a rivet-setter kit and more thread. But I did in fact need the awl.)

Went to the leathercrafting store to buy a tool and they asked me if I needed anything else and I said, "This is awl I need."

It was the episode where Dick Van Dyke plays a famous photographer who is also the culprit. I also liked this exchange, since this is what I say to myself whenever I look at my own photography:

A little fun thing when I was watching The X-Files is that I hadn't seen the show before but I'd seen a ton of screencaps from it, so there was a special pleasure in getting to an episode and saying, "Oh, hey, it's where that image comes from!"

Well, today I got to the Columbo episode (S4E2 "Negative Reaction") that this frame comes from, which I've always seen used as the Quintessential Columbo Frame:

You might think that Star Trek is a show about exploration, about science, about morality, about what humanity is capable of if we truly embrace the best of ourselves. That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you've ever seen.

Concept: those color-changing LED wall tiles except instead of hexagons they're the aperiodic monotile hat shape:

If you ignore the sender of this email, then this notification becomes a thrilling and terrifying peek into a fantasy universe.

I had this mental image and was compelled to act on it:

why did they call the leather fediverse instance "woof.group" and not

Tonight's X-Files watching gave us the origin of this one:

My partner and I have been watching through The X-Files (which I have never seen all the way through) and one thing I've taken it upon myself to do is to point out every time we get the origin of a Meme Image. Tonight we got this one:

Personally, I use emacs to keep track of all the raiding and war-making I do on behalf of various Dark Lords and Ancient Evils. I don't know what I'd do without orc-mode.

If you think about it, a tandoor has a naan-stick surface.

It's called "platonic love" because if someone platonically loves you then they'd be willing to do you a solid.

...money used to buy an italian car, that is to say: fiat currency

Why did Rush become "the wizard band" in people's popular imagination? Rush doesn't write songs about wizards. That's Led Zeppelin. Rush writes songs about Ayn Rand novels.

Sometimes two unlike flavors go together surprisingly well, like fortified wine and steam buns. Sometimes unlike words go together well, too. That's why when you combine two unlike words you get a Port-Mantou.