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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Woman at the Frankfurt airport kindly informed me that I could, if I wanted to, get a Coke with the sandwich-and-drink deal, I didn't HAVE to get the German soft drink pictured on the ad, and I in turn explained that, despite hailing from the land of Coca-Cola, I absolutely love drinking sodas […]

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The Farscape character Ka D'Argo, as a member of an alien species obsessed with combat and honor that appears in a non-Star Trek TV show, is truly a

A box labeled, "Fabulous Ersatzklingen."

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"It's fun to visit another country and experience local foods and seasonal customs that differ from my own!" I think to myself moments before turning a corner in the Wien Hauptbahnhof and seeing a Dunkin prominently announcing the start of Pumpkin Spice Season.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Fully completed: The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy. In progress: The Animated Series, Strange New Worlds. Yet to start: Starfleet Academy. …I am perhaps disturbingly close to having watched All The Star Trek.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

cleaning out the basement and finding the Good Shit

Two CDs: one of the game Yoda Stories and one burned CD hand-labeled as "Quake III Arena" followed by a serial number.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

The other evening at dinner, I overheard someone talking about how cool it is that, "…in German you conjugate nouns for shapes and colors," and then shortly after overheard someone at a different table suggesting the "KROO-dite" plate. (The first person was thinking of German's proclivity […]

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I still need some final touch-up but I'm nearly done with the Voronoi pattern I'm painting on the walls of my new office!

A room whose walls are in the process of being painted with in cells of various shades of blue separated by gray lines.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Something I do like about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is that it's a show willing to do a corny gimmick episode, something that's rare in 2020's TV but can be a lot of fun. However, I think such episodes work best as a sporadic treat, like a dessert, and that means the current SNW season has […]

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Tonight I had the occasion to recite a poem from memory to a coach at my gym, and it was (at least tangentially) related to working out. (It was "This Is Just To Say".)

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Restaurants and cafés with fewer employees are statistically more likely to have patrons bus their own dishes instead of doing the cleanup for you. That's why we say that small teams have a higher "bus factor".

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Designing a house specifically to better take care of your dom(me), call that Service Oriented Architecture.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

At the end of the story, the humans make a shocking discovery about their ostensibly benevolent alien benefactors: the book discovered within the aliens' embassy, "To Serve Man", is actually a piece of incredibly kinky fanfic.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

At dinner tonight I overheard someone trying to remember the name of the Marquam Trail, a local trail in Southwest Portland, but he didn't quite get there and ended up calling it the "Arkham Trail" instead. ...I think that one might be a little different.

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rešmyálanra @aysamanra.sometimes.when.computer.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

This week I moved, for the first time in a decade, into a larger space. This is good for me: I work from home and am also an inveterate hobby-collector, which means I will feel less like vast amounts of time are spent in a cluttered postage-stamp-sized space! However, I am discovering a small […]

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