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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 10/09/2026

Looking forward to the future of dual screen foldable phone designs

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 04/05/2026

In life, be an artoo not a threepeeo

R2D2 and C-3PO walking across Tatooine. 3PO is complaining and R2 is getting on with it.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 18/10/2025

ChatGPT decided to lose its mind temporarily when trying to figure it out, but it came back to a more sensible state afterward. It also generated "piece of mind" and, as another commenter posted, "sweet dreams."

Screenshot from a ChatGPT session:
09:35 4
= ChatGPT 5 >
し…
Totally-there are a few clean ways to read that rebus. Here are the best candidates, from most to least plausible:
1. "Food for thought."
• Slice of pie = food
• Thought bubble + ''s" = thoughts)
• The plus sign simply combines them → food + thoughts) → food for thought.
This feels like the most straightforward/intended reading.
2. "Pipe dreams." (playful/homophonic)
• Pie → "pi/pe" sound start
• Thought bubble → dreams)
• '''s" pluralizes → dreams
Not as literal as #1, but a common rebus target.
3. "Pie in the sky."
• Pie
• The bubble is a cloud/sky-like shape
• The plus suggests combining into the phrase.
A bit of a stretch, but people often draw the "sky" as a cloud.
4. "Pilots." (phonetic)
• Pie + thoughts) (said fast) → "pie-thots/pie-lots"
~ pilots.
This is the one you surfaced-clever, but probably a reach for the designer.
If I had to pick the intended answer, I'd go with Food for thought.
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Ask anything

Screenshot from a ChatGPT session:
09:40 4
三つか
= ChatGPT 5 >
已…
What if the images represent words other than "pie" and "thought"? For instance, the first one could be slice or piece and the second one could e idea or mind. While those are less likely words, they could lead to a more sensible solution overall. What other words might the images represent and what might that translate into?
Thought for 22s >
Love that angle. If we allow looser synonyms for the pictures and treat the 's as either "plural -s" or just a linking bit (many rebuses drop small words like of/ for), a few tidy phrases pop out:
Strongest fits
• Peace of mind
• slice of pie → piece
• thought bubble → mind
• (rebuses often omit of) → piece + mind →
"peace of mind."
• Sweet dreams
• pie/dessert = sweet
• thought bubble → dream
• 's → plural dreams
• Together: sweet + dreams.
Other reasonable reads
• Food for thought
• pie → food
• thought bubble + 's thoughts)
• (missing for is common in rebuses)
• Give you a piece of my mind (playful, longer)
• pie slice → piece
• thought bubble → mind
• (rebuses often omit of) → piece + mind →
"peace of mind."
• Sweet dreams
• pie/dessert sweet
• thought bubble → dream
• 's → plural dreams
• Together: sweet + dreams.
Other reasonable reads
• Food for thought
• pie = food
• thought bubble + 's → thoughts)
• (missing for is common in rebuses)
• Give you a piece of my mind (playful, longer)
• pie slice → piece
• thought bubble → mind
• Interpreting the plus as "and I'll give you..." (still drops of my).
Among these, Peace of mind and Sweet dreams eel the cleanest and mo kely "intended olutions when using broar words for the pictures
Ask anything

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 19/08/2025

And to manufacture all that extra stuff is an extra $4-8B - not including the compute power.

ChatGPT output

100 MW Class Space
Datacenter (panel radiators,
400 K case)
1. Radiators & thermal loops
• Radiator panels: ~112,500 m
• Manufacturing + assembly + coatings + QA:
$0.5-1.5 B
• Pumps, tanks, lines, compressors (heat pumps):
$0.3-0.8 B
Subtotal: ~ $1-2 B
2. Solar arrays & deployables
• ~360,000 m' of high-efficiency arrays
• Manufacturing cost typically ~$1k-3k/m? at these scales (cells, blankets, booms, hinges)
• ~$1-1.5 B
• Power Management & Distribution (space-rated electronics, HV harness): $0.5-1 B
Subtotal: ~ $1.5-2.5 B
3. Structures, sunshades, mechanisms
• Large CFRP/Al-Li trusses, deployment systems, sunshades
・$0.5-1 B
4. Avionics, comms, GN&C, propulsion
• Rad-hard computers, TT&C, high-rate backhaul
• Reaction wheels/CMGs, star trackers, ion/Hall thrusters, tanks, xenon
• $0.5-1.5 B
5. Testing, qualification, integration
• Giant TVAC runs, vibro-acoustic tests, life tests for pumps/compressors
• Integration, cleanroom throughput, spares kits
・$0.5-1 B
Grand total (100 MW system, extra equipment only): ~ $4-8 B
(That's just to manufacture and qualify the spacecraft parts not needed in a terrestrial DC.
Add launch: another ~$2-7 B depending on cost/ kg.)

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 19/08/2025

As an avid sci-fi reader I'd guess there are some pretty steep additional costs involved since: 1 Nearly all power comes from the ground 2 Nearly all cooling is done by air 3 You'd want radiation shielding Per Chat GPT, launch costs ALONE for these is $2-7B ("only" 0.3-0.9B for CPU/GPU launch).

ChatGPT output showing costs for a 100MW AI data center in space.

100 MW compute
Option A - Radiate at 400 K (СOP=2.5)
• Electrical power drawn:
elec = Qc+ Qc/COP + 5% ~ 147 MW.
• Heat to reject: same ~ 147 MW.
• Radiator area: ~112,500 m' (~335 m x 335 m if square).
• Solar area: ~360,000 m? (~0.36 km}).
• Mass (moderate):
• Radiators (5 kg/m3): ~563 t
• Solar (150 W/kg): ~980 t
• Structure, sunshade, loops (40% of above):
~616 t
• Payload (compute, PCDU, batteries, shielding):
~300 t
• Total: ~2,460 t
• Launch-only cost (order-of-mag):
• at $1k/kg → $2.46 B
• at $3k/kg → $7.38 B

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 06/08/2025

Welcome to paradise! mohawklesstalk.org

Entrance to the punk rock museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 02/08/2025

So many people landing in Vegas my notifications are getting DDoSed. Welcome to hacker summer camp.

iPhone notifications showing dozens of meshtastic nodes detected

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 17/06/2025

Seems like a Ghost Fleet moment @augustcole.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/u...

The Register®
US Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier crew left half-fed by contractor-locked ovens
Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance
Wed 11 Jun 2025 // 21:56 UTC
US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair
s own gear, and
will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a figh
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Phelan cited the case of the USS Gerald
R. Ford, America's largest and most expensive nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which carried a price tag of $13 billion. The ship was struggling to feed its crew of over 4,500 because six of its eight ovens were out of action, and sailors were barred by contract from fixing them themselves.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 04/06/2025

1 Startups pretending humans are AI 2 Studios pretending AI is humans How long til we read that a studio got in trouble for using AI, only to read that the startup they worked with is being shut down for actually being just humans pretending?

A screenshot of a news article from The Latin Times. The headline reads: “AI Startup Backed by Microsoft Revealed to Be 700 Indian Employees Pretending to Be Chatbots.” The subheading explains that Builder.ai’s virtual assistant “Natasha” was actually engineers manually coding customer requests. The article is by M.B. Mack, published June 3, 2025.

A screenshot from New York Magazine’s Vulture section. The article is titled: “Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It),” part of the Hollywood Issue. A quote below reads: “We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I’ll have the movie.” The byline is by Lila Shapiro. The featured image is a fiery, AI-generated angelic figure with wings, labeled as coming from the Amazon series House of David.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 30/05/2025

Cliff Stoll on stage at THOTCON talking about how to make a Klein bottle out of a soccer hooligan scarf

At THOTCON, Cliff Stoll stands on stage in front of a large screen displaying a projected image of a Klein bottle. He’s mid-demonstration, holding a black-and-white soccer hooliganism scarf to show how the non-orientable shape works in three dimensions. Cliff wears a plaid shirt, navy pants, and his signature wild white hair, with a handwritten name badge reading “CLIFF.” The stage is warmly lit, and the setup includes truss lighting with purple and red hues overhead.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 30/05/2025

Who'd have guessed a hacking conference would have an astronomer as a keynote speaker?

Two smiling people pose together indoors at the THOTCON hacking conference. Beau Woods, on the left, has a short beard, glasses, and short, purplish hair, wearing a black hoodie and a conference lanyard. Cliff Stoll, on the right, is older, with wild white hair and glasses, wearing a plaid shirt and a handwritten name tag that says “CLIFF” and “STAFF.” The background features warm lighting, curtains, and wall sconces, giving the room a welcoming, retro feel.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 30/05/2025

Yesterday I realized THOTCON starts today and I had a pass but no flight or hotel. Unexpected weekend travel FTW! See you soon, Chicagoland.

View from seat 3F on an American Airlines 737 window at the gate during overcast weather. On the tarmac below, a baggage conveyor belt leads up to the plane’s cargo hold, where a few pieces of luggage—including a black duffel bag and a skateboard—sit on the belt. Ground crew in high-visibility vests are loading bags from a blue American Airlines cart. Another American Airlines plane is visible in the background connected to a jet bridge. The scene is busy with various ground service vehicles and equipment around the aircraft.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 11/05/2025

Why yes a hacker is logged into my Google account, and his name is me.

PC World headline:
Is a hacker logged into your Google account?
Here's how to tell
Make sure you recognize the devices with active access to your email, photos, and other files.
BY ALAINA YEE

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 18/01/2025

It ain't nature, but standing and watching a port work with poofy clouds flowing overhead can be plenty tranquil

Port of Spain, Trinidad, at work with poofy clouds flowing overhead and busy city streets

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 08/01/2025

Cyber journalist friends: when reporting on healthcare industry plans to do nothing on cybersecurity or even to roll back protections, please get them to respond to this type of data point (via @downing.bsky.social) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hacked to Pieces? The Effects of Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals and Patients

49 Pages
Posted: 4 Oct 2023

Claire C. McGlave
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Public Health
Hannah Neprash
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Public Health
Sayeh Nikpay
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Public Health
Date Written: October 4, 2023

Abstract
As cybercriminals increasingly target healthcare, hospitals face the growing threat of ransomware attacks. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that prevents users from accessing electronic systems and demands a ransom to restore access. In this paper, we create and link a database of hospital ransomware attacks to Medicare claims data. We quantify the effects of ransomware attacks on hospital operations and patient outcomes. Ransomware attacks decrease hospital volume by 17-26% during the i tial attack week, with recovery occurring within three weeks. Among patients already admitted when a ransomware attack begins, in-hospital mortality increases by 35-41%.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 05/01/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Crash override in the back of a cop car yelling "hack the planet" from the film Hackers. But the caption says "hack the new year" and there are party stickers on the image.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 22/12/2024

I'm extremely pleased with myself on today's NYT crossword and just want to brag a lil 😁

New York Times crossword puzzle result, for Sunday, December 22, 2024: 26:04

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 20/12/2024

Okay so how do you think they figured out what my (now changed) password was? For reference, it was 20 characters, mixed case, with special characters and numbers. Not used elsewhere, so not from a breach list unless from them.

Screenshot from an email that says:
"To ensure that your online banking experience is as secure as possible, we've updated the requirements for creating a password.

Your current password doesn't meet the updated requirements, so we strongly recommend you create a new password now."

Screenshot of password requirements that says
Password rules:
- 8 to 28 characters with no spaces
- At least 3 of these 4:
- Uppercase letter
- Lowercase letter
- Number
- Symbols allowed:! # % ()*,i:@_$=
- Can't repeat character more than twice in a row
- Can't use current ID or last 3 passwords

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 15/12/2024

About to take off. Safe travels my friend.

Photo from the window of a plane at an airport

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 03/12/2024

Just finished refilling some Nespresso pods with a new toy and I'm not sure how I feel about the name

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 22/11/2024

If you drop by the Blue Team Village at BSides Ottawa today you might win a prize pack - including a SIGNED copy of Practical IoT Hacking.

Blank page in the Practical IoT Hacking book, signed "Keep on hacking ALL the THINGS!" With a BSides Ottawa badge.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 21/11/2024

The first Policy Village at BSides Ottawa is kicking off soon. Come on over and see some incredible sessions bridging the gap between the hacker and public policy communities.

Stickers for BSides Ottawa's first Policy Village

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 20/11/2024

Yeah okay so the hotel I'm staying in has a warning about DYNAMITING nearby and all I want now is a GoPro streaming that into the room. Is that too much to ask?

Sign at a hotel warning if loud noises from construction including dynamiting. Full text:

COURTYARD®
BY MARRIOTT

Dear Valued Guest,
Please be advised that due to the construction of a new building across the street from us you may hear a banging type noise which is due to ground drilling as well as some noise due to dynamiting.
This work is sporadically conducted between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday and May also happen on Saturday and Sunday between 8am and 6pm. As we are not affiliated with this work, we unfortunately do not have any control over it.
We sincerely apologize for this and wanted to let you know that the noise is not coming from work being done in the hotel.

Chère cliente, cher client,
Nous vous informons qu'en raison de la construction d'un nouveau bâtiment en face de chez nous, il est possible que vous entendiez un bruit de type « bang » dû au forage du sol ainsi qu'un bruit dû au dynamitage.
Ces travaux ont lieu sporadiquement entre 7h et 18h du lundi au vendredi et peuvent également avoir lieu le samedi et le dimanche entre 8h et 18h. Comme nous ne sommes pas affiliés à ces travaux, nous n'avons malheureusement aucun contrôle sur eux.
Nous vous présentons nos excuses les plus sincères et tenons à vous informer que le bruit ne provient pas des travaux effectués dans l'hôtel.

Nancy Champagne
General Manager

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 19/11/2024

While I love all the people joining, is there any way to turn notifications off for each new follower? It's joyous when someone follows yet also distracting and a bit overwhelming.

Screenshot of the Bluesky App settings page

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 16/11/2024

Gotta alt text it though...

Sunrise over the San Francisco Bay from near SFO airport, showing a golden thread on the horizon separating deep blue of the sky from deeper blue of the water

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 15/11/2024

It's a shame most computers don't come with one anymore

Tower computer CD ROM drive used to hold a red mug of coffee. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/helter-skelter/8385454193

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 15/11/2024

Indeed the default icon has changed. Fortunately you can change the look to something less aggressive.

Signal icon selector in the prior version

Signal icon selector in the current version

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 14/11/2024

Wore my high visibility outfit to blind my fellow panelists before pouncing

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 14/11/2024

Thank you for sharing, it's a great story. I love it when security and accessibility align! 🥲 It also resembles my first experience with passkeys. Which was probably tied up with the realization of the freedom that password management software has given me too.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 12/11/2024

Tomorrow and Thursday, Columbia University is hosting high-profile discussions on cybersecurity regulation in the US and globally. I'll be on a panel Thursday morning discussing healthcare regulation. I may be saltier than usual. Catch the live streams here: www.sipa.columbia.edu/global-resea...

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs promotional image for the Conference on Cyber Regulation and Harmonization, November 13-14, 2024, featuring: Jason Healey, Colin Ahern, Kemba Walden, Anne Neuberger, Harry Coker, Merit Janow, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Governor Kathy Hochul.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 26/10/2024

Sign must be pointing to my place. Just cooked up some chick peas in preparation to make a big batch

Pressure cooker full of cooked chickpeas ready to be made into hummus

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 13/08/2024

Sunday, Paulino Calderon, Fotios Chantzis, and I did a book signing for No Starch Press. We sold out of all their stock - it was awesome! I took the sign because why not. Today at the airport somebody was staring at my stuff and I'm thinking "am I about to get robbed?"

Beau Woods, Fotios Chantzis, and Paulino Calderon, authors of Practical IoT Hacking, at a book signing at DEF CON

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 11/08/2024

Anyone want to get a copy of Practical IoT Hacking signed by Fotios Chantzis, Paulino Calderon, and me and me? Join us at No Starch Press booth in 10 minutes in the back of the DEF CON vendor hall

Beau Woods standing in front of a No Starch Press sign at DEF CON 32

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 06/08/2024

Keynote for @bsideslv.org is absolutely packed. Sven Cattell talking about "Secure AI" and its roots more than 20 years ago. Are we getting better or worse, and what can we do about it?

Conference keynote for BSides Las Vegas 2025, with well known AI researcher Sven Cattell on the right side of the image, slides projected onto a screen on the left of the image, and dozens of heads watching on

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 06/08/2024

Skies are very blue in Vegas today. Enjoying some pool time before @bsideslv.org and @defcon.bsky.social start. Come by the @iamthecavalry.bsky.social track and join us!

Me chilling by the pool wearing sunglasses and an Indonesian batik looking down into the camera which is pointed up toward the blue, blue sky with a big hotel in the background.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 27/06/2024

I can imagine healthcare industry lobbyists patting themselves on the back, saying "B+ is pretty good, fellas we clearly don't need to do better," while failing to realize that the dataset and methodology make this result harmfully deceptive. www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/...

False and misleading headline indicating "this is fine" for healthcare cybersecurity. Headline reads, in part: "90% of healthcare companies get a 'B+' on cybersecurity with"

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 10/06/2024

Uh no Amazon I will not be ordering this sign

A child holds a neon sign reading "Russia ❤️" in an Amazon featured product listing

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 02/06/2024

I'm here. Where is everybody?

Illuminated sign for the "Blue Sky Lounge" at an airport

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 27/05/2024

Much of the world: YEAH IT SUCKS DOESN'T IT

BBC News headline: FBI investigating missing ancient treasures from British Museum

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 28/04/2024

Yesterday I had the great privilege of sitting down with Josh Michaels for the closing keynote of BSides Seattle. Thank you so much to him and the team that pulled it all together! It was a fantastic event and highly recommended for anyone in the area.

Josh Michaels and Beau Woods at the closing keynote for BSides Seattle, a fantastic hacker conference run by awesome people

Beau Woods talking with his hands as the closing keynote for BSides Seattle beside an accurate representation of his artistic talent, a poorly drawn fern on a white board

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 25/04/2024

Anyone else look at this and think "wow only $10K?" Rather than "zomg killer flamethrower robo dog." Also, who is in charge of health and safety at this photo shoot? Clean up the kindling before activating the flamethrower - every scout knows that.

Wired magazine headline: Somehow This $10,000 Flame-Thrower Robo Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States. Image of a robot dog throwing flames in a wooded area with leaves strewn across the ground.

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 22/04/2024

This also describes the difference between rock star culture and people who just flat out get stuff done in the hacker/security research/infosec community. Too many people being loud and doing little to nothing. It's like hair bands - three vapid songs in a trench coat.

Quote from Mike Watt and Ray Farrell from a Mojo Magazine article on The Minutemen, "Minutemen Lay Down Double Nickels on the Dime"

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Beau Woods @beauwoods.com · 01/12/2023

Now I'm going AFK a bit because I've got a hunch about the lottery....

Shmoocon registration screen showing a successful reservation for two tickets.

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