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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if the 'share results' including more stats would make people 'get luckier over time' as they realize what leads more towards things working out. (It is weirdly compelling, FWIW.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 2h

It is one of the most important stats to max out! (Those weren't all first plays, though I did get the software guy hiring time down to 14 weeks in the however long since posting.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 2h

Shrek would be mad, but Ashmouth the All Star is not beholden to him.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder if my level of success on "The Job Trail", (i.e. Software engineer. Hired in week 20. 0 applications, 1 ghosting. Designer. Hired in week 21. 0 applications, 0 ghostings. Copywriter. Hired in week 11. 0 applications, 0 ghostings. ) is rooted in my disinclination to actually apply myself.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 6h

Haha, as I was considering possible places where it would be incongruous, I kept coming up with quasilegitimate intentions that sorta worked and suddenly barked to the room here, "OHNO, WHAT IF I *AM* THAT GUY?!"

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The internal legacy in my mind of Comedy Central afternoon/SPF100 movie staple "PCU" is that I know in my heart it was broad farce or whatever but, boy, I would LOVE to read dissertations on the tv program "Law & Order". (I just caught Jack McCoy retiring the other day: real end of an era feeling.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just read AD&D as ADHD and now I cannot not think about Advanced Deficits and Disorders. Our bugbears found us! We're our only hope!

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The Assassination of Lily & James by the Coward Volde-mord."

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is literally (letter-ally) a single letter difference between "baroque" and "barBque" and I think that is oddly beautiful.

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BBQ Barbeque Grill with Fireworks

ALT: BBQ Barbeque Grill with Fireworks

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can confirm: it is a delight! (Being in an almost-full-device-memory situation kept my full-exhibit digital recapitulation inclination in check.)

Model/Schematic of Firework shell. (Ooh, sudden realization of the edge case where the Katy Perry singular construction almost works!)

Fireworks safety testing kit (I think I am delighted by unconventional case contents.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

EVERY DAY I SHALL GROW MORE BAROQUE UNTIL IT'S JUST ME AND THE ROBOTS.

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ALT:

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who hatches the hatchmen? 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚 🥚

Greyscale lipstick-wearing chicken in the middle of a puddle, Lorraine from the "BMO Noir" episode of Adventure Time.
She's red hot, like pizza supper.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I immediately pinged my software team folks and relayed this delight, with a real-time moment of self-actualization as they have endured my excitement in many PERHAPS too long conversations about my explorations of places. (Sometimes you gotta call out yourself.) Back to the maps!

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We actually caught up in the middle of the place and then later she found me in a back corner by an outlet when on the way to the bathroom, where she looked at me-- someone who'd built a little back corner fortress in our OpenOffice, but had spent a few years 3 ft behind her-- and said, "Of course."

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Brooklyn Nine Nine: Rosa Diaz & Amy Santiago High Five

ALT: Brooklyn Nine Nine: Rosa Diaz & Amy Santiago High Five

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just ran into my former labmate/office neighbor at a Panera and we caught up a bit [we hadn't seen each other since layoffs] and her assessment, "you were quiet, but always very nice to me," felt a lil' like she had practiced for a day I'd lose my shit and be on the news for a terrible reason. :"-\

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On this, the 20th Anniversary year of the Monkey Chow Diaries?! [I wondered if the videos disappearing from youtube were a sign that maybe somehow it got picked up for a movie (beyond that Black Mirror episode) but also the site seems presently defunct.] ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wdpm2

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Monkey Chow Diaries: Day 5 - video Dailymotion

Monkey Chow Diaries: Day 5

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(I always find this more amusing in interspecies contexts.)

Opening card of "Master and Commander".

April – 1805
Napoleon is master of Europe
Only the British Fleet stands before him.
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The insult of leaving the house before 0700 compounded with the injury of a full allergic asthma situation by 0830 is just part and parcel of the Guardian Aunt doing youth soccer chauffeur/designated watcher pro temp duty. (I am fully in KN95 mouthbreathing mode.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A mental vignette for your inner viewing pleasure: a buncha the *MOST* theater kids who ever were, shooting a video for "Buskin', Buskin'" (to the tune of "Jumpin', Jumpin'" obvs,) out on some suburban strip mall sidewalks, BUT using classic sized unpainted cardboard audio/video recording equipment.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like I know not to *show it* but was low key more than a little disappointed. Smuggling a laptop under a loose teeshirt is some lazy spycraft. Like: you have an elevator here, you could [and should!] be so much more byzantine in your shenanigans. I guess there hasn't been evolutionary pressure.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The level of fast ones the youts tried to pull past me, Hijinks Aplenty (my Bond girl name if I can't just be part of Q Squad), was SO basic that for a while I was like "…Is this DECOY contraband that I was *supposed* to find while you were smuggling other devices upstairs?!?" (I care just enough.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wrubix Poops (The Wombat Variant) requires the investment of almost a full month (assuming some degree of regularity,) but it's surely worth it.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The other day I had the microepiphany that -- particularly in the context of the opening taxonomic clarification of character designations -- REALLY those places where people get juris doctorates and the like should be called "Order Schools". [Chung-Chung!]

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I appreciate he's tricky to render: as far as faux topiary goes, I'd still give that Sprouts display a B. ...and not JUST because I have some lingering fond feelings about Sprout's bulk goods section (bsky.app/profile/capn...) even if I have left that in the past for now. (bsky.app/profile/capn...)

An etch-a-sketch of the Philly Phanatic, backed by a cracked bell with a little foregrounded baseball in the lower left corner.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FUN FACT: Storm¹ (...followed quickly by Tropical Storm² maybe because of knowledge that she could not be first despite the fact she appeared in my mind earlier) was the FIRST Marveladora. ¹ flickr.com/photos/capnm... ² flickr.com/photos/capnm...

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Our Lady of Immaculate Weather

First of new series of projects, 20130617. (One side of heritage leads to papyrus art, the other leads to candle art, and upbringing leads to Ohio Art. That actually makes a fair amount of sense.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

INTRUSIVE THOUGHT: The phrenology emphasis of McDonaldland News' Meatierologists feels pretty problematic, but their forecasting almost always accurate. (I've engaged in many a Boot, Bell, Ball, and Bowtie study but have significantly cut back on my McNugget demographic analyses in recent years.)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had a realization the other day that "Master & Commander" had joined the pantheon of movies I pull up for a certain kinda weeping catharsis and what a curious selection they were becoming.

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Adventure Time Finn The Human

ALT: Adventure Time Finn The Human

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was so excited by "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins" in terms of having some of that juice, but I recognize it may need more time to hit its stride.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The dropped bad there is probably important: Wario would be the bad-bad thus maybe kinda-good one. (Eudora would tag this eMeatball: 🌶️🌶️🌶️)

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Wario Sad Head Shake

ALT: Wario Sad Head Shake

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This led to the sudden realization of the likelihood of a bad boy chef, Wario Batali and it's a real ah spicy meatball 👩‍🍳ˣ.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

youtu.be/38SLdvLOUqw?... Though general JLD dancing is amusing, I always assumed the security cameras outside lab probably caught particularly not so dissimilar footage as 4:04-4:20 pretty much every weekend I was in the old office. There was a lot more egg snackquisition, but plenty of cakewalks.

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Baby Yoda Eating in The Mandalorian

ALT: Baby Yoda Eating in The Mandalorian

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

…The secret to not fully losing control with a drive thru gyro place 10 minutes North of my old apartment (Mr. Gyros) was to find an *equally* excellent drive thru gyro place 10 minutes South (Gyro King) to cancel desire vectors/take advantage of a Buridan's Ass phenomenon (and keep mine in check).

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Man Taps Head - Good Idea Meme

ALT: Man Taps Head - Good Idea Meme

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ach the little outdoor escapes from the terminal airlocks are kinda my favorite bits! Maybe next time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember to enjoy the view from the liminal space!

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

...Like MAYBE password selection, but for most of you that is not as much a thing anymore. (Meanwhile, when I see a requirement of 8 characters I am actively considering the order I will remember to put: KermitG0nz0F0zzieR0lfStadtlerWald0rfSamPiggy!*) *Fictional--I'd never use Piggy in a password.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Amusingly, after a few hours of searching where I thought I had stashed a thing 10 months ago, I found it on the floor just below, as if it had just had fallen silently when I first lifted up what it was hiding under. [I really did think for a second I had made a 2CLEVERx(1/2) move of the cache.]

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is there any exercise of empathy for future and past selves quite so mission-critical as finding and hiding things?

4Site the Squirrel, hiding away Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in the ol' candy drawer; from the era when things were a little easier as there was just the one lower desk drawer with candy to remember.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

like, y'know, Wong, L*🇸🇬 (*President of Singapore)

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

M: We are dangerously close to heretofore unknown levels of back on my bullshit! [Inner Editor: "Actually there's guardrails that'll throttle things to well below your prior levels of "💣" AND the construction "back on" kinda negates the "heretofore unknown".] M: …I already was sent the gift card.

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Al Pacino: Just When I Thought I Was Out

ALT: Al Pacino: Just When I Thought I Was Out

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

His work on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was pretty magical.

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ᴅʀ. ᴄᴀᴘɴᴍᴀʀɪᴀᴍ @capnmariam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I imagine there is a lot of dramatic irony at play in 3rd party perspective looking at the characters I find particularly compelling and waiting for me to figure SOMETHING out. My zebras over horses inclination rejects obvious solutions, you guys. I'ma figure it out. www.flickr.com/photos/capnm...

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Our Lady of Perpetual Isolation

(Our Girl of Constant Seclusion)

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