curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 10/05/2025It’s right up there with Starbucks putting olive oil in coffee, I guess. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Crying, waiting, hoping, The smoke’s still black, I just can’t seem to get you off my mind, Crying, waiting, hoping, Please smoke turn white You’re the one I love, And I think maybe you could be mine 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Typos. Everywhere. Typos. Irn Bru. Is odd. And medicinal. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 04/05/2025My son has a thing for odd colas. Loves to find the new flavors and shit. So I ordered a six pack of Irn Brun for a taste test. It’s very odd. Kind of tastes likes gum. Or some thing other vaguely fruity kind of thing. Odd. The whole thing os odd. 100
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Star Wars, the theatrical re-release right before Empire. It was the most incredible thing I’d ever seen. The X-Wings in the trench haunted my imagination for weeks. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The one outside my window every night just makes car alarm noises. I am neither charmed nor entertained. 020
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I was in the habit of logging into Xitter every few months just to check in on couple folks who refused to leave. Today I had decided, fuck it, let’s just kill the thing for good. Xitter was apparently ahead of me and appears to have removed/locked/disabled it. C’est la vie, I guess. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 26/04/2025That is SOMA’s signature Travis Bean. There’s a piece of solid aluminum that comprises the headstock and neck, and runs the length of the body. The feedback did go on for a bit. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I absolutely detested everything else on their menu, but I would eat those things by the handful. I can taste it right now. 120
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Yes indeed. Just the duo. Loudest thing I’ve ever seen. I go there in my head often. 120
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 25/04/2025without downloading any pics, where are you mentally? 240
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 25/04/2025As I recall, I was a Pope already, in Another Place. I don’t specifically recall resigning, which would make me still a pope. I can’t remember my Papal name, though. Seems like that should remain consistent. Time to harrow the Hell that is X to find my name. After a nap. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I very much watched it blow up live. I went to a Math/Science Magnet, and this sort of event was the kind of thing they couldn’t pass up. A teacher! Going to space! Bring out the A/V carts! 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 16/04/2025And I say this knowing that mine usually just involve a shot and a big scanning machine. I hope you have some options for self care that can help you through this. I use Ativan and THC. Mileage varies. I sincerely hope your scan is clear. Fuck cancer. 110
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 16/04/2025We don’t share a lot of experience (me being cis/straight/white dude) so mostly, you talk, I listen. That said, I’ve had a lot of cancer scans. The experience is scary and isolating and awful, and that’s at the best of times. The whole process seems to be designed to instill PTSD in patients. 110
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I mean, there’s the Tolkien-themed names like Palantir or Anduril. They sound good and dystopian, while still maintaining some of the beauty of Tolkien’s wonderful word creations. For those of us who recognize the source there’s an awful irony in Thiel’s usage that makes it more horrible. 100
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 02/04/2025FWIW there’s a coffee shop on Washington Blvd across from the Sony lot called the Conservatory. They roast their beans onsite and make very, very good coffee. Highly recommend the next time you’re stuck in Culver City with time to kill. 030
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It was only yesterday that I realized that it’s not actually “nowhere” backwards, and I got unreasonably annoyed about that. Then I realized Samuel Butler spelled it that way too. Now I don’t know what to think. 140
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 07/03/2025So apropos nothing, my son comes into the room and says “you me what I just listened to for the first time? ‘Just As I Am’ by Bill Withers. It was really good.” And then back off to his room to do homework. He’s a good kid. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 06/03/2025"Begone, if you be not deathless" goes hard. Just occurred to me, though, but when she says "do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may." She's re-iterating Frodo not knowing the way, along with every other statement of duty in the face of despair. "Well, I'll do what I can." 031
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 05/03/2025For me, he fits into roughly the same category as guys like Shingy or Jaron Lanier. More of a true believer than a con artist. Occasionally interesting ideas. Lots of using words in new and interesting (derogatory) ways. Very inflated sense of their own worth. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 03/03/2025He likes them because he can impose them. No other rationale is really needed. Anything not forbidden is compulsory. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 28/02/2025youtu.be/-_kXIGvB1uU?...youtu.beMagic Coffee TableYouTube video by PopcornMax 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 28/02/2025My son (16) has been trying to learn the guitar. He’s got very broad tastes in music, and I keep feeding him stuff from all across the map. He’s going to end up creating some unholy cross between Sunn O))), .clipping, Pink Floyd, and a Trent Reznor score. And it’ll probably be great. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If Tolkien described battles in detail he’d never have finished The Hobbit, much less LOTR. I’d want to check HoME but I think least a couple of the drafts of older incarnations of the Silmarillion got bogged down in large battles. 030
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Out of nowhere I was struck with an overwhelming sadness. I just really miss my dad. I wish he were here so I could talk to him. More than 20 years he’s been gone now. And most days I don’t really think about him. But today, for some reason, I really miss him. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I was also a pretty mediocre student. It took me years to develop motivation, or study habits, or any of the things that result in good academic performance. They often told me how smart I was, so I spent time wondering why school wasn’t easier. You dodge some bullets, you catch others. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I got tested when I was 5 or 6. My parents refused to tell me my result. To this day my mom won’t say. I am now grateful they didn’t. I know about where I must have placed, because LAUSD classified me as some flavor of “gifted”. But I’m sure I’d have been insufferable about it as a teen. 110
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Dear Manager, this week I: 1. Woke up 2. Got out of bed 3. Dragged a comb across my head 4. Found my way downstairs and had a cup 5. Looked up and noticed I was late 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 23/02/2025With eyes, or with a “seeing mind” which to me is actually much scarier. The Dead Marshes is horrific too. “Very carefully! Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles.” wtf sméagol 140
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Using the same starting word every day pays off eventually. Praiseworthy 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lordle of the Rings #1149 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Movies you’ve watched more than six times, using gifs onlymedia.tenor.coma man in a hat is holding a gold objectAlt: A GIF from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones holds a bag of sand in one hand, and is preparing to swap the sand with a small golden idol. This will not go well. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 18/02/2025We marathoned the Lord of the Rings films yesterday. It turns out that the new BluRay extended editions are even a little more extended than the original extended editions. Not by much. A couple extra scenes per film. But it was a nice surprise. 000
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I love that poem, and the fact that we even still have a transcription seems like a miracle. Stupid aptly-named Ashburnham house. 010
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is Ricky. He’s not usually one for cuddling, but the other day he got right up in my lap in the morning. He’s a good boy. 061
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 12/02/2025The younger Vetinari brother, Inclement Vetinari. Occasionally the Vetinari brothers and the Ridcully brothers get together for dinner at the Patrician’s palace and Leonard of Quirm shows off a new device to make an exciting digestif. As always, they agree never to speak of it again. 030
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Don’t get me wrong, dude looks like like Gollum even without the pupils being blown up. 130
curious gene @curiousgene.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I’m sure you know I’ve had hard medical news that prompted massive action. No matter the details it’s tough to go through. Let me know if you need to talk. 010
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RACCOON (in trench coat): one egg
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WAITER: ah yes, that's a normal quantity of eggs
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