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"Normalize liking your husband."

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"It says here you're going to die soon. That you need to remember the inevitability of death and accept it with good grace. That you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Go well. This has been MEMENTO MAURY. Thank you, and good night."

A picture of Maury Povitch reading from a cue card.

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Well, we *were* going to show the Librarians documentary on campus next month, but the the department that was giving us the money to get the documentary has suddenly withdrawn the funds on the grounds that we'd be showing the documentary "too close to the election."

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They may eventually replace librarians with AI, but an AI is just never going to be able to make sense of someone's verbal word jumble and teach them how to do what they need to do. (The student didn't even know the words for what she wanted to do. AI is never going to have intuition.)

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What I'm bringing to the job interview

Gene Hunt from Life on Mars showing his badge

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...Willem Dafoe was at the Ice Bowl? In person? *The* Ice Bowl?

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Oh, anyone can do this. At this point, though, if someone contends they've never heard of "My Dear" or Candy Bleakz, it may say more about the listener than the song. Or, for that matter, what they want to project to the world. With global news coverage alongside chart and club playlist presence,

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I keep a mental list of types of people I distrust, and sex workers aren't on it. People who generalize about sex workers are, however. If you can't see them as individuals doing a job, there's something wrong with you, and I don't want nuthin' to do with you.

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In the process of selling off all the furniture and stuff that's accumulated in our garage over the past 19 years, and I just handed off a table-and-chairs set that the girl used to sit at when she was little-little. It gave me an actual pang to see it loaded into someone else's car. Sigh.

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Naming no names, but I have a friend who lives near Silicon Valley, and I just *know* she has said, in response to the news, "My dear, wherever I go, that's where SlutCon is. I don't need anyone's help with that."

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I have been teasing my wife about her other family for...oh, gosh, since we got married...and I still manage to make her laugh about it. Lucky, me.

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Realizing, looking at the news, that I still--still!--have an automatic "Oh, they would never really do that" reaction to some things that, yes, actually, they probably would really do that. You can take the boy out of an upper-middle class childhood neighborhood, but....

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Hope was really very good. I loved the fact that everyone was running everywhere, and then we saw them panting and trying to catch their breath, even the characters you wouldn't think would need to. Really loved the fact that it kept changing the frame, so that it was never the movie that you--

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What I'm saying is, maybe Charley Bucket's grandparents did something that required them being confined to one bed for years and years. Maybe they used to be a family of assassins, but after wiping out the leaders of Salt Industries, they had to go on the run, so they took to bed. Maybe--

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Never could get into Speed Racer. Not once did he race on speed. Not *once*. False advertising. Why lie so blatantly?

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TIL that in Sumerian the word for "temple prostitute" literally translates as "not-painful."

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I have no idea whether the following is true, but According To The Internet: - Call of Cthulhu is far and away the most popular American ttrpg in Japan - Over half the ttrpg gamers in Japan are women - Japanese players favor single-session, self-contained adventures over campaigns

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Said it before, I'll say it again. Any day when you get to add, "But, lo!" unironically to something you're writing is a good day.

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It's funny that that guy is all about not bringing a beverage into the interview when everyone knows they judge you on the car you drive. This one here? Driven it to every interview since 1999. 100% win rate.

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They're going be doing a "serious" and "spooky" Mary Poppins show? a) They will inevitably not do Mary Poppins (the character) justice and will half-ass how unheimlich she is. b) The original film *was* a horror movie: nofearofthefuture.blogspot.com/2006/12/prac...

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In other news, our new student assistant quite unfortunately looks and sounds a lot like Cameron Britton playing this guy in MINDHUNTER.

Cameron Britton as serial killer Ed Kemper in MINDHUNTER

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I've been on a lot of interview committees over the years. If someone was witless enough to say, imply, or hint that an interviewee bringing a beverage--any beverage--to the interview disqualified them, I would not only savagely deride them, I would have a long conversation with HR about them.

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It's Buddy at #95 is way too high. Candle Cove at #34 is a joke. The Pink Opaque at #9 is just right. A Reason to Love was a soap opera, it shouldn't be here *at all*! Not including Zako Zako Hour because it's Japanese invalidates the entire list. No Dog Cops? What would Sgt Whiskers say?

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From a dictionary of Old Avestan. A "yazata" is...well, here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazata I confess to being unfamiliar with the relationship between the yazata and cream, and am wholly ignorant (perhaps for the best) as to why a yazata would be "creamy".

from a dictionary of Old Avestan:

asanhacim (ASM): "humaim izim yazatem--dademaide" "we accept you, the good powered and creamy yazata in harmony with the truth"

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Why am I spending so much time expanding the scope of the Mesopotamian rpg beyond the borders of Mesopotamia? Because if I push things east a bit into what later became Iran, I'm suddenly in Mordor and get to incorporate Tolkien's orcs into the game. Headline says it, so it must be true!

headline & credit of an article from the book THE IRANIAN PLATEAU DURING THE BRONZE AGE:

The expansion of the Kura‑Araxes culture
in Iran: what role for the Uruk?
Giulio Palumbi
Université de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5133-Archéorient, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 7 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon

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I actually had some success yesterday while chatting with a customer (mom with pre-teen kids in tow) about not watching the new Harry Potter--because of the awfulness of Rowling, but even more because we all know the story. Isn't it time for something new? (I made Studio Ghibli suggestions).

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So, the mystery NDA I got the other day? Has been followed up with more forms for me to fill out. I'm trying not to get excited about this, because maybe they just want me to do some data entry in a warehouse in a warehouse in Sedona without any air conditioning. But...this could be really cool.

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I'm not wild about the news that Bluesky DRINK COKE! IT WILL MAKE YOU BURP A LOT! is going to be putting ads in the middle of UNITED AIRLINES--MOST OF OUR PASSENGERS GET THERE ALIVE posts, but I'm sure it won't FORGET FRANCE--THEY'RE RUDE--COME TO GREECE INSTEAD affect me.

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rottenandgood.substack.com

the Chatner led to me to Rotten and Good (by Rafe Meager) which led me to this, which I enjoyed and which I think John Wick enjoyers will enjoy: rottenandgood.substack.com/p/things-i-l...

Things I like about watching John Wick in chronological order

This does not quite do what it says on the tin but it’s close

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I have a question. It is the product of ignorance, white privilege, upper-middle-class privilege, and all the rest. I may be showing my butt a bit. But-- Is it common for new immigrants to the US to legally change their names to something more "American"? I'm not talking about white-ish nicknames

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In my day, the sex cult that was endangering humanity & the world was quite different. Ron & Nancy Reagan, Caspar Weinberger, Bill Bennett, James G. Watt, Ed Meese, Al Haig, Liz Dole, Jim Baker, Bill Casey, Jeane Kirkpatrick...never enough lube or leather in DC or northern Virginia in those days

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There is much wrong with the modern world... ...but I just paid my daughter's health insurance bill online, using prefilled information from previous payments. Took me under a minute to get the payment scheduled. That rules.

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One day, my grandkids are going to ask me about what it was like growing up in the Before Times. I'm going to tell them the Grink was there. And they'll be like, "No way!" And I'll nod my head wisely and be like, "Way."

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The ten-day forecast says this will be the last day of mid-90s weather, and that the temperature will begin dropping tomorrow. Fall at last!

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When there is nothing left to burn You have to set yourself on fire

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I understand that faculty members are under pressure from a number of different directions, and that most of them are doing their best to educate their students. But for Heaven's sake, DON'T tell your students to find four peer-reviewed journal articles on federalism & environmentalism published

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oh dear one of the sex pests went outside (presumably to his pickup or van) and returned carrying a full-size cooler. (we let people eat and drink as long as they don't make a mess) I know that it's probably just food inside the cooler. Can't help but wonder otherwise, though.

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Look, what's happening now is against the rules. It states very clearly in the Handbook for Academic Libraries that only one (1) sex-pest (non-faculty) is allowed in the library at any one time. Right now we've got three (that we know of).

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Reupping for the afternoon folks:

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I did not know that a part of me had been waiting for years for my wife to say, out loud, "We're running low on cheese." (She usually does our cheese shopping). In-between the "se" and the "." I had already ordered a gourmet selection of European cheeses to be overnighted to our house.

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