Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 04/10/2026This sketchy dude sold me an unreliable 1971 Chevy Vega after touting it as the all-American compact passenger car of the future…he is *not* to be trusted! 160 6
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/09/2026breakfast place made the mistake of giving me crayons and I drew a very jaundiced Harper’s Magazine subscriber 050 5
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 17/09/2026Another hard day at work, manually computing my BlueSky followers’ toxicity scores. #wfh 040 4
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 14/09/2026lol. reminds of this Civil War era cartoon with a Confederate wojak 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 30/08/2026My favorite legacy of the 90s economic boom: these “pocket parks” (now empty and overgrown) adjacent to commercial plazas. The irrational optimism of that decade led developers to think that the lot behind a suburban Lowe’s would become a vibrant, American-style Piazza della Signoria 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 22/08/2026“Not responsible for donut addiction?” We’ll see what the judge in my tort bench trial has to say about that… 150 5
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 10/08/2026Watching old seasons of Flea Market Flip. Lisa & Pat got utterly destroyed, lol 130 3
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 08/08/2026crazy how we have kids skip Newtonian physics and start them on stuff about wave-particle duality and quantized energy 060 6
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 28/07/2026No memory of writing this, lol #FugueStateSportsGuy 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/07/202630 UNDER 30: Cliff, founder of durrt, a disruptive AI-first sod farming startup 080 8
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 05/07/2026Getting into photography. Scored some high-end equipment 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/07/2026we enabled the TV’s art screensaver so that the toddler has something to look at that isn’t over-stimulating or addictive, and now I’m getting haunted by an Edwardian French Impressionist Boy Ghost 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 02/07/2026I appreciate that Gen Z/Alpha are discovering the “We Have Sid Meier’s Civilization at Home” that had to tide us nerds over in the long years between Civs II and III. They’re probably baffled by the fact that you can create armies of lawyers, televangelists, & ecoterrorists; a true 90s time capsule 161 6
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 20/06/2026One rare thing I miss about unemployment was having the time to post this stupid bullshit to Facebook and within five minutes getting texts “how’s the job search going 😉 ” 360 6
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 19/06/2026No. We’re not doing “back in my day, men were men, basketball was physical, flopping was forbidden, and the game had HEART” for *2016* 010 1
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 09/06/2026Old doodle. Appreciate the subtle ashtray gag indicating he’s a replicant. Admittedly, the scene would be an improvement over the job search process in 2026 120 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 07/06/2026Whenever someone (from the company or user base) politely suggests “y’know, if we insult/shut down *every* user for daring to use this resource, there‘s no reason it won’t be replaced by ChatGPT,” a mod replies w/ some variation of this. It‘s classic DARVO tactics but lower-stakes & therefore funny 110 1
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 24/04/2026this technician is installing my landline phone 070 7
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 12/04/2026introducing him to classic Weird Twitter bon mots 1130 13
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 22/03/2026I ration screen time carefully. But all I have to do is say “Ms. Rachel” for him to make this expression, lol. She has Generation Beta on more of a lockdown than Dylan has on Boomers 070 7
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 19/03/2026Trump may still prove to be the American Churchill (by launching his own disastrous Dardanelles campaign) 040 4
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 18/03/2026kid’s asleep. Time to indulge in my new shameful hobby (functional programming) 000 0
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 17/03/2026Happy BDay from a fellow gracefully aging utility center 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 15/03/2026Candlepin bowling CONS: splits on almost every frame PROS: possibility of strategic gutter balls that earn you a spare, akin to bunting in baseball 140 4
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 13/03/2026A rare instance when I was not only right, but right on an accelerated schedule 030 3
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 06/03/202610 months old today. Already old enough to have favorite things (penguins + dinosaurs) and least favorite things (ducks, somehow) 1110 11
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 01/03/2026I‘m not a systems programmer (not smart enough) and haven’t written C since I was 13, but this is fun. The output results from undefined behavior (if it doesn’t crash) so who knows, maybe it’ll indeterministically gain sentience. I’ll take my $150 million GenAI venture capital payday now, thanks 020 2
Ersatz Cliff @www.cliffordvickrey.com · 27/02/2026Little known fact: Maine got theatrical test screenings of Theodore Rex before New Line pulled the plug and made it the most expensive direct-to-VHS film of all time. Who says we lack cinéma d'auteur here? 010 1
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