Pete Bleackley @PeteBleackley@wandering.shop
Conlanger, mad (data) scientist, Associate Editor of Speculative Grammarian
Joined Aug 2018
What are the best resources for learning #sparql ?
Quantum mechanics goes into a pub, and the landlord says, "You're not local, are you?"
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Is there any #Solarpunk speaking #japanese ? I would like to contact https://twitter.com/munashichi/ , the author of some extremely famous Solarpunk art and commission something on #CreativeCommons for everyone to use.
Sadly, he / they don't reply to English emails and tweets.
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I just mistyped "buffer", and it seemed appropriate.
The story in question being "Escape!"
Lots of SF stories involve faster-than-light travel, but how many concern the invention of it? I remember one of Asimov's Robot stories, but apart from that…?
I'm so short of money that I might have to take a perm job to make ends meet. I hate the very thought of it.
The Matrix
The Matrix Transposed
The Matrix Inverted
More vulnerabilities in the conspicuous consumption standard
Bitcoin is Less Secure than Most People Think - Marginal REVOLUTION
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/01/bitcoin-much-less-secure-people-think.html
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RT @tveastman@twitter.com
Douglas Adams, in 1992, describing the blockchain:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
Bonos dies, Sir Toby, for as the Old Hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That that is, is." So I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson. For what is that, but that, or is, but is?
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david tennant's arch-enemy, david landlord
OK, so what overused, cheesy tropes would you like to see the back of?
I'll start the bidding with "Power of Love" endings.
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He said, "Indy, let's go use the Staff of Ra;
The Nazis are using a fake!"
So they dug some deep holes
Towards the Well of Souls
And said, "Why did it have to be snakes!?"
To the tune of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel
He said "Let's have a fight, Mr Anderson,
I'm gonna pulp you to bits,
'Cos now that you've taught me to think for myself
I wanna rule the Matrix."
The latest Speculative Grammarian is out now!
SpecGram—Vol CLXXXIII, No 3
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#Lexember 31 - woi
https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2018/12/31/lexember/
On Lexember 31, 2018, I present "woi."
31st #lexember word for Khangaþyagon
kengu: shard, jagged
Conlanger, mad (data) scientist, Associate Editor of Speculative Grammarian
Joined Aug 2018
