ptom
@ptom
Happy technologist, physicist, and family man, with a penchant for VR and neuropsychology. Author of
And for being stationary, it gets around! By totally random chance I encountered it again in January, in this random office calendar in Maine. Hey had a better camera, composition, and lighting, and probably upped the saturation a bit. But unmistakable!
Plus, what they look like when their extensible jaws (made for attacking and devouring prey larger than itself) actually open. But don't worry, they're small.
I think Gary Larsen had an excellent strategy for firewalling dictators from the rest of the world. All we need is a media production team to keep him in a harmless little bubble while everyone goes on about their lives.
I was down there in Danvers for an appointment today, the moisture in that wind really bites. Thankfully I'm back home in Bangor, now.
Seems like NY Times is making sure we know "lots of 'old famous people' are always dying", in an attempt to flood the celeb obits and push the Reiners off the page. There's some tongue in cheek dark humor there; I grieve for their losses, but I'm awfully suspicious of the Times.
Seems a good time to re-post one of my favorite pieces of sand art ever, ℅ Pufferfish.
"An official website of the United States Government. Here's how your know. ↓" What an exceptional load of BS. It's so much shorter to tell the truth: "The administration is starving you to hold you hostage until the opposition lets us take away your healthcare."
You'd think they'd label those better. Hope you manage to catch it before it reaches Ted's altitude.
Color all the surrounding sidewalks, obviously. But maybe also use mockery to play into the opposition's hard line stance. Disclosure: AI was used in the creation of this pre-vis. Sorry.
Actually... We should do this, too: and I apologize for using AI to generate the previz, it was an apt tool for the work.
We got invaded by adorable flying squirrels, but that only cost us a few grand. Out-of-network exploratory diagnostic surgery on the other hand, emptied us (at triple the "estimated" cost). Later a year's unemployment did it again, but that was a slow death.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world--'No, you move.'"