@anthracite I think comedy is one of those things that gets passed on, possibly by making references. I think I get similar stuff where sometimes US cultural refs baffle me.
The Pythons are a good example, I also got some refs to The Goon Show offered to me in my youth, which was a little before that and was a lot of puns and surreal radio humour.
(this has gotten me relistening to The Lurgi Strikes Britain, which I feel is appropriate to the past year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svy0oThG6QA)
It's done! And drying. (And also way too long.)
#Calligraphy #Art #FediArt #MastoArt and a little bit of #Lisp
I was talking to Danielle about old friends, wondering out loud what they're doing and where they're at. one of the friends went by the name "yonderboy" and, when I spoke his name, his handle, out loud I had an epiphany. we, us older cyber citizens, the early settlers of the big-I-Internet are a kind of rhyme to the hippies of the 60s. they thought outside the box, they disbehaved and freaked the squares, and they carried with them new names. Flower Child. Moon River.
We carry new names with us. Mendax. Count Zero.
@anthracite this could be a left/rightpondia difference, over here that kind of wordplay (endless confusion) is often shown with the Four Candles sketch so I'd think of that before Who's On First.
Although Four Candles is confusions of objects by purposefully playing with pronounciation not using names that are also words, so similar but different.
But yeah, all comes from places and its interesting to watch how refs change rapidly between generations, stuff I ref is unknown to younger friends
@anthracite I have heard from people that Cosgrove Hall (infamous UK kids animation studio) has a lot of callbacks/homages/ripoffs to earlier comics, for me however this sticks in my brain as the originator as I think I saw it at a time to fix it there if that makes sense.
Also I am now pondering joke-tropes or joke-families as there's got to be terminology for that.
Went out for a walk guided by some work with Elen of the Ways today, it's hard to convey how beautiful I find the bay, although I could have done without the snow and ice on my side of it.
Was interesting to be in touch with others doing similar working via voice while it was going on. We were remote but close, able to talk about how we felt through our own contact with exploring the paths of the world.
@anthracite feels legit to me. Although my brain just started playing through No Sax Please We're Egyptian (https://youtu.be/7ZP1fGikI3k?t=965) in an unhelpful manner.
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<p>The guys get into Parler, which is arguably "cyber," though not very "punk." Scum regales us with the incredibly underwhelming origin story of the Parler site, and Oldman Coinops digs into the first two hours of video that was posted to Parler on January 6th, 2021, and arranged chronologically by ProPublica in this article: <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/</a></p>
https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/122597
actor death
Mira Furlan, who most famously played Delenn on Babylon 5, has passed away. Sit ei terra levis. https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1352465912255770624
So, remember about a month ago when stuff about the Linux Fox Girl went around? Someone reportedly tracked down Alan Mackey, and got his blessing on giving her a name (Xenia), and accidentally confirmed the character to be trans.
Source: https://twitter.com/cathodegaytube/status/1269405917700710400
Medical stuff, autonomous body movement
One of my current work/sleep environments wrecked my nerves again, this morning I've had the fun of my middle finger/thumb doing several bouts of slightly alien uncontrolled twitching along with zappy pains and occasion tingles in my forearm and fingers.
There is something fascinatingly weird about body parts moving on their own, I think its because it removes part of the feedback loop between nerves/brain-intent/proprioception.
Check your ergonomics :)
paid casting for nonbinary voice actor, boosts welcome
Via https://twitter.com/racheline_m/status/1351920114246037504
"I am currently casting a voice actor who:
- identifies as non-binary
- has an excellent RP
- can sound 16-20
- has a demo to send my producer
This is for PAID work w possible expansion beyond the immediate project.
Feel feee to RT. If this is you, DMs are open for your links."
#Google starts to lock out non-official Chrome builds like #Chromium. The #web is a cricual infrastructure these days and as such we need independent browsers and rendering engines!
If you care about the free and open web you shouldn't use Chrome based browsers.
Thread with more details: https://twitter.com/spotfoss/status/1351624743510827015
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
Downside: I gave it a gentle wipe with a cleaning wipe and then dried it off and now some of the keys are very gently overcleaned maybe and slightly almost squeaky against fingertips?
I figure it'l wear off in a day or two of typing as it builds up enough cruft but just uuuurgh this is not a good feeling!
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