My New Year's entry this year was pretty personal, so I made it friends only. If you're unable to see it, lemmie know and I'll make sure you're included. I know that friends can be asymmetrical on LJ.

Well, 59 laps around the sun, and what do I have to show for it?

This is mostly to bookmark some Substack articles that I think I need to read again and again, and that other people should as well.

This one about the nature of intelligence and consciousness, for example:
https://open.substack.com/pub/gaiusbaltar/p/is-consciousness-fading-in-modern?r=1658e5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


More later.

So a co-worker convinced me to give quadcopters a try. If you mosey over to my Anime/Computer blog (mauser.mee.nu) you can read about the adventure so far, how I nearly got taken for $270 by a fake Chinese seller, and how I got a refund before waiting for it to not show on Christmas.

Big Fat Political Quote Memes collection On Substack

Not an Elon post. Just one of my favorite out of continuity Dr. Mauser bits.

https://drmauser.substack.com/p/dr-mauser-short-rocket-man?r=1658e5

In my previous substack, I talked about research. This is the story that benefited from a lot of that.

It was intended for one of Raconteur Press's Malta anthologies, but for various reasons, it didn't run there, so now it's freely available on my Substack. Nothing against the publisher.

Just posted a new article to my Substack. But it's also an excuse to use my second favorite Sam and Max reference.

https://drmauser.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-research

Want to offend me with an ellipsis? Use the single glyph version. Seriously, that was only invented to make it easier for programmers to truncate file names, and should only be used for that purpose.

Also, it's four dots at the end of a sentence. An ellipsis for missing text, and the terminating period. (Which can also be a ? or !)

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Well, that's the end of an era. I donated Le Red Jr. to the local Volunteers of America (which turns into a charitable donation credit I can't really use). They actually just farmed it out to the local Pick a Part. I coulda taken the $350 instead.

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