formerly kramerblogrealgood

Probably and accountably turning into a pepsi-cola addict

[hexbugswallower]

All my good posts are tagged as #my stuff. All my bad posts are either tagged #good posts or #not interesting.

Enjoy your stay… in hexbug swallower land

[powerburial]

New macklemore “thrift store 2”

In the thrift shop at the hospital Found some clothes they dont need anymore Put the coat on and gain their memories

[hexbugswallower]

Therian Uncle Sam at the woke Fourth of July parade wearing these

[hexbugswallower]

It’s a little strange screens aren’t circular by convention. Camera lenses are circular. The earliest daguerreotypes and moving pictures were somewhat circular, or at least dark around the corners in a circularish way. Circular cathode ray tubes are much easier to produce than square ones.

Media theorists in circle-screen world probably have the easiest job in the world. The circular tv is a big black eye that sees nothing but reflects all our desires. TV watchers are voyeurs looking through a peephole, unseen but all-seeing. The TV is a modern scrying pool. You could probably say the TV is like a womb if you tried really hard.

And I bet a lot of really annoying people would be like “you know, the ideal shape for a screen is actually a wide rectangle, to account for the human field of vision being horizontally biased”. And of course there would be a handful of experimental films made for rectangular screens, but you could only watch them in museums and stuff and it would be seen as really gimmicky.

I guess the main reason we didn’t go down this path is because film reels are strips, so the frame pretty much has to be square. Maybe if we developed crt screens before film projectors they’d all be circular?

[hexbugswallower]

Circular crt screens would have some interesting properties… they’d have a slower refresh rate the closer you got to the edges for one, which is somewhat true with rectangular TVs (bc the beam sweeps from top to bottom) but not as much. I wonder what weird distortions you might get from that. I tried to simulate this at one point but I’m stupid and couldn’t pull it off. Free project if you know how to do computer code ig

[despair-the-zero]

they’re both so emotionally fucked up it’s great

[ammnontet]

pop quiz

[giragirameganedan]

we met scott the woz

he woz really kind and friendly

[hexbugswallower]

It’s so awesome the LSAT is just like, riddles

[hexbugswallower]

I’m not at all scared of claustrophobia but that’s only because I’m really really scared of jump scares and being stuck in a confined space is like a 100% guarantee against being jumpscared. Crawling through a pipe or something like that doesn’t count here obviously

[hexbugswallower]

Reading an article about how Berkely researchers were able to make genetically-modified yeast that produces THC naturally, using the exact same diet that ordinary yeast uses to make ethanol (ie, sugar and basically nothing else). Literally think for one second about the implications of that. People, like regular-ass people, have made transgenic yeast in their garage (here's a guide!) and yeast reproduces crazy style. You could buy a little packet of weed yeast and put it in a sealed bottle on your shelf and feed it with old leftover fruit and it would be like having a little mini THC factory. If you were in prison you could get someone to smuggle in weed yeast and do the exact same thing in a prison toilet. And that's true for basically any organic chemical! Precision fermentation is soooo cool

[scribblewise]

[wildgifthorses]

I stood on the basketball court that night and thought seriously. The ball was hard and cold, and it bounced with the sound of an outsized steel ball-bearing. Yet it seldom came near me. There were times when I could have walked away unnoticed from the court. Even when I seemed in full view of my team-mates, my thin body might have been as transparent as ice. I tried to think of myself as containing something solid and enduring. I still imagined the space inside me as containing a soul. And even at the age of eighteen I kept the image of my soul that I had first acquired as a small child. My soul was a buoyant object shaped like an Australian Rules football. Its surface should have been white and delicate like a petal but it was more often grey and soiled. Knowing from theology that my soul belonged to the spiritual order of things, I had come to imagine it as superimposed on my lungs and stomach and liver - a pale wash on a separate sheet overlaid on the full-colour diagram of my insides. I got no reassurance from thinking of my soul. It belonged more to God than to me. And it was too little distinguished from the souls of others. When the basketball team lined up to be photographed - all of us practicing Catholics of the late 1950s - the men around me had thrust their chests at the camera as though they hoped the photograph would show the rows of white football-shapes floating inside rib-cages.

Gerald Murnane, Landscape with Landscape

[monster2003]

I’m putting in my too weak notice.

[hexbugswallower]

I have no hate towards cookies, cookies wash cake and ice cream any day of the week, but I wish that muffins had even a fraction of the brand saturation cookies have. It’s weirdly hard to buy a decent muffin in a lot of places. Imagine insomnia cookies but for muffins

[hexbugswallower]

Talking about poppyseed muffins here, which are the best kind. Obviously. Fuck I’m so hungry

[hexbugswallower]

I have no hate towards cookies, cookies wash cake and ice cream any day of the week, but I wish that muffins had even a fraction of the brand saturation cookies have. It’s weirdly hard to buy a decent muffin in a lot of places. Imagine insomnia cookies but for muffins

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[hexbugswallower]

Causing a discourse singularity by uploading my three OCs: a large language model, the entire population of China with each citizen simulating the behavior of a single neuron, and a nonanthropomorphic dolphin

[intercal]

leaving a bad review of The Art of War on Amazon so my enemies don't buy it