Dusty Chalk

Script! Fucking autocorrect. Scrypt! Biggest of welcomes. We have yet to figure out a pattern to Jack's attention to our forum, but if he didn't welcome you on the day of, then you probably weren't going to be welcomed, though I suspect he'd make an exception for you if he was aware of his oversight.

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

Anyone who has seen him lately would be forgiven for thinking he was already dead.

Want carnitas now. (That said, I have carnitas all the time, but dagnabit, I haven't had any in over a week!)

Totally stuck on this.

Reminds me of a joke: they say kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. I'll have to remember that the next time I'm lonely. I'll have to remember that chair the next time I'm lonely.

The first three tracks on Monolord's new Rust -- unholy carp, this may be the heaviest thing I've ever heard, autobuy.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Seems like you prevented End of Days.

Charles Bradley -- also of Daptone Records (Sharon Jones was late 2016, I think, although it still feels recent)

Hey hey hey, that's actually good advice, what do you think this is, Head-Fi?

And now that I am aware that this exists, I am, of course, listening to this, too. Thanks for that. EDIT: Egad, this is colossal!

Chicken Souvlaki and Greek Fries with home-made Tzatziki sauce at Galazia, which was delicious.

Well, I've been holding on to both my Oppos, I guess I will continue to do so.

Aw, man, even Oppo abandoned HDCD? Goddammit.

I like your choice of food pairings, sir.

Reading Labyrinth of Reflections (Sergei Lukyanenkov) on my phone, Good Intentions (M.R. Forbes) on my iPad, and just checked out The Brightest Fell (Seanan McGuire) from the library (hardback). Labyrinth of Reflections in particular, is recommended to those of you who enjoyed Ready Player One as there's a lot of Doom and first person shooter type games and Microsoft and Windows references -- like it was written 20 years ago (which it was), so there's lots of talk of modems and human engineering and the internet, but not some of the more recent developments. It still feels ahead of its time. I haven't finished it yet, so if the ending sucks...soz.

Another one which isn't commonly known, but I heard this story because cold war tensions with the Soviet Union was a thing with my dad: Stanislav Petrov http://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-saved-world-1983-nuclear-catastrophe-just-died/

Just finished Blacklist Season 4...wait, what?

Voivod -- hearty heart heart

(drools)

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)