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Finished the [Rex Stout] biography. It starts off with the earliest of his family in the US, so some real history, some apocrypha, and some family stories. Some of that was interesting but I liked it better when it got to his actual recollections and interactions. He knew everyone! I didn't...

Much distraction, gelatinous cube defeated.

Posted something on pineapple, and @TiQuinn noted it would fit here! ------------------------- Just read the following and couldn't think of a place to post it. From a John McAleer interview of Rex Stout: Q: Why do you invent names for cars, liquors, rugs, guns, locks, fishing tackle rather...

I should have thought of that! Posted it over there too.

Just read the following and couldn't think of a place to post it. From a John McAleer interview of Rex Stout: Q: Why do you invent names for cars, liquors, rugs, guns, locks, fishing tackle rather than using brand names? A: A character's liking for a Heron car or Ten-Mile Creek bourbon cannot...

I had never seen that before!

That seems like the way to do it... but the number of billboards I could buy up when things annoyed me, or political ads during that time of the year... or the game companies I would be tempted to buy when they annoyed me, or.... (How much would it cost to get a battery of lasers to write...

I wonder if one of the things I would occasionally have to do if I was really, really, really rich would be to avoid spending some small percent of the money on researchers, fact-checkers, the occasional private investigator, and a PR person in order to "win" arguments on the internet - whether...

It feels like how he announces the cancellation would matter to a lot of people -- and he's running out of repeat chances if he botches it.

Mimic and temporary giant armadillo

I couldn't think of any, but Google found a "to" one that didn't feel odd to me: “I arrived to the party a bit late,” From: 'Arrive At' vs. 'Arrive To': A Very Nerdy Analysis <- a discussion of its origins and fluctuating popularity

I had no interest at all in this movie before I saw this.... Holy cow! This looks awesome!!

Is it still whataboutilism if the conversation has turned to discussing the degree of something?

A wargame company in my feed today... https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/tariffs-elbows-up-doubling-down-and-more

I'm trying to imagine what part of a confidentiality agreement would make it so one couldn't "respond to the questions about the timing of the Invincible Overlord agreement".