mastodon 4.7.3Software design by day, #TTRPG and science fiction, #fantasy, and #history #writing by night. Fascinations: Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, #alternatehistory, #Muppets, #AtomicAge design, #retrocomputing, weird-looking galaxies, temporary moons of Earth, #languages, #cartography, the #Ediacaran biota, old #cutaway diagrams, #exoplanets. #Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.
Quote from the astronauts earlier today: "I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
They really are up there representing us all *sniff, wipes tear from eye*
(Lovingly yoinked from @nikigrayson.com on BlueSky so y'all don't have to go there)
Known as the what now?
@atoponce I've no choice but to use Chrome for work on my self-supplied PC, but I'm currently trying:
Fingers crossed. If that doesn't work, I'll see if the hidden attribute works any better than the system attribute.
If you want really weird, King Camp Gillette (of razor blade fame) wrote an 1894 book called The Human Drift, which is a utopian vision of a megacity built around Niagara Falls.
It's got no narrative, but it's completely fictional in that none of its proposals happened -- it being megalomanical techo-utopianism which looks dystopian to the far future year of 2026.
@grickle The skulking barista is chef's kiss
(Also the Skulking Baristas is going to be my punk band's name)