Yes, if I realized later it detracted from the discussion.

I grew up reading the comics in the newspaper, now I read webcomics.

Non-shitty answer: mint and geranium oil.

And the other D is for “deficit”!

I’m a conservative dad myself and even I don’t wear wraparounds, because I don’t want to look like a dickhead. The 90s are gone and they’re not coming back.

Let me ask you: What’s the difference in result?

I think there’s one at [email protected] already

If I’m not driving, sleep.

If I am driving, and have someone with me, conversation.

If I’m alone, blasting music and singing along at the top of my lungs.

You know there’s only one Dalai Lama, right? A successor isn’t chosen, they look for the reincarnation of the same person.

You may not think that makes sense, but either way, there’s no line of succession.

Yes, it was one of the things that made RIF such a good app and I miss it, too.

You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.

When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.

If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.

Yeah, I’ve had a continuous blog since… 1999? Since before “blog” was a word. Self-hosted since 2003, write my own blogging software in 2007.

These days I also have a bullet journal for notes and tasks.

Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.

I remember! Except mine was a static .htm file with enough scaffolding that I could open it with the browser and click the link instead of copy-and-paste-ing.

I read a book. It’s quiet, it’s restful, it often helps me get back to sleep but even if it doesn’t it’s still relaxing and worthwhile.

Talk to your college advisor regularly, join study groups, go to TA office hours.

How do ya’ll live like this? If I have more than four or five tabs I get crushing anxiety.

Just, uh, don’t ask how many bookmarks I have that I’ve never revisited.

Didn’t know about WikiBlock, seems pretty cool!

That’s, uh, not my experience.

Iowa, at least, should be green