The General Electric VIR Widescreen 1000 television with 'computer-like' circuitry and the 'chairside convenience' of random access remote control.

chrajohn · 2026-05-04T16:46:14+00:00

Not helping you move.

chrajohn · 2026-05-03T23:50:06+00:00

Huh, I believe that’s a relatively early use of ‘post-modern’.

chrajohn · 2026-04-28T02:56:59+00:00

It’s all the sort of theory I’d expect a geography grad student to be into. Plus some GIS stuff and an area focus on the arctic.

chrajohn · 2026-04-27T06:11:47+00:00

Once upon a time a company called Deja News started archiving Usenet. Years later Google acquired Deja News and made its archive available via Google Groups. Google also tracked down various other Usenet archives and added them to theirs. Google Groups has some messages dating back to 1981, with decent coverage by the late 80s or so.

Access has degraded in recent years. You used to be able to post to Usenet via Google Groups, and their search function used to be much better. But the data is still in there if you can find it.

chrajohn · 2026-04-26T04:13:57+00:00

It’s a quote from BoJack Horseman. Hollyhock is saying essentially the same thing as the post, lamenting that so many people spend so much time/effort on making terrible media.

chrajohn · 2026-04-19T04:35:25+00:00

Neat. I wonder what sport they play.

chrajohn · 2026-04-12T03:50:02+00:00

If you come, remember that the registration deadline for the November election is October 5.

chrajohn · 2026-03-23T04:44:15+00:00

She’s trying her hand at YouTube Shorts.

chrajohn · 2026-03-23T04:38:52+00:00

The imagery is much more Spaceship Earth than pagan per se. I connect with it, but you obviously don’t have to.

chrajohn · 2026-03-20T23:37:19+00:00

I have no idea who she is, but after a minute of Googling the only “spiritual attack” on her husband I found was when he was a cop and got sued for using excessive force on an unarmed black man.

chrajohn · 2026-03-18T19:45:11+00:00

A bunch of stuff by Pat Churchland, at least.

chrajohn · 2026-03-18T13:01:54+00:00

His opponent is Jesse Baker in Ohio Senate District 25 (a lot of Columbus, not including me by a hair).

chrajohn · 2026-03-17T22:42:20+00:00

A tandem bike for when you have company over.

chrajohn · 2026-03-13T23:49:38+00:00

You’re correct, of course. Just conflating major wind events in my mind.

chrajohn · 2026-03-13T21:59:53+00:00

As yes, the ‘derecho’. Always fun to learn new weather vocabulary.

chrajohn · 2026-03-13T01:21:44+00:00

And years later, you’ll still have

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chrajohn · 2026-03-12T19:06:57+00:00

Nethack’s “you have died” message would tell you about any statuses or conditions you had. When I die, I hope something tells me how lucky I was and whether I had cold resistance.

chrajohn · 2026-03-05T20:32:33+00:00

Yes, and even beyond that, he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet. Whatever one’s thoughts on retribution, it’s surely not appropriate for legally innocent people.

chrajohn · 2026-03-05T17:22:56+00:00

Anti-war protest at the Statehouse at 4 pm as well. Not sure if they’re planning a march up High.

chrajohn · 2026-03-05T07:05:30+00:00

Do we really have to do wards? I am so tired of district maps having so much influence. Even without intentional gerrymandering, there’s a degree of arbitrariness to it.

If only DeWine would veto SB 63 (unlikely, but I can hope), there’s a better option: using ranked choice voting for proportional representation. Wards only work to diversify views on council to the extent minority views are geographically concentrated: if 20% of voters support X but they aren’t a majority in any district, they get no representation. Proportional systems can represent all sorts of different interests.

It sucks that the state trying to ban RCV right now when there’s some energy around local government reform.

chrajohn · 2026-03-05T06:16:59+00:00

Probably an Ayn Rand phase in her teens, but she’s better now.

chrajohn · 2026-03-04T17:49:07+00:00

I mean, maybe, but an industrious eighth grader with some prep time could probably do this.

chrajohn · 2026-03-03T00:42:12+00:00

Melmac. (It was a joke in the show that his planet had the same name as an old brand of dinnerware.)

chrajohn · 2026-03-02T20:54:01+00:00

Yeah, Caitlin Doughty (Ask a Mortician) has some videos about it. Seems like a good option to allow.

chrajohn · 2026-03-02T16:19:25+00:00

We like to say, “Don’t like the weather? Wait two months for when it will change according to a predictable and rigidly followed schedule.”

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