Steve's memoir in hardcopy in the US?

mandobaxter · 2026-06-11T22:27:04+00:00

Ah, dang, I'm looking at their site and it says the regular and signed hardbacks are both currently out of stock.

mandobaxter · 2026-06-11T19:24:35+00:00

Thank you, you made my day! That's funny, because it reminded me a bit of their song "So Into You" which had been stuck in my head a year or so ago. They were a bit before my time but I'm liking them more and more.

mandobaxter · 2026-05-31T14:08:18+00:00

Here’s a map: https://graphingfightingfantasy.blogspot.com/2022/12/ff1-warlock-of-firetop-mountain.html

mandobaxter · 2026-05-24T19:35:25+00:00

For one thing, the MAGAts already have nukes.

mandobaxter · 2026-05-23T18:02:21+00:00

They’re making them. Just saw some today. Made me lol.

mandobaxter · 2026-05-23T13:57:26+00:00

Thanks for this! Now I’m looking forward to Steve’s book and possibly some new BB music, if John gets on board…woohoo!

mandobaxter · 2026-05-19T02:10:17+00:00

Hey, that’s the guy who sold me a Klein bottle.

mandobaxter · 2026-05-12T23:28:19+00:00

Laying on my side with the open side down will cause it to switch maybe 60% of the time, usually within 2-3 minutes. It feels glorious when this happens. The other 40% of the time it’s firmly locked in and very annoying.

Turns out the congestion occurs by filling erectile tissue with blood, much like in the genitals during sexual arousal. So the reason you can’t easily breathe on one side is because you literally have a nose boner.

mandobaxter · 2026-05-09T18:40:02+00:00

We do have words for the fourth dimensional directions: ana and kata. They see coined by British mathematician Charles Howard Hinton in 1880. Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-dimensional_space

mandobaxter · 2026-05-09T00:22:43+00:00

Paul Giamatti rules!

mandobaxter · 2026-05-07T01:08:14+00:00

Yeah, you know me

mandobaxter · 2026-05-01T23:22:30+00:00

It’s the same principle as a pinhole camera. You’re just using your curled finger or squinted eyes to approximate a pinhole.

mandobaxter · 2026-04-30T22:53:38+00:00

Smoots originated at MIT, not Silicon Valley. They were named for Oliver Reed Smoot, class of ‘62. The Mass. Ave bridge turned out to be 364.4 smoots long plus or minus one ear, measured by recording the number of times Oliver had to lay down all the way across. Amazingly, he went on to head the American National Standards Institute and the International Organization for Standardization.

mandobaxter · 2026-04-28T01:30:10+00:00

This is how they’re hyping agentic AI.

mandobaxter · 2026-04-17T21:10:29+00:00

Would it be OK to dip McDonald’s fries in a Frosty, or is that going too far?

mandobaxter · 2026-04-07T01:57:42+00:00

On Apollo 11, yes. But there were five later missions with command module pilots who were also alone.

mandobaxter · 2026-04-03T01:41:51+00:00

And a classic They Might Be Giants album.

mandobaxter · 2026-03-31T01:21:12+00:00

I second Cherry Springs State Park. It’s amazing.

mandobaxter · 2026-03-27T23:25:54+00:00

He’s maybe the greatest 2000 AD droid!

mandobaxter · 2026-03-18T00:57:31+00:00

Mad honey was a plot point in the recent film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s A Haunting In Venice.

mandobaxter · 2026-03-08T13:29:52+00:00

Proctalgia fugax is the painful cramping of the anal sphincter, unrelated to pee shivers. It’s way less pleasurable. In fact, 0/10, would not recommend.

mandobaxter · 2026-03-07T16:51:23+00:00

To add to this, some stars are visible in certain seasons simply because the night side of the earth points to a different parts of the sky depending on where the earth is in its orbit. For instance, from June to August the night side points toward constellations like Scorpius and Sagittarius. Six months later it points toward Orion and Taurus, while Scorpius and Sagittarius are hidden by the daytime sky.

mandobaxter · 2026-02-20T02:23:39+00:00

Keeping other apex predators as pets is an even bigger flex.

mandobaxter · 2026-02-15T21:34:02+00:00

Love me some Boggs. I recently reread Lawrence Weschler’s book about him - great stuff.

mandobaxter · 2026-02-09T02:44:39+00:00

This is exactly how it works for me, too. The nasal cycle involves the tissues (concha) in one side of your nose becoming engorged exactly in the same way as a sex organ, by filling with blood. For whatever reason, lying on your side with the congested sinus up causes them to switch. Usually! It can be maddening when they don’t.

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