A fat stray I found lounging in our planter
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mastodon 4.7.3Programmer, teacher, writer, editor, nerd.
#software #sciencefiction #comics #literature #videogames #philippines
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Joined November 07, 2022
My giveaway for #starwarsday
Fruit bat in our pine tree
Someone needs a haircut
USS Enterprise, assembled from the 3D printed kit card I showed a few days ago. Very whooshable!
Display books at a condo display unit. Probably never read, which sad. Likely purchased from a now-defunct Book Sale. All from British writers.
Dick Bogarde was an actor, screenwriter, and novelist.
Sheila Kitzinger was a social anthropologist and advocate of natural childbirth.
David Blunkett was a politician.
"Horror Lex is a searchable database of academic and other serious writings about horror and horror-adjacent cinema, compiled under the guidance of Professor Lupe Lex, PhD, S.L.W.
"Professor Lex has hand-picked over 13,000 books and articles spanning a century of horror film scholarship, much of which is open access and peer-reviewed."
Braised beef, Chinese-style
Replying to
@peter@thepit.social reminds me of the apocryphal quote attributed to IBM Chairman Thomas Watson in 1943: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." The recent trajectory of computing has been towards monopoly.
I finally visited the late F. Sionil Jose's Solidaridad bookstore two weeks ago. I realize I'm very late to the party, I should've gone when he was still alive and even when the place was still in the family. Nevertheless, at least I got to go, even if it was totally unplanned.
Leftover ramen
Nilagang baboy
Balimbing aka carambola aka star fruit
Slow cooked barbecue pork ribs
Recycling broken crayons
The modern cornucopia.
TIL that the original Filipino flag was made in Hong Kong. It involved child labor and went through a major revision because it failed quality assurance.
(Joke aside, the story of Marcela Agoncillo is a touching story; what they must have been feeling back then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcela_Agoncillo)
Help me test out my Google App. This is a Star Trek screen simulator built using Google AI Studio. (It's meant to keep my Google Play account alive, shhhh...)
#startrek #android #googleplay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aistudio.starfieldcrt.trwkyz
TIL Taylor Swift has three insects named after her https://nautil.us/taylor-swift-drops-new-insect-species-1285010