Anton Sherwood @tonwood@qoto.org

@ZachWeinersmith Last time I was in a foreign land, I told myself not to fret, it's not as if I'd ever pass for a native even if I were fluent.

During an errand today I was greeted by name by someone I don't know.
She said “seeya in the hood” so I guess she's a neighbor.

My distinctive appearance and my poor memory for people can be an awkward combination.

@ZachWeinersmith well that was a waste of a minute

@donmoyn Still waiting for some public figure to mention the idea of repealing some of the legislation that made this mess, if only to dismiss it

@scorpiontongue@kolektiva.social Nah, it's not that zines themselves are bad, it's the distrust of Mainstream Media.

@trinsec Ah, they do indeed work as forward/back in browser.

@trinsec my Logitech Marble Mouse (trackball) has left/right buttons plus two tiny ones whose function(s) I have never learned; possibly in MacOS they do nothing.

@trinsec I've never had a middle button. What is it for?

@ceoln That seems to say that in the afterlife we'll punish ourselves for low self-esteem.

@ceoln How about that! But it's more introverted than the one I have in mind.

Recently I saw a comic strip for which I wish I had saved a link. A soul is welcomed to Heaven by an angel who says, “You have your own home here, where you can spend eternity with whomever you choose.” “So, Heaven is is what I make of it, eh? What is Hell like?” “The same.”

Longshot: does this ring a bell, despite my compression and misquotation?

@ZachWeinersmith Be fair, ‘aether’ and ‘daemon’ are conservative spellings (Latinized Greek).

@LizardSF What bugs me most about Rockford, though: whenever he walks beside a woman, he steers her by the elbow.

@LizardSF I'm watching «The Rockford Files»; though Jim doesn't smoke much, that happens in the ~6th episode

@LizardSF You didn't say pretty-please!

@LizardSF Jim Rockford: “I knew they weren't FBI, because FBI don't wear skinny ties.” They looked almost comically wide to me.

@LizardSF My ex coined the phrase “murder by most famous”, a rule that works more often than not. I was disappointed in «Midsomer Murders» when Anton Rodgers, as a poor hypochondriac lord, was not even a suspect; that character never gets any fun.

Recently I was somehow amused when Jim Rockford visibly punched 213-555-1212 to ask for a number.

@arossp What's the worst that can happen?