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Ian Richter

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I want to draw attention to a housing issue affecting renters in Baltimore—HB0703/SB0563 in the MD State Legislature would block illegally operating landlords from evicting tenants until their building is safe & they are licensed. @SpeakerAJones @SenBillFerg please listen:


Hypothesis: at its core, Blaseball is just Dwarf Fortress with a friendlier user interface.


This April 1st, the joke is that it's now impossible to draw clear distinctions between potential April Fools stunts and things that have actually happened in the last five years.


And lo, the reed that the builders cast aside has become pretty good, actually.


Some days, things go well. Others, you spend fifteen minutes wondering why your data annotations aren't working, only to realize you declared your data as fields instead of properties.


Of COURSE "caffeinate" would be a bash command.


Hypothesis: anyone who is in a position to really appreciate "No Children" by the Mountain Goats should under no circumstances be listening to "No Children" by the Mountain Goats.


Lots of musicians love to talk about the moments when hearing a fantastic performance inspired them to refine their craft. I, on the other hand, am petty. Hearing a solidly mediocre performance of a great piece fills me with the burning desire to play it _properly_.


Modular arithmetic, while simple in concept, is a royal pain in the ass.


Social studies teachers in 2000 using Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" to teach the history of the mid-late 20th century had no idea that in 20 years they'd be using his "Miami 2017" to teach the history of the early 21st.


I'm pretty sure it's been _years_, but I still have not gotten over my bemusement upon learning that "Zwaffelen" is a word.


And, in a belated welcome-home present, Baltimore city just gave me the easiest, most straightforward visit to the Parking Authority I think I will ever have.


Some days, you just gotta hear Trio Medieaval singing "this hammer's gonna be the death of me" over and over again.


Really hoping these humidity-control packs arrive before my bari reeds go completely to shit. I'd forgotten what horrible things a Mid-Atlantic winter does to the humidity.


Muppet Gatsby. Muppet Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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The Franky, the Rocky, and the Holy Riffraff

What are the three branches of government? (Wrong answers only.)



Seriously questioning whether this dog understands that I can't see her when she lies down under the table.


I am someone who thinks tinkering with spreadsheets is fun, and even I can see that a system that expects consumers to make reasonable value judgements about health insurance requires them to have access to _way_ more actuarial data than is readily available to them.


Sure, sex is great, but have you tried sorting all of your scores by instrumentation and composer, then cling-wrapping each category into its own tidy little brick of musical knowledge?


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