you cue up The Necromancer Boogie by Dominik Witka


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Since it's specifically and repeatedly called out in the lyrics, the undead animated by this one might keep going until the next day rather than only for the duration of the song, but if so they probably can only be given orders while it's playing and then follow them until the dawn - or possibly they can only dance and don't interact in any other way regardless. Still a very good distraction, but not actually threatening in the sense of applied violence.

Prefer Linux but have to use Windows? Still use the command line?

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Yeah. Windows finally gets an official implementation of grep. And other Linux commands.

Back in the 1980s, London Life ran a series of commercials designed to interest people in retirement planning (and, preferably, London Life's financial planning service). The package was called Freedom 55 – as in, if you did your financial planning, you could retire at age 55.

With changes in the economic climate and the average lifespan, "Freedom 55" isn't possible any more, and in 2010 only 28% of Canadians expected to make "Freedom 66". But it's still one of Canada's most iconic ad campaigns; as an ad slogan, "Freedom 55" is up there with "Just Do It".

So... what's all this about "Freedom 250"?

My User Subscriptions on AO3:

• ASWCanuck
  
• DartzIRL
  
• DenSeraph
  
• KanriKyaraProject
  
• labster
  
• Mal3
  
• Matrix_Dragon
  
• mp3_1415player
  
• pixelwriter1
  
• STMPD
  

I know it can be done. The ones that have sat under a heat ;amp on the convenience store roller machine for a couple hours are usually pretty good, even. Alas, regardless of whdther I pan fry them, boil them, oil-fry them, boil then pan fry, or even bake them in an oven on low heat for an hour, I cannot get rid of the strong, harsh chemical taste of the things, and a well-meaning relative-of-uncertain-degree (about a third of the town has the same last name, after a while you just default to "cousin" or "auntie/uncle") has given me a case of the damn things. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Chapter 1 of Gardening Leave is now posted to AO3.

The story is still in the process of being outlined, let alone written (it has a beginning and an ending; it just needs some middle), so I can't yet be sure how many chapters there will be. Definitely more than three chapters, though.

The Register: Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Quote:The late great Grace Hopper used to hand out 30 cm (roughly 1 foot) lengths of wire as physical examples of a nanosecond: that's how far light can travel in one billionth of a second. If Google considers a 4 GB model to be "nano" sized, then it puts Hanff's hyperbolic comment about the climate footprint into real perspective. It gives a hint of the size of the real gigantic models in the datacenters metastasizing across the world.

A recent study led by Grace Liu at Carnegie-Mellon found that regular AI use caused measurable cognitive impairment. It's worth thinking carefully about what we trade away when we outsource our thinking and, separately, what the planet pays to power the systems we're outsourcing it to.

This vulture suggests you turn it off now, everywhere you can.

A mere 11 years after the last major release, NetHack 5.0 was released last weekend.

We have fanfic of our fanfic!

Closing the Circle (an unauthorized KanriKyara story), the first story posted to AO3 by ASWCanuck.

I can't speak for the other writers, but as far as I'm concerned, this is canon for KanriKyara.

As for the joke...

Spoiler

it's pretty obvious to long-time fantasy readers who live in Ottawa that the bookseller is Charles de Lint... who wrote the story that Kate's from.

My not so dark World of Darkness fic, all inspired by an Anon on Tumblr last year.
\https://archiveofourown.org/works/746896.../195066946

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