Notices by Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)

@lain They did. I stayed in one, in Tokyo, because I hadn't been warned. Literature rack in the room full of stuff that would probably have been illegal back home.

@lain No copyright intended.

Just once, Mastodon, can you tell me that an *expected* error occurred?

@h4890 @nicholas @lain Yeah, they're called Canada geese in English. Not sure I'd care to eat one, given their filthy habits and likely toughness.

@lain It took me many years to figure out that I don't like duck. Because I don't *hate* it, I just don't really like it much. I'd see it on a restaurant menu, think "That sounds fun to try!" and then be disappointed, and I was pretty far along in life before I realized that it goes that way every time. I thought I was just getting duck dishes that were individually not very good.

@lain checking it twice

@lain Dragon's Blood. There's probably a guy named Dragon.

@lain All my vicar friends use the Oxford comma.

@lain Whassamatta, what have you got against xyz?

@lain As for the other four,

@lain @harblinger I'd endorse this one, and have heard others say the same. Wonder where it fits on the log plot.

@lain This one again. I still haven't read the paper, but my first thought was of a crank who used to post on sci.crypt a lot about how all functions in security applications need to be injective (indeed, bijective - he really had a thing about permutations). My second thoughts are in the directions of numeric precision and thermodynamics. Time-reversal symmetry of physics doesn't mean you can unscramble an egg.

@lain the witches made the soup TOO BIG

@lain To encourage better saving habits we must repeal the money laundering laws.

@lain You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' glazer beams attached to their heads!

@lain If they control all the onions then they can make the price go down by selling, so it's a pretty safe bet for them. But to really do it right you also need to bring in a hooker with a heart of gold, a gorilla costume, and a $1 side bet.

@lain No, Hilary, it's not worth it.

@lain Well, they've certainly fucked up my bridge game, anyway.

@lain Recent discovery, and in the popular science news, at the time T. S. Eliot was writing his poems.

@lain Nuts and seeds. I suppose those are organs.