✨Ben Hamill✨ @benhamill@witches.town
Austin, TX
Among the oldest of millennials.
Social justice, software, parenting, games (video, roleplaying, board), books, comics, linguistics, argyle
Said to be, "like the least lewd person I have encountered on this social network"
Member of the #WitchesTown mod team.
I am totally down with "Mastodon instances as magical boarding school houses" as per [this toot](https://chaos.social/@lilletale/99300251049883099).
Because that means I am the lazy stoned dragon headmistress of THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LEARN TO BE A DRAGON.
On an off-chance that someone in Seattle area wants to by a nice family car. I'm selling mine: https://www.tred.com/buy/ford/fusion/2013/3FA6P0HR8DR326407
My wife's reaction to my telling her that this post was getting a fair number of boosts and favorites: "I don't like the internet. It encourages you there wrong way."
Y'all are the best. 💖
Good gods, y'all. That "initial" jinx was really the Quality Content™ y'all're here for, huh? Noted.
The word "initial" is about 43% the letter i.
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That is all. Continue about your business.
The year is 2382. #infosec has run out of scary names for breaches, bugs, and vulnerabilities and has adopted the storm system naming convention from the National Weather Service.
Thousands live in fear of the remote code execution called "Dwayne."
Good morning, friends.
I've been thinking a lot about "incipient" this morning. It's one of my favorite words. It means, like, "becoming", but it's an adjective. I try to be incipient. I try to always be becoming who I am or who I will be.
It's easy when you're a teenager or in college or whatever to be incipient. Society generally expects it from you and whether or not it did, you still NEED it. As you get older, I feel like it's easy to fall into a place of thinking you've figured out who you are and you're sort of "done" now. I'd rather continue to grow and change and learn and… become.
Also it makes a greaterrible portmanteau with my name: Bencipient.
Y'all. I love my roleplaying group. We had a session tonight and it was just... real good.
My character is super not sure who she is & trying to figure it out, making bad decisions while she's doing it. It's awkward & painful & wonderful.
Another character is really starting to reveal herself, as well, and I'm interested to see where it goes.
The third is still mostly to-be-determined, but there are interesting hints of possibilities and her relationship and attitude towards the other two is exasperated and weary in a really fun way.
I don't want to get too into it and be that person telling you too much about their character. It's just lovely is all.
I love talking about #linguistics or especially #etymology on here because there's always at least one person that is like, "Oh let's jump down this rabbit hole together!" 💖
I sort of wish #Amaroq would let me input any number for character limit and customize the buttons and things so I could at least hand-skin it like #WitchesTown, since those sorts of customization aren't exposed over the API.
I'm not sure what would happen if a client POSTed a toot bigger than the instance's character limit… surely that's not just enforced at the client level. I guess dealing with the result of that error might be more pain in the ass than it's worth in an app… 
Good morning, witches and wicks.
Made tea. Went to take a first sip. Found an eyelash in. 🙃 Picked it out and drank anyway because, fuck it, it's prolly mine anyway and I'm certainly too lazy to walk back to the kitchen from my desk and make a second one.
Does anyone reading this own or frequently work with a 3d printer? Have any experience adding weights to things to give them a better feel in the hand the way they put a metal slug in the center of nice poker chips? Is this a thing that's possible? How about adding color to some portion of a printed item? Is after-printing painting the best option? I'm considering printing a set of Hanabi tiles since the published ones are out of "print" and $300 on eBay. #3dprinting #3dprinters
I just recently realized that the parts of a book aren't "forward" and "afterward", but "forewords" and "afterwords". Like the words before the main content and the words after the main content. Ugh. That sounds like a definition. Which, I guess, it is. But what I'm getting at is that they're about the words, not direction (Cf. "homeward", "westward"). They're just transparent compound words, but their coincidental similarity to some other words obscured that fact. Language, y'all. It's weird.
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“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
I'm sitting in the 3yo's room waiting for them to wind down enough not to throw a giant fit when I leave and just go to sleep. I overhear: "Look out, guys! Hot lava bees are coming!" I have… no idea.
Next up is Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. I don't know much about it other than the title and the adjective "cybernoire". #books #nowreading
I was also impressed by how real Mor seemed. And also, coincidental magic isn't a new idea to me, but the way it's presented in this book was really perfect. She nailed the deniability aspect as well as the power. And the fairies. God. All of it.
Finished Among Others by Jo Walton just before dinner. Really liked it. I'm super glad I didn't read it when I was like 13 because I might have been put off all girls who weren't Welsh witches who used a cane. Especially given that she's 15 in the bulk of the book, Mor would have seemed so amazing and cool. More amazing and cool, anyway.