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Andrew Plotkin
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Oo oo oo
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thanks for coming to hang out! Sorry I slipped away when signing time began. (I had terrible Apache server bugs to fix.) (They are fixed now.)
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Nod, thanks.
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thanks, good to know.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here we go again...

(I really wanted the last one to work, so I hope this one works. Signs are much in its favor. By "signs" I mean the Steam Deck, which works great.)
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Text and slides of the talk are now up!

eblong.com/zarf/essays/...
Towers of Pen: puzzle experiences that zoom out and out
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November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
8. James Bond replaced by Uncle Jack Bond falling out of a pylon, nobody can tell the difference.

7. Eaten by cluster lizard, changes hair color, show goes on.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
And this reminds me that I meant to write more verses of "AQ to the tune of MEC, POV of the guy whose favorite couch got stolen"

I got distracted, but it's on the stack
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
White Squall, I mean, the ship doesn't _wreck_ but it's the same genre.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I think this is the point Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodna were at just before they realized what eighty Cragne Manor contributors were going to do to their summer.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I remember it coming out a few years ago but I don't think I tried it. Thanks.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Soooome-body once told me the gods are gonna scold me
I ain't the only monk to confront her
I was looking mighty queer with the figure of an ear
In Sharpie on the top of my tonsure
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
That's not a guess. I am always thinking of that number.
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Possibly!

(The book I was thinking of was _Metropolitan_ and its sequel _City on Fire_.)

It was just a guess on my part, but I'm always willing to guess wrong. (Because people react so well when I guess right...)
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Promising! Thanks.

Ooh, "Plasm Tap", somebody's been reading Walter Jon Williams.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM