James Howard
manuscribe.bsky.social
James Howard
@manuscribe.bsky.social
I teach writing, play games, and read medieval.
"What do you think about *toward* versus *towards*?"
December 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yes - unless you put it to *use*! Most of my boxes are gone, but my Switch box has a PS2 in it (FITS SURPRISINGLY WELL), and for the moment the Switch 2 box has a Switch in it, though I'll probably toss the box once I regift the Switch.
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Muppet Adama: "Jump drive?"

Muppet Helo: *shakes his head grimly*

Muppet Adama: "Then this is it." *to crew* "It's been an honor."

Solemn music, slow pan out as the Battlestar is bombarded. Then -

Kermit: "Er, Pegasus here. Get your FTL up and running and let us handle the rest."
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Melantho is making the best of a bad situation. Penelope can't make the suitors leave? Well, she has to survive. And when a new person comes in, she justly tries to do what Penelope doesn't: she tells him to go home. How was she to know he *was* home?
October 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I hadn't heard of South Peak Interactive. They apparently made a number of licensed games, none of which I played, from 1996 to 2000. (I remember the Dukes of Hazzard game on a game store shelf, at least.)
October 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the toilets of Death
Trod the six hundred.
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
That would be a sick character select screen.
September 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Jets were originally the Sujets, in honor of French existentialists, the word *sujet* acknowledging that we are all beings and all animals. Then they shortened it to "Jets" because they didn't want to be boys named Su.
September 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Clocko, the portable Alarmo pocket watch device.
September 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Do we get confirmation of an extended universe of musical fabrics, like satin, chiffon, or Lycra?
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's like they say, fin-de-siècle, keep-de-siècle.
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I'm a lecturer now! I teach FYW and, currently, technical writing.
September 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When I ran a writing center, Teams was indispensable for quickly communicating with staff in other centers, on other campuses. We also shared files we all needed to keep updated that way (like training records).

In my current role, I hardly touch it.
September 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM