Underwood: you can use AI to interpret contracts
King: oh, really? maybe that would be useful
Barker: i have a follow-up question
Underwood: no questions
Barker: will the AI interpret the contracts correctly?
Underwood: SYNTAX ERROR
Underwood: ABORT RETRY FAIL?

… and now a part remembered piece of doggerel about chopping trees has wandered, unbidden, into my skull. The monkeys, at least those not sleeping it off until the New Year, look bemused.

The answer will doubtless come to me at the most inappropriate time.

Spice Girls of Arrakis.
(This is most emphatically Not My Joke but it bears repeating. There is a video out there somewhere too.)

Picnic hampers of Dune.

Blocked for me by “AI generated pictures and images” list.

That book lives in my head rent-free. Most of the monkeys who’ve taken up residence also approve.

That’s because it’s FireWire 400 (except for some but not all of the bigger ones where you need a 400 to 800 adapter.

“Straumli Realm welcomes visitors for tourism and trade.”

The @weregopher.bsky.social and I often IMd each other when playing Ragnarok Online, sitting next to each other.
“Your turn to put the kids to bed.”
“Okay. Don’t do anything that doesn’t require a Tank while I’m AFK.”

Ooh. That’s lovely.