A roundup of Assorted Things · 2:31pm Mar 14th, 2018
Man, I'm really bad at keeping the blog active during the hiatus. But I'm still here.
First off: RIP Stephen Hawking. Hat tip to the appropriateness that it happened on Pi Day, though.
Today is a beautiful sunny day in this part of the world, and the temperature has climbed above the melting point.
Last night I went to the theater and saw "Death of a Salesman". It was good. Not as good as last year's production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", but that production was like being hit with a disintegration ray powered by pure drama, and I'm not sure I could have survived that again anyway. But still, it was good and I had fun.
Today also marks the release of the first episode of the Chuck Tingle podcast, Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast, which I have been anticipating with morbid curiosity. I must admit I've never actually bought and read a Tingler, but as a Welcome to Night Vale fan the idea of listening to the likes of Cecil Baldwin and Mara Wilson doing porn fic readings is... Yeah, I do have to check this out.
And combining two of the above topics, Chuck Tingle's tribute to Stephen Hawking. Keep trotting, friends.
It's strangely comforting to think that Dr. Hawking still lives in other realities.
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I am not one to write Famous Person In Equestria fics, but he really should meet Star Swirl at some point.
Farewell Stephen Hawking. An outstanding scientist who made enormous contributions to his field, infuriated science communicators by writing a mega bestseller no general reader claims to understand, and defined the public image of a disabled physicist in a way that sometimes frustrates those of us who don’t fit it. I’m sorry I never got to one of his lectures. Every time he came to my town, tickets sold out within minutes before I could get one.
We held a minute’s silence for him on our picket line outside the physics department this morning.
An amazing man who changed the way we understood the universe...
I, too, have only enjoyed Tingle's work via his book covers... and I don't know if I really want to hear one of his stories. But Cecil Baldwin and Mara Wilson...? Maybe.
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I read A Brief History of Time about ten years ago. It was the updated 10th anniversary edition, but I think even that was by then pretty outdated. Still, while I couldn't understand the physics at all, it was a great read.
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I have now listened to the first episode, which mostly consists of Cecil Baldwin reading the classic Tingler "Pounded in the butt by my own butt". It was entertaining, but yeah, it is straight up gay male smut to be sure. Still, I'm looking forward to hearing Mara Wilson voice a ghost pirate, as can be heard in the podcast trailer.
In other news, my schedule has been full of appointments lately. Last week I gave blood, went to the dentist, had my book club, and also it was my birthday. And I'm trying to get going with exercise. But for a stay-at-home recluse introvert it gets to be rather much
Well, now I have a few days to prepare for my D&D game on Saturday. Hopefully that will be good.
This amused me: there was a sale on frozen pizzas and I bought a bunch of them. Thinking that my friends might want to know this I posted about it on facebook, which saw the word "sale" and immediately suggested I monetize the post so that it would be seen by more people. Isn't the present grand?
The present is a wunnerfully bizarre place. I just ordered a pack of chicken nipples, which are watering devices much like what you'd find on the end of a hamster bottle. You can just imagine the sort of things that showed up in my ads!
I haven't left the ranch in well over a week... it's lambing season and all the girls are determined to drop their babies at the most inconvenient times, so not much sleep, either.
I just remembered that I gave Hawking the briefest of cameos in The Crown of Night as Hawk King, a griffon scientist that Star Swirl's classmates can't understand.
Also, Peter New has a new twitter account which posts pony names found in the wild.
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I have always figured that if our algorithmic overlords are going to track us across the interwebs, I might as well make the most of it. The first thing I do each day is search for "adopt a puppy" and "adopt a kitten" (my browser's initial home pages are set to 4 tabs for those searches each in Google and Bing.) All my ads are quite nice and cheerfully fluffy from that point forward.
