Author: Lord Bob

Lord Bob
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Yet another new web project

A couple of friends and I are working on a web-zine. The idea is to create a website as the homepage of the zine, and each zine is done as separate issues. Not an ongoing blog. A zine, with discrete issues. I’m fiddling around with it here…

The Cookies of Discontent

As part of this project I am building the site “old-school.: No content management system. No commenting system. Not even an RSS feed. Just hand-coded html pages done in a text editor, server-side includes, and CSS. An email address people can use to comment if they choose to do so. I feel like interactions like “likes” are bullshit. They’re cheap. If someone really wants to comment, then email us. No associate social media sites. We’ll notify a few friends of the project, and that’s it.

It’s been a lot of fun to work on this.

Lord Bob
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Thankfullness Report 2025

I am thankful (or whatever) for…

  • My wife, who makes me happy in more ways than I can possibly ever articulate
  • Out cat, Lefty, who at the now-tender age of 16 is loyal and also driving me crazy
  • Our dog, Riley, who is just such a good boy
  • Aikido – which reminds me to try to be a better person every day
  • Skateboarding – without which I’d be a very different person
  • Libraries – which gave me a career I am proud of
  • My gaming group – surely the best group ever and really my closest friends
  • Growing up in a peaceful home that provided security and love
  • Medical science for saving my wife’s life
  • My community, which is diverse and wonderful
  • My extended family
  • My extended in-law family
  • My situation in life, most of which was simply a matter of luck
  • Music, which we enjoy seeing live and on the big stereo
  • The fact there this is something, rather than nothing. It didn’t have to be that way.
  • My other friends. I am lucky to have so many. They are all valued.
  • Books and reading
Lord Bob
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Carl Sagan Day

Today is Carl Sagan’s birthday, and as always I am posting this video and his reading of the Pale Blue Dot.

Also, given the stupidity of Trump, Trumpers, MAGAs, and morons in general, who have way too much influence in this country and the world, I’m posting this link about his book, The Demon-Haunted Word.

Lord Bob
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Voting

Today we went and early voted in a Texas constitutional amendment election.

Voted against all the bad things and in favor of the good. Example: Vote in favor of funding for dementia research. Voted against the “parents rights” amendment what is essentially just a badly camouflaged anti-trans bill. We get stuff like here with the republiKKKans in charge of things in the state. Fucking lunatics.