This week, it’s time for another set of words that weren’t in various Spelling Bee puzzles, but should have been. Or that obviously wouldn’t be, but hey, they’re still funny, right? Right? 🦗🦗🦗*
Continue reading “Spelling Bee Minus”Not A Review Of “Godzilla Minus One”
So not long ago, the Academy Award-winning* kaiju film Godzilla Minus One made a surprise appearance on Netflix**. The astute reader will not be surprised to learn that we (meaning I) watched it as soon as possible.
Pardon Me, Your Fantasy Background Is Showing
Surely any random person, presented with this set of correct and/or misplaced letters:
would go straight to the word “HENGE“, right? Right … ?
Continue reading “Pardon Me, Your Fantasy Background Is Showing”Spamcommentology: Your Moments of Zen
So at first, we were getting all kinds of random spam at the blogs; then for a while we were getting AI spam, where something that seemed very much like an LLM would leave comments that were clearly spam, yet also were clearly in response to the post to which they were attached. After that, for some reason, we entered a joyful period of very little spam, a Pax Spamana if you will. And what have we got now? Well, now we have dozens of spam comments that are clearly being assembled out of random constituents, making them mostly gibberish, yet also, weirdly poetic, almost haiku-ish. Let’s take a look:
Continue reading “Spamcommentology: Your Moments of Zen”That’s California For You
Spam text received:
The house at 4006 Arey Drive:
Continue reading “That’s California For You”Teaser Tuesday: “Vita Nostra”
So this week I was reading Vita Nostra, by the Ukrainian authors Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko, with a translation by Julia Meitov Hersey. The premise of this book is, basically, that a seemingly ordinary girl, Sasha Samokhina, meets a mysterious figure named Farit who informs her (more or less; more less than more) that:
- Magic is real; and
- She has to go to a remote college to learn it. Like, literally has to. They won’t let her not.*
If you are thinking, Oh, I’ve read this story before … Trust me, you haven’t.
Spelling Be Like …
Since last week I posted about Wordle, I figured this week I would post about another word game I play, Spelling Bee. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Spelling Bee gives you seven letters, and you have to make as many words as you can out of them. Oh, and the words always have to include the letter in the middle. However, there are a few quirks:
Continue reading “Spelling Be Like …”Wordles Who Live In Glass Houses
As I’ve mentioned previously (and which should surprise no one), I like word games, and so I play the daily Wordle. Everybody has their own approach and/or goals when it comes to Wordle, I’m sure; I just have two of them*:
- I play a different starting word every day, often something outlandish, like “xylem”, “junco”, or “vinca”; and
- The only thing I care about is how long of a streak I can keep going.
Whoa Nelly!
So for the last week or two we’ve been watching this show on Disney+ called Renegade Nell:
Continue reading “Whoa Nelly!”Teaser Tuesday: “Fool Moon”
So this week I was reading Fool Moon, the second book Jim Butcher’s “Harry Dresden” series, which as far as I know I am the last person in the fantasy-reading-world to read.
Viscosity 