Oh look what arrived today! I can now defend against monsters with too many dimensions and tentacles.
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technical writer - #browser expert - #cssday and #perfnow conference organiser - #history geek - former Later Roman Empire specialist - native of #Amsterdam - recovering Tweeter
Writing a CSS Day newsletter about flamethrowers and doom lasers. We must address the legitimate concerns of our audience.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin"Here you go," the guard said, "in you go with the others."
The door clanged shut behind me. The cell was quite crowded, a quite homogenous group of men looked at me.
How to say it in Latin? "Cur in carcerem es?"
"We are also time travellers," one said in English, "here to warn Caesar."
Me: Sure, I'll send the board game you bought to you. What's the address?
Them: Elendil 183, townname
Me: ... wut ... ?
Turns out that someone in the planning department of a small Dutch town was a huge Tolkien fan and came up with such street names as Elendil, Varda, Saruman, and Denethor. An entire neighbourhood full of them!
Uploading about 1200Mb of QuirksMode pages to my new hosting provider. It's not all, oh no it's not, but it should be enough for a few tests.
Wow, posting on Facebook isn't easy. I want to post something in a group, I even have the moderator's permission, but I have no fucking clue how to do it. I thought there would be a nice, friendly textarea like on Masto or Bsky or the network we don't mention, but no ...
So in order to sell board games I've been advised to go to the Dutch Facebook board game sales page, since it's quite active.
Which means I need a Facebook account - brrr ...
Which means I need an expendable email address. So I thought I'd go to yahoo mail and get a new address there ...
... and found a really old address ppkwdf, which I created in, I think, 1998, to receive a mailing list on. Oh the memories! Unfortunately the mails are gone now.
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Spelletjes in de verkoop!
One of my problems is that I have too many board games. 99% of what you see is going to go, the ones I’m keeping are mostly nog on this photo.
