Gavin Logan

@tamewhale
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Dad | Glaswegian | professional computer typer and amateur human | ttrpgs, movies, video games
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There’s a beautiful, subtle 50s retro-futurism to Dick’s character names: Ragle Gumm, Joe Chip, Bob Arctor, Rick Deckard, Palmer Eldritch
Who can forget his classic novel “Don’t Let Entropy Inevitably Consume The World, Turning Information Into Text Resembling Information, Making Everything An Ad Space, Edith Crump!”
RIP Philip K Dick, you would have loved the slow inevitable entropy consuming the world, the process of turning information into text resembling information, everything being an ad space.
I love how they sell watches by the size of the dial and the width of the strap and not say, the length of the strap. That being the part that would be most variable across different people and the deciding factor on whether you could actually wear it or not.
itch.io homepage is looking nice. More websites like this please but not as a joke.
If On A Winter's Night, A Markov Chain
Any time I buy something online, I intentionally ask not to be on their mailing list, and I would say this has about a 30% success rate.
My main conspiracy theory is that the term "conspiracy theory" has been deliberately reframed in our culture by intelligence agencies to mean "paranoid delusion" in order to undermine anyone who might successfully theorise about an existing conspiracy.
My wife and I were watching Messiah of Evil and at one point some characters run along a beach and we both independently thought “I wonder if they’ll come across the Statue of Liberty”. You know, like in Planet of the Apes? Later on I was reading about the shooting location and IT’S THE SAME BEACH
Local tip has a crusher that says “cardboard only”, no mention of paper. But what is cardboard if not paper persevering?