Just Eelie @noelle@elekk.xyz

If you have an issue with Elekk and for any reason you can't contact me, please contact @alice (@c0debabe) or @TheShyIon (@theshyion). Both of them have admin access to the Elekk front-end and Alice has SSH access to the back end in case anything goes wrong.

Common CW abbreviations I use:

* mh: mental health
* ph: physical health
* alc: alcohol
* pol: politics, sometimes plus locale, like:
* uspol: United States politics
* pda: public display of affection
* nsfw: not safe for work (this is rare, I prefer more specificity)

How to contact me:

Email: noelle.d.anthony AT gmail
Discord: joyeusenoelle#5565
Telegram: Joyeusenoelle
Keybase: https://elekk.xyz/@noelle/99297943957087984

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Tonight's hygiene lesson: no, slightly-malfunctioning autopilot, hand soap and toothpaste ARE NOT THE SAME THING.

I have newfound respect for Jon Lovitz, as someone who has beat the shit out of noted needs-the-shit-beat-out-of-him asshole Andy Dick.

As one of Silver Shadow's powers, she can open shadowy portals between two places. As such, she's the only PC not in combat right now, because she's using her portals to get the hostages out safely (and has to concentrate to maintain them). #MutantsAndMasterminds

That story came to mind, by the way, because I realized that my habit of letting cold food come to room temperature by sitting in the microwave came from my mother, and SHE does it that way not because the microwave is special somehow but because it keeps the warming food away from grubby fingers and pets.

-- from your grandmother, and that's how she always did it."

So they called his grandmother, who laughed and said, "Honey, I had a small roasting pan, and that's the only way the roast would fit!"

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I'm trying to think of a concise way to sum that up into an adjective the way "cargo cult" is used. "Roast-cutting"?

I've long disliked the term "cargo cult", and an old story popped into my head that I might be able to use instead:

A man wanted to impress his girlfriend, so he decided to cook a roast for her. She saw him start by cutting the ends of the roast off, and asked why he did that. "You know, I don't know," he said. "I learned to cook from my mother, and she always did that. Let's call and find out."

On the phone, his mother said, "Well, I don't know. I learned to cook roasts --

do we have a term that's equivalent to "uncanny valley" but for sound banks/fonts/etc.? Like, "that sounds close enough to what the actual instrument might sound like in a single quarter note that the whole song sounds off"?

turbo outbun

23 hours until D&D^H^H^H^H Mutants and Masterminds :vibrates:

me: MUSHcode just makes sense to me

me: I prefer reverse Polish calculators

also me: functional programming is too hard, give me imperative any day