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Heads up, I'm posting my plans for 2024 on both the general and the art Patreon. Check 'em out over there. Patrons get to see them sooner than the general public, so if you're impatient, join up! Those of you who have been keeping track know that I recently had a laptop die. I say a laptop rather than  the  laptop, because I have an entire bin of them. Most of them are only minimally useful.  The most recent one, a 2020 HP convertible, was actually the one that croaked. My misbegotten curiosity has broken a number of devices in my time, but the only two computers that have ever died without any intervention from me were that Pavilion x360 and an Ideapad, both of which had full 14" glass touchscreens. It's a neat idea, I suppose? It's awkward as fuck to poke the screen in laptop configuration, and the HP was just stupid heavy to use as a tablet. Between that and the fact that those things seem to break if you look at them funny, I've filled the role of &qu
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  Telegram from Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, Dec 31, 1929 I don't know if Dorothy Parker actually sent this telegram to Robert Benchley on the 31st of December, 1929. It would be entirely on-brand for her; Black Thursday had just happened in October, and she had a sardonic sense of humor in the best of times. If she didn't send it, she should have, and Dottie would back me up on that. She always vouched for the best apocrypha. I don't make New Years' Resolutions on January 1st. At that point, I've just lived through about a month of frantic holiday activity followed by a week of enforced nothing as all of my classes and jobs go on hiatus. By the dawn of the new year, I'm probably still tired, definitely bored out of my skull, and potentially hungover. If I tried to plan my life right then, I'd just vow to do all manner of damnfool things, and immediately fail as soon reality reasserted itself. Generally I give myself to the end of the month to think u