i  <esau

how i made a spoonerism generator

Part of my family’s canon is Spooner or Later, by Paul Jennings, Ted Greenwood, and Terry Denton.

The cover for the book Spooner or Later. It has a golden border with the title and authors set prominently. In the center is a cartoonish illustration of a man in a bowler hat.

A spoonerism is a kind of wordplay where you can swap the starting sounds of words in a phrase to make another valid phrase.

Keep reading →

manbait

I turned my adblocker off youtube for a minute to see what it was like to have recommendations appear again.

Manbait everywhere.

Arm wrestling muscle beach in grandpa latex. NBA highlights but they get increasingly ____. So many prank videos.

I'm sure the videos are entertaining and they take a lot of time and effort to make and they've brought a lot of joy to the world. But the gestalt is so bleak to me now.

Keep reading →

zootopia 2

This movie should have been called Hisstopia because of how bad and about snakes it is.

I remember liking the first one as an effective buddy cop conspiracy with a lot of worldbuilding. This one's a complete rehash, but the main character's emotional progress has been inexplicably reset🐇 which makes it feel somehow both painful and pointless to see her treat her best friend like shit for another entire movie (the main violation is that she consistently disregards his opinions and ignores his requests)

Keep reading →

future future future

squidward from spongebob lying on the floor saying 'future' repeatedly from the episode 'SB-129'

One of my friends just sent me a voice note making a couple of points:

Keep reading →

mood swings is a really strange song

youtube link

Chorus

Shorty a lil' baddie (She a lil' baddie)

Shorty my lil' boo thing (Boo thing)

And shorty got the fatty

Shorty be catching mood swings

Every time I fuck without a rubber

I nutted on the covers

Keep reading →

empty brain

No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.

Keep reading →

treasure island

There's a good version on Standard Ebooks. Greg Wagland's rendition is also great.👂

For thirty years, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views—amen, so be it.

Keep reading →

why i'm vegan

A friend just asked me this. Might as well write it down.

I stopped eating meat when I was 17 because my girlfriend at the time was vegetarian, and I knew that it was one of the remaining ways I could significantly lower my carbon footprint.

Keep reading →

making a grainy spotlight effect with CSS

I first saw this on Hakushi Hasegawa's website1 and after a little digging around in the source, saw that it was implemented with a shader and three.js

But I had a hunch that it might be possible with CSS blending modes. Not because I fully understood them, but just because it seemed like the sort of thing they're made for.

Keep reading →

phones are about to get more useful

Two years ago, a colleague asked me "concretely, what's a way in which you think AI is going to change the world?"

I said: the way we relate to and use software. We will stop writing or installing it.1 We'll instead have an AIs that dynamically write our programs for us.

Two years later, I'm feeling even more confident about this. Claude Code and Codex are the worst they'll ever be, and they're already one-shotting simple webapps.

Keep reading →