Monday: So it turns out I turned off all my alarms over the weekend, and I forgot to turn them back on for today.

Great.  Wonderful.  Way-to-go.

I saw these at the store over the weekend, and wondered what they were like, but didn't want to buy a big bag in case they were bad.  So I got a small bag.  They're not bad.

• Title:  The Dunwich Horror
• Date:  1928
• Summary:  Wilbur Whateley dies when a guard dog kills him when he breaks into the library to steal the Necronomicon.  Except it's pretty bad, because he's half monster, because his mom had a evil wizard for a father, and that's pretty horrible to start with.  Except that's not the "Horror" from the title, which is when the "kind of more monster than Wilbur" brother rampages around Dunwich because it isn't being fed once Wilbur dies.  Brave university professors stop the monster with magic, despite none of them being professors of magic.
• Real Villain:  Intentionally having elder gods as ancestors.
• Last line in italics?  Yes.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  7/10.
• Read it:  Here.

I just remembered I have to take a shot tonight.  :(

• Pokemon.
• Bayleef.
• I like that "Alola form" is now an adjective.
• Not Pokemon.
• Ok, fine, but:  According to this, there have been 8000 episodes of Price is Right between 1972 and 2014.  This says that the wheel only appeared in 1975.  So that's still about the same number.  There are 20 spaces on the wheel, so for this outcome to happen, you have a probability (19/20 * 1/20)**3, or about 1/9331.  That makes this article basically "math still works."
• Inequality.
• I don't have a good summary other than more people should read Laurie Penny's stuff.

Sunday: Sure I was over there yesterday, but why not drive out to Hawaii Kai again.

So after all that morning IM fun, I did get up and get ready for the day.  Eventually.  It wasn't promptly after that, but that's ok.  I did have to come up with a restaurant recommendation for Chinese in Chinatown for Dan.  The problem of course, is that Chinatown isn't always easy for parking, so I tend not to go there.  I'm also not regularly up for Chinese, although I do like dim sum.  This was my suggestion, based on going there once.  The yelp scores look bimodal at a quick scan, but looking at the time progression, it shows a general improvement.

And then, as mentioned, drove out to Hawaii Kai for lunch.

I got the same thing I always do at the Greek place.  And I'm positive that hat was centered correctly in the preview.

I didn't feel like making a full harbor mosaic today.

I also noticed that the sign lies.

Zooming in, you can see it suggesting that Walgreen's and the Theater are towards the background.  That's wrong, and would send people into the marina instead of to the actual locations.

And it started raining while I was there.

 There is a gym there.  However, this happened to me:

Yay!  The fun thing where you can't join the gym battle for some reason!

I was eventually able to get in after flipping airplane mode on and off, but I lost both of my battles, as in the mean time, Team Valor took the gym over, and dumped a 2100 CP Gyrados into the bottom location.  Gym battles are easier when you have people working together.  Plus, as you can see, my phone battery was about to die, limiting what I could do.

So I got some ice cream instead.  Chocolate orange flavor.

TldrL:

• Title:  Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• Date:  1920
• Summary:  Sir Arthur Jermyn is dead, because he lit himself on fire.  No one really liked the family, even though they had a title.  Boring genealogy occurs, telling us all about the last five generations of Jermyn's family, and their trips to Africa.  Jermyn attempts to find a mummified "white ape goddess" from a shrine, and has it shipped to him.  Then he kills himself, because guess what?
• Real Villain:  Accidentally having gorillas as ancestors.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  3/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Lovecraft really had problems with this.

• Pokemon.
• Whimsicott.
• Team Leaders.
• Not Pokemon.
• Mitt Romney.  Also, I should probably watch Fresh off the Boat more.
• Urbanization.
• Duckmancy.
• Daniel Radcliffe is a good person.

This was going to be part of the regular blog post, but I think that has too much in it already, so it's a separate thing.

I woke up this morning at like 7:30, had a half-remembered IM conversation with Julie.  I then went back to sleep.

Three hours later, I received this from Julie:

Kofflax.

This was followed by these:

Moltysaur.

Dugysaur.

 Finishing with the best of the set:

Wigglykazam.

Wiggly-fucking-kazam.  Holy crap these are still as funny as they were forever ago.  The generator is here, and here are the ones I came up with.  Mostly I set one side fixed, and randomly loaded the other side until I liked them.

Zape.

Pikasect with such a tiny face!

Krabby is a great face source.

Krabchop.

Krabnine.

 But I think Chansey is my favorite, because it has such a silly tiny face.

Changey.

Chantly.

Chanfing.

Chanizard.

Chansea.

 Fucking Chansea.

Saturday: In hindsight, my plan of "sleep later than expected and then still don't get out of bed" wasn't the best.

I mean, it did mean I got to see this really stupid ad for Coke on twitter.  You don't need Coke to make a banh mi delicious.  You just need to not put cilantro on it.

Eventually I decided on getting chicken.

It is very good chicken.

And I took these too-close shots of their pictures of the old Pali highway to maximize the camera distortion effects.

 I took the long way home, and saw a very nice full moon over the ocean in Waimanalo.

Here it is over Koko Head.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Shadow over Innsmouth
• Date:  1931
• Summary:  A guy goes to Innsmouth to explore, but Innsmouth is filled with half-human/half-sea monster people.  They try to kill him by not running the bus out of town, and then ambushing him in his hotel room, but he gets away from them and has a daring escape from town.  He calls the government, and they go in and kill/imprison the population and bomb the reef where the sea monsters live.  This would be a great place to stop the story, but instead, we learn that the guy has ancestors from Innsmouth, and he's actually turning into a half-human/half-sea monster person as well.  He plans to kill himself, but instead writes the last four paragraphs describing how he's going to go live with the sea monsters and it's just a really odd way to end the story.
• Real Villain:  Accidentally having sea monsters as ancestors.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  Yes.  I mean, not technically, but highlighting how you're going to go live with monsters is just so weird.
• Rating:  6/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Separator sentence to prevent the lists joining together.

• Pokemon.
• Spooky.
• Very spooky.
• Geographically specific food stuff.
• I wish more places had rye buns for burgers.  I still miss their mushroom burger.
• I was thinking about sandwiches, and couldn't remember the name of the best sandwich ever.  It's the "Jon & Amy's Double Dip", and this is what it looks like.
• But they don't sell it any more.  I can't understand why this would happen.
• And it's not just me, either.  This guy ate every sandwich there, and named it one of his top four.
• This isn't a link, because I hate closed the tab and don't feel like finding it again.  That contest mentioned in the last one? J&ADD didn't even rank.  What the absolute fuck is wrong with people?
• Everything else.
• I really like these subway stations.
• Doggo.
• I am glad that some things are getting better.
• Panda bread.

Friday: I am glad it is the weekend, as I am done with this week.

And I didn't take any pictures, so I guess I am going to use the gif I made this evening.

I saw this on twitter, found the original image, and then quickly remapped the frames to clearly illustrate the parabola.  I thought about tracing it out fully, but ended up being too lazy to bother.

TldrL:

• Title:  Through the Gates of the Silver Key
• Date:  1933
• Summary:  This finally finishes the story of Randolph Carter.  In the last unnecessary sequel, Carter disappeared, but instead of going back to the dream world, he actually traveled out of space and time, discovering that a person at a given age is just a projection of a hyper-person existing in a higher dimensional space.  So he has his hyper-person manifestation reproject him into an alien form in the distant past.  Unfortunately, before starting this travel, he forgot the notes with the deprojection code, so he has to use magic and alien technology to travel back to Earth in alien form.  He spends two years trying to research the deproject spell in disguise, until finally going to a meeting with a friend who is holding his estate.  The entire story takes place in that meeting.  The one racist jerk that wants to declare Carter dead gets angry, and attacks him, knocking off his mask (which kills the jerk because it's scary).  This causes the alien's original personality to take control, and it vanishes by traveling through a magic clock.
• Real Villain:  Sequels.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  4/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Tomorrow starts another running theme segment of tldrL.

• Pokemon.
• Pikachu in sleeping bags.
• Meowth.
• Not Pokemon.
• There should be more Elsa Bloodstone.  She's immortal and angry.
• This is here solely for the note about the game Civilization.
• Animal or food.
• Automaton.

Thursday: So things worked out.

Although it wasn't totally clear if it would work out, Dan was visiting the island today.  The beginning plan today was to meet up at the Bubba Gump with him and some of his friends who are moving to Molokai.  However, they were having some sort of trouble with their details, so they weren't going to make it.  I then braved the wilds of Waikiki (and the thorn nest of the Hilton Hawaiian Village), picked up Dan, and diverted to a better seafood restaurant.

Nico certainly makes better poke than Bubba Gump.

Nice that they add the smoked fish.  I should get that more often.

I went with the special mahi mahi.  I could have used a bit more sauce, and the fish was a bit dry.  Maybe we should have tried Uncle's instead.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Silver Key
• Date:  1926
• Summary:  Randolph Carter, again, gets a back story to tie the previous two stories into a single narrative.  You read it, and just think, "why did you write this?  This is so boringly not good."  It ends suggesting Carter returned to the dream world.
• Real Villain:  Writing alternate versions of rambling mythology.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  3/10.
• Read it:  Here.

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• Pokemon.
• James and Weezing.
• This is why I love Jigglypuff so much.
• Not Pokemon.
• A good story.
• Naoko Takeuchi.
• David Brooks shouldn't have a job.
• Jesus.
• Bird and bees.
• This was the song I heard on the radio while navigating Waikiki.
• I will be so glad when she finally wins this thing.

Wednesday: Ugh.

I feel somewhat better now, but today was another sick day.  Hopefully tomorrow?

Ramen fixes everything.

And they replaced the noren.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• Date:  1926
• Summary:  A bunch of stuff happens to Randolph Carter, who is trying to find the city he dreamed.  The dream gods have stolen the city from him, and he eventually meets Nyarlathotep in Kadath, the city of the gods, who drags the gods back when Carter wakes up.  This story also name checks a bunch of other stuff, such as suggesting that Pickman eventually became a ghoul.
• Real Villain:  Rambling mythology. Also not ghouls, surprisingly.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  8/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Blah.

• Pokemon.
• Pokemon Go now has a study proving that it increases exercise.
• Team Rocket.
• Not Pokemon.
• Surprise chicken.
• Scary wolf.
• Animal friends.
• They should probably just change the prayer to incorporate this new line.

Tuesday: Sick day.

Waking up and feeling bad isn't fun.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better.  This is going to cut into my thousand days of built up sick time.

I also didn't take any pictures today because of this.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Statement of Randolph Carter
• Date:  1919
• Summary:  Carter and his friend go into a swamp to look at some ancient underground thing, but the friend thinks it's "too scary" for Carter, so they do the obvious thing, and bring their own private telephone so the friend can call back.  Things go bad for the friend, and I'm kind of sad I used "then who was phone" yesterday, because that's basically how this one ends.
• Real Villain:  Telephone monsters.
• Last line in italics?  Yes.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  Yes.
• Rating:  9/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Blah.

• Pokemon.
• Ukiyo-e.
• Arbok and Jesse.
• Not Pokemon.
• Dog.
• The Grinch and Tony the Tiger.
• I do not like this story.
• This old story.

Monday: "It's the special cilantro that you like!"

"There is no cilantro that I like."

I finally brought this into the office.

Because I had to bring my laptop in to give that talk, so I had my bag with me.  The talk went ok, but I couldn't get my laptop to display correctly.  I really need to reinstall everything on it.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Picture in the House
• Date:  1920
• Summary:  Guy in the middle of nowhere, MA, gets caught in a storm, and takes shelter in an unlocked house.  There's a strange book, and he's creeped out by it.  He hears noises, and the old man who owns the house comes downstairs and is creepy.  This guy has totally been killing and eating people for centuries, and it's keeping him alive.  That would be it, but a drop of blood drips from the ceiling, because he's been killing somebody upstairs, and the normal guy is about to try to escape when the entire house is destroyed by a lightning bolt.
• Real Villain:  Intentionally eating strangers.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  Yes.  Technically no, but this ending is so "THEN WHO WAS PHONE" that it counts.  You can't kill your narrator in the story without giving some plausible way for them to be telling the story.
• Rating:  3/10.
• Read it:  Here.

And there was stuff with statistics, which leads to the main lessons of distributions.  If the values can take any value, it's probably a power law.  If it has one more likely value, then you can probably just use a Gaussian and be ok.

• Pokemon.  My PKMN stash is now empty, so hopefully tomorrow will have good things.
• The new starters.
• Bulbasaurs.
• Not Pokemon.
• This is a good hamster.
• Why not, I guess.
• This won't happen.
• Me.
• Cool pictures of the Earth from the Moon.

Sunday: I'm sure I won't have to do another post in two hours to include more links.

That never happens.

Google wanted me to get ramen again today, because google doesn't understand that people shouldn't eat the same food all the time.

So I got sushi instead.

This is not the ahi wonton I should have taken.  The one that came around ten seconds later had less white onion and more green onion, which would have been better.

Tldr Lovecraft:

• Title:  The Rats in the Walls
• Date:  1923
• Summary:  Guy moves back to his ancestral English home after his son dies.  His family was evil in the past, but that's No Problem.  He keeps hearing rats, and organizes an expedition with six others to explore the basement to find their nests.  They instead find an ancient set of ruins where his evil cult family killed people.  Also ate them.  Like he does to his friend when he goes crazy.  Whoops.  Also his cat is gratuitously racist, and he talks about Piltdown man, which hadn't been debunked when the story was written. 
• Real Villain:  Accidentally eating your friend.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  6/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Then the debate happened, and it shows me why I like Twitter so much, and that's because I can watch something happen and have a real time stream of thoughts and conversations with my favorite ~300 people.

• Pokemon.
• Gengar.
• Bulbasaurs.
• Political stuff.
• Facts.
• This is not how you debate.
• There were a few times that I just wanted her to spike the camera.
• This is super long, but it's a great interview with Obama.
• This is also super long, and is also good to read.  It reminds me a lot of my high school experience.
• Other stuff.  There's at least one cat.
• This is why I block ads.
• Here's the cat.
• A great story about Farm-Girl Hero, and her sweater.
• Well.  I clearly need to step up my sticker game.  Can you mirror flip Twitter stickers?

Saturday: Ugh.

I didn't want to write my talk today.  I eventually did it, but ugh.  At least I don't need to worry about it tomorrow.

I also spent a large chunk of the early afternoon trying to decide if I wanted a burger or pizza.  Burger.  Pizza.  Burger.  Pizza.

I eventually went with pizza.

I almost drove way out to this place at Koko Marina, but since I had crap to do, I went to the closer one.  Part of the reason I want to try the other place is I'm fascinated by the idea of bulgolgi on a pizza.  It's like two of my favorite things, mushed together into my mouth.

Tldr Lovecraft:

• Title:  The Outsider
• Date:  1921
• Summary:  HP Lovecraft feels isolated from the world, so he writes this story about an ancient lich not realizing that he's actually dead, climbing up a "tower", and finding at the top that there's a whole new world up there, where there are stars in the sky and people who really weren't expecting a damn undead monstrosity to waltz in through the front door.
• Real Villain:  Accidentally being undead.
• Last line in italics?  Yes.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  5/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Crap I forgot to prep the links.

• Pokemon.
• We're going to have to live with this Pokemon forever.
• Ditto.
• Charmander.
• Election stuff.
• Jamelle Bouie has an article that covers his tweets yesterday.
• A storify.
• Sam Wang.
• Other stuff.
• That cat now has a statue.
• I nearly died eating my pizza when I saw this.
• Well.  That's pretty much the best cosplay ever.

Friday: Time to spend the weekend doing a bunch of boring things.

I think I have all the plots done for my Monday talk.  I have them placed into slides, but all slides are untitled, and have a single other element: an item labeled "A".

First up, tldr Lovecraft:

• Title:  The Terrible Old Man
• Date:  1920
• Summary:  The Terrible Old Man is used to be a ship captain, and is also still totally a necromancer, and when three dummies try to rob him of all his pirate gold, he summons up ghost pirates to cutlass them in their stupid robbing faces.  Also the rest of them.  They get 100% murdered.
• Real Villain:  Assholes who try to rob you, and also call you the fucking 'Terrible Old Man.' Fuck them.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  4/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Next, Pokemon.

I caught a Golduck

And when I checked the local gym before leaving work, I discovered that CKxP is a cheater using multiple accounts.  How do I know?

Gee,

maybe this asshole,

should use unrelated names.

Finally, today was an exciting day for the election.  This thread is really good, and points out the obvious issues.  Plus wikileaks decided to dig themselves even further into irrelevance by pointing out that Hillary Clinton told business people that Japan doesn't have a military or nuclear weapons.  Which is obviously such a high level secret that Japan hid this information all the way in Article Nine of their own constitution.  

And of course, stupid people declared this treason.

• Pokemon.
• Fusions.
• Slowpoke.
• Not Pokemon.
• Have we talked about humpback whales beating up on killer whales?  They're like ocean police, helping other animals not get eaten.
• Friends.
• I don't know why I like these old house floor plan ads, but I do.
• Taco Bell.
• I flipped past this, and then realized that it's the Crystal Gems.
• Cards Against Humanity is just silly now.
• There's a squirrel in one picture.
• More political stuff, essentially stating that the reason the Democrats won't come up with Neo-Marx is that the party is comprised of so many individual interests that it's basically impossible.

Thursday: I think I'm just going to push off Drawlloween things.

I just don't have enough time to sit down and do actual art things.  I was thinking maybe I'd just do weekends, but I have to write a talk this weekend and do a bunch of other crap, so blah.

I can't determine if this is a plant growing in this drain, or if leaves just fell conveniently in.

I'm still going to do the tldr Lovecraft, since that's already mostly done.

• Title:  The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• Date:  1919
• Summary:  The first Lovecraft story I ever read, and another of his fantasy stories.  A bunch of jerks decide they're going to build their city by a lake, and decide that the city already by the lake populated by lizard/fish people sucks.  So they kill all the lizard/fish people and dump them in the lake and burn down their city.  The jerks' city becomes big and powerful and wealthy, until the day that the lizard/fish people rise up out of the lake in the mist and kill everybody.
• Real Villain:  Being an asshole to your neighbors.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  9/10.
• Read it:  Here.

I think if I remember correctly I need to put text here, otherwise blogger gets confused about the bullet lists.  Anyway, links.

• Pokemon.
• Pika-shoes.
• Spooky.
• Not Pokemon.
• I saw a very depressing and sad news story today that was really like a half dozen equally depressing stories crammed together to just absolutely suck the life out of people.  This is not that story, this is the Best Bunny In the World dancing with Sleepy Patient Dog, Who Is Also A Great Friend.
• I do not recall Chibiusa pulling a gun on anybody.
• Billionaires are stupid is the takeaway from this.
• This is well done.
• What's the goal here?  Make as much money as possible now, and ignore the future?  I'm not a big fan of Airbnb (it encourages housing being used inefficiently for the benefit of a few), but saying that they're not responsible for legal issues is dumb.  Once somebody gets caught, they're probably not going to keep using Airbnb.

Wednesday: I don't feel like drawing more stick figures today.

I also didn't wait around to find this Lickitung.

I automated the tldr Lovecraft stuff over the weekend, so all I have to do is run the script and it dumps out the html for that day.

• Title:  The Quest of Iranon
• Date:  1921
• Summary:  One of Lovecraft's fantasy stories, in which Iranon wanders around talking about his home, where's he's the prince, and how wonderful it is, but no one has ever heard of the place until the end, when Iranon meets someone who knew him when he was a homeless orphan kid making up crazy stories.
• Real Villain:  Being a deluded asshole.  Also bullies, now that I've reread it.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  3/10.
• Read it:  Here.

But having things automatically generated gave me an idea yesterday.  My usual blogging strategy involves:

1. Reading all the internets, largely via my RSS reader.
2. Loading all the interesting items into tabs.
3. Running the script that scans my auto-copied phone images for ones taken today, and then displays them so I can choose which ones to use, at which point they're resized to not use so much space.
4. Opening blogger to type everything in, followed my copy/pasting all the links as appropriate.

This is fine, but it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to automate the boring stuff.  Blogger has an API that supports posting.  I thought it supported images, but I guess Blogger images are shuffled into Picasa (which is deprecated) and now into Google+.  I assume there's an API for that as well, but setting up images is not the hardest part.

Links are the worst part.  If I understand things correctly, it should be possible to extract a list of currently open tabs from chrome's Current Tabs and Current Session files.  I've found this documentation describing the format, and other than the generic "I hate binary files," it doesn't look too hard to pull information out.  I also discovered this fact about the History database:  "its timestamp is formatted as the number of microseconds since January, 1601".  Because that's a sane way to do it.

In any case, this suggests that I could add a new script to scrape the tab information, format it into appropriate link format, create a new draft post with that information in it (possibly with images already included), and then dump out the link to edit the post with words.  This would probably save me a bunch of time.

• Pokemon.
• This is dumb.
• These are cool.
• All the new evolutions.
• Not Pokemon.
• Get it together, squirrels.
• That's interesting.
• Koala vs. Butterfly.
• People should enjoy what they enjoy.

Based on today's links, it takes about 3 minutes to reread and choose the text blurbs, and another minute to do the linking.

Tuesday:

Another rerun for today.

• Title:  Pickman's Model
• Date:  1926
• Summary:  Pickman is an artist that makes paintings of ghouls in Boston.  Read the title again, and now guess the twist ending.
• Real Villain:  Having a friend who's an asshole. Also ghouls.
• Last line in italics?  Yes.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  8/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Don't be friends with an asshole.  Or with ghouls.

• Pokemon.
• I want Pikachu juice.
• Evolutions.
• Not Pokemon.
• Water bird.
• Star Wars/Mulan.
• Dog.
• Implicit bias tests.  I only clicked on the "Gender/Science" one.  "Your data suggest little or no automatic association between Female and Male with Science and Liberal Arts."  So, that's good.
• NSFW link.  I like how the text says, "What weird science lay in the mummy case of Ret-Seh?  What uncanny power created this lovely, terrifying vision?" and her face just asks, "Where the fuck did my shirt go?"

Monday: The sky did a thing.

With Venus and the Moon.

Today's Drawlloween is a rerun.  Also, I suspect a lot of this month is going to be done with stick figures, because they're fast to do, and a lot of the villains aren't super complicated.

• Title:  In the Vault
• Date:  1925
• Summary:  Asshole alcoholic undertaker totally gets what's coming to him.
• Real Villain:  Being an asshole.
• Last line in italics?  Yes.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  2/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Being an asshole.

• Pokemon.
• Pikachus.
• Team Twerp.
• Not Pokemon.
• This show started today, and it's odd to have scenes of Oda Nobunaga willy-nilly killing everybody suddenly switch to short cooking demonstrations.  Also it just introduced me to this guy, and the time travelling chef just made caldo verde.  WHAT.
• Joe Biden is the best Vice President.
• Raccoons.
• Harry Potter.
• I thought this might be cool, but then I thought it might become sad when tiny robot friend can't go beyond its tiny robot programming.  "That's how you get kill bots."  Yes, but a kill bot is just a friend bot you haven't met yet.
• Marnie.

Sunday: FINE, GOOGLE. WE'LL DO IT YOUR WAY. WHATEVER.

I woke up crazy early for no reason today, read most of my internet stuff, and then went back to sleep.  When I woke up again, I got this.

I DON'T GO EVERY WEEK, GOOGLE.  JUST, EVERY SO OFTEN.

AND IT'S NOT LIKE YOU JUST SAYING THAT IS GOING TO INFLUENCE MY DECISIONS AT ALL, GOOGLE.  JUST STOP IT.

Although, to be fair, it did sound really yummy.

I got the spicy umakara, and it was spicier than usual.  I almost never have the "stop eating because something caught in my throat, and now my head feels like it's going to explode while my nose drips off" reaction, but that hit me like four times today.

And the sign is totally correct.  "So hot, but you can't stop."  It's really yummy.

Today's tldr Lovecraft/Drawlloween is here at the beginning to get a big issue out of the way.

• Title:  Medusa's Coil (with Zealia Bishop)
• Date:  1930
• Summary:  I'm not bothering with rereading it, because it's a garbage story of some generic guy finding some old house, and the old man who lives there tells how he's cursed forever because his son married someone, but she was super horrible, and had demon monster hair, and then the twist ending is that she fooled everyone into thinking she was white, when she wasn't.  Yeah.  The casual racism is pretty bad in a lot of Lovecraft, so I wanted to get the worst example I remember out of the way early.
• Real Villain:  Racism.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  0/10.
• Don't read it:  Here. 

The real villain.

• Pokemon.
• Another sad Pokemon cartoon about Phantump.
• Nice going, Steve.
• Not Pokemon.
• They are pretty much the best.
• Yeah, that makes sense.
• I just liked this bit of art.
• This is a good idea.
• Today I learned that the pre Civil War south was concerned the government building roads was a problem.  

Saturday: Burgers and Elder Evil.

I woke up hungry, and then made the mistake of looking through last month's blog posts.  I clicked on this one, and decided it was worth giving the Five Guys in Mililani another try.  It was far less busy this time, with no crazy line out the door.

Five guys.

They were also setting up to do some sort of photo shoot.  For the food, I guess?  It didn't make much sense, and they didn't seem to have a plan.  The manager had to get a menu for them, which means either the manager didn't plan what to shoot, or that the photographers didn't do much research.

They didn't mess up my order this time, which improves their score a lot.

I don't know.  It tasted fine, but seemed to have something missing still.  The burgers aren't quite as juicy as the ones in Alameda.  Maybe the true burgers are the friends we made along the way.

And this arrived in the mail, and is possibly the greatest thing ever.  Julie has condensed my true essence into one piece.  Thanks, Julie!

I'm also not sure if it's appropriate to take to my office to put with my other squirrel stuff.

Now to start this month's tldr Lovecraft/Drawlloween with the obvious choice:

• Title:  The Call of Cthulhu
• Date:  1926
• Summary:  Cthulhu half wakes up and kills like six dudes, but it's ok, because he has legions of cultists to kill everyone else who talks about it.  Honestly, the concept of a global network of conspiracy in the 1920s is the thing that's least believable to me.
• Real Villain:  Cthulhu. Duh.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  7/10.  I'm not a big fan of the "staple a bunch of accounts together and call it a story" style of stories.  It's why I've never been able to get through Dracula, either.
• Read it:  Here.

Cthulhu.  Duh.

• Pokemon.
• Ghost Pokemon.
• Ampharos.
• Not Pokemon.
• Speaking of embroidery.
• Adventure Time.
• Speaking of Dracula.
• Wow.  I did not know this.
• Yeah.  I saw some dogs today.
• I need some free-as-hell bread.  I have jam now, and you can only eat it with a spoon for so long before you start feeling like maybe you should get some bread.

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