Chris Phage 👻 🎃

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Paper 2 explores the epic Saturn loading screen, a mathematical work of art Fairbank, Michael and Moxon, Mark (2026) Analysing the Saturn Loading Screen from the Classic Computer Game: Elite. In: IEEE Conference on Games, 2026-09-01 - 2026-09-04, Madrid Free download: repository.essex.ac.uk/43578/

The fact that we no longer use the letter þ is a thorn in my side.

"Ma'am, we've done it! We've finally created a formula for 14 bean soup! Ma'am? We thought you'd be pleased... all these years of research...." "...We can do better." "Surely you... No, that's impossible! It can't be done!" "Give me one more." "But that would be-" "15" "God help us."

Beautiful work by artist Thomas Deininger. www.artsy.net/artist/thoma...

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Strands #912 “Called by your calling” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵 W00t!

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Which do you think will happen first? The heat death of the universe, or death of the universe by boredom?

A little tribute.

#authorgoals #writers #writerslife #amwriting #writersky

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This made me laugh. Out loud.

70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.

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WHY DOES THE ALL-CAPS KEY EXIST ON MODERN KEYBOARDS? ALL-CAPS CAN JUST BE A FEATURE OF TEXT EDITORS, LIKE FONTS AND STYLES. ALSO, SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY SUSPEND ACCOUNTS THAT POST ALL-CAPS MESSAGES. NO GOOD CAN COME FROM IT.

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“The Venn diagram is a circle” means they’re the same. Okay, but what does it mean when it’s a square?

I wish I knew how to write books like these, but it’s a mystery to me.

How I want to enter every work meeting.

þe truth!

Struth!

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If it’s time for a colonoscopy, you’ll get this joke.

They are getting sooooooo close to their first stretch goal! Let's GO!!!! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...

Hot take: Breath mints aren’t candy.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

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You do understand that I’ve started blocking people who use the phrase, “you do understand that …”.

Sharing this specifically for the small number of tedious people coming into my mentions to say that the chance of being struck by lightning is low: xkcd.com/795/

It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in an open field when we could hear thunder 😑

Be honest: when was the last time you needed to be reminded to be honest?

The first version of the #ColecoAdam #FujiNet Programmer's Manual is released Download: github.com/FujiNetWIFI/... #retrocomputing

I’m looking forward to seeing it.

What is a sentence that can only be used sarcastically? Mine: You must be fun at parties.

What is a sentence that can only be used sarcastically? Mine: You must be fun at parties.

oh no

Hot take: some guitar chords are sus.

How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? It depends—what are you really trying to do?

Hot Take: the word “mid” is cringe.