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November 29th, 2018 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Brina
    Brina
    November 29, 2018 at 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Jesus christ, what kind of rats were breeding in this grocery store?
    On the one hand, super cheap.
    On the other, you’ve gotta deal with vicious rats who do not fear human presence.
    … How much extra money do they have to work with exactly?

    • Abdiel
      Abdiel
      November 29, 2018 at 2:18 am | # | Reply

      Urban rats in numbers take crap from no one. They’re well aware they’re not required to. Some “abandoned” buildings end up not hosting squatter populations for that very reason. The buildings are already occupied, and the rats appreciate food delivery as much as anyone.

      *little bastards never tip though “/

  2. Robert G Sieg
    Robert G Sieg
    November 29, 2018 at 9:14 am | # | Reply

    Ruth suddenly becomes aware of her super powers to control rats and slowly becomes Willard.

  3. Unknown
    Unknown
    November 29, 2018 at 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    Cheap or not, I’m willing to bet con-goers would freak out at seeing rats during the convention. And since rats are curious little buggers, I could see vendors having a problem with it (in the event they would still have bigger vendors in an open area like that). It might be a good move financially, but there’s going to be people who see it as prioritizing profit over con-goer safety, even if that’s far from the truth.

    That kind of bad press can spread fast among the convention scene, especially if the one complaining has a platform or a following.

  4. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    November 29, 2018 at 7:10 pm | # | Reply

    No no no! Do NOT run! It attracts attention and shows weakness, the two things you do NOT want to be doing. Walk briskly. Either maintain eye contact, or turn your back like they’re not worth your time, they’ll know it’s a bluff, but might respect the moxie.

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    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

    Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

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    RISC is good


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