Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
(Brigadier Sicko)
“I’ve done… questionable things.”
Suburban crank monitoring the airwaves from the High Castle.
Deep space janitor. Miniboss / Agile bagman. Adjudicator. Python daily driver and hater. Secret Perl Sicko. Standard ML dilettante.
“First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us” —Marshall McLuhan
he / him / sir
Joined: 2022-11-09
ACAB includes: - Marty Crane
- Microsoft CoPilot + Recall
- Glassdoor
Preferred Bowie: The Thin White Duke
Preferred Frequency: 5825 MHz
My other computer is a: TIS-100P
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2024-11-29 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou _The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch_ by Philip K. Dick, especially the setup for the cat joke:
“What met Eldritch and entered him, what we’re confronting, is a being superior to […]
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2024-11-28 flyingsaceur ┃ 1#️ ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou “Venus on the Half Shell” by Kilgore Trout *ducks
#ubik_book_club
2024-11-28 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: nytpu
@nytpu *whistles and points at TV
2024-11-28 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: nytpu
@nytpu “Best” “cross platform” “GUI” toolkit is a choose two outta three situation innit
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2024-11-25 flyingsaceur ┃ 1#️ 1👤 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou @sigrid
“Second Variety” by PKD (Space Science Fiction, 1953)
_AI for Game Developers_ by Bourg & Seeman (O’Reilly, 2004)
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2024-11-25 flyingsaceur ┃ 1#️ ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou “The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford” by PKD
#ubik_book_club
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2024-11-23 flyingsaceur ┃ 2#️ ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou For your consideration:
Hungry for more #unix_surrealism moods? Presenting the #ubik_book_club, a rough translation of image and word gestalt into reading recommendations. Accept no […]
2024-11-23 flyingsaceur ┃ edited ┃ 1#️ 1💬 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou “The Days of Perky Pat” by PKD
(My dollhouse will have a fully functional miniature PDP-11 with scale 48VAC three phase power)
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2024-11-23 flyingsaceur ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: darth
@darth and that, kids, is where Steam Decks come from
2024-11-23 flyingsaceur ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou @sigrid @khm “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said” by PKD
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2024-11-22 flyingsaceur ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou “Art is whatever you can get away with” —Marshall McLuhan
Keep em coming. As always, your humble servant
2024-11-22 flyingsaceur ┃ 1💬 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou “Confessions of a Crap Artist” by PKD
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2024-11-21 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: nytpu
@nytpu That’s Admiral Ball to you, Ensign
2024-11-21 flyingsaceur ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: screwtape
[LISP]
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2024-11-17 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou more VALIS vibes
2024-11-17 flyingsaceur ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou @RussSharek @SocialGaff /The Grasshopper Lies Heavy/ by Hawthorne Abendsen
2024-11-17 flyingsaceur ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: prahou
@prahou @getimiskon @screwtape VALIS by Philip K. Dick
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2024-11-16 flyingsaceur ┃ RE: mos_8502
@mos_8502
Doyleist explanation: Starfleet is modeled on Nelson’s Navy
Watsonist explanation: 24th century admirals are dicks
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