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Month: April 2019

Book cover for The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Orberg featuring the silhouette of a sinister looking mermaid.

Review: The Merry Spinster

- April 29, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

4/5 stars As with most short story collections, there are a couple I really loved and a couple I could have done without. That’s just the nature of the format, …

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The new slack logo, deconstructed to follow the popular "Loss" meme format.

The Minorest of Gripes

- April 26, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

The beginning of a Slack correspondence does not need to start with “Good Morning” or “Hi jess” or “Hello, can I ask you a question?” Slack is an informal medium …

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"is this a pigeon meme" with the primary character wondering if a firm timeline for my last day is negotiable.

Getting the hell out

- April 25, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

I gave my notice. It went fine at first. My boss was super gracious and I wondered if she’d been body snatched. Then, of course, 10 minutes later she pulls …

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Simple random pixel glitch applied to the PyPi logo

Babby’s first python package

- April 25, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

https://pypi.org/project/betterreads/ It’s finally live! I detached the fork and decided to take on this project as my own a little over a month ago, and I’ve finally done enough to …

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Morning invocation

- April 24, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

A friend of mine has given me a prayer/mantra/wish to get me through these last few standups. Please grant these men the strength to not say every dumb fucking thing …

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Stock photo of a Death in the Afternoon cocktail in a coupe glass with the red and green rgb values of each pixel swapped

Death in the Afternoon

- April 22, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

Purportedly a creation of Hemingway’s. Pour 1.5 oz of Absinthe into a coupe glass. Top with 4.5 oz of Champagne. Or that’s how it’s supposed to be served, anyway. If …

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I am being personally called out

- April 21, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

A day off meant we could do things we’d always meant to do. Like go to the Botanical Garden, the Frick Collection, or something. Read some fiction. Leisure, the problem …

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RGB channel shifted picture of two cats on a bed, with some light pixel sorting

Why are Easter buffets so sad?

- April 21, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

It’s become something of a tradition for me, my aunt, and my uncle to attempt brunch on Easter. The cocktails are uniformly great. This is, after all, Chicago. But the …

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Glitch art of a $1000 USD bill

Trying to be responsible

- April 20, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

This is a total stream of consciousness braindump about the fact that I’m bad at money. An issue I seem to run into again and again is that I wait …

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Learned How to Glitch Art Today

- April 20, 2019 | March 21, 2022 - jess

I’m fascinated with finding methods of digitally destroying or erasing my own face. I attempted to databend some other photos using Audacity sound editing, but mostly managed to break them …

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