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Nothing interesting today, just some restructuring and making those dang image folders consistent. Carry on.

Actually I take it back, could be a good day to re-read my commentary on The Canterbury Tales.

the top 10s series is genuinely a great contribution to society (i didnt even think of unused emojis, fittingly)

Thanks Vúi. Plus I had a lot of fun writing it, too!

No joke, I very nearly wore out a copy of Astro Lounge in late junior high/early high school.

Miela, you were already cool, but now you're 20x that original amount of cool.

Skep confirmed fellow badminton enjoyer.

I've used the garlic emoji once to react on an image of a hamster that looked like garlic on Discord. Me and my friend also used to be obsessed with Burkina Faso in elementary school. Not the country, but just the name of it, because it was so fun to say. I also remember its capital is named Ouagadougou, also very fun to say.

You also made me delve into some hecking research on some of these emojis! I guessed right that since emojis originate from Japan, love hotels have some cultural signifigance there which would explain the emoji's existance. Also eyeball speech bubble is apparently from an anti-bullying campaign 😮

I'm adding garlic to all of my digital communications going forward. Thank you for your contribution to digital society 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄⚜️

@Harakan I did have to look up the eyeball myself because it was so baffling without context. It's a good sentiment, but it's hard to find any info on how effective it's been.

I summarize 120 chapters of a classic Chinese epic but I get the most engagement from a goofy listicle I threw together in 30 minutes. I suddenly understand why modern journalism is the way it is.

hey i did read the three kingdoms summary. at least a good chunk of it. and then i decided i should read the three kingdoms myself but thats an insane undertaking that skeps review is literally here to help me avoid

Have you considered a Top 10 "tens" article yet? It would be interesting to see how Base 10 stacks up with binary, or how Roman numerals stack up against Mayan stacks up against Arabic.

@Indy Remember, if you skip my summary to go read the actual book, I fade out of existence.

@Asterion HMMMM I really love that idea but knowing me I'll end up taking it and doing something dumb with it instead.

You ever start writing, and then it kind of goes off somewhere you didn't expect and it turns out way better than what was in your head at the beginning? This is that.

No.

Well obviously I didn't mean you

I start writing and then it keeps going and going, until I sense just before dinner that some Eldridge power has control of my fingers and brain, and all I can do is wrench myself from the keyboard, hoping something will make sense. Then I realise Skep is controlling me with a Ouija board from afar, and I find hope in the belief that everything will turn out way better than what was in my head at the beginning.

You mean that?

That's, uhh... close I guess?

The program on my website that allows for SVG mazes to be turned and flipped into various variants started its life as a way to automate analyzing them. Granted, I'm now working to fulfill that functionality... But that's for a future post... :)