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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • yes. Every now and then a boss o’ mine will make me post to LinkedIn about the company I’m currently working for - so I will write a David Foster Wallace style essay (previous ones include comparing business process automation platforms to different fictional orcs, or what my old mad Scottish housemate making pasta taught me about b2b sales…) until they stop asking.



  • the name root thing isn’t quite correct. The root word connects to “sky god” and why Abrahamic religions are unique is because they are monotheistic in only having a sky god, whereas before the gods would’ve been of many things.

    We also say “G/god” more than “deity” whose root is in “burial” rather than sky, and originally connotated a plurality of supernatural forces pre-Christianity, but came to mean a singular being during the spread of Christianity.





  • yeah they were trying to make him into a sex symbol with this.

    it’s a bizarre series as there’s also a highly questionable gadget that Gordo has that tells you how “clean” a room is, that he sticks under the toilet and goes, “it’s over 9000!” in every episode.

    I sincerely doubt it’s more than a flashing light on a stick