Remove lid. Add water to fill line. Replace lid. Microwave for 1 1/2 minutes. Let cool for 3 minutes.

The Best of The Week

“Hi Dad. Are you writing more these days?”

Entering my father’s small assisted living apartment, emotionally armored up to prepare for the experience, I am derailed from my scripted visit by the sight of several pages of typewriting, with tortured but legible pen edits all over them. This is a sight familiar from my childhood, when most of our house was covered in such sheets; my father, a freelance writer and author, was constantly surrounded by a minimum of five to eight projects in various stages of completion. Fortunately for everyone, he had been trained early in his career as a journalist to include a title, draft and page number atop every sheet - so his writing process was able to survive a wife, two sons, numerous cats and even a pair of peripatetic diamondback terrapins who roamed the house.

“Yeah. (Insert crazy partner name here) is pushing me to write more.”

It’s almost enough to make me accept that fact that she exists in our world. My…

3.14. Pi Day. This is the day to make announcements in the sphere of rationality.

The year 2024 will see political theatre, a fantastic lunar eclipse, presently unimaginable technological advances and.... the fourth (and final planned) Pandeism Anthology. Tentatively set to be titled Pandeism: An Anthology of Worlds Unseen, the book will feature our last, best mix of wide-ranging viewpoints on the soundness and implications of the pandeistic model, along with poetry

A hundred kilometers outside of the range of the orbital defense ring, thirty Sherman MkIII remote infantry vehicles, cocooned in their drop capsules but not yet separated for insertion, began the automated process of activating onboard power and generating crypto keys for the local networks using white noise from the auxiliary antennae on each entry vehicle.

Operators on the other side of the world keyed into their stations, bodies going slack with…

News for Noders

March 14th: Pi day.

March 20th: The first equinox of the year.

March 31st: Happy birthday mad girl's love song!


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February 2: Brevity Quest 2023 starts!

February 2: Happy birthday Auspice!

February 2: Happy birthday npecom!

February 5: Happy birthday wertperch!

February 15: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 29: Happy birthday Browncoat!


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January 1: Gregorian New Year.

January 16: National Nothing Day.

January 24: Happy Birthday Silverai_me!

January 26: Happy Birthday Segnbora-t!

January 30: Happy Birthday O-Swirl!


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December 1: Iron Noder ends

December 9: Smallpox eradication day.

December 12: Happy birthday to horacetheclown!

December 18: Hanukkah begins.

December 21: Winter solstice arrives 4:47 PM, EST.

December 23: Happy birthday to Nemosyn!

December 25: Merry Christmas!


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November 1: The IRON NODER CHALLENGE starts today and runs through December 1. It's never too late to sign up, and all writeups get rewards.

November 1: Happy Birthday Zephronias!

November 5: Bonfire Night in the UK.

November 11: Veterans Day in the US.

November 13: Everything2's Birthday.

November 27: Happy Birthday Estelore!

November 24: Thanksgiving in the US.

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