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Writer: science fiction and fantasy, personal finance, and Esperanto

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2024-04-10 09:20

Posted on 2024-04-10
by Philip Brewer

I got a phishing email that would have just been lame, except it pretended to come from a company I do business with. I wasn’t fooled, but I had to take tens of seconds out of my day to check.

Things should be better. I propose a joint FBI-NSA task force to track down phishers and render them to the US for prosecution.

Posted on 2024-04-10
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, email, security, spam, website

2024-03-19 14:21

Posted on 2024-03-19
by Philip Brewer

Personal quirk #339: I think it’s funny to pronounce the word “dregs” as if it were spelled “dredges.”

Posted on 2024-03-19
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, dreges, dregs, quirks | 1 Comment

2024-02-06 14:41

Posted on 2024-02-06
by Philip Brewer

There’s a cybersecurity company that advertises on some podcast that I listen to. Their tagline is “We stop breaches!” My brain immediately adds, “But not culottes!”

Posted on 2024-02-06
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, security

2024-01-16 12:52

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer

You know the white tank-top style undershirts that for years have been called “wife-beaters”? I’ve just run into a style blog that’s started calling them “wife-pleasers,” which I think is hilarious re-branding.

Update: They’re not alone: https://www.gq.com/story/white-ribbed-tank-top-wife-pleaser-tiktok

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, fashion, style

2024-01-16 09:26

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer

“Now that the Tesla cybertruck is finally out in the wild, it’s being forced to contend with a hazard no one could have foreseen: Snow.”

Source: Tesla Cybertrucks Keep Getting Stuck In Snow

And by “no one,” I assume they mean “anyone who is not a moron.”

Posted on 2024-01-16
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged allegedly funny, cars, snow

2023-08-24 09:04

Posted on 2023-08-24
by Philip Brewer

The ice fairy cometh.

A ice bucket, freshly filled on the counter

(In my brother’s household, the person who actually takes the trouble to make ice, when everyone else just takes ice, is referred to as the ice fairy.)

Posted in News, Photography | Tagged allegedly funny, household, ice

2023-07-06 06:49

Posted on 2023-07-06
by Philip Brewer

Mildly amusing. Low peak for the first dog walk, notch for drinking coffee and Jumbletime, then my most active time is 7:00 AM, for the second dog walk.

Before I got a dog, my most active time was 11:00 AM, because that’s when I finally get to my workout.

Graph of Oura ring data showing my activity through the day, with the highst peak at 7:00 AM
Posted in Fitness, News | Tagged activity score, allegedly funny, exercise, Fitness, metrics, Oura ring, ouraring

2023-06-29 13:33

Posted on 2023-06-29
by Philip Brewer

National Weather Service: “Destructive 80 mph winds.”

Jackie, wanting to be clear: “Not the constructive kind.”

Posted in Local, News, Photography | Tagged allegedly funny, jackie, Photography, severe weather, weather

2023-06-28 11:0

Posted on 2023-06-28
by Philip Brewer

At our last dog training class, the teacher mentioned that a dog massage course would be offered in the next session. Sadly, the course will be on giving your dog a massage, and not on training your dog to give you a massage. 🐕💆‍♂️ Very disappointing. #dogsofmastodon

A boisterous dog in the park with its tongue out
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged allegedly funny, dog, dog pictures, dog training, dogsofmastodon, Photography

2023-06-03 11:54

Posted on 2023-06-03
by Philip Brewer

That second rule seems odd. “No pets without leash or horses.” Does that mean that if your dog has two or more horses it can be off-leash?

Sign with rules for nature preserve
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged allegedly funny, dog, nature preserve

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I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.

For a while I taught Taiji.

For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.

Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.

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