Aaron

@aaron.compleatdiscography.page

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Compleat Discography host, Terry Pratchett and Discworld enjoyer, food nerd, and all around semi-creative person. Warning: has opinions. He/him.

Each drop of wine we pour is hope and prayer that people will cast out the plagues that threaten everyone everywhere they are found, beginning in our own hearts: The making of war, the teaching of hate and violence, despoliation of the earth, perversion of justice and of government, fomenting of vice and crime, neglect of human needs, oppression of nations and peoples, corruption of culture, subjugation of science, learning, and human discourse, the erosion of freedoms. We pour ten drops for the plagues upon Egypt.
Sand, sea, and sky
594 those guys, you know. They really are the creeps of the cosmos, buzzing round the celestial infinite with their junky little machines that never work properly or, when they do, perform functions that no sane man would require of them and;" he added savagely, "go beep to tell you when they've done it!" This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. "In other words-and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded-their fundamental design flaws are completely bidden by their superficial design flaws." "And this guy," ranted Ford, "was on a drive to sell more of them! His five-year mission to seek out and explore strange new worlds, and sell Advanced Music Substitute Systems to their restaurants, elevators, and wine bars! Or if they didn't have restaurants, elevators, and wine bars yet, to artificially accelerate their civilization growth until they bloody well did have! Where's that coffee!" "I threw it away." "Make some more. I have now remembered what I did next. I saved civilization as we know. I knew it was something like that."
“Is that good?” Game show meme starring Ed Zitron. I can’t remember who made this and I am ashamed I can’t cite them.
Southern Pacific dining car recipe book
Meme format from The Good Place where Michael is depressed by Jason figuring it out. Caption: “SoftBank figured it out?”
Unsolicited spam text with most of the number obscured, reading “the only guest missing from pasta and meatballs is you”
Cover of the novel “The Disposessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme
Distance shot of bookshelves
A cappuccino, a scone, and Terry Pratchett’s book “Nation” in a cozy coffee shop
Sabiha Basrai, in a white Vulcan jacket and pointed Vulcan ears, holds a picture book titled “A is for Activist”. She stands with an incredibly handsome LeVar Burton.
Left: a tan packet labeled Yukon Sourdough Starter (with a lot of commentary on the gold rush) Right: a glass King Arthur sourdough crock with a very happy bubbling mush of flour, water, and billions of very confused wild yeasts thousands of miles from home
A badge provided by Bluesky noting that I am user number 164,942, in the first 10% of refugees from the Bad Place
Pan pizza with shredded chicken and whole roasted garlic cloves
Me, standing in front of replica cannon onboard the USS Constellation
Homemade bagels with various toppings, in no particular order, on cooling racks.
A toy robot in a child’s hat as though it was a sleeping bag
“Your last run was 3.1 miles long with an average pace of 15 minutes, 17 seconds per mile”
Cover page of “Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch”, signed by Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent and embossed with the white horse emblem
Mad men meme in the elevator, Jude (stuffing “traditionalist”) says “I feel bad for you”. Aaron replies “I don’t think about you at all.”
Hardback edition of “A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories” by Terry Pratchett
Poblano peppers roasting directly over gas stove flame
A 3d printed Discworld, complete with the four elephants and the turtle.
A drawn image of an idyllic scene on The Chalk in Discworld. In the background rises Dunmanifestin, and on the field and in the sky herds of sheep drift like clouds. There is the Chalk Horse as well. In the foreground, a young witch sits reading under a lilac tree, and nearby lies Sir Terry’s Hat.
A jacaranda tree laden to bursting with large purple-blue flowers
Tweet from me, text is “happy Hogswatch”, dated December 24, 2021. Comic is the “it’s a sword, they’re not meant to be safe” scene from Hogfather. 21 comments, 1,150 retweets, 4,246 likes
Photo of a carriage without a horse, text reads “none of the harm”: philly’s first horseless electric carriage to debut in Fourth of July parade
Picture of an empty Portuguese beach