@cstross For what little it counts, Sam's video in a maker secret santa where he made a multiselector-based LED sign for ThisOldTony wound up being the accidental gateway to my (very middling) entry into modular synths.

He's a very capable musician, whatever else might be said abouy Eurovision.

@stevendbrewer @cstross I can confirm that, at least in Atlantic Canada (which is something like a Diet America), Boones is still very much a thing.

#WordWeavers for February 2:

> Do you enjoy writing good, bad, or morally gray characters more? Why?

I love the idea of trying to write true heroes, but I rarely actually do it. Even my "goodest" characters have their flaws. I don't think it's healthy to pretend that anyone is ever otherwise.