Donkey Kong Country proved popular with the wee one. “That’s me, and that’s you! You have to find me in a barrel!”
And few years ago I started tracking what books I’ve read in a spreadsheet. Sadly, not far enough back to save me from re-reading the first third of a book before giving up on it.
At least it should save me from doing it a third time.
read Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
This is going to be a fast, intense read.
Lucy holding a football. Charlie Brown running up to take a kick. “Is this still available?”, asks the gumtree user. “Yes, when’s convenient for you to collect?”, asks Charlie Brown. Lucy takes the ball away at the last second. The message is seen, but a reply never appears. Charlie Brown falls.
Don’t mind me, just the weirdo in shorts and sandals going out to the street with cable ties to fix a temporary roadsign that’s flapping noisily in the wind.
Is a transparent wood stain really a stain?
Big night! Dad night, and we’re watching our first episode of Thunderbirds together!
I’ve got at least a week of working with a screaming cat for company. She’s not allowed out until a big cut heals, but she’s not too keen on the plan.
Two’s company…
Saw a Why Don’t You? meme go past the other day and found myself bracing for nostalgia BS and/or racism. There was none, thankfully, but the years of being on Facebook have scarred me.
Saw
Stop telling me there’s an app update. There’s no new features you can add about the weather.
Finally ordered a manga series that’s been on my “to read” list for thirty years. All those hours spent digging through boxes of comics I couldn’t affort at marts. Thankfully, this one hasn’t shot up in price.
Brought home the last of the old junk, erm, collectibles, from my folks place. About to found out how little resale value there is for Babylon 5 and X-Men 2 trading cards.
Many years ago, a new engineer joined the company I was at and within a week called an all-hands to propose rewriting the entire product in Ocaml in order to eliminate bugs.
I look at the bun story and wonder if these days they would have just pushed up a PR.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of listening to The Grateful Dead since I heard my first notes nearly 30 years ago, and I have finally listened to Wake of the Flood.
Nothing like carrying a bad rucksack round the zoo for six hours to make you appreciate the one you should have brought. Oh, my back!
Doublespeak
I think you can just say it caught fire, no need to try and obscure it with vague language.
My brain just mixed or up merged “append” and “amend” and I had a little “but how does this work?!” spiral while running a git command.
My brain just mixed or up merged “append” and “amend” and I had a little “but how does this work?!” spiral while running
The Vinland Saga and Usagi Yojimbo bundles are back on Fanatical. Well worth picking up.
It’s only May. I have no idea what my job of software engineering is going to look like in 6 months.
It’s still going to involve code, but I don’t know what my contact or relationship to it will be like.
Looks like I’ve managed to make my social media posting POSSE blog thing work with activitypub as well. How exciting.
I could be something more useful with my time, I guess.
Failed to adequately explain to the boy why he couldn’t play with my gunpla. So my RX-78 is currently sitting in his new magnatile house alongside Spider-man.
Why does eBay need to train its AI on my personal data?