You want to know what’s my favorite thing about you? How you always show up, even when you’re not feeling your best. That’s not easy. Make sure you show up for yourself and take your meds with some water, friend.
It looks like a quite sane route… but it is cursed thanks to lack of railways and cross border issues
A big (double) rainbow on last night's dog walk. The dog was not particularly impressed but I stopped to take a picture!
When I was in high school I worked at Burger King for about a year and a half. I would finish up well after midnight, then, still keyed up from being 17, I would drive around with this album on VERY LOUD, INDEED with the windows down because there were no girls to be found anywhere in a small, Midwestern town at that hour Now, when I'm constantly awoken by the local college kids at 3am, I think Karma's a bitch and roll over and go back to sleep youtube.com/watch?v=b_Q6FxWEqE…
@dontattempt.bsky.social Your wheelhouse but maybe too scatological for your audience.
Playing with loveage, which is an INCREDIBLY prolific herb that's quite strong flavored. (Imagine the strongest celery you've tasted -- now even stronger, and cross it with parsley. It's something that is hard to use at the level I use, say, cilantro.) I've got a literal bucketful of it that I'm trying to figure out if I can do anything fun with. So far, my best guess has been trying to brine some of it in a 20% salt solution and see if the resulting goo is good for soups/stews/flavoring. That's made two jars and I still have a bucket of the stuff. 🤣
some days the overwhelm of basically starting over with exercise, on top of doing it because I have a hyper-mobile body that desperately needs stability, just brings all that grief back up of having to manage this condition for the rest of my life
I'm seriously considering now to re-create all of my open pull requests on the release branch, just to make it more likely to get them merged... But that would probably mean hours of work and re-compiling the engine for the n-th time 😖
Co signed
Three good things: 1. I spotted an avocado under the car seat and it is perfectly ripe and part of lunch. 2. Beautiful display at the library for migratory birds. 3. Cats sleeping or playing quietly. #3goodthings
i got to see a real Degas pastel sketch in person today. it was one he ended up using as a reference for a painting. some random woman owns it and is having the conservators at the center i was at treat it and rehome it for long term display
Started to create characters tonight in another GM’s customized dream Pokémon D&D 5E mechanics game. We get to campaign a few months in a fan fictive new land before the GM moves away. #ttrpg #homebrewttrpg
Anyway, good morning, it’s yet another Sabres game day
Oh FFS… one of the higher ups at my place of work (biophysics and optics) was asking me, if I was willing to give a seminar on #AI and how to effectively use it. For context: I'm surrounded by sloperators; even my boss has become addicted. The number of times I'm told "you could be so much more productive, if you just used AI" (no I wouldn't because I don't measure productivity in LoC). Anyway, if I'm going to give that seminar, it's going to be a "don't use #slopbots" angle.
First time in months I'm getting the chance for a few hours of uninterrupted writing time and am absolutely crippled by imposter syndrome and don't know how/where to start.
I'm not implying that I'm getting old, but I've just been doing a jigsaw whilst awaiting the delivery of some new slippers.
We wish you a figgy pudding
Got contacts for the first time in a few years and slept in them like a dumbass rather than letting my eyes get used to contacts before adding in the extra stress, so anyway, I look like I’ve got a mild case of Ebola at work today. That’s fun. Some slight pressure but no real pain; think I got them out before it got bad.
Alright I got 11 days till my 43rd birthday and I think tonight is the first time I'm making chickpeas myself. I've eaten them plenty but I think this is my first actual production.
I did a draws! I'm happy wif it...I did make two left paws and forgot to show more of a detail, but it gets the idea across.
for my birthday instead of making me a gift do Yourself a favor. draw your sona as a taur. You know you want to
Sent several book pitches out to editors. Among them: dark academia, dark fantasy, space opera, horror collection, paranormal romance, and a mainstream thriller/horror. All of them with my characteristic dark threads woven through, but as always, some light as well.
In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times
Today in the greenhouse... another gem, Lithops geyeri, from a small area in the eastern Richtersveld in South Africa, growing in quartzite. Described as normally being in shades of grey, buff or beige but mine is this lovely green. Bought in 2012 as a small plant and doing really well. #Succulents #Lithops #BloomScrolling
We're in your area, Flow sicker than a bad case of malaria
some notes on performing at October AlgoRhythms: - is the event like a bright star - slowly shrinking but becoming more brilliant as it does so? - white dwarf future or supernova? - I had in mind a list of three tracks that I had previously written, a couple in last week, one from august - I couldn't find one of them, but eventually did - great dancing by the audience, that was a real buzz - in my code-jay-ing comfort zone, making use of midi controller to add variation - this breaks my streak of about three from-scratch solo performances - i'm not sure if i'll ever be able to code fast, I don't come up with ideas the same way under pressure, can't think straight on stage mostly - didn't look up enough despite telling Chau that I was intending to shortly before starting - played the last track backwards somehow hehe but it was all good - was fun to perform with Chau on vis as always : )
this godot tutorial is sitting here at 2 hours,i was hard work in godot yesterday just tinkering around, not really doing anything just recalling what I learned but today I didn't do anything. I notice with this I usually do the stuff in my head and then i get super excited to go back and foolaround
I went to a restaurant a couple days ago and the waiter gave us the menu's and said what the mocktails of the day were and that "we can turn them into a cocktail if you prefer". I love that moctails were the default! Never had that before
“I am yours.” 💙
Spent some time on my OpenBSD installation on an X270 yesterday. First of all I setup cwm, and then downloaded my old dwm install and put that on it. It is now a more than usable laptop, and I will be using it daily to become more comfortable with it. My one grouch is not due to #OpenBSD: I have #nextcloud installed on a server, and the client installed on all my machines. For Linux machines running the likes of plasma, the client uses kwallet for authorisation, but I haven't been able to get it working on OpenBSD yet. To be honest, for file sharing and diary management Nextcloud is overkill, so I should take the opportunity to look for a less integrated solution that I can get an understanding of from the operating system up...
I'd originally thought there was a substantial gap between reading Mae Dean's coming out comic and me starting up my femme burner accounts. Then I checked the timestamps and realized I'd been on those burner accounts for nine months before coming out. I'd started them two weeks after the comic.
Cleaning out a closet, we found one of the kids’ karate belts from when they were younger. In an effort to make things more exciting for Biscuit T. Dog, my wife tied the belt around his oblately spherical chicken simulacrum so we could like drag it and such for chasing. Biscuit is…confused. He always has his chicken in his mouth, takes it outside with him when he goes pee, etc. Anyway now he very gingerly nudges his chicken until he can pick it up without having any of the belt in his mouth.
Sorry buddy your sentai suit is spontaneously growing a miniskirt over your spandex
I low key want to get a copy of Duke 3D running and as many Duke! Zone packs as I can get my hands on so I can do some nostalgia streaming. There's a fun mix of hot garbage and genuinely good maps in there.
My quest to own every episode of Eyewitness on VHS (the ideal format) is now halfway complete
Interesting news from work. A good friend works in a position that sees what's happening on the AI front at work. Said that leadership has brought in a consulting group that evaluates where AI can replace humans and they're currently evaluating my department of around 200 folk. Now, I've been saying this could happen, but only my buddy and I agree, maybe one other person. Sooo... RIP our jobs in 2027 probably.
Thank you!! 💙
Morning wander around the estate done, first proper chilly one of the season, heating in the house came within 0.1C of turning on at 19C but house is warming up from the sun now so will probably not come on until tomorrow.
pressing for a different job i have a feeling my life will drastically improve once im not driving 2+ hours a day. i know ive complained about it before but today was a breaking point and i cant keep doing this lmao
I wiped out on the street this morning. I was relatively lucky in terms of hit points (nasty scrapes and a candy bucket of shock but everything still bends), but my PSA is (1) falling as an adult sucks and (2) get a case and screen protector for your smartphone.
Big felicitations to @alyseliza.bsky.social on Novel Publication Day! 🎉
Spent 1:55 writing tonight, and got 859 words done. Also some structural/outlining stuff that was necessary before I could start working on "actual" words. Got a scene in progress, and it's getting heavy. Good, that's what it should do! People are under pressure. #writing #AmWriting
Here’s an AI use at work I don’t mind. Our department is responsible managing for *a lot* of spend. 9 digits worth. Anyways, we didn’t have a Spent Intelligence platform. We were doing that shit “by hand” and hoping for the best. Stuff got done, but it would take days to pull together a report.
take non binar bus home
this cat looks so serious, like it’s doing a public health education ad. “Good evening. My name is Mr Snugglepuss, and I live with beaver fever.”
My wife said she would be out of her K-pop phase a few weeks ago Turns out she took a tiny break I think she is back in more than ever
The vintage shopping gods have been blessing me with a lot of incredible leather lately, but NOLA weather hasn’t gotten the memo about it being fall yet. Thinking about making a little visit to NYC (and perhaps a night in DC too?) in November…
Due to a shopping mishap yesterday, I had roasted garlic ciabatta for breakfast this morning.
I was apart if the control group 🥴
Ok, it's been 15-something years I haven't touched SolidWorks but just to make an assembly, I could be able to use FreeCAD just by instinct, right? *20 minutes later* Well, I don't know how to "properly" move objects other than "transforming" them, I can't find a grid to align stuff and it crashed when duplicating pieces. Ok.
