I follow a lot of gamers, but I've seen no one playing South of Midnight that I follow. Y'all are sleeping on this interesting platform/ fighting game that reminds me of a cajun Legacy of Kain 2: Soul Reaver. Honestly the game itself is fun but the game is doing with thematic flavor.

Other AI, what are people interested in learning? I've been skilling up on Kubernetes networking and architecture as well as cybersecurity in general, and sharpening the saw on my Linux, which I've let get far too rusty.

合格した！ On JLPT exam day, I ran out of space on my scantron during the listening section, I had missed a few lines and was marking all my answers wrong. The listening section only happens once, you can't go back and listen. I left the exam center certain I had failed. Today the exam results came...

ええ？プレーしてみたい！ youtu.be/bGcJ9cmCRz4?...

This whole 'vibe' coding thing is going crazy, now there's 'vibe ops', I'm starting a new service where I analyze the results from this effort and share it with everyone. I'll be the first Vibe Rater.

fuck me but that's good. beats the Guinness in America.

Thought I saw @lookitup.baby wander by here at Kubecon but was very busy talking to customers. If you're here, do stop by and say hello!

Attending #Kubecon in London? Would love to meet you! Will be mostly at the Aviatrix booth (S653) but also wandering about.

Tonight I introduced my daughters to Macross Frontier: The False Songstress. My youngest said halfway, "We have GOT to watch the rest of these!" and my oldest said she couldn't wait to find out the answers in the Wings of Farewell (next movie) and went to the Internet to get her questions answered.

丸で猫の運動会だ！一緒に遊びたい～～～～～～！！ youtu.be/K9WSbrdP5KM?...

Sometimes understanding Japanese goes beyond translating the words. In this case, Makoto is planning to make clothing for Chinatsu and says, "It's like the Crane repayment, don't open the door", in reference to a famous Japanese fairy tale about a crane that repays a farmer's kindness by weaving.

So this is how democracy dies.. with thunderous applause.

It's even more stark in black and white as a transcript

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be more of an insufferable little bootlicking toadie than Mike Pence but JD Vance came out of nowhere and understood the assignment better than I thought possible

I waited too long to dig into Kubernetes, finally getting a kick in the ass from my company working to release a Kube integration. Here's my first published article on what I've learned and challenges/possible solutions enterprises run into deploying K8s. cloudnativenow.com/contributed-...

This looks delicious and this is not any sort of double entendre, would definitely stuff my face with

Happy Monster Hunter Wilds Day to those who celebrate

One more day until Monster Hunter Wilds! I'm preloading up. I'll share my hunter ID so we can make silly monster hats out of their skin and bones!

How do I know Twitter is full of bots and a prime example of dead Internet? I left the site three months ago, with a banner that says 404 profile not found, I'm on blueksy, a pinned tweet that says the same, that I've left the site, and I have 200+ more followers having not posted anything since.

I haven't been on in a few days because I've been knee deep in materials for Kubernetes. I'm sure everyone noticed.

If any of you regularly eat natto but struggle a little with the taste/small, the hack is chili crisp. Rice + natto + chili crisp. Get all the health benefits of natto with the nose-running benefits of chili crisp.

My God, one of the best anime OVA/movies of all time gets a remaster. Absolutely perfect art, story, everything.

Who else is doing the Monster Hunter Wilds beta? feel free to add and HMU for some monster hunting: HunterID: DM66886X They did not make it easy to figure out how to find people! Under Member List, use the shoulder buttons to go all the way to the right and you can search Hunter ID and then add.

Anyone really good work GKE and the best practice networking deployments? It seems like the basic idea is deploying nodes to several zones, having the whole cluster on one VPC, and each zone has routable subnets with IP carve-out for pods, nodes and services?

Credit: www.teamblind.com/post/Benefit...

There's a new all you can eat (within 2 hours) sushi restaurant in Raleigh that has noodles and soups too. I tried it for lunch and it passed the vibe + taste check. Now I am restudying container stuff and learning more Kubernetes.. Used to be good at Docker but you don't use it, you lose it.

These unheard of back to back plane crashes have me more than a little anxious about the fact that I have three separate work trips coming up, one of which is in just a couple days...

So I can't check my JLPT test results, because the site says my info is wrong. Even though it isn't. Here's hoping I can get my results mailed to me in March. On the other hand, we took my soon-to-be 16 year old last night to see Alan Walker and she loved it. Apparently the best birthday gift ever.

The entire tech industry right now

How I usually greet customers in on-site meetings

promo.humblebundle.com/monsterhunte... If for some strange reason you don't have these yet.. I'm LFG for MH Wilds at the end of February!

Make no mistake, it's bread and circuses because they don't have any kind of plan to fix those other things. The gender thing makes them look like they are doing something while they just avoid things that might impact the economic vampirism they are engaging in.

I absolutely loathe that the first order is business is not to fix the economy or health care or anything anyone actually gives a shit about, but to define genders via executive order like it's something that can be mandated (and is more important to mandate than the aforementioned).

Ahh, the familiar steaming of my glasses as I slurp hot noodles.

So, I guess all those 'National Security' concerns for TikTok were complete fabricated horse shit to force a foreign company to sell its lucrative business to an American tech giant who probably lobbied to make that happen? That's wild. And very unexpected, and a complete surprise.

My daughter's GS Robotics team participates in FIRST, building robots for competition. My daughter is learning C++, others focus on electronics, machining, etc. Support a good cause! digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/joseph... @tracketpacer.bsky.social mind a signal boost for a good cause?

最近書いてなくてもないごめん, いつも忙しかったけど、まだK8sを勉強したりした。ソーシャルメディアは一昨日から使いない。皆、同だろう？返事をしたら、ぜひ見てみる。

What???????

まことはミックスロッタさんだと思ってよ

My girls are out in the dark on the street throwing snowballs and it's friggin cold, and ResponsiblebDad should make them come inside, but by Dad math if I am Responsible Dad 8/10 times, I can really make the 2/10 Fun Dad times count. Hasn't snowed since 2022 here, I figure it's due.

welp, snow

Unrelated, I was talking to someone about chicken pot pies this morning and who has the best ones and I told them about Lowe's Foods.. so anyway now I am preheating the oven for chicken pot pies

Looks like they are forecasting snow for Raleigh. Last time I saw snow here was 2022, I have videos of the kids and puppy playing in it. I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm excited to be part of @exampro.bsky.social GenAI Bootcamp coming up! Register for FREE here (watch the short YT video for details) youtu.be/R0z7xSuRK70?...

This was a great episode to record, cloud visibility is such a challenge.

I'm looking up freezer-friendly meal prep ideas that I can pair with this new Costco membership and all I can think is:

Completely unrelated to Japanese or video games, my Kubernetes networking study proceeds apace. I'm also so far behind on my YT channel.. this is my curse, I start and stop content creation so often looking to provide the most value to effort ratio and then life gets in the way.

This is from ふらいんぐういっち (Flying Witch) and is an example of 'relative clause' in Japanese. 近くに - Nearby おいしいケーキ出してくれる - Serves delicious cake 喫茶店 - Coffee Shop があるの - There is "There is a coffee shop that serves delicious cakes nearby". In Japanese you add descriptions before the noun described.

For auld lang syne, my dear For auld lang syne We'll drink a cup of kindness yet For the sake of auld lang syne