About halfway through the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky and wow...this is some of the best sci-fi I've read in years. Nice, hard science, good character development, cool ideas, stretches your brain a bit, few McGuffins, and well thought out. Pulls few punches. ...

If you're ever going to index logs from the wild, anywhere really, never ever use the datetime from the uploader.

Cathode Heaven! Predicta Meteor TV #1950s #design

Wait, Funcoland shut down!?

On average the days get longer or shorter by six minutes either way. Sooooo, I'm thinking that we should all get six minutes a day to do whatever we want, yea? If the universe thinks it can just keep stealing daylight for half a year, I should be able to punch it in the face for just as long.

/partner: You share a lot online. /me: Uhhh, okay, sure, those several thousand people are my friends and we'd die for each other, ok?

Added an adblocker to my entire house's internet. Amazing how usable the internet is now. Also, mobile games don't drive me insane after 2 minutes now.

Remember being a teen, going to Suncoast Video and purchasing a VHS tape of 2 episodes of some anime show for $45 dollars each and there were only 200 more episodes to go and now it's <$15/month for every anime episode ever made for ever and ever? *cries*

"It's block storage," they say. Cool, awesome - what does that mean? "It...stores data in ....blocks?" How is that different than before? "...*shrug*..."

:'( I helped launch this...20 YEARS AGO?!

A friend is currently streaming and talking to a group of friends while walking through Times Square 2000 miles away. Today certainly has problems, but some things are pretty cool.

Been going through this a lot lately. Recently she wants me to walk her to her litter box and keep guard while she does her business. :(

Just finished a month long binge of all 40 Discworld books. About halfway through I started to get sad because I knew some of these characters will never have another story. From the beginning he used his voice for equal rights, inclusiveness, justice, families & the joy of being human. Happy sad

Microsoft making the Zork trilogy open source is pretty daggum groovy.

One Battle after another is very very good.

Got this 27 years ago!? Half-Life 1 started my game dev career. The Half-Life team let me come in for play tests, sent me beta discs (which I have released to public recently) and then sent me a signed copy of the game. What a special time to be a fan.

Japan again in February. Osaka and south, keeping it warm. I dream about the food yet again.

Do tablets normally come with weird two finger gloves?

In a calm sea that has tiny waves, with just hints of movements in the water, two ships will eventually come together side by side. It's not gravity, though gravity probably works in a similar way. Each ship protects the other from the waves that would push them apart. Relationships are like this

"If there is any type of supreme being, it is up to all of us to become its moral superior."

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

Watching an Agatha Christie play at a small little Theater in Redmond. Thought I'd been here before, but guess not. Mousetrap!

"You can sell glass as diamonds because greed clouds men's eyes." Damn, Pratchett is so good.

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

It's interesting that humans spent 250,000+ yrs as hunter gatherers, sleeping under the stars, no bills, food growing from trees or the ground, and we think every homeless person today is forcibly there. (I understand this might upset some people, but I do have some experience with this subject.)

Partner and I watching A Minecraft movie... /her: this feels like Napoleon Dynamite... /me imdb'ing: huh, same director. She nailed it. By the way, awesome movie. I thought I'd hate it for some reason that people on Twitter told me I would hate it for, but a ton of fun. Funny as hell.

I've talked about how awesome the John Wick movies are many times, and how they're the first set of movies that seem to be influenced by video games vs the other way around. Anyways, just finished Ballerina and it's an excellent addition to the universe. So good, they're all just so good.

Good deal, but have to join Walmart+ which is Amazon Prime at the same price (but, 50% off through here). Picking up a couple more monitors...not sure why I need 6 monitors, but *shrug*. No speakers.

New game released: Rue Valley - 10% off Just finished the demo, fun premise, cool graphics, story, good voice acting, looking forward to playing it more. Time loop RPG while being depressed. store.steampowered.com/app/2126190/...

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Do I know anyone here that knows/knew old-school mid-90's Seattle? Mainly the old haunts on Capitol Hill, or old rave warehouses?

Ambrosia Sky is VERIFIED on Steam Deck, including support for Intel XeSS 2! We put a lot of love into performance on this device so you can clean up space fungus anywhere

Tried to watch the Twilight movies...that's some messed up stuff y'all.

Sweet back to this, about time...

/me: *learns something cool about some industry that almost no one knows* /them: "Don't put this on social media!" /me: :'(

Steam only letting you log in on one machine at a time when they have portable devices is one of the silliest decisions I've seen in years. Breaks things too, cloud sync can get you incompatible saves if you hop around.

Just still stupid excited to say that my sister-in-law is the new head coach for the Seattle Storm WNBA team. This means some of my favorite people are moving back to Seattle and also kick ass for my favorite city.

ArenaNet offering possibly? remote contract roles in WA state for Sr Concept Artist, Sr Creature Concept Artist, and Sr Environment Concept Artist: www.arena.net/en/careers

i want to go back. RT if you want to come with me

Miiiight do another Japan trip in February...Osaka and south of there this time. Waiting on friends to see if they can get the time off. *AHEM* @shinichiki.bsky.social *AHEMemememem*

Why did no one tell me Weird: the Al Yankovich story is one of the best comedies in years?

Hey so there are two recent major medication recalls: - Vyvanse generics - Lipitor generics Check your lot numbers and expiration dates! Links in next reply.

New coach for the Seattle Storm! (So happy for her, she's super badass!) www.youtube.com/live/2Txk8g4...

The nonprofit my partner works for just won an international award for smart cities: innovation award #2. Woo! They do amazing work! www.instagram.com/p/DQrzKI9DYy...

King County folks, check ballots! Use Katie's link if you need to; while I'm not in Seattle, I can see my vote counted

Now do a VCR that looks that good and runs on USB please. gizmodo.com/someone-made...

forgot to post my annual pumpkin #art

I can program in ~10 computer languages. ~30 year career in computers. Been on bleeding edge software for 4 industries. Done everything from QA to PM to dev to leadership. Most dev job interviews will stump me to this day. Broken system, not looking forward to finding a job soonish.

Who pulled it off better, Nyx or a Binturong?