I feel like I should get these photos framed, and it would be a great iOS software dev in-joke

It’s 17:30 on a Saturday night. I’ve come out of a bath and I’m in my PJs for the night. My, how time changes us.

I complete the ritual. I go and get strips of paper out of a box. I walk across the room and put the paper into a different box. With this, I have again fended off the agents until the next moon. I went to the ATM and paid my social security bill.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Studying for the Japanese drivers license test, and it’s so annoying how “reducing your speed” and ”slowing down” are two different things and not at all interchangeable.

Help, I’m about to buy an expensive thing for a habit that I could start with much less money, but telling myself that expensive thing will be the thing that enables me to start doing the habit instead of being lazy and not doing it but I know myself well enough to know that’s not true and I won‘t

For people who consider white supreme, they are sure adding a lot of dark stains to history.

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Mom: You should watch this movie! Me: It sounds like a hallmark Christmas movie Mom: No! Not that cheesy. 1/3

I'm not a particularly fast reader. I tend to go in short bursts. Sometimes that burst just ends up being 55% of the book in a week 😅

We should try out new, niche forms of government: - narcogarchy: rule by those who are asleep - noctugarchy: ruling, but only at night time - olivegarchy: when you’re ruling, you’re family!

I’m reaching the point in my book where i don’t want to put it down, but rather just finish it in one extended reading session. But I don’t have time like that. So for the next few nights I will be going to bed disappointed that I couldn’t read more.

If you showed me a picture of a Saiga’s head and told me it was a creature in a bar with Han Solo and not an actual animal on our real world, I’d believe you.

Instant coffee is fine for most cases. We’ve had smallish kitchens for the last few years so we haven’t had coffee “infrastructure” and have had more instant coffee than before. Aeropress is great and small, but for most mornings, instant coffee has been just fine.

wtf usa

We did Christmas in a western way, and so New Years will be Japanese. For Christmas Eve, we had festive decorations, special meals, treats, and gifts. Now on New Years Eve, my wife hands me a sponge and bucket and tells me to clean the bathroom I’m not sure I understood the terms of the deal

The hobby that I’ve been the most consistent in maintaining over the years has got to be my Digital Tsundoku.

We have reached the point of winter break where I think, “gee, wouldn’t it be cool to learn to read Middle Egyptian? Hieroglyphics can’t be that hard, right?”

I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it bothers me that Scrooge is miserable at the beginning of the story. And his conversion is in large part due to seeing himself die with nobody there. Maybe it makes it seem like yet another selfish act rather than actual compassion and kindness?

I was wondering why clothes I bought were too small. I’m a Medium, I’m nearly always a Medium. Well I bought it in Japan, where Medium actually means Small to the rest of the world…

The intensity with which my son focuses on the single Spider-Man bedtime storybook we have makes me excited for post-Christmas when he’ll have the whole set of Spider-Man storybooks we are getting him.

I don’t think that whoever wrote “Silent Night,” a song about the night a baby was born, has ever had a baby.

Alright well I’ve kinda been hard on Japanese banks for the past few months, but at least I don’t have to wait “up to 3 business days, depending on the financial institution” for money transfers to happen. In my experience it’s been minutes if not seconds. Same with my German bank too, iirc

the surveillance state is like “have u seen this man”

In a pinch and need something to pinch your curtains shut? Try getting some nail clippers and closing them on the curtain! Hopefully they will be strong enough to keep your curtains closed.

Me: see you later, I’m going out with some friends! Son: you have friends?? wasn’t supposed to be a burn, but yeah, he got me

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Correct? Incorrect? Correct, incorrect is correct!!

I wrote in an email: “so-and-so was a bit shaken by the earthquake” I already sent it, but now want to follow-up with “omg no pun intended, they were actually scared, I’m not making a joke!” But I also don’t want to bring attention to it if they didn’t read it like that 🙈

The content YouTube presents to me is pretty terrible, and I’m not sure how it got like this.

I’m gonna start a tradition when gift distributing, I tell people to “render unto me the things that are mine.” It will be great when my son (also named Caesar) starts doing it too.

New career goal: don’t make it so the world celebrates when I leave my job

I lived in a city whose symbol is a bear, and never in 2 years did I give a passing thought to real life bears. Now I’ve moved away and I’m subscribed to notifications for when bears show up in my neighborhood or near the school.

I had the boarding pass open in the app for hours. I got through security and everything. The. When boarding started it just… disappeared?! Like the reservation and everything was still there, but the QR code and the option to view it were just gone.

Watching the under plane camera during landing, and wow, it’s exactly like that one level of the Top Gun game for NES.

I’m taking time off work, but I still feeling like writing some code. Maybe SwiftUI? Maybe break away and pick up some Web UI? I’m on a plane all day today. What are the best resources I could follow along with to learn?

Me after every social interaction

The largest group I’ve seen speaking together in sign language were from Kenya. In Japan. Right now.

Anyone ever set up a local wifi network on an airplane so your iPhone and MacBook can talk to each other? The phones hotspot is disabled when there’s no cellular data, and macOS doesn’t see to enable the network if there’s no actual connection it is sharing (eg no actual Ethernet port connected).

Log into this shopping website? We will require all: password verification, login link by email, and SMS code. New device? Your account is blocked from purchasing anything from all devices. You can unlock it after 15 minutes. Not sure I have any more hair to pull out.

Ugh. Watched a miniseries that really seemed it would have a satisfying ending that tied everything together. But instead nothing was resolved. It was like they had some interesting (and some not) interesting ideas but couldn’t make a coherent storyline.

Who is Makoto and why do people keep thanking them?!

Maybe it’s time to start watching Stargate again. It’s been forever so maybe start with SG-1?

I remember going through old CDs and records over the holidays and playing my favorite music. I have memories of both the music but also the nostalgia of physical media. So I bought a CD player and am burning CDs of the music I used to listen to. Hoping I can give my son some of that same feeling.

There is a daylight alarm clock that claims to be 89% off, but I have a very similar one, and I guarantee I didn’t pay $250 for it when it wasn’t on sale.

Just thinking about the mom at the Halloween festivities a few weeks back. None of the parents were in costume except maybe one mom who was either wearing a Paddington Bear costume, or maybe she just dresses like that. I didn’t have the heart to ask.

On the screen in a taxi, a commercial came on for some new app. The young CEO was wearing a T-Shirt that read “not another chatbot” He demo’d the product. It was another LLM powered chatbot.

We watched Jurassic Park and I was whistling to the music. My wife is usually critical of my lack of music sense (she is professionally trained in music; I am not). Shen she heard me whistle that sped up triumphant return of the trumpet (we all know the part I’m talking about, right?)

Now I’ve got Immich set up and uploading my iOS photos to my servers, with an automatic nightly cloud backup (and 2 other synced offline backups) I should be good to stop paying for iCloud storage, but it feels scarier with photos than it did with other stuff (eg music & video streaming, documents)