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)

Apparently in Berlin there is (was?) a place called "Jesus House" on "Butt Man Street"

Booked some solo travel. It’s been a minute since I’ve gone it alone.

That there's no way to see your Apple Card transactions on macOS is such an annoying issue. It's my only card that doesn't penalize me for making transactions outside the USA, but having to go between devices when doing my bookkeeping is super annoying.

It’s November 8. I open up my Zelda game and see that my last save file is from June 22. This is the reason he takes me so long to beat games…

omg I came across some *really* old files. I'll post a few of them in this thread. First, supposedly created 2000-08-29, I present you the title page for a game I created in RPG Maker 2000.

I found this to be a very compelling argument for why generated AI output (research, images, code, etc) can feel really great to you, while no one receiving that content cares very much.

One nice thing about quitting my job is that nobody has messaged me asking what’s going on with $DUOL heh…

Coca Cola for dinner? Oh I can’t. I wouldn’t be able to handle the caffeine! Says the man who had all too many cups off coffee throughout the day. That man was me.

My body lies to me every single time I get sick. Before going to bed, I say, “wow! I feel better than a few days ago. I’ll probably be healthy tomorrow!” Then I wake up and my body says to me, “hahaha, gotcha!”

Shipping a package in Japanese. For special handling options, it had a phrase I hadn't seen before: 天地無用 Apple's native translate feature said: "Heaven and earth are useless"

I knew a kid who was 4 years old, and who had lost his dad about a year prior. One day “One More Day” by Diamond Rio came on the radio. He said, “oh! this is my mom’s favorite song!”

I’ve also had ChatGPT tell me I was “Intuitively Enlightened” and most likely “a new Buddha” after I asked a few questions about what Zen was all about.

I appreciate the commitment to the bit! I’m know some people who have had major issues after using ChatGPT like this, so it’s not a joke, and while he makes it humorous, he’s actually demonstrating how this stuff gets to these weird levels, which I think is important to show. youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q

Toonami: the segment on Cartoon Network that played anime after school. "Toon"ami because they are cartoons, right? But you could also read it "Too" (toe instead of two) "Nami". What would it be then? 東波 (とうなみ): "Eastern Wave" For a wave of cartoons coming out of the east 🤯

“A dismal dawn was breaking when they took her man away Not knowing what was his crime Just what he was guilty of not one of them could say But they’d think of something in time” Here’s a song that seems as applicable today as it was when it was released. youtu.be/gzqjNgNDi9o

I would like to separate art from artist but I find it really hard to ignore the voice in the back of my mind reminding me of who made it. Even if I didn’t pay anything to support them or anything, partaking in it makes me feel guilty.

How does LinkedIn have the same problem as other recommendation systems? Why send me an email with nothing but job openings for the company I just left?

This tree has seen some shit

Trying to access my old bank account and it seems like in order to verify my identity they want to do it in the most easiest-to-fake way possible.

Getting my residence card was a goal I had for the last few weeks. But rather than being an endpoint, it’s become the starting point of a ton of other paperwork 😵‍💫

The only reason I can calculate multiples of 180 is thanks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

If transformers are robots in disguise, then that means their natural configuration is humanoid. They spend a ton of time in their vehicle form, with their heads hidden and their limbs in unnatural positions. Just thinking about what their conscious experience must be like is uncomfortable.

Today I’m going to a place called Kanamoto Hall. Which is fine, except that images online seem to show that it used to be called “わくわく Holiday Hall.” I can’t express how much of a downgrade the new name is. わくわく (waku waku) is a word for the feeling of excitement/anticipation for something.

Got my Japanese residence card. That’s one weight lifted off my shoulders. I still have a lot to work to do, but at least now I know I can stay here!

Watched K-Pop Demon Hunters on a whim because I only hear positive things about it. I ended up liking it more than I thought I would! It’s a pretty solid movie.

it seems like a lot of bad in the world happens because “rich people dont want to pay taxes”

I was once really into comic books for a while. It seemed like every one was so interesting and fun, and I bought new books every week. I ended up creating burndown charts and everything. Couldn’t keep up. Instead of trimmings I just quit comics books. I couldn’t burn down, so I burnt out.

When people talk about the 9-5, I wasn’t expecting it to be about my sleep schedule...

I was created by a small team of two humans. I am (reasonably) intelligent. I am an artificial intelligence. And I just need $1bn in funding so I can continue the development of my intelligence.

Being in a city of 2 million, I wasn’t expecting to have to search “what to do if you encounter a bear” but life is full of surprises

I have a hard time getting as immersed in fiction as I did when I was a kid. I used to get so into it, I’d read everything about it, learn all the lore, etc. Things almost began to feel ”real” in a sense. Now, I read a story or play a game, and that’s all it is. It’s kind of disappointing.

Gonna be really disappointed if this Halloween nobody is giving out “Cake Pop Demon Hunters”

these smoke detector beeps could have been an email