Trying to wrap my head around how a guy who sends military against his own citizens, imprisons/deports w/o due process, blows up boats in int'l waters on whim thinks he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize because of partisanship? On chance he'd broker any peace, it's still not representative of his being

I made a "rescue build" out of old hardware + new MB & CPU. Spent 1hr+ trying to figure out the case fan. Stripped the whole thing apart. It gets power from a spare SATA and the fan speed is controlled by a switch on the case's front panel. Couldn't find the stone tablets that explained this.

For anyone who needs to know this, in many apps now, Ctrl+Shift+V pastes without formatting. So you can get just regularly old text and not bring along unwanted colours, fonts, links, or past trauma associated with the text you are trying to paste.

I never get tired of the Peacemaker opening dance number.

If stress could be monetised, I would have one hell of a side-hustle.

To put social media in perspective, disinformation and conspiracies have been around long before social media: in the early years AD, there was a rumour going around Rome that Christians were cannibals, eating flesh and drinking blood in secret rituals.

Digestive systems that process meat are like unlicensed code use: it leverages the efforts of others (e.g. the herbivores) to streamline its own process in a way the unwilling contributor would not approve. (Not a political or ideological statement. I love a good steak or burger.)

Boy Scout patches and rank chains are the prototype for video game achievements. "Finish this side quest of woodworking, get a picture in a circle. Get 14 and you reach silver status."

Well, here's a slightly disturbing game of "one of these things is not like the other"... (I was returning a Chromebook.)

For Canadians still willing to travel to the US, pre-clearance puts minds at ease. Given escalating border policies, there's some comfort in e.g. still being in YVR not LAX if you're denied entry. Take that away and border crossings will plummet further. Article: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Remember when "trilogy" meant coherent/planned 3-part arc, and not just "3 movies" or "3 books"? When the Goldfinger movie came out, I doubt they referred to Dr. No/From Russia With Love/Goldfinger as the James Bond trilogy.

I recall once being behind a woman yelling at a grocery cashier that there was air in the bag as her vegetables were being weighed & she wasn't going to pay for air. If it's not obvious: there's always air above the scale, whether inside the bag or out. The 0 calibration accounts for that already.

I want to see the Justice League do an opening dance number a la Peacemaker.

So what I gather from George R. R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, etc. is that writing Act 3 in your saga is insurmountable final-boss level stuff. Hats off to Ben Aaronovitch who just keeps churning them out with manic frequency.

Cancelled Disney+. Reason given: "Other". Further details: "You are cowards."

Heart goes out to the Gen V cast and crew who had to process Chance's passing on-screen.

Dug our DVi camera out of mothballs for a family event. I was still searching for the tripod when I discovered the camera is 640x480 resolution. Tech from another era... the long-lost 2011s. So basically, my phone propped up by a salt shaker would be a better option.

Who else, with the combination of affordable big screen home TVs, waning eyesight, and a post-COVID mentality, is not likely to go to a movie theatre ever again? If you're "on of us" what was the last movie you saw in a theatre? For me it was Star Wars IX.

My favourite part of Star Trek: TOS's "The Doomsday Machine" is when it takes an extra 2 seconds to beam Scotty aboard and he jumps off the pad yelling "what's the matter with that thing?!"

In honour of Star Trek Day, may I suggest there needs to be a video game that's entire hand-to-hand combat system is based on Kirk-Fu.

I'm a fan of Brandon Lee's The Crow. Finally watched the 2024 version. Brandon's still #1 but it's the best version since. Gary Numan on the soundtrack is just icing on the cake. Fans of the original: don't think of it as a remake but the latest instalment of the anthology. By those terms, it wins.

I think the reason I like email is that real life conversations don't have a draft folder and an edit feature.

Feels a little circular when you're sent a document for electronic signature which is an agreement to do things via electronic signature.

Canned emails before they were popular...

Tonight's Strange New Worlds makes me miss Lower Decks. e.g. thinking of "Caves" episode.

The street sign says "entering Japanese beetle regulated area"... but they must be lunch break. So far no beetles of any nationality have tried to pull me over or ask me for my papers.

CBC headline: "Poilievre calls for..." Why is anyone interested in what Mr. Participation Trophy has to say?

I periodically reflect on how David Bowie even died with style and theatre: releasing the video for Lazarus immediately after his death. There has been no one like him.

Severance did what Dollhouse only wishes it could do.

The gimmick of doing a TV episode from the perspective on an outside reporter worked exactly once, in M*A*S*H. I really wish other TV shows would stop revisiting it. (Looking at you, Strange New Worlds.) Now kinda dreading their version of "Smile Time" tbh.

Nice to finally be home. Now comes the moment where Air Canada needs to set things right.

I feel like I need to get into an argument with someone about whether graphic novels can be put in this pocket.

Quite a rollercoaster week for me. Also, packing at 1-2am for a 1pm flight to a wedding, about 8 hours each way, but we pick up the kids along the way, so that'll be nice. Hoping Air Canada is still flying until at least we get back. (Impending flight attendant strike, for those who may not know.)

In a world gone crazy, it's good to know there's still Nine Inch Nails. Doesn't it make you feel better? (Saw them in concert tonight. Worth it!)

I've noticed that dark wave uses drum machines with depressing frequency.

In play testing some game dev, I'm running the frame rate about 20x normal, but am also invincible. So from my AI opponent's perspective I'm very sluggish but a brick wall. Deal with it AI. 🤪

I find that hearing when a glass is full while pouring water into it to be one of the more weird acquired skills.

I'm getting rather fed up with the daily emails from my company's IT department telling me about some security issue or another with my account, threatening to revoke access, etc. The reason? Because I *am* the company's IT department, so these emails are just a little bit dubious in authenticity.

Given that "jumping the shark" has become such an ubiquitous cultural reference, did Happy Days really jump the shark when Fonzie jumped the shark?

I've become convinced that the reason I can be infuriatingly pedantic IRL is that I spend most of my waking life coding, and code that is not exceedingly pedantic invariably fails. I need to spend less time "talking" to computers.

Apparently this was in my "camera roll" from 20 years ago, from my work whiteboard. Hoping somebody gets it.

I am happy to report that the earworm I have suffered from for more than a week has finally been replaced by a different earworm.

I am, today, freed of my legal duties as executor. 🎉

Rewatching Severance, and now I have Enter Sandman in my head.

I always find the notion of "48 business hours" etc. weird. 2 business days, I get. But each business day typically ought to be 8 hours, so 48 business hours ought to be 6 days? 🤔

Well this is a new one: I went to a Pharmacy and was told it wasn't worth it to them to fill my prescription... 😒

Another "Trump threatens Canada with X% tariffs" headline. At this point, my reaction: "whatever, dude. ... So, PM Carney, how're talks with Europe, etc. going?" Could've believed after Biden won that Trump's win in 2016 was temporary insanity. This time, the US has lost int'l trust for a LONG time.

Finally tried watching Star Trek's Section 31 movie. Got about 24 min in. It was like the filmmakers watched Suicide Squad and said "needs more ADHD and posturing." Irene called it tedious. We didn't even get to pondering whether or not it's good Star Trek. It's just a bad movie of its own accord.

I feel like Google's AI Overview may, just possibly, be wrong on this one: "A visitor visa, also known as a temporary resident visa, is generally required for Canadians to visit Canada, ..."

We have (had?) an ant infestation. Lots of traffic. Tried homemade bait & 2 kinds of store-bought. They ignored it all. Yet today there are dozens of dead ants about 2-3 metres away & almost no live ones to be seen. Weird. Feels like when Monty Python's gladiator died of a heart attack mid-battle.