Vancouver Indie Game Expo!

"Hey you're the only guy here who knows React as well as backend" - I don't wanna do this, I'm sick of crud apps. "Hey, we need this..."

fuuuuuck I hate writing up a resume. I'm already allergic to the LinkedIn flavored competence kabuki theatre. Reduce six years at a company with all of its joys and tears and all the shit that lead to the angry breakoff into a few sentences.

Nature walk nature walk na…… 🤔

Saturday walk around Green Lake, Herons are like the rare pokemon in the forest that people run to capture (on camera). forgot how many runners turn up once dawn breaks Also at the UW farmers market

Entire tree knocked over in this last rain rainstorm, nearly smashing the car on the other side of the road. Many Lime scooters lost their lives last night. bonus: Pike Place Seagull #seattle

RIP Roastery! It was a bit of a screwball vanity project but an absolute gem and it got tourists out of Pike Place and into the surrounding neighborhoods. I guess they’re cutting Princi, the fancy merchandise fancy drinks across the board. Not sure how much is unionization or company direction

“Seattle’s Starbucks Reserve Roastery on Capitol Hill is closing, according to a company memo. The sudden closure comes days after the store’s unionized workers rallied demanding progress on contract negotiation.” www.seattletimes.com/business/sta...

my bluesky

Gee these sticker people work fast

@emeraldcitycon.bsky.social Just got my badge for Emerald City Comic Con. www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com Seems to have a cryptid theme this year - featuring a drumming mermaid(?) in a bathtub who is notably not using a kick drum.

DOGE cuts to the FBI will make crimes like this easier to commit arstechnica.com/security/202...

Visted a hacker space the other day, and in their retro shit closet, an honest to goodness Cobalt Qube, a web serving appliance. College acquaintance graduated and went to work for them in TYOOL nineteen hundred and ninety nine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_...

In all the animal kingdom, no mother is more devoted than the blue jay. Valuing her eggs above even her own life, the mother bird bravely fights off such fearsome predators as the badger and the mongoose. Of course, one thing mother blue jay can't defend against... is a set of steel tongs.

You go onto retrogaming Reddit and they’re like Boomers who only listen to the same hundred songs that were playing when they went to school. Some of the least adventurous people around. They’re like final fantasy fans who’d never played Romancing Saga until square rereleased them on switch.

Tufted Titmouse reminds you to get started on your taxes early!

At the Brookfield Zoo holding Mold-A-Rama model from a machine that probably produced the same model penguin I had from forty years ago. Weirdly waxy feeling and quite brittle Bonus: Peahens 🦚 walking the zoo grounds and cleaning up wayward popcorn and pretzels www.wbez.org/curious-city...

I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

At SeaTac - the "Sky Gamerz" bar opened after a year or so of having this rather sad looking AI generated photo of people having fun. Q: "What makes it a gamers bar?" A: "I see Atari VCS/2600's mounted on the wall with non playable or fake games." Q: "Anything else?" A: "n-no, not really"

2022 … shit www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

If you can see this post a beach from your gallery

8 PM at the opening of Voodoo donut, 30 minute line. Best of Luck, guys. Except Seattle’s Capitol Hill has Mighty O Donut, General Porpoise, Top Pot, Mochi Dough, NuFlours, Half N Half Donut, not to mention a dozen other croissant and bagel bakeries - all within a twenty minute walk.

Peanut eatin’ bastard isn’t an omen of anything but more peanuts.

I forgot to post them in October, so starting today, I'll repost my #Octobird 2021 drawings daily. This was a month-long project illustrating birds based on #dnd subclasses. @retrogamerryan.com wrote all the text! We picked out some of our favorite birds and assigned fun adventuring roles to them 🪶

Security guards on strike today at Seattle Art Museum with special appearance by Scabby the Strike Rat www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Flying in from LAX on Wednesday night and seeing the most pea soup fog illuminated by street lights. Phone doesn’t quite capture how “can’t see across the street” this fog was. Everyone looked like a ghost

Elon makes himself head of product at Twitter, fires all the other product people. He wants a more combative Twitter because that’s how he uses it. People only stuck with Twitter for the network effect so if given an alternative … Anyway www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290...

Some pics from the Pokémon leak last month are fine to repurpose for this week

I thought Babka was a New York thing, but here it is - Seattle Fremont Sunday Market

Skeletons Behaving Badly at Ballard Farmers Market

Tone mapped views of Portage Bay, Seattle

I log into Twitter for the first time in a while because of the Pokémon leaks. I see entire threads that are a few legit replies and 100’s of “me too” bots and ads for Trump tshirts.

Just a skeleton family hanging with their pet crow

My favorite CTA rolling stock

#prge #prge2024 Portland Retro Gaming Expo Are you brave enough to take a spin on the carousel of Eevee?

iPhone Photo: You seem to be saving lots of screenshots of BIRDS. Would you like a video collage? Me: Uh ok… Google Photos: I see you got birds! Would you like a photo collage? Me: sure

At the Washington state fair looking at chickens and ducks

www.audible.com/pd/B0CX9SPCB... Audiobook Out now

Seems I can post video. Cormorant convention as seen from the Bremerton Ferry earlier this month near the Bremerton Blackberry Festival

A top end Steamdeck oled is $650 and I didn’t see too many people balking at that. Guess $7-800 for “It casts more rays!” makes more sense if you’re just getting into the PS5. Also it’s completely wasted if you have a 1080p display. Reminds me of plugging a PS3 into a 480i CRT.

There’s a Rowlett, Texas… Well well well if it isn’t the Sheriff of Owl Town! 🤠🦉

Say… “Whatever became of Think Geek?” Even with the Wikipedia “we just state the facts” voice: shambling zombie with limbs sawn off to be grafted into other shambling zombies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet

Heck of a range of roles James Earl Jones played in youtu.be/6A0rwG39Jzk?...

Don’t need to run when you’ve got hills like this

On the hunt for queer birds (like the prairie grouse)

Got the whole world in his hands

Um - can check