Stone, water and sunlight in slo-mo

Just saw a big Patti Adair sign on Spider City brewing in Bend, in case that kind of thing means anything to you. #centraloregon

Trying to interpret this painting on the doctor’s office wall

What's with the weird orangey-peach-tan color that all AI generated illustrations have?

This one came from the Gnome newsletter from Weird Walk, which I recommend. https://mailchi.mp/weirdwalk/new-tales-of-the-weird-12873865?e=7c89975486

I really like this idea of a page dedicated to “circular walks.” https://www.pembrokeshirecoast.wales/things-to-do/walking-in-the-park/web-walks/

I don't actually recommend using Windows if you can avoid it. But if there's an app that you need that absolutely, positively has to run on Windows, you might want to use it without the nagware. $9 ain't bad.

First time in my life I've ever paid for Windows.

I did get Windows running on my M2 mac using UTM. It was pretty easy! I had used VirtualBox before which was always a bit wonky. Apparently you can get a slightly better tuned experience with a Parallels subscription. For my use, tho, UTM worked g… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116535202514461187

It's so tragic that Our Lady Peace made 4 perfect albums and then tragically died in a plane that tragically crashed into a train that hit a tragic iceberg and didn't survive to make 6 more almost unlistenable records.

Similarly for Richard Dawkins. "The Ancestor's Tale" remains a must-read science book in my opinion. Just don't look up anything he said after that.

Kurzweil ultimately ended up being a bit of a weirdo. Probably inevitable for a guy that got famous making predictions about tech and then being praised or criticized in public constantly for it. I still like that book, though. Maybe because it was really weird.

When that album came out I was 17. I liked the music and immediately went to the library and checked out Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. It was prescient. There are still passages in that book that are spookily on target, while others m… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116534643345404772

This little clip goes through my head a lot lately. Seems pretty on target, might even be a little late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLcfpkQ5xfk

Great song on a great album btw, despite some moonlight & magnolias tendencies here and there.

There’s a great moment on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol. 2 in the intro to John Denver’s “And So It Goes” where someone in the band asks, “Is this practice?” and Denver replies, “They’re all practice.”

#WIPWednesday Or maybe just practice.

Tempted to separate my "work" persona from my "hobbies" persona, at least for online stuff.

"Andy what are you doing with all your free time?" a friend asks, as I just finish submitting another job application, which took me 3 hours to prepare, one of several I need to get done today.

This has been sitting in an open tab for a while, I haven't finished reading it all, but it's got a lovely design. Modern but fast, welcomes the reader. Feels fresh in a world of sites ostensibly built for reading that treat the user like a hostage. Lovely. https://www.tractorbeam.earth

Experts review maps in movies, good stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OJlS2NW00g

The thing about looking for a new job is that you constantly want to rewrite your resume, right? Also, having been a "software engineer" for a decade, I wore so many hats. It's hard to know which hats to pull down off the hook and talk about, or which hats I would like to wear more going forward.

The second was with either an experienced call center human or a very advanced bot. I suspect it was just a skilled human, but I had just hung up with the other one so my brain was looking for clues. This guy's cadence is perfect, is that natural?… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116517335434792319

I have had two call center conversations today. One was with a self-announced AI system, and it was mediocre. Not terrible... just kinda rough with transitions and smashing all the things it needed to say together and interrupting me when I was tr… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116517322347442134

Pulling up to a stoplight blasting bass that rattles every window in the intersection. It’s “Enjoy” by Björk.

This is a thing I use often enough to remember what I want to do but not so often that I remember how to do it, hence:

I honestly love that young people still thinking smoking makes them look cool, it's absolutely a thing that every generation for the last 100 years can relate to. Later we relate on the "good lord we were so dumb" part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_mbnsh6VU&t=256s

Just gonna throw out there that Jim Carrey could probably handle a George Jones biopic role.

Faetooth has gotta be one of the all-time great metal band names, especially in the doom subgenre. https://faetooth.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinthine #nowplaying

Aaaah, fantasy baseball season

That was actually... way easier than I thought. Not that I recommend Windows for anything, but there remain some enterprise software that are Windows-only and I wanted to be ready. This was a breeze: https://docs.getutm.app

For some reason I am voluntarily trying to install a windows on this mac

I will add one caveat: I stopped using Spotify because their moral liabilities started stacking a little too high. If we only did business with folks/companies that we are in complete moral alignment with, we would starve and freeze. Everyone maintains their own line and that's fine.

Stack Overflow emails are still good sometimes

I’ve never felt any guilt over streaming. Concerts, merch, vinyl, CDs, bandcamp, and, yes, streaming. Money flows through my hands like water when it comes to music. I’m doing my part.

A good reminder why streamers got popular with people like me who spent years meticulously collecting mp3s until it became a part time job keeping them properly organized, metadata’d and backed up. “Oh I can listen to (nearly) any song ever made… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116486253922096768

5) It got stuck in a restart/lock loop 6) Started in recovery mode, connected to WiFi, opened terminal, copied to my MacBook via scp 7) Dropped it in music, synced to iCloud music 8) Phone synced eventually. Profit!

Probably doesn’t seem like much but 1) This album was only released on vinyl, CD and tape. No streaming. 2) Had to order the CD because nobody round here had it 3) Had to start up an old iMac with an actual optical drive 4) Old iMac was seriou… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116486195553882813

It’s very unlikely that this is gonna connect with many people but this took way too long to accomplish. #nowplaying

Oh god I am getting to be "super into Fleetwood Mac" old

there's lots of changes but one of the major differences between the new internet and the old internet is that on the old internet when someone linked to an article that generally meant you would actually be able to read it

Got to be outside and hold a puppy yesterday.

Henge time #StandingStoneSunday

So much of the web is becoming practically unusable on a mobile device.

"Hmmm 'passionate' seems like the wrong word in a resume, what are some good alternatives?" I AM UNGOVERNABLE WHEN IT COMES TO USER SATISFACTION

I'm kinda of an obsessive Spaces user on macOS. Something about having just the couple windows I need for the current task in context. I always have half a dozen or so Spaces going at any given time. So when I connect/disconnect an external monit… https://mastodon.social/@zeigert/116460619765501713

Why tf does the Onceler walk around with an electric guitar?

But man... I hated that movie approximately 90 seconds into it. Make another Minions movie or make The Lorax. Don't stuff The Lorax into a Minions movie.

The original is a heavy-handed fable of course. And it's only, what, 50 pages? So a 90 minute feature would need some fleshing out.