Tonight’s Thanksgiving movie: The Blue Beetle

I've seen these damn ads around here. So gross. https://xcancel.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1993091914909032728#m

The batteries in both my electric razor and my beard trimmer died while I was using them this morning. I'm just hoping it's not an omen for the rest of the day.

Rocket gets it. #coffee #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

I can look at all the gray meals my American friends are making for tomorrow and share their joy in them, even if they’re making foods I don’t eat.

Finding fault in everything is not a “superpower.”

This article is worth a read. While it won't be "news" for many folks here, it does a great job of putting a lot of things together with regards to why so many feel poor, even if some agency somewhere says their income makes them "middle class." https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

The Dock on iPad would be far more useful if it started showing open apps like on Mac.

1 month from today is Christmas!

It looks like another wonderful day outside today. We're going to try to make the best of it!

#caturday still means I spend the most time on here browsing on Saturdays.

OK. Think I finally have this new keyboard setup right for me. We'll see how it goes over the next few days. I really appreciate the a keyboard I can reprogram to work for me. That said, it can really be a challenge to get it right and even more of a challenge to build the new muscle memory […]

For the first time in a week the sun is out and it looks like it's going to be a wonderful day. I'm looking forward to us getting outside and doing *something*.

PSA: Jumanji 2 isn’t the best movie to watch with a friend who has phobias including ostriches and bridges.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Today's fun: tweaking the key mappings on my new keyboard so they work for me. It's kinda amazing how much a little work on this can improve my daily work.

It's only one week until Thanksgiving in the US. My sense of time is so far off this year that it feels weird (or at least weirder than normal). For the first time I can remember I'm not sure I'm ready for the holidays this year.

The only weird thing: The keys feel so quiet after typing on a Nuphy keyboard with their Moss keys for a while. I'll get used to it but it really is very different so far. https://mastodon.chriswiegman.com/@chris/115579666273539647

I really wanted to like the Kinesis Advantage keyboard but I couldn't type on it at all, even after days of trying. I didn't think it was the split design, but after a few years back on a regular keyboard I wasn't sure. Today I got a Dygma Raise 2 after returning the Kinesis. It took me about […]

Yay! I have a keyboard that should help my wrist issues again! This should be a very good thing for me!

I think @codinghorror needs to update his law for 2025. It's not just Javascript but anything that can be built as a fork to Chromium or VS Code will be a fork of Chromium or VS Code.

About a year ago I bought an Apple Studio Display at home after using one at work. I honestly wasn't sure if I would regret it or not but my old, nice, monitor died and I figured YOLO. After a year... I LOVE it. I really can't overstate how great of a monitor it's been, even for the price. The […]

On a positive note: my new Dygma keyboard should arrive today. I needed a wireless keyboard so my old Dygma had to be retired. It was the one keyboard I could both type quickly on and helped so my arms and wrists didn't feel like jelly by the end of the week. I can't wait to get back to that […]

At least with a big outage there are posts shitting on it instead of entire networks with seemingly nothing but posts shitting on AI. Before you come into my replies: I'm not an AI fan. I don't use it and fully understand the issues surrounding it. I'm just growing tired of seeing probably 90% […]

A few weeks ago we found out how much of the internet relies on us-east-1. Today we find out about Cloudflare. *lesigh

Hell hath no fury like a cat with an empty food bowl.

It was almost 60F for our walk this morning. Not bad for mid-November in Chicago!

Finally got our property tax bill (it was due on 3 August). For our condo itself it went down about 12% this year. For our parking spot, a separate bill, it went up 47% this year.

Turning off add tracking in 2025 means all the ads in my podcasts (mostly NPR podcasts) are in languages I don't speak... or for Odoo.

At the Chicago Google offices for a meetup with Chicago Owasp and pretty much every other Chicago security meetup.

[uspol] Seeing all the posts about the emails while Linkin Park's "In the End" plays behind me. Seems apt as in the end it doesn't really matter.

If I could sum up 2025 in a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twY8YQYDBE

Day 2 of new exercise: I can kinda feel my arms but... ugh

As long as it plays Doom… https://glaceon.social/@gardevoir/115538325335176181

I've walked for exercise in the morning almost daily for the last almost-6 years (can't deny the last year has been a bit rough), since COVID. This morning I got on an elliptical machine for the 1st time since before COVID and -- Holy Shit that was hard. Time to switch things around a bit so I […]

The number of neighbors with Christmas trees up today is kinda crazy.

This is a real Chicago commercials going around. I definitely remember the “I got something for you” from the 80s, though it wasn’t for this brand then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAO9u1WGrDE

[uspol] I’m not often surprised by the US government but every once in a while I see something good like this. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-obergefell-kim-davis

[uspol] I've never been a democrat. I registered as such for a bit in TX and FL because they demanded I pick a party when I got my driver's license. In both I later switched back to independent. I grew up watching their corruption in Chicago under Daley and crooked cops like my uncle and, as […]

Really debating stopping trying to combine my productivity systems between work and everything else. Some days I think my desire for "simple" goes way too far to the point where I pretty much can't even get things done because I've over-simplified. It isn't helpful.

When I was a kid, the problem with the internet was Discovery. Given enough time I could easily lose myself in sites about all kinds of topics but, more often than not, searching would lead me to the same circle of sites within any given topic. In 2025 I think we're back to that same problem […]

They're talking about 7-15 inches (18-38cm) of snow by Tuesday here. If it pans out it will be the most snow I've seen since I was a kid. Not looking forward to it, but also grateful I won't have to leave our building this week.

At least Everton won.

20 years ago today I drove away from our first place together as we began our move to Maui. I spent 3 days driving the car to Long Beach to ship it out and flew out myself a couple of days later. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years.

This is fine /s https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/consumer-sentiment-shutdown.html

The 1st Friday of every quarter (and every month from May through August) is "Refresh Friday" at my new org and the whole company is closed for the day. I'm so grateful for it!

Are we there yet?

A change in how I work means I could no longer use my old, split, keyboard. It was OK when I was remote and wasn't at the computer all day but now my wrists really feel it. I'm really tempted to get the upgraded version of the keyboard I had, which really did well to solve the problem. The […]

I'm grateful today is our Friday at work. It's been a strangely long week for me and an extra day to recuperate will be incredibly helpful.