Finally switched my home server over to Linux/Docker after...13 years.

For Christmas my niece got everyone a stomach bug.

My friend's dad was wearing the most wonderful/cursed Hallmark Channel slippers last night.

It's December 23rd and I'm outside working on garden stuff without a jacket.

Just another day in Canada

Happy Holidays

There it is bsky.app/profile/papa...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I got about 2 hours into vacation before my brain was all "better do stuff". And now I'm outside cutting a melamine shelf to size for the cabinet in my laundry as it begins to snow.

No work until January 5th.

Anyone following me use Waterfox? I'm looking to finally ditch Chrome, and am open to recommendations.

Back in late 2024 I spotted a black balloon flying over the downtown core. It's late 2025 and TD Coliseum has opened and are advertising the Goo Goo Dolls are going to play.

I feel like companies are moving us back to a pseudo-1960's time-sharing model where you'd rent compute time on a mainframe. If a personal device becomes too expensive, you'll happily pay the $XX.99/month to use their cloud service that provides those capabilities. overclock3d.net/news/gpu-dis...

With AI driving up memory and storage prices, I'm curious to see if we start to see more Linux offerings from laptop manufacturers. I can't imagine Windows 11 on a laptop with 8GB of RAM is a fun experience. www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-and-Len...

I have decided to start referring to "Die Hard" by its English name "The Hard" instead of constantly speaking German.

Metrolinx's newly built Finch LRT is so terrible that a man ran the full 10.3-kilometre and beat the train by 18 minutes. www.instagram.com/p/DSLJLx-j4wF/

I love how every article about smaller, cheaper vehicles in Canada inevitably ends with the rug pull of "we could get a really cheap $45,295 car!" Sir, a base-model Nissan Micra cost $10,488 in 2019. motorillustrated.com/nissan-says-...

5 work days left and then I don't return to work until January 5th.

To put how bad the pricing is in perspective, I built my last PC in December 2020. COVID was wrecking supply chains, crypto made GPUs a luxury, etc. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM for $277.62 CAD. And everything has gone up. If I were to build a comparable PC today, it would cost me almost 40% more.

The weather is terrible out, and everything is basically covered in a thick layer of slush. Less than a 1/4 of us showed up to the office today, and now I feel like a rube for coming in.

No one can tell me that these aren't wrestling legs.

Friend is now wondering if I want to do the 10K portion of the 'Around the Bay Road Race' this spring.

My monthly curling team had a nice rally in the 5th 🥌

The prolonged production of streaming TV annoys me. Multi-year breaks mean I can't really remember what previously happened. There's also an increasing likelihood a show just gets cancelled, or the quality drops. Often I'll just wait for a show to be finished before I start watching it.

Curious too see the cost of streaming services in the next few years. There's really only 3 big players now. 2025 streaming users in millions: - Amazon: 315 - Netflix: 302 - Disney/Hulu: 196 - Warner Bros/HBO: 128 million - Paramount: 79 - Apple: 45 (est) - Peacock (only available in US): 41

Yeahhh, I don't want any of it touching any of my data

My #SpotifyWrapped is out...and once again all the data is wrong. I wrote a post on how 'Spotify has a (Meta)Data Issue'. www.jasonlamb.org/blog/spotify...

I regret to inform you they might take our Optimum Points

I have an attic that can't be accessed, a crawl space with a sealed door, and a wall with a random panel on it hiding junction boxes and mystery wires. Part of me wants to get a 50ft inspection scope and check them out. Another part of me thinks there's something to living in ignorant bliss.

I watched Cocoon, and people of 1985...what was wrong with you?

During my undergrad, while watching movies at a student house, two women said I was just like Robin Hood from Disney's Robin Hood (1973).

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Oilers, huh?

Looks like we're at the 'negative press begins' before the eventual slide into the Gartner Hype Cycle's 'trough of disillusionment'.

I love character actors and prolific actors, and Udo Kier was both. More than 200 films. Worked with the likes of Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog, etc. He'd do an Ace Ventura or Armageddon. Or he'd do Korn and Eve music videos, Red Alert 2, and appear in Madonna's book titled 'Sex'.

Me, thinking to myself, literally yesterday morning: "It's been nice and I'm shocked I've not gotten sick so far this season." Me this morning: "Goddamnit..."

Just got back from seeing Frankenstein in 35mm and it unfortunately convinced me not to do a 35mm screening again. The whole thing was just sort of blurry (might have been a bad projectionist). Which sucks, because it really impacted the ability to see all of del Toro's art direction.

Sometimes I think a small truck would be really convenient.

Watched the first episode of Pluribus, and I'm fairly certain one of the characters had a pack of Morely cigarettes. (Featured heavily in The X-Files)

I would like to propose a spinoff of Murphy's Law called Lamb's Law. "Anything that could be easy won't be easy". In today's case I went to replace a bolt that was leaking in my toilet's water tank, and eventually had to result to drilling it out with titanium bits.

Opting out of this also disables spellcheck, which is peak enshittification. Can't wait for Microsoft to inevitably follow Google's lead and remove spell check across Office365 unless you continue to leave Copilot enabled.

Hit Man (2023) was a fun surprise. Glen Powell was great, and definitely has the Brad Pitt "character actor trapped in a leading man's body" thing going on. I found Cobb (1994) to be very much ahead of its time. Tommy Lee Jones gives a hell of a performance. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The problem with being a morning person is that your circadian rhythm doesn't care that you got in from your friend's birthday bash near midnight, and it will wake you up at 6am regardless.

Popped into a craft show on the weekend, and someone was selling hot water bottles with handmade covers. So now I'm living my senior citizen dream of lying in bed with a book and a tartan hot water bottle as the temperature continues to plummet outside.

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Reading a book that came out 5 months before I was born. The current chapter has a man commenting on "those new digital thermometers" and another smoking next to a patient in recovery. I suddenly feel very very old.

My addiction to Taskmaster cannot be satiated and now I'm part way through season 1 of Taskmaster New Zealand.