Yeah it’s gonna be an angry NYE in the City of Brotherly Love tonight. #Birds
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This Eagles game is gonna kill off half the city with heart attacks before 2024 even starts. #TiedAgain #Eagles
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Halfway thru the new Indy movie and it’s hitting all the right notes. I kinda needed this comfort food this season.
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“Move mercifully and heal things”
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Oh thank you finally some sun today!!!
(We were half considering moving to the PNW last year, but now that I’m being reminded what 5-6 days of cloud cover is like in Pennsylvania, I can’t imagine going all winter like this. Strength to my PNW peeps! 🌞)
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Regarding the Haley “Civil War why?” fumble: ppl of her generation (esp in the South) weren’t taught that slavery was the prime cause, but more a factor in a “states’ rights” conflict. It was controversial to claim otherwise! Not an excuse—she should know better by now! But there’s some context.
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Observing my wife once again trying to coordinate between doctor, insurance, and pharmacy to get medication in the doc-prescribed dose she needs, even though nobody had an issue with the dose all year until now. (All while fighting off a migraine).
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autocorrect just changed “this” to “ThI’m a” so, like, Apple must be ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh now, I guess
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I’ll believe “personalization” is successful when TV streaming apps give you a trigger warning when a show features an actor your age playing a grandparent.
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Happy Solstice (and whatever version of that you celebrate)! We’re all heading into the cold winter together (those of us in the northern hemisphere at least)—an annual reminder of how much we humans depend on one another, whether we recognize it or not. Keep warm together. Love one another.
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TIL: “Though the character of Lurch was originally intended to be mute, when Cassidy ad-libbed “You rang?” in response to the butler call, it was an immediate hit. It became his signature line, and he was given more lines.” Nicely played, Ted.
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🎼 I fought the lynel and the lynel… 🎶 … oh hold up, I won that time!
(Yes I’ve been playing this since May and just fought my first lynel … don’t judge) #totk
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Since my adoptive mother’s passing, it feels like old musty rooms in my consciousness have been opening up, ventilating…some of it not so great but some of it very liberating. Really need to find a new therapist to help me process all this (my prior one isn’t licensed in PA, alas).
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Seeing Last Temptation for first time in decades. I was too close to the biblical & “churched” version of the story when I saw it then (loved it, but was preoccupied with historicity & whatever), but now I’m seeing it more neutrally. (Also forgot The Call’s Michael Been is John!)
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Whenever I give someone a credit card or ID (doc office, retailer, etc) I hold my wallet in my hand until it get the card back. Otherwise I will forget and just walk/drive away. I hate it when they say “your card is in the bag”…I will forget that within seconds & trash the card w/ bag
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Finishing my Return o/t Jedi rewatch tonight. Fun to notice new things when I see these every few years. Like…the mirroring of “Then my father/friend is truly dead” in this movie & RotS. And how there’s a moment when Vader clearly thinks “oh shit Palpatine played me like he’s playing Luke”
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Tonight’s Slow Horses 🔥
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Holiday vacation starts…now.
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Just last month I figured out how to use Shortcuts on MacOS to insert date/time stamp with a keyboard shortcut. But a new security policy on our Macs now prevents me from enabling it 😭
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Maybe it’s capital that’s eating the world and software was just a new fork?
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Dang Philly got double whammied tonight 😭
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Return of the Jedi is a Christmas movie.
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Currently watching John Oliver’s half hour video shitpost righteously trashing Elon Musk. Feels good. Feels real good.
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seems like kind of a big deal that the Weight Watchers CEO is admitting they had things so wrong about weight loss …
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Things I say to our dog on the way out to walk:
- time to check doggy instagram!
- ready to “paint the town”?
- 🎼 let’s go tinkle now / everybody’s learnin’ how / come on out and tinkle with meeeee 🎶
- ok let’s visit the pee palace in peetown!
- ready to fuck shit up?
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Realizing lately that for my whole life I’ve had issues with memory, auditory processing, and reading…but I’ve been able to mask & fake my way through it. A dynamic that has been largely invisible to me because it’s just “how I am”…but now I’m considering getting evaluated.
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Ten year old me didn’t even dare dream that one day I’d be able to just watch any star war on a big tv in my own home any time I felt like it
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LLMs are basically cargo-cult thinking made manifest as a platform. “If it looks like legitimate content, it’s the same as if a person made it for real.” But in this case, millions of people are falling for it.
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Slow Horses’ Lamb is a hell of a character but Catherine’s my favorite. And the vibe they have between their characters is fascinating.
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Seems odd that Threads is seemingly going to federate with ActivityPub before Bluesky. But hey whatever works. I just hope it isn’t some nefarious ploy.
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I know the big changes to iOS autocorrect have been jarring, and it goes wildly off the rails at times, but it’s also smarter than it was. For instance, it corrects (and importantly corrects its own corrections) for “it’s vs its” and “were vs we’re” much better than before.
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Neil Patrick Harris is perfect as The Toymaker, but honestly I’d be just as happy to watch his playing card legerdemain for the whole episode.
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At least in Dr Who, Russell T Davies is very good at employing horror tropes in the service of unlocking Big Feelings … not just scares. Sometimes he overdoes it but most of the time it works, for me anyway.
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Dr Who’s holiday special 3rd episode seems to be commenting on Covid denialism, reactionary media, and libertarianism all at once?
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Yet another lawyer (allegedly) using LLM sludge to file court briefs. IMO any attorney doing this should be disbarred. But at the very least it should mark them as unqualified for serious legal work.
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The only non-happy thing that happened for my birthday yesterday was the house-sale closing fell through again — buyers and their lender could not get their act together. We are hoping they can get a new one that can get it done, but it’s not looking great. So maybe we can sell it in January? 😑
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Let the record show — it was a pretty great birthday.
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Shout out to everyone in the “read Fahrenheit 451 in middle school & felt secretly ashamed that I really wanted those wall size tv screens” club.
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Is there really no way to send something to someone else as a gift from the Apple Store app? Or am I just missing it somehow?
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I made it around the sun another cycle. It was a bumpy ride this time. But I’m glad to still be here for the next one.
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One year ago today, I got the eviction email from my mom’s ind living facility, due to her behavior & need for a higher level of care. Then came maybe the hardest five months I’ve experienced — until she died. I’m still processing it all. And clearly my body is too.
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Watching the newest Mission:Impossible — this whole subgenre feels as old-fashioned as a Roger Moore Bond movie now.
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Finally getting around to watching Barbie.
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I’ve been putting off getting (needed) new shoes for months. Finally just did it. Took 20 min at the store across the street. So weird, the stuff my brain wants to procrastinate.
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Wife & I collaborating on holiday gifts for relatives. Glad I caught this one before hitting send …
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Just finished my last workday before four days off (birthday weekend). And rolled the dice on ordering some jerk chicken delivery for dinner. Hope it’s good!
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“Teamwork makes the dream work!”
ok but whose dream are we talking about here
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I grew up in a fairly racist southern suburban household. Norman Lear’s work—via the family TV—was a window into other perspectives. It taught me so much about the values I hold dear today. Thankful.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…
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Apple’s “hide my email” authentication service is great except for when it is not. Too complicated to explain my current issue in a micro-blog post… but trust me, it’s a pain in the ass.
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Just walked back from dropping car off at garage for service. Since moving here, I’ve been able to walk to dentist, eye doctor, grocery store, multiple restaurants for take-out … I realize it’s a luxury I may not always get to enjoy, but everyone should have access to this who wants it.
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“AI” seems to hold a lot of promise in applications where laws & regulations require rigorous testing & trials, and where it’s being applied within a bounded domain.
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Dolly Parton is releasing a rock album. So my question is:
Name a rock song that you’d buy the album just to hear Dolly sing it.
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There’s a special place in hell for companies that lay people off around Thanksgiving & Xmas. Beside being heartless (because holidays) almost nobody is interviewing and hiring during that time, so any severance weeks are wasted for job searching.
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This whole article about how Israel is using an “AI” system called Habsora (or in English, “the Gospel” (!?) ) to target Hamas members’ homes is … chilling, maddening, depressing.
www.theguardian.com/world/202…
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Of course the dentist I was going to see this week — who was listed on my insurance provider search site as “in network” — is actually “not in network” … glad I called insurance company to double check!
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12 minutes into Fincher’s “The Killer” and so far it’s kinda just “Joe Pera: Assassin”? But that’s ok I guess!
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Tomorrow begins my birth month. Which, at my age, from now on is something I’m going to actually celebrate vs just saying “it’s my birthday month!” but not doing anything about it.
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Just had some amazing leftover butter chicken poured over leftover roasted vegetables from earlier in the week. Which is something Henry Kissinger cannot enjoy, because he is dead. Lunch Win. 🥇
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Kissinger died, sure, but he got to live 100 celebrated, influential years. And the worldview he represented has dominated our culture for decades. So no matter how great to know he’s finally gone, it’s hard not to acknowledge Kissinger “won” — and will be with us for a long time still.
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“The rain falls on the just, and the unjust.”
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I may be at my wits end with progressive lens glasses. First pair I ever got 10 years ago were great, but every pair since has been imperfect in maddening ways — spots where I can’t focus on anything etc. — that turned out to be flaws in the lenses. And now my most recent set has issues. 😩
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ADHD medication shortage expected to last through 2024 …
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We got some heavy flurries this morning. It was a little bit magical for a while. But I’m glad it was temporary — my brain is not ready for full-on winter weather yet.
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I don’t wanna kink shame but why am I getting unsolicited emails from “TeachMeCompliance (dot) com”?
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This #Eagles game tonight omfg
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I’m looking to buy an elliptical for home. Any recommendations?
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swaddled in leftovers
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I’m only 20 minutes into Oppenheimer and I’m already wishing Paul Thomas Anderson made this film instead
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Oppenheimering.
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Queuing up Genius of Love & getting ready to squash some beefs while we eat.
#iykyk
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Just my annual compulsion to Post My Opinion Online that the president-pardons-turkey tradition is bad because it makes light of our appallingly cruel and unequal incarceration system, especially for those awaiting a death penalty.
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We never watch “live tv” anymore but on Thanksgiving morning I really kinda need to have the Macy’s Parade playing in the background, or it doesn’t feel like the holidays have actually started. Wild how human-made media can become so integral to how my brain experiences natural seasons.
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TIL (via my amazing spouse) there’s a subreddit where people share pictures of buildings that were former Pizza Huts.
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Pet theory: If we can’t trace the specific origin of a word then it is an ür-word — an ancient one, a word from before time upon which all words grow and live. A word to be revered and possibly feared.
Apparently, “eggnog” is such a word.
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Spent my day off roaming the area doing errands and my brain is tired from traffic & people. But we now have all the right things for yummy feast day tomorrow — huzzah. Now to order take-out for dinner because all our cooking energy is already spoken for until Friday.
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What’s a song you have to listen to all of when it comes on the radio playlist?
For me: at this moment, listening to XPN as I sit in the car before going into the store, it’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” ❤️ 🎸 🎶
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I want somebody to make one of these sprawling prestige TV period dramas about the American Reconstruction era.
(A thought occurring to me as we start rewatching the excellent Boardwalk Empire)
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Watching Verhoeven’s Total Recall (1990) for the first time time since the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)
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PTO til Monday baby 🎊 🦃 🥧
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CVS pharmacist just literally told me to shop around some independent pharmacies to get my adhd meds since CVS can’t seem to get any in stock.
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Every tine somebody says “backslash” when they mean “slash” and I bite my pedantic little tongue, I should get a taco.
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Hannibal is a Thanksgiving movie prove me wrong
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Just listened to this Origin Story episode about “neoliberalism.” Friedman, Hayek, et al. A nice Cliffs Notes-sized summary. (They definitely have a point of view, but I agree with it, so all the better afaic.)
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dem tropes dem tropes dem dryyyyy tropes
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Evidently I am “carefully sets the laptop down to protect the mechanical HDD” years old.
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I always remind my team to keep notes on accomplishments throughout the year so they’ll have it all ready to enter into the year-end performance evaluation process.
But do I follow my own advice? Do I??!?!!?
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I just looked up Roy Orbison for reasons and realized he died at only 52. Like… at the time he seemed anciently eternal somehow, like a pyramid? But 52!??
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Brain is really struggling without Vyvanse (which is yet again on back order). Trapped in the Procrastinatrix.
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I wish IT services platforms like Service Now would enable managers to be included in service tickets for their direct reports. These issues impact me (and the whole team) as much as the person with the issue. Part of my job is solving problems to free my folks to focus on their work!
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It is not easy to find a consistently good light roast decaf — but of course it turns out Wegman’s has one. 🎊 (Maybe this is weird but I’ve been adding a quality cold brew concentrate, for however many tablespoons of buzz I want that day — still tastes v good!)
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I just discovered I’ve had a recurring digital subscription to NYT that I didn’t realize was in effect. Evidently it’s using one of the fake “relay” email addresses created by Apple identity services … and I don’t think any of the charge confirmations are being forwarded to me properly?
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Sudden mood/energy drop today … just gotta remind myself it’s temporary. So frustrating when part of me is like “you have a whole day to do some stuff you’ve been wanting to do” when the rest of me is like “nah shut up you’re not the boss of me! ok now where … is the sofa”
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This entry about eggnog is very thorough! What a miracle Wikipedia is.
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I don’t totally hate Secret Invasion if only because they gave Olivia Colman some excellent scenes.
Makes me wonder how they managed to totally squander the opportunity of Jackson + Cheadle.
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I do like the new Apple Reminders auto-categorization feature for shopping lists. But it’s got some learning to do.
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This is purely anecdotal, I realize, but the quality of service in healthcare we are experiencing in the Philly area is so much better than we had in Atlanta, it’s like a different planet.
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Our house is supposed today to close today, but the buyers’ lender — who had a whole ass month to get everything ready — did not complete their documentation process in time. So it’ll have to be sometime during the 8 day extension period. 😣
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New Slow Horses this month? Fantastic.
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When I first encountered Burke’s “Connections” in college, it was revelatory in that it validated the nonlinear way my head worked. Cool to see it reemerge. arstechnica.com/science/2…
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For years I’ve insisted on using a stovetop kettle because I hate counter clutter but I finally broke down and ordered an electric because using a food thermometer to gauge the water temp is annoying and I’m tired.
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As a GenXer it feels like you get to go back in time to your teens/early 20s to hang out at the coolest chillest album release party with these brilliant talented kids who are about to go supernova. The terrible camcorder work perfects it. Magical. youtu.be/hzwOwzGti…
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Nice job on voting day yesterday, Pennsylvania ❤️🇺🇸🎊
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The “fall back” hour was mildly pleasant for sleeping in (it felt like 15 minutes extra not an hour) but now at the end of the work day my body thinks it’s been time to quit for quite a while … ready to wrap up this Monday please.
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The web has gotten to the point where I can barely use many sites from my iPhone without it overheating and dimming the screen. Especially true of content-farm resources like recipe sites and video-game walkthrough sites.
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Lately I’ve noticed it’s been much harder to reach a pharmacist with a phone call — if not impossible. And whenever I visit, the pharmacy staff all seem overwhelmed. www.pbs.org/newshour/…
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I suspect in a decade or so we will look back with more clarity about what Covid ended and one of those things will be “design thinking.”
www.fastcompany.com/90976682/…
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Blessings and endless gratitude to this brand of rolled poop bags for this little sticker telling me only three bags are left.
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Mixed & kneaded & baked some fluffy gluten free biscuits for the first time in the new place. We’re making it feel like home, one favorite comfort-food recipe at a time.
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For some reason in the four months we’ve been back in the Philly metro, I have not eaten a cheesesteak … I am remedying this oversight for lunch TODAY.
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my body already knows the time change is coming this weekend so it’s been pushing my bedtime/wake-time a bit later each night so by the night the time changes I won’t get to enjoy “sleeping in” the next morning so thanks body you are so dope
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First time making fondant sweet potatoes in the new apartment. Next will add the chicken stock & butter then cover with foil and simmer for about 40 minutes. Mmmm.
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Drank some (sweetened) chai concentrate mixed with unsweetened almond milk as an afternoon pick-me-up but the high sugar content of the chai totally steamrolled whatever energy I was gonna get from the caffeine. 🥱
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“This year I’m really gonna kick that football.”
- Charlie Brown, in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”
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We’ve been watching Apple TV’s “The Enfield Poltergeist” and it’s fascinatingly done. Actors lip syncing to the hundreds of hours of tape from the events, with openly artificial reconstructions of the house etc. Nicely made. Scary but smart.
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Our dog: barking at people from the balcony
Me: “Edgar, we live in a society…”
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60 minutes finally saying aloud what we’ve known since at least late 2020.
“Indoor air systems crucial to curbing spread of viruses, aerosol researchers say”
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A fun way my #ADHD presents itself is when I’m exercising. How many reps have I done so far? No idea. Was literally counting to fifteen and got lost in the woods in my brain somewhere around four point whatthefuck.
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Ok so I should not shop at Trader Joe’s in the few hours before an Eagles game. Noted.
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I only recently discovered how advanced the search function is in iOS Messages — pretty nice!
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Tonight on Loki I learned Time is a series of tubes.
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Just a reminder that the American Confederacy, and Robert E Lee in particular, were an evil movement built on the enslavement of human beings and their offspring in perpetuity, killing hundreds of thousands of their countrymen for that cause. Yes please, burn & melt all their “monuments”.
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A coworker told me about itch.io today — I had never heard of it. And it’s such a delightful example of what I have always loved most about the web — independent community sharing, creating, etc. People with names vs corporations with lawyers.
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Like… I get it that we all want to be “thriving, not just surviving,” but sometimes “surviving” is enough and is sometimes worthy of pride & celebration. Maybe most of the time tbh.
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I keep beating myself up for not having more motivation & focus to do stuff I actually want to do, but my wife reminded me of the year I just went through — wherein I experienced at least 4 of the top 10 things we always hear are the most stressful events most ppl go thru, but all at once.
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Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” should’ve had so much more attention & buzz. Watching again now & damn near every scene is pitch perfect, gorgeously shot, crisply acted. And the writing! It’s like reading the best fiction about place—like Yoknapatawpha County or Winesburg, Ohio.
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Edgar had decided I will not be assembling these shelves today and instead I will be entertaining Edgar.
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Whenever I noticed we have run out of something — milk, paper towels, etc — there is a 50% chance it will trigger my brain to play Air Supply’s “I’m All Out of Love” in my skull
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Loki s2 e3 halfway though, I’m realizing that our heroes don’t seem to register that maybe the thing that happened was a poor Black neighborhood was razed for the World’s Fair. Curious if that’s going to be mentioned at some point.
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Good Omens is wonderful and Good but also it makes it plain that Michael Sheen would’ve been a far superior Bilbo Baggins vs Martin Freeman.
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It’s Friday night again y’all
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Powell & now Chesebro — two die-hard “2020 truthers” — have pleaded guilty & are cooperating with Fulton County prosecutors. Trump’s gonna be throwing a lot of burgers at the wall this weekend. tinyurl.com/mu9na5u5
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I’m curious how many of my mutuals from Twitter have moved to Threads. I think I’ve located the ones who moved to Mastodon & Bluesky, but I have no interest in anything from Meta at this point.
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iOS autocorrect has gotten smarter in some ways and it’s been interesting getting used to the new interaction patterns, but it still can’t recognize that when the type a sentence like “Were you going to the store?” I do NOT mean “We’re”
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Quesadillas tonight. And peppers & onions left over for omelettes and whatnot later. (We also made a delicious slaw)
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Just picked out new glasses frames for the first time in four years. Will have lenses in them in the next 10-14 days. Every time I do this, it feels like I’m choosing a new face for a few years. And I always have buyer’s remorse until I get used to it.
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Our house is officially under contract! Due diligence period done. No repairs required. Assuming nothing weird happens between now and closing, we will have it off our hands and the money in the bank by Thanksgiving. It’ll be a huge relief.
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I’ve played more hours in Tears of the Kingdom than I have in any single-player RPG I can recall. And it’s largely because the game designers created such a richly faceted & PLAYFUL environment of game mechanics that encourage experimentation & lateral thinking.
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Let’s see how a Tuesday goes with only three hours of sleep. #insomnia
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The techno-manifesto thing going around … I mean … I would like to say I’m not surprised because it would be cool if I had already fathomed they were that deep into the fascism vs being just cluelessly fash-adjacent (which is what I wanted to believe, well except maybe for Musk) But like … nah.
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Aaaand that’s why I never trust a big early lead. #Eagles
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Email notification: “You have unlocked our lowest price ever!”
Me: “ … I am literally just sitting on the sofa”
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Anyways … now fully novavaxed & fluvaxed… lots of TV to catch up on while I feel crappy for a couple days
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Still can’t find my adhd meds in stock anywhere … it’s been two weeks. My brain is not happy.
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US Pharmacies are generally a shitshow these days…clearly understaffed, spending enormous time on the phone fighting insurance companies. Used to be I’d have to wait maybe 5 minutes to get a pharmacist on the phone, but now it’s at least 20 on the rare occasion I reach one at all.
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“Cash’s voice, which even as a callow young man sounded like Cash had been carved out of rock and imbued with the spirit of an Old Testament prophet…” ❤️💯 pca.st/episode/1…
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Found a Novavax booster time at a nearby RiteAid for tonight. Hooray.
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Y’all a fourth & final season of DOOM PATROL just started and I didn’t even know it was coming. All the woots!
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Kevin Phillips died. Long ago, he was an architect of the right’s “southern strategy” that has resulted in so much awfulness in politics today. And then was treated like just another TV / newspaper pundit for years. Which helped normalize his shameful legacy.
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Outlook really should have an option for forwarding an Event invitation email as “information only” vs only as “an invitation.” I’ve wished for this for at least a decade.
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House buyers accepted our counter offer. Woot. Now if it can all just keep going in the right direction…
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Once again unable to get ADHD meds refilled after my last batch ran out. I do wonder if a lot of the increase in demand came from people with post-Covid brain fog seeing “you have adhd if xyz symptoms” TikToks. (Or maybe there were just millions of undiagnosed people?) Anyways. Bleh.
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Curious what others think of iOS 17’s big changes to autocorrect? I didn’t even know this was coming—hadn’t been keeping up with the news about it. Finding I’m needing to really pay attention to how it predicts & displays text until I get used to it…after so many years using the prior model.
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New Loki episode got some Bioshock vibes
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Post-Mojave, macOS provides no way to back up Reminders unless you’re on iCloud, which, for security reasons, I cannot use from my employer’s MacBook Pro. So I have to make screenshots of my Reminders app and save them on the H drive. Like a cave person.
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If FigJam would just add the very basic ability to top/bottom-align text within shapes, it would make my work day 50% less stressful.
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Every time I see another news story about companies deciding to use LLMs for critical tasks in spite of the substantial warnings from experts, I think of the Avenue 5 airlock scene
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I kinda love it that Philly is celebrating the tricentennial of Ben Franklin’s arrival in the city.
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Glad Novavax is now approved. Frustrated no pharmacy seems to have it as an option yet.
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I completely missed the news yesterday that the FDA approved Novavax. Huzzah. Get in my veins.
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I continue to really dig having a motorized standing desk. Kicking myself for not getting one a couple years ago when it was clear I’d be working from home much more.
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From the balcony this morning. The hazy sky is just starting to get some color from the sunrise.
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Me, watching Republicans fail again at building healthy consensus between factions: “wow no wonder they want an authoritarian strongman”
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Dreamt last night I got to hug my dad & tell him I love him. We didn’t really talk much for years before he died in 2021. Anyway. I choose to believe somehow he felt it and knows. Even if I don’t actually believe that. Grief and love don’t have to make sense.
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Phil freakin’ Keaggy y’all. Like … he’s not talked about like a lot of other guitarists but I don’t know if anyone else playing rock-oriented guitar at this level in 1971. (The only guitar playing on this song btw. Just him.)
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I just made an annual contribution to my Mastodon instance. Because ultimately I don’t want the microblogging service I depend on to be ruled by ad dollars & billionaires.
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Happy October, everyone.
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The local Italian market had loaves labeled “French Toast Bread” on top but when you flip them over the price tag says they’re challah. Smart marketing, little market. #categories
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sure sex & drugs are great but have you executed a perfect parallel parking maneuver on a busy Philly street while locals are watching waiting for you to fuck it up but you nail it anyway
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Still thinking about how Meta laid off a ton of UX researchers only have the guy in charge of rolling out Threads end up explaining its disappointing results to the press with, “we didn’t really understand what users needed from a service like this.”
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It’s a full moon, so another new Peter Gabriel track just dropped.
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I’m glad CNN is saying this so clearly & directly. How is it the CDC doesn’t have billboards along the highway with this message?
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I only just learned of Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October” and it sounds utterly fascinating and also why has nobody made a tabletop RPG based on this plot? It’s as if it was written as a game already!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October
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I continue to be puzzled why as a society we’ve decided that requiring masks is a violation of our rights, but forcing people to be exposed to high loads of a deadly & debilitating illness is “freedom”.
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Suddenly thought of a place I hadn’t thought about in years. The Quonset Hut in Louisville KY. I knew it as a combo ice cream parlor and concrete statuary garden. It is now a printmaking studio & occasional performance space. ❤️ quonsethut.net
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I thought last night’s sunset was amazing but holy smokes
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While I crosspost to Bluesky, I’m primarily on Mastodon. Today I moved servers, and now reside at jawns.club/@andrewhi… Come on over & set a spell.
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sky outside is amazing rn
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My wife and I text each other a lot. I mean like, even when home together, like a lot. And I just wanna brag that our meme/gif-reply game has reached Olympic levels of excellence. If there were a competition, we would kick all the other couples’ asses. Just putting that out there.
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Ahsoka is the most unabashedly sword-and-sorcery title in the Star Wars franchise and I guess I have no issue with that … like, yeah embrace that shit.
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It’s good to see the government providing covid tests again, but I wish they’d also educate the populace better about what those test results mean & how best to use them. Otherwise the tests aren’t that helpful.
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It’s mildly saddening to search Google and Bing News tabs for latest news about Novavax and find most of the news is not about what patients might need to know, but rather about what its approval delay means for its manufacturer’s stock price.
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“The productivity panacea is, I think, the erudite version of ‘wellness’”. ❗️
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Actual sweater weather on the morning dog walk. Yes please.
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New venture bros movie is so good y’all
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Breakfast today: poached eggs on a split breakfast sausage patty, with some fresh red & yellow & orange cherry tomatoes, sautéed asparagus, & a sprinkle of fresh basil. All atop some leftover naan I pan-toasted in butter.
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If only there were a synonym for “vaping” that started with “b” this would be a perfect headline.
“Lauren Boebert backtracks on vaping before Beetlejuice boot”
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“Some physicians say the shortage has dragged on in part because ADHD isn’t always considered to be a serious medical condition.” 😑
Why ADHD drug shortages are getting worse - Bloomberg Businessweek
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Damn I knew I should’ve updated to the 13 mini before today’s Apple event … it’s not even listed anymore (the regular 13 still is). My 12 mini is showing its age.
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Just got an unsettling fraud encounter — PayPal texted me with a password recovery code that I didn’t ask for, and then I got a robocall from an 888 number asking me to enter the code “to block the attempt” … took me a couple seconds to realize I should not enter that code… wild stuff.
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Ah yes the sound of a sad smoke alarm with a low battery at 5 am. That keening plaintive cry written of by the poets of old. I think it was Wordsworth who said, “goddammit why didn’t my landlord / change these out between tenants”
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Our realtor is doing a Mommie Dearest themed open house at our home he’s trying to sell. It was his idea but we are in full support. Very on brand for us! (We are glad to already be in PA but a little sad we can’t be in GA for the event. We made him promise to send pictures…)
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“this new system had taught itself how to drive by processing billions of frames of video of how humans do it” … sounds great until you realize humans do not drive cars via video
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Happy Root Canal Friday everyone!
Oh just me?
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Already in a crap mood and tomorrow I have a root canal so … hurry up, weekend.
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For the last 3 years, I’ve worn a mask in indoor public places. So has my wife. Almost every time she’s out, someone makes a negative or “corrective” comment to her or within earshot. While I have yet to experience this. Just sharing in case you wondered if casual misogyny is still a thing.
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Seriously just put lots more cool robots with fun personalities in everything. I love them all.
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Ahsoka was fun tonight
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More doctors like this please.
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Still leisurely working my way through Tears of the Kingdom. From last night’s session, my brain now has the Goron City theme music on repeat. Please make it stop.
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“Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.”
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Chilly-cozy morning, sitting on the balcony, with some coffee & yogurt (dressed with some excellent granola & dried berries). Clear skies, and a waxing gibbous moon hovering over the power lines. Good morning, moon. Sleep well.
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Dunno if I’m imagining it but I’m finding that I feel more confident during remote work meetings, when I’m standing up (now that I have an adjustable standing desk). {A little secret: confidence has not always been in great supply for me when I’ve had internal roles (vs consulting).}
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Yes please let me pay Elon roughly a four year college tuition of money so I can hold my hands an inch from the steering wheel, coiled & ready to “intervene” when necessary wow what a relaxing ride in my robot car.
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“and the bleak shall inherit the earth”
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This Evangelion title card generator is a hoot
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Last week (starting with my wife’s birthday) we had a lot of comfort food involving white flour, sugar, dairy, and today my body feels awful — achey, inflamed, tired … maybe I’m a lot more sensitive to this stuff than I’ve wanted to admit.
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I suppose I don’t want to comment on a certain ex-president’s lies about his body weight because I think obsessing on such topics is playing the body-fascism game people like him want us to play? Also, it’s another way for him to get more attention, which feeds his narcissism.
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The Trump mugshot shows an insecure elderly man who has created & practiced a very specific head tilt & penetrating scowl that conveys an image he’s so carefully cultivated all his miserable life.
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Yet again clicking the Teams “Leave” button when I meant to click “Stop Sharing” so it must be a weekday.
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Instead of “Don’t Make Me Think,” maybe the next big UX book should be called “Please Let Me Think”
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I wasn’t all that into the first season of Foundation but it was so gorgeously made it was entertaining enough. But the second season is really good? Characters are sharper & more variety in personalities. Fun stuff. And still sumptuous visuals!
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To anyone at West Elm, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma or any related overpriced retailer, I beg you to hear my earnest plea: Stop emailing me! I didn’t ask for this…thirsty attention! I swear all I did was move to a new address. I can’t even recall my last visit to one of your stores!
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It is possible to run successful, enjoyable in-person conferences with excellent Covid-19 prevention protocols. As proven by the efforts of events like WisCon. No excuses not to.
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An excellent overview of the current science around Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
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Just experienced Carlino’s Market for the first time, to get my beloved a birthday sfogliatella. My goodness. It is amazing.
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“All the information’s in there…But it’s completely disconnected from when & how & why it happened. In a paper file, I could know things were related because they were close together…” #embodiment #context https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/16/bad_software_destroyed_doctors_memory/
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It is suddenly shockingly difficult to find either: 1) a pizza joint that still sells by the slice, or 2) a frozen yogurt shop where you can add toppings & pay by weight of your concoction. Like… I am in the middle of the middle class of the middle of all the geographical middles and can’t find either of these things within miles.
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The writers for Harley Quinn are not fucking around.
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“Mastodon is not a social space. It’s a tool for building a social space.
The Fediverse is not a social space. It’s a large set of mutually overlapping, heterogeneous social spaces.” — @noracodes@tenforward.social
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One problem with getting furniture at Ikea on a busy Saturday is I’m so exhausted from being in Ikea on a busy Saturday I have nothing left for building the damn stuff when I get it home
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If you’re accustomed to using Mural or Miro, do not assume you will be able to accomplish much in FigJam. Still a very immature product.
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I was not aware… “Disney+ has not profited since its launch in 2019 and has made an operating loss of $695 million USD in Q1 of 2023.” Yet more evidence the streaming business model is a mirage? apple.news/AmIjp7WxT…
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Mood just did a 180 to the bad place for no apparent reason … wtf is up with brains and why is there no warranty
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Just had a mind blowingly good pastrami sandwich from the deli around the corner. Fresh perfect bread, house made dressing … and they make this amazing spicy tomato relish that I could eat on anything. Living here is gonna bankrupt me 😂
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you’ve ever been in a business meeting you have to watch the Energy Vampire Council episode of What We Do In The Shadows immediately. (S5 E4)
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It’s nice to live in a building with a basement when a tornado warning occurs like it did just now … our previous home til our recent move only had a crawlspace so we had to huddle in the one windowless space: a tiny closet under the stairs.
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The zuck/elon fight-taunts just remind me of this scene from stepbrothers where dragon meets nighthawk … except this is actually parody
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am I a horrible person for not being able to sit through a musical episode of anything ok fine but y’all what about consent
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My allergy alert app: “Allergy levels will decrease in your area today!”
My nose and everything connected to it: “Fuck yeah I love a challenge!” (proceeds to swell with defiance)
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I think I need to do another #Twin_Peaks rewatch (it’s been 4-5 years?), but with a good supplemental podcast this time. Any pod recommendations? Ideally featuring 2+ people doing filmmaking-informed commentary & some smart analysis & unpacking (but not too serious).
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Me: “hey I just read read Trump got four more indictments”
Her: “aww I love that for him”
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Exceedingly happy to get a benign MRI result for something I’ve been worried about since May. My whole body just relaxed … I think I’ve been on high alert without even knowing it. I could sleep for a week.
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The Pride episode of #WWDITS 👩🍳💋
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Sincere Rest in Peace to Paul Reubens :-(
I sort of hope his epitaph says “I meant to do that”
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Ah I see we have scheduled a 30 minute planning meeting with 19 people and no agenda. It’s gonna be a Monday isn’t it.
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An unusually mild & clear summer morning. Perfect for Balcony Breakfast.
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Some personal news! Just learned via email I’ve been specially selected to apply for a Venmo credit card! I’ve finally made it, y’all. Turning in my notice tomorrow.
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This little comic about habits & adhd is just too damn true
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Relieved my beloved’s combo diagnostic / surgery appointment today had the least complicated outcome we could’ve hoped for.
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Kudos to ST:SNW for accurately portraying a PTSD panic attack. I always appreciate seeing this in mass media stories, especially when it’s a character who seems to have their shit together in every way.
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This is magical.
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I was concerned maybe we wouldn’t have convenient access to great tacos around our new home. Happy to say my fears were unfounded. Even the “3 stars on Yelp” place around the corner is v good. And the one today (a side hustle in a pizza joint!) was terrific ❤️🌮❤️
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Did you know Twitter’s bird logo & language for “tweeting” etc. originated with the Twitteriffic design & dev folks at IconFactory? Some delightful history written down for the ages here: furbo.org/2013/06/2…
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All three news stories about the ground being dangerously hot remind me that if you’re walking a dog, always use your bare hand to see how hot the ground is on hot days — if it’s uncomfortable to you, it’ll be at least that uncomfortable to your pooch.
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Whatever weather front is barreling into the Philly area is squeezing my cranial contents into flesh-pudding. Starting to wonder if I’m developing a propensity for migraines at this rate (the same weather has my migraine-prone wife nearly catatonic today ☹️)
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“X” is the black leather couch of brand names.
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Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 12 episode 3 is pretty brilliant postmodern “tv about tv” as sharp as any other example of the form. https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Lady_House:_A_Situation_Comedy
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Finally saw Asteroid City. It affected me more emotionally than any Wes Anderson movie since Rushmore. Also feels like a more self aware & artistically risky film than I was expecting. Still processing it.
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Happened upon this nice angle for a photo on our dog walk this morning.
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Cookies are actually just storage & delivery media for cookie batter.
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While admitting it has a lot of flaws, I actually love ST:TOS. It’s becoming one of my fave comfort / ambient watches. But it strikes me how when I was a kid, McCoy reminded me of most adults I knew, but as an adult, watching him interact w/ Spock, I’m like “damn that’s just racist.”
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I’m fully aware tonight’s SNW was total fanservice and I am also totally aware it completely worked I’m not misty you’re misty
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I love Venture Brothers and I’m so glad there’s at least a movie coming out in a couple days even if no more full seasons … and I love this little interview with the creators.
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Long phone menus (“For A press 1, for B press 2…") and my #ADHD do not play well together. I invariably lose focus somewhere in the middle & have to start over. Usually because some verbiage in the menu choices prompts a related thought & my brain goes byebye.
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I forgot how complicated everything is even after you “finish” moving to a new city. Suddenly, tasks you only had to do once a month, quarter, or year, you have to do all at once! New doctors, hair salon, car registration, license …😫 For an adhd brain it’s especially vexing!
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Just set our new home’s SSID to “Fancy Sauce” … because reasons
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I wanna be big & scary like Lurch, omniscient like Thing & inscrutable like Itt & self-possessed & beautiful like Morticia & carefree like Gomez & most of all like I would like please to be, like Uncle Fester, oblivious…electric…and impervious to pain
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Steven Soderburgh having Jim Gaffigan’s character eat a hot pocket not even 10 minutes into his new miniseries is the dad jokiest of easter eggs.
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Even though we finally got all our furniture & belongings delivered yesterday, it took making nachos my new kitchen to make this place feel like home.
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“Lost, but the characters all live in the hatch.” #Silo
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I’m enjoying Silo which is science fiction except for the part about how IT actually runs everything.
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So far this year every “vacation day” I’ve taken has been for something that wasn’t really a vacation … moving, doctors, funeral, etc. I need a real one.
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Currently playing the most boring bingo game ever, but the prize is we get to sleep in our real bed tonight.
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I am paying the moving company a large chunk of change to do this move … and yet I still feel guilty sitting down while they do the physical labor of getting our stuff moved into the apartment. What is up with this Calvinist BS, Brain?
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After 10 nights, my body has officially rebelled against sleeping on an air mattress. I got maybe three hours last night? So getting our actual belongings delivered to the new place today will be highly welcome.
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We’ve been watching the original Real Housewives show (Orange County). Because reasons. And my god it’s such a deep dive seminar in Whiteness.
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I just walked around the corner for an espresso shot & a delicious smoothie for lunch. Exceedingly pleasant. Took 10 minutes. Maybe moving here was the right call.
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Just discovered: even though the Xfinity rep (who worked w/ me via their “@XfinitySupport” Twitter channel last week) told me they’d continue service at our house after we moved out, this did not in fact happen. So now I get to wait another hour via phone or chat to probably not get this sorted :-(
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I forgot how much I loved living where I can hear trains.
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Giant thunderstorm in Philly is not messing around. Flash floods. Phone tower nearby is borked. FiOS struggling.
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Yesterday’s “yay we finally have internet and hot water” celebration has pivoted into this morning’s “why is the refrigerator leaking” and “why is the outside garbage can we just bought yesterday no longer where we put it” lamentation. #NewApartmentLife
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Six days later … we have hot water and internet in the new place. Starting to feel like we might live here. Movers arriving with our stuff sometime next week…they say…
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Any suggestions on a robot vacuum? Ideally on the cheaper side? We now live in a space perfect for one.
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Lately a ton of websites just do not function on Safari iOS. But they’re fine in Firefox iOS. Is it the security stuff? What is going on?
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For the first time in the 25 years I’ve been using ADHD medication, I may not be able to fill a prescription because of the massive shortage. This is a little like someone taking away my glasses and expecting me to drive safely.
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Musk & Yaccarono & Huffman & Zaslav et al just keep pounding on the emergent communities engaged on & around their platforms as if they’re just a big money button, and barking “money button no give money now hit money button more money”
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We are now in our new-to-us apartment in the Philly metro (Bryn Mawr). But we won’t have hot water or internet until Friday 🙃
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I have not seen Gilligan’s Island since I was a child, and here it is remastered in HD on a 60 in hotel TV … and it is surreal. Like … most of these people are younger than I am now? And the reality-yet/plus-artificiality perspective I now bring to it as an adult … hard to explain now bizarre it is?
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Stopped overnight in Harrisonburg VA. The view…could be worse. (Arriving at our new home in PA tomorrow)
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Goodbye, Atlanta.
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The closer we get to emptying and selling our house the less enthusiasm I have for ever owning a house again.
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Moving day! Aaaaand still waiting for the truck to arrive because the driver’s kid left the lights on so it needed charging!? Ugh.
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That last episode of The Bear (S2) holy dang.
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The adhd med shortage has finally hit me and I am kinda screwed.
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Trying to say this in a non-spoilery way … Just started watching Silo and it’s cool but if it turns out the thing I’m thinking of is what’s making the bad thing happen I’m gonna be pissed.
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Just parked at Atlanta’s “Larkin on Memorial” shopping complex to grab a salad & açaí bowl takeout. This used to be Larkin Coils Inc.—an HVAC manufacturing company & plant, as well as where my mom worked as a secretary most of my life. Many childhood memories—just 48 hrs before we move away.
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W/ the sad loss of Julian Sands, folks are rightly referencing “A Room With A View”, but IMO a quintessential Sands performance is his manic, inspired turn as Shelley in Ken Russell’s “Gothic” (1986)…he was leading-man handsome, but a delightfully eccentric actor…really shined when he could be weird
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I’ve been using Workday in my new job and my goodness what a structural mess … feels a lot like yet another instance of ignoring information architecture and just bolting on features tethered together with mystery-navigation. My workflow as a manager is … not intuitive.
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My mechanic’s waiting room has a wood-grain cabinet, cathode-ray-tube television running like some kind museum piece…I can’t remember the last time I saw one running in person?! Image is jarringly fuzzy to my HD-conditioned eyes. Note the dark area is an artifact of how CRTs render in photos.
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This article almost makes me want to try Second Life again. But I wish more that there was a text-based equivalent (MUD / MOO / MUSH) with SL’s level of scale & extensions.
www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
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Today we have a “junk removal service” coming to take away a bunch of stuff we do not need, prior to our move. An exceedingly privileged problem to have. (At least half of it is stuff my mom should’ve given away years ago but that we promised to keep in case she needed it—which is…not a factor now.)
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The commercial that undoubtedly caused an entire generation to hear “time to make the donuts” in their heads at least once a week when rousing ourselves in the morning, for the rest of our lives
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While packing I ran across an old copy of Bombay Gin literary magazine I was published in, and I had forgotten I shared the issue with Ginsberg, Waldman, and Bukowski.
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Thr latest Always Sunny season is a welcome, raucous balm.
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Packing for our move continues to suck, but at least I discovered printed lyrics to some of the songs I wrote in college that I haven’t been able to remember all of. It’ll be nice to sing them again. Maybe it’ll help me get in the groove to write a few more.
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I am having trouble logging into the USPS site so I checked Down Detector — a site that tracks website availability& performance — only to discover a number of comments by people complaining they haven’t gotten their mail.
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In SNW s2e2 Starfleet came out as Wokefleet and I am here for it.
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Dang … Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is gorgeous.
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Packing to move always sucks. Always.
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I’m not really into the billionaire submarine schadenfreude. But these fights between Musk/Zuck & MTG/Boebert? Hell yeah … put all four in a PPV cage match. Take my money.
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In the new job, I no longer wake up to tons of work activity happening in email & chat that’s been going on since 6 am. It’s been a much bigger relief & psychological benefit than I would’ve expected. (Last job required a lot of daily collaboration with Bangalore.)
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I like sleep. Sleep is nice.
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Finally watching the D&D movie and it li Ed up to the hype — it’s really fun and perfectly hits the vibes of what it feels like to play D&D with friends. Not taking itself too seriously or literally. Mostly about fun and making fun of the fun.
Also it shows there’s no reason why we can’t have a Discworld movie or tv series.
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One of the few things I will miss when we move back north is easy access to things like canned turnip/collard greens, hoppin’ john, or fifty kinds of chow chow to pick from in the grocery store. Even vinegar-pepper sauce was hard to find when I lived there before.
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Me: “I’m gonna have to take an antihistamine today” Her: “Drink lots of water!” Me, singing in a baritone Beach Boys voice: “I’m bringin’ up good hydration…” Her: “oh no, dammit now that’s gonna be in my head” Me, louder, falsetto: “Good Goood Goooood! Good hydratiooooonnn!”
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I dug this Maron interview w/ Paul Schrader. One of many bits I learned: he wrote Taxi Driver to exorcise himself of the Travis-Bickel-like path he felt he was on as a young man (& cribbed its structure from Bresson’s “Pickpocket”) pca.st/episode/8…
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The spiderverse sequel is bonkers. Just an absolute masterpiece. The first one already revolutionized animation & finally really nailed what seeing a comic book in motion could be but they actually topped it. Every frame. Damn.
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On my way to see SpiderVerse 2 with the best (grown-ass-adult) kid anyone could ever want to hang out with.
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Hard to believe we will be leaving our home of 9 years in just 13 days. Still a ton of work to do, but … we are so ready for this change.
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I am so ready to have much less pine straw in my life.
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Comfort-watching The Addams Family again & have to wonder what cultural impact this show had on people who saw it as kids circa 1964. It’s so unlike everything else I’m aware of from that era.
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I only had two squares of a dark chocolate + coffee bean bar and now my brain stem is vibrating like a tuning fork
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I just discovered an email in my spam folder from February telling me the date of the Remain in Light (Adrian Belew / Jerry Harrison) show I bought tickets for was posted wrong and it’s not tomorrow, it already happened yesterday. Crushed! :-(
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PHL ✈️ ATL Wheels up.
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Currently sipping a smoothie, under an umbrella at Suburban Square, next to the only Apple Store I ever went to the grand opening for in 2006. I impulse-bought a MBP & got a t-shirt! Apple as a brand feels fairly quotidian lately but back then it felt special to go to something like that.
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I hope Reddit gets their shit together cuz the Hyrule Engineering subreddit is kinda dope https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/comments/143rkya/he_was_designed_to_kill_but_he_was_born_to_dance/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
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This Microtel smells like [[redacted]]. But I’m tired … so I do not care.
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On the ground in Philly. 🙌
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Found a spot at ATL airport at least 15 feet from anyone else and my CO2 monitor still reads shows over 1000 ppm :-( I’ll sneak my food bar bites under my mask I guess?
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I wonder what today’s SCOTUS ruling potends for the upcoming decision about the “independent state legislature theory”.
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Tonight is my first airplane trip since covid arrived. Got my 3M Aura masks & Enovid spray ready to go. Apprehensive? Yeah a tad.
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I found this EPA guide to particulate matter very helpful.
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Ok folks any recommendations for a standing desk, ideally under $500?
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I used to think I was immune to nostalgia. But then I got older and started feeling nostalgia.
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I’m having to use MacOS Reminders app as my task tracking solution at the new job (for good reason, a bank org has pretty tight laptop security) and dang it is not nearly as useful as other apps I’ve had.
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The one feature of voice assistant technology that seems so obvious to me but doesn’t seem to exist in any unsubstantial way: why can’t Siri, Alexa etc teach the user how to form commands & requests better, rather than “sorry I don’t understand that” and whatnot, leaving you to keep guessing?
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This Ars Technica piece on the Vision Pro is a solid, dispassionate assessment: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2…
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The Diplomat is hella fun (I’m four episodes in). Just enough smart complications & quirky characters to keep me paying attention. And Kerri Russel is of course still great at being a hyper-competent badass with fascinating flaws.
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Apple has a way of creating products that — while expensive for mainstream markets — are insanely cheap compared to what similar tech would cost in more narrow, specialized markets. For example, what would similar quality AR goggles cost for a robotic surgery apparatus, or military weapon? 25K? 50?
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Snark aside, Apple really pulled this off, I think. They went beyond a VR Viewport to making a standalone AR/VR computer: “The Bicycle for the Mind, But On Your Face & All Around You”.
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I confess I do not look forward to sitting next to a VisionPro user on a plane as they forget their surroundings exist during their ultra-realistic horror movie viewing experience. #wwdc23
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At a price point $3499 I look forward to using my analog eyeglasses to watch other people enjoy the first generation of VisionPro!
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This #VisionPro video conferencing capability is basically the equivalent of Tim stuffing Zuck in a school locker. #wwdc23
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I can see how Vision Pro’s “OS in physical space” could be great for someone like me who needs to have tons of info in view to synthesize. The three dimensionality would make it much more helpful for my working memory too. I’m more excited by this than the more gimmicky/entertainment stuff. #wwdc23
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I just hear the whitest man on earth say “Thanks, Kojima-san” in the whitest “white-dude-announcer” vocal inflection imaginable. #wwdc23
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Sitting on my front porch listening to thunder as a storm rolls in. Beautiful.
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checking out Quantumania and not sure what to make of it 30 min in but it’s just a pleasure seeing Michelle Pfeiffer in basically anything
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Trying to book a flight for the first time in several years, and @delta is giving me an error that appears to be related to an account audit. So now I get to be on hold for 40 minutes.
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I’m convinced the ghost of Burt Reynolds is behind this …
“A driver’s car soared 120 feet after vaulting off of a tow truck’s ramp in Georgia”
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Thanks to whoever mentioned you can use “sections” in FigJam much like “frames” in Miro — I totally overlooked that!
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Parts of it are certainly problematic. But some nights there’s nothing quite like Frisky Dingo
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I always think Bernadette Peters is dead but then I’m pleasantly surprised when I see she is alive in something new I’m watching.
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just added “running tf away from gloom hands” to my linkedin skills
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New employer uses Figjam vs Miro or Mural and wow am I missing the more mature functionality of those other tools. For example, Miro’s Frames were amazing for organizing (& navigating in and between boards.)
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It took until the day after the final Succession episode for me to learn each season finale is named from a line of my favorite John Berryman poem 💜
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Kieran Culkin nailed it. #succession
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Successioning
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Governance is (still) the ultimate design problem.
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This Zelda #totk Zonai Builds website is bonkers zeldabuilds.gg
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On my way to dispose of the last of mom’s things. Weird day.
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I had never before noticed that Gomez & Morticia have a Hieronymus Bosch painting in their hallway
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I do love watching events drop like flies off my calendar for the Friday before a holiday once everyone starts having second thoughts about the meetings they’d scheduled 😁❤️
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There is a sound outside my home office window that sounds exactly like a korok pinwheel. It is pleasant yet maddening.
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For anyone who might be interested— the new Beavis & Butthead episodes are actually very good!
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Just spent 20 minutes resetting & pairing AirPods & iPhone several times trying to figure out why I couldn’t hear podcasts or music (but could hear system sounds) only to realize volume was at zero for played media, but not other stuff. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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I cannot recommend using Lively as your phone provider for an elderly family member. The Jitterbug phones are really not any easier to use than other phones. And when your loved one dies, they will still charge you for the entire month.
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Just got news our dog does not have glaucoma. Relieved.
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I still have a ton of my mom’s voice mails on my phone that I was saving as evidence of her mental health issues … feels weird to delete them now, post-mortem, but feels weird not to.
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“Take…these broken wings…”
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“Hippocratic AI” is oxymoronic
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The game really makes you pay for using bombs etc. by damaging or destroying loot that would be fine otherwise. Seems like it does it more here than in Breath of the Wild. #totk
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I had to remove and replace a couple of metal/trough-style window flower boxes today and ran into some complications, and was deeply frustrated I couldn’t just use Ultrahand to solve my problem.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but… If you use an ice fruit or white chuchu jelly with an arrow to kill blue chuchus they drop 2 white chuchu jellies each so it’s effectively perpetual freezy arrows
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Did we use the phrase “on here” so much before the rise of shared digital networks (including social media)? I’m fascinated with how it seems to have emerged to square the circle of being both a “publication” and a “place.”
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Orcas are learning how to sink boats because a boat hurt one of them so bad it decided all boats must die
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It is kinda wild how Mrs Davis is nailing our “AI” hype moment even though this was written and filmed well before ChatGPT et al really got going.
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Given all the givens … I had a pretty good week.
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The 24/7 humidity is back in Atlanta until Novemberish 🥵
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So so happy for Pennsylvania right now.
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Once Succession is over I want a spin-off like Muppet Babies but it’s Roy Babies where they’re all little kids doing little-kid versions of Succession stuff
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Having to use a virtual desktop until my new-job’s new-laptop arrives. I just discovered, four weeks into the job, that I can make it use multiple monitors! Game, changed.
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Wondering if this cross-posting solution works … ignore this post!
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Trying this out so I can crosspost to Bluesky & Mastodon.