It’s really hard listening to the US Government, responsible for getting compromised during the OPM Hack in 2015 to the Chinese. To then turn around and talk about banning TikTok when Meta/Facebook collected all our data, performed experiments on us, and so many more reasons.

New glasses have arrived. My first with progressive lenses. It takes some getting used to. Wheeeeeee!

Meet Paul by Becca Lane

Paul by Becca Lane is the fanciest pigeon in all the land and I am madly in love.

Coo.

The Washington Capitals are playing the NY Rangers tonight and I’m watching the game broadcast live as a cartoon.

This article shows how it was done and how it looked.

The NHL’s Big City Greens Classic, a live 3D animated game, explained

They’re showing the game live with some of the players replaced with cartoon characters. The referee is a chicken. But they’re also taking time to explain rules and how parts of ice hockey work.

I don’t have kids but I’m completely enchanted with how much fun it is to watch hockey this way.

US Govt: We are going to ban TikTok. Meanwhile, on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWw4e… (goat playing drums against a man wearing a horse mask in a bath tub)

Is there any greater feeling than having a bug you reported confirmed and slowly being fixed? In this case Webex Webinars is dropping email addresses from people in Webinar Summary Report and the associated API Response for Webinars/Meetings.

Feeling tired?
Go for a walk.
Hard to focus?
Go for a walk.
Not sure what to work in next?
Go for a walk.
Oh look! A new episode of my favorite 30 minute podcast just dropped?
Go for a walk.
Stuck on a problem?
Go for a walk.
Nice day outside?
Go for a walk.

I track my sleep data with an Apple Watch and I fell asleep without putting it back on. I went to manually add in the hours I was asleep and missed the AM/PM switch so now I’ve slept… until 1pm today.

But I can find no way to edit the manually added data from the iPhone or Watch.. is this just not possible or am I missing something?

Trying to explain why testing in dev is a bad idea and came up with this example.

Man 1: This car isn’t running real well. Man 2: Well sir, you see it’s up on the jack without 2 wheels. Man 1: I know, but I was hoping to test drive it.

So that’s how my day is going.

Floor Time with notebooks and iPad

🚨🥅 Goalie Goal! 🥅🚨

The Boston Bruins goaltender scored on an open net. I love to see a Goalie Goal no matter who nets it! Video on Twitter
Bruins’ Linus Ullmark becomes first Boston goaltender in franchise history to score goal - The Athletic 💸 (paywalled)

I love reading “day in the life” style stories of people in different professions. This is an excellent look at coaching in the National Hockey League. It’s easy to look at games and coaching and ask yourself what does the coach even do? The answer is, an absolute mountain of work. Most of which, like any job, isn’t readily apparent to the onlooker.

NHL masochism: Why assistants dream of the hard, (mostly) joyless move to head coach - The Athletic 💰Paywalled

In short, you’re a coach. 

And Luke Richardson loved that job.  

“It’s the closest thing to being a player,” he said. “Because you’re there and you spend lots of time with the players, you do one-on-one work with the guys physically and mentally and verbally. I enjoyed that contact.”

Well… I just turned 42 and just said the words out loud “I wonder where this bird lives and if I could meet him.”

The bird: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRtkXG…

I am 42.
I am answer to life, the universe and everything.

I didn’t know I would be walking through Costco crying as Self-Hosted Show: 89 Jellyfans shared the most heart-breaking data loss story I’ve ever heard.

📺 Welcome to Wrexham (2022)

What a warm, lovingly crafted, funny series overflowing with heart and love for Wrexham, Wales.

We binged through the 18 episode season in two evenings. Delighted to see there is another season coming.

If you enjoyed Ted Lasso, give this a go.

📺 Cunk on Earth (2022)

I’ve seen clips of this show on TikTok so when I saw it was on Netflix I ran to watch it! It’s hilarious and superbly put together.

#PumpUpTheJams

“If you’re gonna use me, use me up”

🎵 Use Me Up - Until the Ribbon Breaks

There is such motion and throughout this song. then it stops for a moment to soothe and speak. Then right back to that insatiable groove.

🎵 Nitesky feat. John LaMonica - Robot Koch

This is a great song. And I’m trying out Lantern from Robb Knight.

Spent today neck deep in Webex’s REST API, Postman and out application today trying to figure out why my numbers weren’t matching up.

I’m exhausted and my brain feels like the number of tabs I have open and VSCode, Typora, Excel and Text Edit documents I have open on my computer.

Had a woman ask my wife what channel the game is on today. We have no idea. I said to check out the chips aisle and there will certainly be an NFL on ____ ad there somewhere. 
I also said “beer aisle” when our county doesn’t allow beer sales in grocery stores. We have Beer and Wine stores. 
So maybe we aren’t the best to ask where the football is. 🏈

Return to Office Plan

Instead of sharing an office with one other person with a door you can close, we’re going to put you in a bullpen in a giant open space right next to the kitchen. Open Floor Plan!

It’s going to be so easy to collaborate! And drop in on your neighbor!

So in order to breed collaboration we are going to remove any possibility for focus.

My Return to Office Plan

• Pack my noise-canceling headphones. (I need quiet and focus. This is going to kill me.)
• Leave strictly 8 hours after arrival. (We’re not family, we’re workplace proximity associates.)
• Put in request for standing desk since all of the ones there are much too short (and there are plenty of standing/adjustable desks.)
• Bring a portable fan since we’ll be in the side of the office that’s perpetually too hot. (I’ll miss my ceiling fan overhead and ability to open a window.)

Seriously though, I just worked out a treadmill working setup so I could walk (very slowly) as I wrote JIRA tickets or read documentations. I have a standing desk at home where I’ve been working for the past 5-ish years.

I knew this day would come but I am absolutely dreading it.

Me: Look at that little shelf! It looks perfect for my growing Target fabric bird collection. Let’s see how much it is.

Wayfair: Get the app!

Me: But you’re a web store. Show me the product.

Wayfair: Get the app!

Me: Never mind then.

Last week a bought this laptop mount for our treadmill. Vivo Universal Laptop Treadmill Mount Walking for an hour between meetings while I work is something I should have done years ago. But here we are.

It’s all Velcro straps to secure it ti the treadmill and the height is adjustable via Allen wrench.

Dumb and shameful until it’s not - by Ryan Broderick

There are all kinds of legal and ethical problems around this technology. It’s exploitative. It’s wildly insecure. We don’t even fully understand what it will do to our brains, yet. And there is a new dumb company every day hawking worthless A.I. fixes to problems no one actually needs to solve.” Well, fun fact: That was true of Web 2.0 too! In 2013, I used an app called Foursquare to check-in to a dive bar in Greenpoint every weekend via the geotargeting on my phone so I could get free tater tots. Everything on the internet is dumb and shameful until it’s not.

It’s dumb until it’s not. If that doesn’t sum up the entire Internet experience, I don’t know what does.