I tell him, “My last boyfriend was a guy named Carl, and-” “Tm sorry, Carl?” “Look, they can’t all be sexy Sophie names,”
So my wife just burst into laughter at her book. And I asked why so she reads to me what she just read, between fits of giggles.
I, Carl, feel attacked. 😂
Welcome to Maryland.
It was 60 degrees yesterday. Today we got 6" of snow.
Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚
Tossing piles of words from dusty local directories into Tiddlywiki.
There’s a beautiful snow falling and it’s very hard to think about work rather than watch the birds gather around my feeder.
Bright red cardinals in snow-covered pine trees are my current love.
“NFTs are beanie babies.” —My wife
Context: We were talking about the beanie baby craze and if she would recognize if it happened again. Then said IT’S NFTs!
🎮 Fallen hard for Craftopia.
An early access game on Xbox.
It’s Breath of the Wild meets Minecraft.
Open world crafting, building, hack and slash. It may be the most perfect game I’ve ever played. It’s early still but there’s so much to love!
📺 Star Trek: Discovery has been comfort food at the end of this year. It’s warm, uplifting, relentlessly positive stories are what I need.
It’s a police procedural. In space.
There’s a problem. A crew of hard working, brilliant people put their heads together to find a solution.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
My wife took a series of things we had in the house and made a delicious breakfast bake.
Add a little ice cream. Chef’s kiss
Merry Christmas Eve! May it be filled with warmth and satisfaction.
Unless you’re upside down, then may or be cool and the ‘Roos peaceful.
Brass Against.
A cover(?) band that plays Tool, Deftones, Rage Against the Machine tracks.
Learned of them from their cover at the end of Matrix: Resurrection.
I don’t know what to do with this info so I’m sharing it.
I’m really curious if by Christmas 2022 if we’re still talking about NFTs and if everything from pro sports teams to major video game studios are making deals.
Or if they’ll be a weird footnote in internet history.
Finished reading: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 📚
Absolutely lovely book. My wife read and loved it. I saw this snippet and it sold me.
“1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in.” -Gail Carriger
Looking for a simple Linux app to resize images this morning and found this. Do it right from the file manager, perfect! Resize Images with Right Click on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distributions
My productivity system today can be described as:
0/10 Would not recommend.
This gets to the core of asking how to do anything.
The squirrels are getting mighty big these days.
I know there are Tiddlywiki nerds here. I want to trash mine and start from scratch. I like the node server method as I can slap it in a container on my home server.
Does anyone have a good post/posts on how to set it up and make it pretty?
Wood. Shed.
1/2 cord of firewood delivered today. I’ve got my workout planned for this afternoon.
How Our System Revenges Rest - by Anne Helen Petersen
Our days have accumulated tasks and responsibilities that behave like invasive plants: if you neglect their maintenance, even for a day, they threaten to pull the entire enterprise asunder. The less societal privilege you have, the more true this feels. People with good credit, power and seniority within their organizations, and an emergency fund can afford to (momentarily) fall behind. Their apologies for a delayed email, a late bill, a late kid will be accepted. For everyone else, drop one ball and risk catastrophe: lost hours, lost jobs, lost credit, lost cars, lost homes.
AHP is a must-read every week.
Trying to explain the appeal of TikTok to my dad and stepmother we used this as our example.
I feel we did well.
Beautiful sky tonight at sunset.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. — Anne Lamott
Finished reading: The 7 1⁄2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚
Recommended by my wife. She loved it. I listened to it (at 1.5x) and absolutely loved it.
What a wild ride. What a twisty tale with beautiful writing. Some of my favorite lines:
“Dig a hole with a shovel of sparrows.”
“The words are laid at my feet. Dead rabbits for hungry wolves.”
“The floor boards are his spies. Screaming my approach with every step.”
The line about a shovel of sparrows sticks with me. There’s an ending. There’s an explanation there’s resolution.
Absolutely worth it!
Took a long walk after work tonight. Had a good time walking at twilight as the sun faded. The Night Sight on my Pixel continually impresses me.
