My Dell T20 tower server has arrived from eBay today. Now I just need time to set it up, move drives from my NAS into it, setup some VMs as a home learning lab and explain to my wife why there is another computer in my office. 

Whether I stop the puck or it goes in, I do the same thing afterward. I squirt the water bottle and I follow one drop all the way down to the ice. It’s just a little ritual to keep me focused. We’re just here, trying to stop the next puck, you know. 

Fun story about teamwork, friendship, focus and Mario Kart. 

During dinner, I looked up and see this on the wall. 

I may have had dinner in The Good Place. 

Optimistic flowers. 

Couldn’t figure out what this was for. I do feel ISB needs our support but I don’t recall giving them money. 

(It’s for the US Botanical Gardens.)

We made it!

My favorite hockey players were born in the 1990s!
I don't know how to feel about this.

My wife made Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Boat from Pinch of Yum tonight and they were incredible. 

The ricotta gave the squash a gooey cheesy core and the ground turkey was seasoned to perfection. I wanted to sail away with her in that boat and die happy. 

New toy has arrived. Spent tonight rearranging the “smart” part of my home. 

Finished Russian Doll on Netflix and was delighted in how they took repeating everyday and gave it rules and made it interesting and fresh.

Excited for another season. 

This is how I will describe the Crackdown series to people unfamiliar with it.

I do the things that I’m designed to do: Punch dudes, shoot dudes, squash dudes, explode dudes, run dudes over in my car, throw dudes off high ledges. Each time an enemy dies, he renders up pretty, colorful bubbles that flutter pleasingly toward me. These are upgrade points that level up my various skills. So I become better at punching, shooting, and squashing at a rate that is comparable to the increasing menace of my opponents.

Test of publishing from WordPress to Instagram.

Installed accordian lights above the bed tonight. There has never been enough light for reading well. No longer!

Bedroom smoke detector decided 3:40 am was a good time to alert me it needed a new battery. 

Of course, I don’t have a spare so the next room over has no alarm for the night. Morning?

It’s 4am and I almost got 2 hours of sleep before this. 

Happy Birthday to me!

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Made this pork ramen tonight. Super easy and so flavorful. Highly recommend! 

RIP MoviePass. We had a good run. I paid for you about a year ago through Costco for $99.

In that time I saw 60 movies. letterboxd.com/peroty/ta…

It was a good run.

Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult - The Verge

Figuring out how to fix those blurry image quizzes quickly takes you into philosophical territory: what is the universal human quality that can be demonstrated to a machine, but that no machine can mimic? What is it to be human?

Fascinating area of research at how to beat machines at tasks machines will eventually exceed humans at completing successfully.

Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? - The New York Times

If Millennials are supposedly lazy and entitled, how can they also be obsessed with killing it at their jobs?

Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting my money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened. https://gizmodo.com/c/goodbye-big-five

I am really enjoying Kashmir's series on trying to block the Big Five tech companies from her life for a week.

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This is where I want to be. So I am getting this setup.