Thursday: And then everything broke, and I spent the day picking up pieces.

Ugh.

Thanks, but no thanks, Twitter.  I am subscribed to exactly the correct level of Sailor Moon stuff for the time being.

• On that subject, I spent part of yesterday evening looking up spoilers for this live action Sailor Moon series, because I couldn't stand not knowing what happened to one of the characters.
• This should be the default.  There should just be free meals available for any student who wants them.
• Monopoly rents should be taxed at 100% rates.  This should be obvious.
• It's been seven years already?
• I was reasonably happy when I went back to see what my first post was.
• This would be the best comic ever.  I especially want Kraven to be silently in the background of panels, not really doing anything, just spying on everyone.

Wednesday: Ugh, that just convolves the two

I know I've made this work before, but I can't seem to sort out what I'm doing wrong this time.

Maybe when I did this before, one of the two distributions was sufficiently close to flat that it didn't matter?

Ugh.  I guess interpolating the CDFs and working out ratios is the way to go.

• It's supposed to be a peaceful match.
• So the answer is yes, Republicans have based basically everything on a policy of racism.
• Red pandas are cute.

Tuesday: Maybe I should just run an experiment.

I ordered bluetooth headphones last week, going with the "fuck it, $12 is nothing, let's just get these, even if they end up being shitty" option.  I knew they wouldn't get here in time for using them for a walk last weekend, but assumed they'd be here for next weekend.  You know, since that shipping thing is kind of the main benefit of Amazon Prime.

So now it's been four days where Amazon hasn't bothered to stick the stupid thing in a damn box and mail them.  When I was visiting Julie, I was able to order at like 10pm and have it in hand by 2pm Tuesday.  That makes me wonder if Amazon just doesn't bother packaging things that are going to Hawaii.  I think the thing to do would be to order two identical items, and have one shipped to me, and one to Julie, and see what the difference in times from order to shipping is.

This meant that no one knew how cars worked on the drive home.

• Sacramento and Galveston.
• This is why I like Art Deco.
• Duckbot Eva-01.
• My understanding from this is that all cheese in the 50s was processed.
• I don't know, this doesn't seem like the most robust measurement.

Monday: Things I expected to finish over the weekend did not finish.

Which is annoying.

Tiny space gecko was hiding behind one of the display boards.

And it was annoyingly rainy when I left work.  Just enough rain to mess up my glasses, but not enough to be a proper rain.

 And then I couldn't decide on the exposure level for this mosaic.

This is a bit too dark.

But the original blows out the left edge.

• Today is Jack Kirby's birthday.
• I really like the original companions.
• Heather had far more common sense than all the other Silent Hill protagonists put together.  Harry was far too "oh, horrible monsters.  Better find my daughter faster, I guess!" and James was just "huh?  Search this dirty clogged toilet?  Sure.  Fun times."  Also, no, the wine bottles are not loss.jpg, because Silent Hill 3 came out five years before that comic was made.

Sunday: Today's plans didn't really work out.

First, I wanted to go to the park.  However, the park was super crazy busy, and I didn't want to deal with it.  So I went to get pancakes, which was really the only part of the day that went correctly.

And kalbi, since that's the thing now.

Part of the reason why it's the thing is that the pork chop that I've gotten a lot in the past has joined the cajun calimari steak in the big book of "menu options that are no longer available."  Which sucks, because I liked both of those things, but kalbi is never a bad option.

Especially when the last piece kind of looks like a dinosaur.

Originally, there were only three stickers, but the app didn't show me the stickers, so I kept adding more until the tweet didn't post, and when I tried again, all the stickers were in place.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then I was planning on picking up stuff at Safeway, but remembered as I left lunch that I didn't put my Safeway card in my weekend wallet, so I couldn't go there.  Then, when I got home, I thought about going for a walk in the neighborhood, but couldn't get motivated to go do that.

• I think everybody can come to the same conclusion based on the headline to this story without me saying it out loud.
• Red pandas.  I learned this weekend that there are actual living assholes out there that poach red pandas for fur.  I mean, I simply don't understand being that much of a piece of shit.
• I don't know who this lady is, but look what she reveals.
• Yeah, they were both dumb, and I think this "apologetic" Tony Stark is stupid.  Tony fucks up all the time.  But he moves on, and keeps inventing and building a better world.  That makes him terrible to deal with, but at least he's not Reed Fucking Richards.  Richards may have been the smartest person on the planet before Lunella arrived, but his level of fuck ups dwarfs Tony's.
• Tony: I got super drunk because I deal with things badly and crashed my Iron Man armor into a bunch of things.
• Reed: I considered the point the zombies were making, and decided to infect myself and my family with zombie-itis before spreading it to the entire planet.

Saturday: Sure, why not cram everything I had planned for the weekend in one day?

Earlier in the week, I looked at the museum's webpage, and it looked like a number of new exhibitions had opened since last time, so I decided that sounded like a thing to do today.

With lunch at the cafe.

They again did not have the pasta I wanted.

So I went with the filet mignon sandwich.

 It was pretty good, and they had decent tomatoes.  Still probably would have preferred the pasta, but this worked.

And I decided to get dessert too.

Most of the art is the same, but I knew they had one specific exhibition I was looking forward to:

Dragons and Tigers!

I love Asian tiger art.  I don't know exactly why, but it's one of my favorite genres.

Tiger!

Tiger!

Tiger!

Dragon!

Tiger!

Dragon and Tiger, in kimono print form!

Dragon fight!

Tiger fight!

Utagawa Kuniyoshi!

Dragon!

 I'm sad that it was only one room, but I get that this was kind of a niche exhibition.

And today was when I discovered that the museum has an Albers.

And then I remembered that my dad wanted me to take a picture of something at Punchbowl.  I couldn't, due to renovations, but I could still take pictures.

Punchbowl.

From the lookout facing south.

North.

East.

And then I drove to the middle of the island to eat dinner.

Somebody kept talking about Five Guys last week, with the convincing argument when told "I don't want burgers" that "then everybody can just get hot dogs and be happy with that."

Finally, I had a fully trained Magikarp that needed to die in the jump fights, so I took that chance to see how the jump height scales with JP.  The square root fit I used last time gave a terrible fit.  So, I went with the next good option: logarithms.

That fits the data better, although I'm pretty sure there has to be a low-JP taper.  Unfortunately, I can't probe that region without resetting the game, I don't think.  Maybe I'll install it on my phone so I can redo that regime.  This tournament data set meshed nicely with the set from last time, so I just used the union of the two.

• Maybe it's just because I read proper news, but I thought everyone knew that the Republicans were lying about having any health plan other than "poor people die."  How stupid do you have to be to actually believe their lies?
• This sums up pretty well why you'd have to be an idiot to mess with Rei.
• I needed a third link, and found this Etta Candy clip from the Wonder Woman movie release.
• Then I found this link about European elephant art after the fall of Rome on Twitter.

Friday: I bought doughnuts.

However, that means that I probably won't be going to the new Dunkin Donuts this weekend.

Thanks, Google.

• Who wants to read about ancient Babylonian trigonometry?
• Legolas.
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Thursday: Just when I kind of had a plan for a new phone sorted

I've been thinking about getting a Pixel, because Motorola seems to be taking forever to release a new version of the X, and I'm not super enthused by their Z series.  When I looked into it, I discovered that the Pixel supports some gestures, so one of my main reasons for liking Motorola has a solution.  Plus, the Pixel comes without any bullshit installed, so that's a good thing.

The only major issue is that it's like $750, and that was too much for me to impulse spend yesterday.  It turns out that was probably a good thing, because I saw today that they're releasing an updated Pixel 2 on October 5.  So I should wait a month, and get the updated model.  But the updated model doesn't have a headphone jack, because all cell phones are designed by people who never use cell phones, I guess.  That led to me looking up Bluetooth headphones on Amazon, and discovering that 99% of the top selling headphones are made by companies I've never heard of, all have questionable reviews that sound fake, and all of them have people complaining that the batteries don't last as long as they want.  I should probably just buy one, since I use my headphones with my phone while travelling and while walking, and I can always bring the adapter and regular headphones while travelling anyway.

Also in the car.  So I'll need either another adapter to live there, or another Bluetooth thing.  Ugh.

I ran out of Pidgey candies today.  I still have 264 Rattata ones, though, so I guess that's my go-to trash evolution.

Gee.  Thanks, Google.  I needed that important update.

• Racial representation in colleges.
• Castles in Japan.
• Important Dragonball Z facts.
• Good.
• Ok, but Blueberry Pants is a great name.
• This is good Logan.  Sure, it is basically just stealing DC's Wildcat's "grumpy old guy who guides everybody when they start out," but whatever.  Now I want a crossover where they reveal that Ted has just been Logan this whole time.  "None of you ever asked to learn how to kill anybody, so I just kept the claws in."

Wednesday: Things continue to work, and I suspect some sort of conspiracy.

And I got carne asada fries for lunch, because Julie had delicious looking fries, and I wanted to remember why I hate this place's guacamole.

It's full of cilantro and giant chunks of white onion.  Learn to mince.  Also learn not to put shit weeds in food.

There was also a Murder Team Five special on tonight.  I think it was the same as this one I watched last year, but I didn't remember most of the details from that one.  Absolutely ridiculous.

• This might be interesting to watch.  It has a double speed, so that's good.  Maybe this weekend.
• Poverty.
• And yes, wages should be higher if companies want workers.
• Usagi is tired of dealing with crap.
• I should watch Nichijou.  This one deals with coffee.

Tuesday: Back to work.

Things generally cooperated today.  I suspect this won't continue to be the case tomorrow, when I start another round of piles of commands I want results from immediately.

I saw this screenshot of my trainer from a year ago, and was confused why it looked so bland.  I'm used to a giant ghost standing behind my trainer, so when I didn't see her, it was weird.  

And the answer is generation 29.

• Analysis of stage directions by gender.
• While I was on vacation, I learned that economics have a job rumor mill, and that it's infested with misogynistic assholes.
• Squirrel Girl.
• I personally thought "Pranks" was the best one.
• Are all mid-century modern homes in art completely isolated in the countryside?

Monday: An eclipse.

It wasn't total in Alameda, and the clouds made it look a lot like it wouldn't be visible, but that turned out not to be the case:

Although there were no shadows, and the eclipse filters didn't show anything, the clouds acted as a fairly decent filter for the eclipse.

 I was kind of surprised that it came out so well.

Nicely visible above the neighboring building.

Later on, through the not-so-clean hallway window.

 Today was also Ramona's first day of school.

I never went to a school with this right behind the back doors.

After picking her up, it was conveniently close to lunch time.

Delicious Monte Cristo for lunch.

 But all things end, so it was time to catch the BART to the airport.

Switching over at UN/Civic Center station as Julie was heading to work.

SFO was easy to deal with, as I was early, and pre-check is a good thing.  It's unfortunate that I was the only one listening to the RWBY soundtrack, as that probably would have helped everyone else not be so slow about everything.

Also, Mareep.

The flight was fine.  Bringing youtube videos to watch is easily the best strategy for dealing with ~6 hour flights.

• This is why I was sad there were no shadows, today.
• Sailor Moon.
• Totality.

Sunday: another last full day.

Which is always sad. Doubly so when the next visit isn't scheduled yet. Thanksgiving? That'd be a bit of a wait.

They was another raid. I did not catch the ice chicken.

Then KBBQ.  It wasn't originally on the plan, but it works.

 Although two bulgogi was too much.

So dinner was salad. To try and make up for it.

Saturday: a post actually on the day it happened.

No one got up in time for Korean BBQ.

So we did dim sum down the street instead.

I finally leveled up by evolving trash Pokemon.

Then a raid, which still suck.

Followed by dinner at a Greek place.

Some of the veggies were to soft and overcooked, but the rest was super good.

Then a quick stop at the bookstore. Because I need more books.

I have so many questions about this. How? Why? Did he bring rails? How many drugs were involved in this? What the absolute fuck?