Wednesday: Happy Birthday!

Yay!

• There are fewer gun injuries during NRA conventions because gun nuts are at the convention, away from their dumb guns.
• This doesn't seem like a great plan.
• I like it when comic book characters remember they have friends.
• Damn it, Stephen!

Tuesday: I think this is close to a solution.

I was expecting a point, but whatever.

• That's depressing.
• Legends of Tomorrow is still the best CW/DC show.  Tonight the Flash screwed up a bunch of times and got somebody killed.  Black Lightning beat up his daughter because she was dressed up like a super hero, and a smudge of makeup was confusing.  LoT went back in time and fought pirates.  I mean, this isn't even a battle anymore.

Monday: Ugh.

I think the talk is done.  Or at least I'm done with it.

And then I have to solve this problem tomorrow.

Sunday: I really wanted pancakes.

Because looking at all the pancakes on that tumblr yesterday stuck with me.

With my regular sides.

They were good pancakes.

Never change, Filbert.

• Good dogs.
• Stardew Valley.
• Squirrel Girl.

Saturday: What is a sandwich?

I spent way too much of today thinking about food categories, because Julie shared that pop tart/ravioli image.  The one that's really challenging is jelly doughnut.  Why isn't a jelly doughnut a sandwich?  It shouldn't be, but it has all the same characteristics as bao or kolaches, which should be.  Sandwiches can be sweet, as illustrated by peanut butter and jelly.

The conversation made me want wings, but no place is good for those here, so I got this sandwich.

Which promptly self destructed so I had to eat half of it with a fork.

And then I played a bunch of Pocket Camp so I could get all the crystal items.

• Good.
• This is the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.  Rich people aren't rich because they're smart.
• Another Julie link.  They are super cute, though.

Friday: Conveniently, everything worked out.

Two projects mostly wrapped up today.  That's always a good thing.

To be fair, it's kind of hard to write any program with CFITSIO that isn't a dumpster fire.  I eventually decided it wasn't worth my time to figure out why it couldn't read strings correctly, and just manually added the strings myself.

But the "plausible output file" was actually a totally fine result, and it worked without much kicking.

So this jerk is my first shiny Pokemon.

• Cities.
• It's almost as if the entire movement is actually motivated by racism.
• Hulk is so sad. :(
• Shuri is the best.

Thursday: Panda Express isn't even that good.

Which doesn't explain why they had seven cars backed up into the street from the drive through.  At 7:30pm.  What the what.

Pah, indeed.

• I guess the main theme is "this isn't a big surprise."

Wednesday: I'm even more super tired today.

Marshal is cool.

And I leveled up.

• Marco Rubio is a joke.
• Twitter did more good stuff.  It made people angry, but it seems like those people are mostly jerks.
• Legends of Tomorrow is very good.

Tuesday: I"m super tired and constantly had to remind myself that it wasn't Monday.

You don't need to be a jerk, Francine.

Hey!  Guess what!  I just learned that I hate you, and when I invite you to my campsite, look around at all the other not-jerks who will get to stay and party.  You mean nothing to me, Francine.

Filbert, it was up in a dang tree.  Be careful!

• All completely accurate.
• Come for the name, stay for the Republicans being a party of individual dumpster fires.

Monday: the end of the three day weekend.

Which started with me waking up hungry, but without a clear idea of what I was hungry for.  So I eventually gave up and went with the default option.

La Tour Cafe.

Crispy cheesesteak, and I burned my tongue on it.  I also tried the "ShibSib's Frosty Honor" drink option, which is a weird name for "generic fruity."

Style thief!

Style thief with boring van!

Rosie, how did you drop something into a tree?

• He is such a garbage person.
• I didn't notice until now that Shuri's blaster gloves have scary panther faces shooting the blasts.  That makes it even better.
• Legends of Tomorrow is amazing, and tonight's episode was the best yet.

Sunday: hot pot!

Hot pot!

It was cold and rainy all day today, so my plan to do hot pot was well planned.  Pork belly works well, as does the lamb that they had.  Plus all the gyoza and shumai and mushrooms from the belt.  Plus a bunch of sausage and miscellaneous veggies.  It's not quite KBBQ, but it's similar.

And then I wasted much of the day watching youtube stuff.  I formatted the USB drive that arrived yesterday so I can use it as a backup drive for this move.  I think the 3.7TB will be enough for a copy of everything, and having it encrypted makes it more secure.  It's also tiny, which makes it a good option for a moving backup.

Saturday: Wakanda forever.

Everyone has said that the Black Panther movie was good.  It is, and I liked that they made it largely unconnected to the rest of the movies.  I don't understand how people have not figured out that there are going to be post-credits scenes.  Half the theater was gone by the first one, and almost everyone was gone by the second.

Food Wishes did saganaki this week, so I had to get it as well.

 Along with the regular souvlaki that I always get after watching movies.

People have trouble with this door.  The one that's closed is always locked, and the other one pushes out.  So many people want to open the locked one, with one guy trying to pull on both left and right sides.

There was a good sunset.  There's a flood watch now, and I can see lightning flickering out above the ocean.

The updates to animal crossing are good.  Last night, one of the animals asked for a flower, which is new, and then at my campsite, Lily asked me to go find something she'd lost:

Which I did by fishing it out of the river.

I thought it would get boring, but with all these new things, and the constant events, and new villagers showing up all the time, I'm enjoying the game more now than when it came out.

Friday: Three-day Weekend!

I needed a picture for today.

• Maybe I should go to the museum this weekend.
• I should definitely organize recipes on my blog so I can have everything easily available for Thanksgiving and New Year's.  Then it'd be easy to compare the scallion pancake recipe we used to this Food Wishes one.
• These are stunningly accurate.

Thursday: I just spent like forty five minutes looking at old food pictures on my blog.

And now I'm specifically hungry.  Hungry for specific things.  I already had a Saturday plan, and now I think I have a Sunday plan, too.  I think this is a three day weekend, so I still need to sort out a Monday plan.  That also means that I need to sort out things at work tomorrow so I can run processing jobs over the long weekend.

Island time.

This is messed up, Octavian.

• Barnes and Noble is self destructing, I guess.
• "Food and housing are a right".
• I don't know.  I like that we have the internet everywhere now.
• I now have a to-do list for restaurants.  Thanks, Julie.
• Senia.
• Mud Hen Water.

Wednesday: Happy Birthday to Julie!

It was dark and rainy all day.

Even in games.

But it was also Valentine's day for all my animal friends.

Like Marshal.

Who is polite.

But nervous when you go to dress him up.

 I went with simple.

Just some glasses.

Sure!

It was a good day.

When I was getting ready to leave work, I decided I wanted to try that burrito place again, and see how it goes.

I did takeout.

I sorted out part of the problem: their hot salsa is basically chipotles + sugar.  I think that's a big thing that turned me off.  The salsa comes off sweet and cloying, and doesn't mix well with the rest of the ingredients.  Their queso isn't bad, and it works good on chips (I got a side).  But the salsa fights everything else, and the end result isn't great.  It also got cold, which didn't help.  I think I'm probably done with this place now.

• I saw this yesterday, and I was surprised how quickly it went from "this is a good thing" to "wow, this person is awful" on twitter.  I tried to think about it, but I don't see how you can ever be friends with a Nazi.  I guess you just have to be an awful person.
• "Poor People Deserve To Taste Something Other Than Shame".
• Carol.  I like her when she's written like this.
• Plant squirrels.

Tuesday: A day largely spent in the debugger.

I found the issue, but I don't know why it's there.  Tomorrow.

My phone updated.

 It looks like everything is fine.  My RSS reader has a bug with Oreo, but turning off the item flip animation solves it.

Since it's Shrove Tuesday, I decided to get pancakes.

Because I need a reason to get pancakes.

The gym system is still butt.  I had all of these almost dead, but it's easy to counteract my work if you're an ass.

Which made me flip to my other main game.

I CAN NOW USE TWO RUGS!

 And my treehouse was finally built, so Filbert can make new levels!

Yes we did, Filbert.  We made it.

 But that's not all:

OMG.

I WILL DRESS THEM ALL!

AND BASK IN THE FASHION SHOWS!

• Food.  People who have never had to worry about food shouldn't get to decide how food/nutrition support systems work.
• Oh that's cool.  Not like I've taken that flight three times in the past year.  IT'S ALL COOL.
• Good.
• Twitter enforces anti-bullying actions, even when it's a creator against their robot.
• Harley and Ivy.

Monday: Jury duty sucks.

First issue: they say on the webpage you need to be there at 7:45AM.  No one is awake at that time, what fuckery is this?  Then, you get there at 7:35, but the stupid building doesn't open until 7:45.  Right there, you get a taste of what's going to happen: you're going to waste a lot of time, and the judge is going to try to convince you this is a great thing you're doing.

Once you get inside, you get to wait to watch the introduction video, made with all the high production values of year 2000 public access TV.  The main point of this video is to tell you that this is a big deal, and you should listen to the judge and his instructions, and try not to use any information you have at all, such as "what words mean" and "pretend to be impartial."  Once that's done, and you've filled out the form to ensure that you get the kingly sum of $1.32 that you're due for driving, you go upstairs and wait.

Finally you get to the courtroom, which is where the most boring part of things happens.  The judge gave a nice fifteen minute speech about the history of trials, juries, and how juries protect justice from blah blah blah blah blah.  Did you know that juries were invented in America?  That's not true, but that won't stop the judge from telling you that.  Hawaiian courts had jury trials too!  This is when they choose people.

They randomly select twelve people from the set of 55 that arrived (of the 66 summoned).  Then, after talking to all the jurors, they do three rounds of exclusions where the prosecution kicks someone out (for being a creepy fuck in one case), they refill the seat, talk again, and then the defense kicks someone out and they refill and talk.

This is super inefficient.  The first set for the full jury is like a half hour, and then each new addition took another ten-fifteen.  Why not just grab six new people, talk to them all, and then exclude?

They can also decide to approach the bench, which is secret code for "this lady doesn't answer any questions and just smiles like an idiot" or "this guy is clearly pretending not to speak English well".

The discussion was pretty easy to sort out what was going on.  The charges were assault, terroristic threatening, sexual assault 1, and sexual assault 3 (maybe 2.  The judge said both at different points).  The prosecution wanted to clearly establish that people could be the victim of a crime, even if they'd done stupid things previously, or if they didn't seem emotional.  Another big point was describing a bunch of scenarios (about half of which were objected to) that set up the concepts that consent is revocable, and that a single witness could provide a convincing case.  The defense wanted to make sure no one knew anyone who had been sexually assaulted, and that they didn't hate guns.  The other big push was to establish that sometimes, when something happens, you don't get to choose who your witnesses are, and that sometimes those witnesses are your friends and family.  "Do you think this biases them?"  Also some weird tangent about Snapchat and Instagram.  Explaining to old people what social media is is painful.

Yes, but no one would say that.  Everyone who ended up on the jury seemed to want to say things that made the court people happy, even if it was obviously untrue.  "Can you ignore these things and only make a decision based on what we tell you?"  "Yes, I think so."  Why?  Who wants to be there?  It's times like this that I remember that I don't deal with stupid people very often.

The majority of Hawaiian civic architecture is brutalist garbage, but this court at least had a good stained glass ceiling.

• I'm not going to mention who the defendant was, but based on this, I'm guessing he's probably guilty.  I'm guessing his girlfriend broke up with him, and he decided to force her to do things by pulling a gun.  
• Holy crap.  I'm glad this didn't end up worse.
• These are good portraits to remind us of when we had grown ups running the country.

Sunday: It was too hot.

Back here again.

Because yesterday I saw that there's a taco/burrito place.  I wanted to try them out.  Plus: queso.

I was unaware of what I was getting myself into.

It's too spicy.  I got the al pastor, and that's spicy by itself.  Plus their combo comes with chips and salsa, and I got the hot.  I assumed it was regular hot, but it's not.  It's insane hot.  I hoped the queso would help.  It did not.  Nothing helped.

This is as far as I got before giving up.

It's not bad, it's just unreasonably hot.  I suspect if I get chicken instead, and queso and chips, that I'd be able to finish.  They also need more staff.  It's really a four person operation, not a three person.

And now I have to go to sleep to get up stupid early tomorrow for stupid jury duty.

• I wish I could make all the people who come up with things like this so poor that they could only survive using the services they want to take away.