Monday: That's much cheaper than I expected.

I guess junk removal is a by-volume pricing system, not by weight.  Good to know.

Gabby is one of the best things added to comics in the past decade.

• I did not know this.
• They probably should have done this before.
• Thanos and Gamora.

Sunday: I guess I accomplished some things.

Trash is bundled up, and I vacuumed.  So that's good.

And I burned my tongue.

And got a pizza.

• This is pretty cool.  If I had any need to design electronics.

Saturday: Infinity War

Infinity Hot Dog.

Infinity Sushi.

• Infinity assholes.
• Infinity bad weekend.
• Infinity war.

Friday: Huh.

Woke up to unexpected news, figured out that the algorithm that's supposed to improve a fit doesn't for certain sets of data, and did the thing to get movers moving.

So that's all good.

And tomorrow I'll go see Avengers, so I can stop avoiding spoilers.

Thursday: lkbfslkbfaskbf

A decade ago, Julie tried to make me feel bad with these chili cheese fries.

I responded with a steak.

• Vox agrees.  Legends of Tomorrow is really good.
• I was singing along in my head.

Wednesday: Things I'm pretty sure are mistakes: Skin. Joints.

It has been eleven years, and I do not know if the awareness has been kept up.

• Awful person leaves, probably to do awful stuff again elsewhere.
• Gwenpool, what have you done?  Introducing Doreen to a punchable "The Devil" means she's like two naps and a homework assignment away from "Tippy Toe and Doreen Solve Evil In One Long Afternoon."  It will be brilliant, but it will also royally donk up theology.
• Utaka Hikaru has a new album coming out this year.  June 27.  I will be driving that day.  I hope Amazon will have it ready for me.

Tuesday: A work at home day.

Mostly because it's "cold" and kind of rainy, and that means when I woke up this morning, all my joints decided not working was a fun prank to pull.

But I was able to prove that I almost have this thing working.  The yellow bars are supposed to be over the blue bars.  It doesn't look like a simple scaling, so I'll have to try something different tomorrow.

• An interesting school district civil rights page.
• Fuck this.  You want people to work, you pay them.
• Eh, I thought it was good because Earth-X Snart is a delight.

Monday: Ugh. Mondays.

At least there was a Supergirl episode to watch.  Unfortunately, it was another episode where due to shenanigans, all the good guys fight each other.  I hate that kind of episode.

I went to get water, and when I returned to my office, I saw this cat sitting in the drive.

• The UK isn't paying as much, so people have to use food banks to not starve.
• This is a good system, and I've actually had mac and cheese there.
• Apparently that was the day that my team won Pictionary by like a billion points.
• It's a good shirt, Bront.
• I'm looking forward to this.

Sunday: I couldn't decide if I wanted sushi.

I decided no, because I did that last week.

So I went with pancakes.

• Crime.

Saturday: I really wanted pizza.

Last night, technically.  So that sorted out what to get today.

Pizza!

Unfortunately, I asked for pepperoni and spicy chicken, and the guy behind the counter heard this as "pepperoni, and fuck me up with all the spicy chicken you can cram in."  It was painfully hot.  Still good, just a bit too spicy.

So I had to get shave ice to cool down.

Friday: I finally sorted out one problem that's been bothering me for months.

Things still aren't perfect, but it's a radial effect, so that's pretty easy to just throw a small scale factor in.

I went to the new bakery already this week, but I had a craving for curry pan.  So I got two.

• I'm on board with this.
• College.
• How so very dare you.

Thursday: when you go to see if a package has arrived, and time it and catch the mail being delivered.

Squirrel.

• Well that's disturbing.  Men are awful.
• I'll have to remember to order something from them when I can buy books again.
• YES.

Wednesday: I spent all day trying to figure out why something didn't work.

I still don't know, but I have at least tracked it down to a rotation issue.  When the angle is zero, it seems to work fine, but doesn't at other angles.  It doesn't make sense, but it's something to work from.

More old flowers.

• A good news story, with a great closing paragraph that can be paraphrased as "you're a moron, Mr. Senator."

Tuesday: Donk.

Thirteen years ago.

• The seals are armed.
• This makes sense.
• Yes, thank you.

Monday: Ugh. Monday.

It's even worse now that Legends of Tomorrow isn't on.  Supergirl is back, but they're spending way too much time on Mon-El.  He's doing a time travel thing too, but it's nowhere near as cool at the LoT ones.

Flowers.

• I just really liked this.

Sunday: Cheese tots.

Because cheese tots.

• Thanos-copter.
• 55522 Makotoshinkai.
• The UK is pretty messed up right now, too.

Saturday: It is going to rain all weekend.

I leveled up!

 Also my Pokemon Go didn't really survive the laundry trip.  It doesn't vibrate anymore, so it's hard to notice when to push the button.

Sushi won the "what to eat" puzzle.

And I got gyoza.

I should probably eat the five I still have in the fridge.  And there was Drawful:

Hip dad.

Erotic library book.

Friday: Taxes finally done.

I still have to mail them, but the boring part is done.  I overpaid $6 to the feds, and $10 to the state.  I will be able to splurge on a fancy "less expensive than I paid for tonight's dinner" with that.

Tonight was so expensive because I got the kalbi plate with ten mandoo.  This is likely also tomorrow's dinner, since there's so much food.  I decided that I only have so much time to eat Korean food, so I should get as much in as possible.

• Because so much bonkers stuff happened today.
• I'm pretty sure that if you die in an explosion in your apartment, and they decide they have to burn the whole place down to be sure it's safe, then you're probably a terrorist, no matter how much bible study you do.
• I saw this news story, and thought, "huh, I wonder if that's the place next to Panda Express."  Yes.  Yes it is the place next to Panda Express.  Googling it shows that they've been busted multiple times in the past.

Thursday: I implemented that bad solution.

And it works, so I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Also: Arrow is a mess of a show.  They have all sorts of characters, but never use them.  The hero is fighting one crime lord, and completely forgets that he was the mayor, and is also a billionaire.  Going out and shooting people with arrows is the least effective way for him to change things.

• Gawker just doesn't get a break.
• Paul Ryan still sucks.

Wednesday: I have a solution to a problem, but it is the very definition of "inelegant."

I have so much wood, and so little of everything else.

• Fuck You, Paul Ryan.
• I guess there will be a Tea Dragon Society card game?
• I am glad that there was a sequel.

Tuesday: I finally tested code I wrote months ago, and it works just fine.

So that's good.

Neko-pan.

Neko-pan.

I finally built the space shuttle.

• Moby wrote essentially this, so I guess he's awful too.
• This was such a good episode.

Monday: The plan was literally "get drunk and think up a better plan."

Beebo.

Tonight was the Legends of Tomorrow finale.  It was glorious.  Last week, the Legends had the plan to release the evil time demon so they could use their magic amulets to kill him.  Except they didn't really know how to do that.  So they go with the backup plan of "hide with Jonah Hex in his time-hidden town."  And then get drunk and think up a better plan.  The evil time demon sends an army of pirates, Romans, and Norsemen to the old west town to demand the magic amulets.  This is not the most ridiculous thing in the episode.

Ray has the idea to release Damien Darhk so they can try to save his daughter before she turns into the evil time demon.  This is a Bad Plan, so he has punch Nate to get away.  Surprisingly, it works, but the evil time demon takes over Damien, abandoning Nora.  Ray saying "you shouldn't hit your daughter" after Damien does that is also not the most ridiculous thing in the episode.

Ava comes with some support, including Jackson, and convinces Sara to try it all again.  They taunt the army, and then there's a big fight scene where everyone gets to slash and shoot and whatever the army for awhile.  They win, but the evil time demon does a thing, and revives all of his side.  The team tries it again, but thanks to Nate, the amulets merge everyone into a giant Beebo doll, which then fights the evil time demon in a scene that could have been called "this is why there hasn't been much CGI this season, we needed to save up for this."  It is the most ridiculous thing in the episode, but also one of the greatest moments on any TV show ever.

I did a live-tumblr of my thoughts:

• I love Wally West.  I love Sara’s plan is “get drunk and come up with a better plan.”
• “Are we making a baby?” I love Mick Rory.
• Ray shows up 15 minutes late with Starbucks Nora Darhk.
• “Wally, you’re only allowed to speed punch 40% of the bad guys, ok?  We all want to have cool action sequences.” - Sara, probably.
• “Beebo hungry!”  This damn show.  I will love it for all time, just for this brilliant addition.
• “To be fair, John, we solve each disaster by causing a second, larger disaster.  We are pretty sure we’ll reach maximum disaster size, and we’re counting on it wrapping around to a tiny disaster we can just ignore.” - Sara

Oh yeah, Constantine is angry at the end because releasing an evil time demon also sometimes releases other demons.  Like this time.  They released other demons that they'll need to fight next season.  And this is totally their thing.  Season one ended with them needing to go fix something with the Justice Society, season two ended with them breaking time so badly that a time demon could partially escape, and season three ended with them accidentally releasing a bunch of demons into the world.  They are failing up the best way they can.

• This is all I'm talking about today.
• Because look at this.
• I can't wait.

Ok, other stuff.

• It was a good news day.
• Yes to this.  This season has made it clear that the Simpsons is written by old people who are worried about their increasing irrelevancy.  I don't remember the exact episode I noticed, because I've started muting the TV and watching youtube on Sundays.  I think there was some technology thing that they presented as silly and unnecessary but popular with kids.  Maybe take your racism and go sit in the corner and remember when your show used to be funny.

Sunday: Pork.

Is yummy.  I like pork.

I also have my saved items down to 300 in my RSS reader.  I moved some things that I didn't want to reblog to my published group (which saves them as well), and cleared out a lot of old things.

I also discovered today that if you wash and dry your Pokemon Go Plus, it probably will just drain the battery.  Not saying how I learned this.

• Republicans are bad at everything.
• Just a scientific study I discovered after seeing a news story from the Big Island.
• Better bird names.
• Better movie plot.  Seriously, we should just have tumblr do things now.

Saturday: I have fewer than 100 items in my youtube watch later list.

And I really wanted pho today.  More specifically, I wanted the garlic noodles from Mint Leaf in Alameda, but that would be tricky.  So, next best option.

Spring rolls!

Which I discovered I have a hard time eating with chopsticks, because they don't squish any.  The place I went has their own "volcano sauce" hot sauce that is excellent.  It's hot, but not excessively so.  That means when you add it to your pho, it just slowly builds and builds as you eat.

The pho was good too.  I went with the brisket/steak/flank combo.

 I will have to go back, and I'm thinking about buying a jar of their sauce and mailing it ahead of me.

And afterwards, when my mouth was on fire, I got shave ice.

• "Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea".

Friday: Everything worked better than planned.

It snowed on my car long ago.

• Molly Ringwald.
• a) This is excellent news. b) Legends of Tomorrow will soon have a cast of approximately everyone on Earth.

Thursday: and that's when I realized I should just work from home.

Because my boss is out, and there's not really any reason to be in the office.  A/C, I guess, but couch computing is more comfortable than my desk chair.  I got a lot accomplished, and I have data running so tomorrow I can check to see if my guess of "just average the two things I have, and assume it's identical" works.

I have no idea where or when I saw this bear.  2008? 2009?

I watched Arrow tonight, and it is not terribly good.  Some criminals have taken over much of the city by corrupting cops, the DA, half of mayor's staff, despite Green Arrow being mayor.  He has a gang of other heroes, but none of them are that great, and GA is a massive jerk.  But he's friends with the entire rest of the CW, so why doesn't he just call up Flash?  Or, even better, the Legends.  That team of Disaster Idiots would just Disaster their way through all the problems.  Drunk Mick and Punchy Sara could probably solve it by themselves.  "I shot fire at them until they gave up."  "I punched them all until they gave up."

Sara is returning for their season finale, so maybe he does that.

Flash could probably use this tactic too.

• My actual thought was "Shuri makes things for T'challa just like Tomoyo makes things for Sakura.  I bet tumblr mushed this up already."  Yes.  Yes, they did.  Thank you, tumblr.
• Jezebel does a good thing.
• I liked the takenoko ones more, but I think I've switched over to the kinoko.
• Isao Takahata died.

Wednesday: My phone updated.

Which prompted me to look at this screen:

It's good I have the unlimited plan.

• I can't believe that it's been 76 years and this isn't obvious to everyone.
• President Kamala Khan.

Tuesday: Documentation sucks.

I know it's important, but it's challenging when you've built a huge system that works, and then have to explain how it all works so someone else can make it work.  At least I have this first pass done, and I've encased all the esoteric awk/sed/grep command lines into scripts.

From a decade ago.

Monday: This damn show.

They go back in time to save college-age Barack Obama from Gorilla Grodd, and wrap it up in like three minutes, because Ray just shrinks Grodd down and puts him in a jar.  Then everybody fights and Damien Darhk, who's been the baddie all season comes over to ask if they can team up, because his plan of putting a demon into his daughter so she could bring him back from the dead isn't as cool when he realizes that the demon is going to kill his daughter.  And so Sarah decides she needs an independent view of things, so she goes and explains everything to Obama, and gets his advice.  Then they decide to trick Darhk's daughter by sending Ray to get John Noble, Denethor from LotR, to voice some lines for the demon to say, because he does the voice of the demon on the show.

I mean, what even is this show?

Did the seasonal bunny need to be this terrifying?

• Private equity firms are vampires.
• Everybody got renewed on the CW, so I'll have another bonkers season of Legends to watch next year.
• Mongol envoy visit to the king of England.

Sunday: Easter

Although for AC:PC, April Fools was the bigger event.

It's ok, Lily.

Filbert just straight up lied and told me he ate five pizzas.

 Then I went for a walk, because I wanted the classic Easter meal:

Bulgogi and mandoo.  I have leftovers for tomorrow, and I have to actively try not eat all the mandoo right now.

 I mean, I was full, and I still had to convince myself not to eat more.  I might have a problem, and that problem is the sweet, sweet dipping sauce.

Then I dressed up animals who asked as Luigi.

And Mario.