Thursday: Halloween

Another year, another zero trick-or-treaters.  I even saw them as I came home, but whatever.

So this goes to the office tomorrow.

And blogger broke itself, and doesn't load the image loader correctly.

• Yeah, this sounds like the prosecutors are probably racists.
• Baseball.

Wednesday: I didn't exactly finish everything today.

But I only have one more component to fix tomorrow before this week is out of tasks.  Yay productivity!

Boo the grocery store not carrying proper size things of cold brew.  I guess that's on the grocery list for this weekend.

• Jack does something right.
• Plus, like everyone quit today.
• Dracula live blog.

Tuesday: At this rate, I'll have zero things to do at work by the end of the week.

Given that there have been like two people in the office this week, I've had a lot of time to test and fix things.  Maybe if things go well tomorrow, I'll take Thursday as a science day.

An old squirrel picture.

One of the neighborhood squirrels likes to hide on car wheels.  I've seen it three times, once when it dashed away from my car.

• I just thought this was funny.
• But I guess there's a song?
• Gawker is still being murdered.
• I should go look at gargoyles, once it cools off.

Oh also, Tetris:

Invictus is now easier?

And I probably need to send in my joycon to be repaired, because it's frustrating to almost sell my pickaxe every day in Stardew.

Monday: Hardly anyone was at work today.

And Tuesday usually has even fewer.  I guess it's good I don't have much to discuss?

I very quickly discovered I have to park my boat back where I started, because I have to find a quest item before leaving.

• Great that they keep murdering Gawker.
• Another DC CW show?
• Facebook is garbage.
• Libertarians are assholes, and also wrong about everything.

Sunday: This was a reasonably good "do nothing" weekend.

I stayed up extra late last night to play Assassin's Creed, then woke up late to go to the grocery store so I could come home, make queso, and then eat unhealthy amounts of queso while playing more Assassin's Creed.

This lady kindly warned me about the boar after I killed it, making her super helpful.

This lady had a simple quest to do.

And then I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out if I accidentally killed another friend, but it turns out that you have to advance the story for it to trigger.  So I had to push ahead through the story, even though I'm only four levels above where I'm supposed to be.

But I eventually did it, and made another friend.

• I hope the husband ends up in jail for being absolute trash.
• More Adventure Time?  Huh.

Saturday: There goes my plan to stay home all day tomorrow.

"Oh, I'll made queso!  It'll be a fun-day!"

Except queso requires processed cheese, and I don't eat mine fast enough, so mine expired.  A lot expired.  So much that I'm not willing to trust it.  So I have to go get more tomorrow, which sucks.

So I killed a governor, and because I didn't scope things out enough, I did it in full view of like three people.  This caused someone to hire an assassin.  "Ok, that's my job, but whatever," I thought, and killed him.  Which caused a new one to be sent.  And a second.  But I discovered that assassins are like cats: they don't like to get wet.  Hence why I'm standing on the stolen boat.

• Facebook is garbage.
• What's going on in Chile.
• And it's going to donking rain tomorrow?  Ugh.

Friday: Productivity ran into "spend the day trying to fix the thing that should be working."

Ugh.  It's the weekend.  I'm going to go to Target, I'm going to take out recyclables, I'm going to make beef stroganoff.

It turns out my way of playing this game is to randomly stumble upon people, murder them, and then find out later that they were bad guys, so I'm probably ok.

I mean, I literally stumbled across the guy I've "been looking for" this entire chapter.  I saw a cave, I started murdering, he started talking while I murdered him, I got a cutscene afterwards telling me that I'd advanced the story.  I am...maybe not the most heroic hero.

• Apparently Theodosius is someone to blame for things being worse.
• Sarah Gailey poem.
• I like seeing the actual spectra for these lights.

Thursday: I am sleepy today.

Ugh.  At least this week has been productive.  So that's always good.

Someone clearly stole Julie's phone, because she opened my PKMN gift from like six months ago.

And Amazon sent me three notebooks instead of one.  That's a pretty good deal, I guess.

When I was opening the package, two of my coworkers mentioned how nice new office supplies are.  I didn't mention I have a tag just for that.

• That's good.
• It's not a good thing when people think a supervillain could have said your lines.
• This construction story is ridiculous.

Wednesday: I need to not stay up late playing video games.

But I finished Obra Dinn.  It's very good.  I shouldn't have stayed up until 7am playing it, but it's so hard to stop once you start unraveling the mystery.  I want more detective/mystery games like this, where I don't have to worry about fighting or speed.

Or that my bird is off murdering other animals while I'm doing things.

• Common Archive Observation Model.

Tuesday: asldfkhasldgh

It turns out that small projects are good, and long projects are not good.  I probably should have realized that before now.

I got a new horse.  It still parks crooked, though.

To be fair, I saw a big creature roaming around, and just assumed that was the boar I was searching for.

It turns out no, the boar I'm searching for is a cheating jerk, and I'm probably not high enough level to beat it.

• Orbital mechanics.
• I mentioned this BBQ place, right?
• I don't understand why people are so awful.
• Cosine similarity.
• I have all these places to sneak into and murder about in this game, and I'm only on the third area.

Monday: Productive days.

I figured out most of the problems I ran into last week, so that's good.  I might end up having to do more telecons, but I guess that's just how things work.

My switch ran out of power, so I had to play other games yesterday.

• WTF.
• I wonder why.  It's not like people have less stable jobs, and get paid far less than they need to cover student loans and everyday living, right?
• Oh, that's cool.  I've seen a lot of articles about "new multiplication method", some of which mention that the new one is n log n.  None of them had any reasonable details, but I finally tracked this one down, which presents the previous best algorithm.  The trick is to treat each digit of the numbers as elements of a sequence, and then convolve the two sequences in Fourier space.  Cool.

Sunday: Pancake cravings.

Today was supposed to be a "stay home and be lazy" day, prompted by the rain.  I even ordered groceries last night to be delivered, so I wouldn't have to go get food.

And then I woke up and really wanted pancakes.

So.

I did get laundry and dishes done, and I'm going to figure out why my roomba's been slacking off before bed.  And I discovered that not only did the crew on the Obra Dinn have kraken problems, but also generic sea monster issues.

It's a good game.  It's a bit harder than I would have thought, and I'm annoyed that it tells me that I should be able to figure out mysteries before I actually can.  I'm filling in what seems reasonable and right, and I figure I'll sort things out once I've gone through the entire story.

• Squirrel Harley and Ivy?  Yes.
• Squirrel monument.
• What's the point of having a secret fake twitter account?
• This is the building that Batwoman was standing on at the end of the episode today.

Saturday: Queso burger

I didn't take any pictures, but I had queso, and the burger was ok.

Then today's plan of "do a draw":

The trick is to draw the thing to copy upside down, so you don't think about what you're drawing.  It's pretty effective it seems.

I mean, this isn't the best Raven ever, but it's not terrible.

I should practice more, but I think that's generally the case.

And then I played some more Obra Dinn.

Ok, so this lady dies because a beam falls on her.

And this guy has his gun out.  What's he shooting at?

Oh fuck!  Kraken!

 I was not expecting that.  It's a good "everybody-killed-everybody murder mystery, also holy fuck!  Kraken!" game.

• I haven't looked at the spoilers, but I'm curious about the light out in the ocean in Obra Dinn.  Let's beat it before looking.
• The reference for Raven above.
• And the artist's site.
• Good.
• Crappy houses.
• Actual good art.

Sneaky tricks I've needed this week that I want to write down so I can be sneaky in the future.

1. How to make git give you the full history so you can see how badly you've fucked things up:
• git log --oneline --graph --all --decorate
2. How to get SQL alchemy to stop being such a piece of shit and just give you the stupid fucking query it's fucking up:
• query.sql.compile(compile_kwargs={'literal_binds': True}).string
• Yes, I know that's batshit insane.

Friday: I figured things out at work, but it took all day, and I need a weekend to recover.

I did stay late to work on my FITS reader utility code.  It's now close to what I want it to do.

In any case, I've been staying up late to play Stardew this week.

Julie's right, you probably can finish the community center in the first year.  The things I didn't get:  Catfish, Cabbage, Truffle, Sunflower, Apples*3.  Buying a tree early seems like the strategy if I do another run.

You can get weird mushroom trees?

 Scenes from Stardew-Christmas:

I sold the wine I was going to give Harvey, so he got one of my speed-up coffees.

And then Sebastian came in with a freaking full Glow Ring, making me feel bad that I didn't try at all.

Abigail Is Weird, A Series.

That is quartz, Abby.  Don't eat rocks.

Nope.  I don't.  Because I have a job, Abby.

I think I already made a joke about this.

I mean, duh.

So I think I'm getting married to Abigail, is what I'm saying.

 

Even if she does play her flute, at night, in winter, next to a river.

No, Emily.  You hang out with Haley, and I don't like her, so you're not part of my Farm Adventure.

This was suppose to be another double entendre quote, but with Robin.

• They have the good ramen in Honolulu again?  :(
• Dan Didio is bad at writing.
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Thursday: It took all damn day, but I accomplished 90% of what I wanted to do today.

Tomorrow will be bugfixes and more testing.  Ugh.  I will be glad when the weekend gets here.

It's spooky Pokemon season again.

• Doria sounds good.
• I discovered it in today's episode of Working, which I still have two seasons to watch.
• This looks like a spookier Stardew.
• And Obra Dinn comes out tomorrow.
• And this is way too expensive to buy for a funny twitter thread.
• Neat algorithm.

Wednesday: Tomorrow I will hopefully finish work projects.

Today had meetings and interruptions, and just wasn't good for work.  I also am in the "code integration" part of things, which is always hard.  It's like the eye-doctor's "A or B" tests, but with conflict markers.

This was easy.  The stack is deeper than the average of single visits, so there are more objects in that plot.  But, because of overlaps, you have to restrict the detections to only the primary detection in the overlap regions.

• Now I kind of want beef stroganoff.  Maybe next weekend.
• An example recipe.
• RSS for instagram and youtube and other things that don't have RSS feeds.
• Mostly I just liked the figure.
• Go to the seminars, or just clone the repo and teach myself.  Decisions.

Tuesday: Sometimes I'm surprised when I remember how to science at things.

I think the pattern is mostly fake?

Because the image looks pretty good.  Although I don't really know if the scales line up completely.

And I can see the moon rise from my couch now.

• I'm glad I went into a field with fewer ethical issues to worry about.
• This season is very good for both Flash and Arrow.  Even Arrow!  The crapshow of a show!
• Evangelion.

Monday: I have some allergic thing going on with my eye.

It sucks, and always feels dry and itchy.

Fifteen years ago: Toronto.  Today: too tired to fight rotation issues.

And no links for today.  Because I stayed up late playing Stardew again.

Sunday: I kind of want ice cream

Today was a ramen day.

And then I bought good veggies, and came home to make a big tub of pot roast.  It is super delicious, and full of yummy goodness, and I'm glad I made it, but it'd be a bit better if the weather was cooler.

• Good.
• This seems reasonable.
• Everything is awful.

Saturday: Can I pretend I was productive today?

My goal was to get groceries, and I did that, although I have to stop by the WooriMart tomorrow to buy carrots and leeks, because Wegman's looked like crap, and they don't?? sell??? carrots???/????

And I got a burrito.

Maybe it's just me, but Qdoba burritos seem really liquidy now.

How pissed would you be if you got "veggie chips" instead of candy.

Today I also learned that the reason my car is covered in acorns is because this fuzzy friend can't stuff them in their mouth as fast as they can pull them off the tree.  So them plonk down onto my car.

• What?  This is getting even more delightfully nutso.
• I need to read more of Tamsyn Muir's stories before the next book comes out next year.
• And here are a few more.
• Skies.
• Jessica Cruz arrived after I stopped reading DC comics, so I haven't had much interest, but this is a great scene.

Friday: I never got to the testing part I was trying to get done today.

And then I discovered that the way to visualize the thing that didn't make sense, but I need to write a Fourier power thing.  Ugh.

People like grapes.

• The end of the Squirrel Girl comic looks to be going well.
• Miyazaki likes planes.
• That kind of ends the "news" part of that channel.

Thursday: A day where everything took way longer than I wanted it to.

So we'll see how much is done by the end of this week.

Accurate.

• Fuckface Thiel is still a piece of shit.
• As are republicans.
• Yes.  An A-Force movie would be great.
• Thin-plate splines.
• Polyharmonic splines, which are the higher-dimensional version.
• Ianthe is just awful.  Just awful.

Wednesday: Testing time.

The least fun part of algorithm development and implementation.

Did I ever discover what befriending the Bear gets you?

• Cops suck.
• I apparently got the right degree, but then got the wrong job.
• I got Ninth House, but it's pretty easy to skew the results.
• Sarah Gailey on magic items.

Tuesday: More work work

Where I don't quite believe the algorithms being used for things.  Ugh.

A happy buzzy bee.

• Flash was new.  It's better this season?
• Tiny houses.
• Giant houses.
• Cute rabbits.

Monday: Work work work.

I moved offices today, so now I can see outside from my desk.  I forgot to take pictures, however, because I forgot to do that.  Whoops.

I did discover that this picture doesn't count for the quest I'm working on in Pokemon Go.

• Those Star Trek TNG videos from forever ago were made by Andrew Hussie?
• Distance to Tokyo.
• Jezebel's scary story contest.
• Someone else's Gideon the Ninth questions are similar to mine.
• Google Reader.

Sunday: I woke up earlier. I still didn't really accomplish much today.

Mostly because it was kind of rainy and overcast, so my apartment was extra sleepy.

I didn't actually look at this, either.  Making it extra complicated meant it was less fun.

I did watch Batwoman and Supergirl.  BW had a good start.  SG had everybody being dumb, but at least this time Kara isn't being dumb, so that's an improvement?

Saturday: I should wake up earlier tomorrow.

But to be fair, this was the first proper chilly day, and curling up with blankets in bed is one of the best things ever.

New splashscreen.

Bahn mi.

• A good fraction of cops should be in jail.
• Surprise.
• A new Sarah Gailey short story.
• Koji chicken.