Thursday: Q128/Waves

Not cumulative.

Friday: I wish people weren't so awful

Especially since the entire point of democracy and friendly relations with other nations is to prevent people from dying, whether from regular international wars, or from violent insurrection.  I thought this was something that everyone understood.  We don't have strong monarchies anymore because last time France had to switch to a decimal calendar.

I have an army of ducks at work to stack.

End of week chicken parm sub is good.

Thursday: So that's great.

We shouldn't let old people be in charge of anything.

• Filing cabinet.
• I miss Gawker.

Good.

Tuesday: "I'm going to save myself two minutes by demonstrating how cops are all basically terrible."

He decided that he really needed to turn left into the gas station to get something inside the shop, so he turned on the lights in his unmarked SUV.  Good job, asshole.  Glad you didn't have to wait for your slurpie.

Because it was easier to just crank this out in snek.

And then I spent the evening putting together slides for tomorrow, most of which are just images with a title, because I'm lazy, and words are hard.

Also I bought a new domain name today because it's shorter and easier to remember for other people, and I can use it to dump things I might need to share.  Like the slides I made for tomorrow.

• MBMBAM.
• I don't know.  I don't think it'll be the same as the old Gawker.
• This was interesting to read over lunch.
• I didn't read this.  Robust PCA.

Thursday: We'll see if it works tomorrow.

A new bakery opened up to replace the bakery that closed last year.  This one is a standard tray-and-tong Japanese style place.

Curry pan.  Not as good as the ones I had in Michigan, but still very good.

Sausage roll.  Also very good.

Ham and cheese calzone.  Not really a calzone, but probably the best of the three.

I'm still disappointed the old place closed, but this works too.

• So I guess John K has always been a terrible person?
• I really like this series a lot for not really liking either character much.

Monday: Really?

I googled "Hawaii dollars" to find out more about the overprint notes due to a commercial.  Then I saw the "people also ask," and have to conclude that people are stupid.

• That's the end of the northern white rhino.
• Djou still sucks.  You don't sit by for more than a year and then suddenly decide to change parties.  I'm guessing he wants to run for office again.
• I really like Legends of Tomorrow.  Giving Mick fire powers is a good idea.  I'm not sure bringing Constantine on full time fits that well.  He's reckless and stupid, but in a "I actually know what I'm doing" way.  The team works better when they just bumble into solutions.  Breaking up Sarah and Ava is dumb, and they should fix that.

Saturday: Whoops. Let's call that the test "do stuff" day.

Because I pretty much didn't do anything.  Except discover that there's a time (3:45 PM) that the Times parking lot becomes an absolute mess, because everyone decides to stop and wait for other people to put groceries in their car instead of just finding another parking space.  There's also a time like five-ten minutes later when there are literally infinite parking spaces.

I wanted a pork burrito, and I got a pork burrito.

• This should be instantly disqualifying.  This is literally saying he wants to ignore the constitution.
• Dogs should vote.
• "And what about Woody Allen and his last 20 unwatchable movies."

Friday: And that's when I discovered that mysql 5.7 is incompatible with a good chunk of our sql codebase.

If I googled correctly, I can set a sql-mode variable that tells 5.7 to back off and stop being a syntax jerk, but I didn't want to sort that out at 6:30 on a Friday.  If not, then I guess I'm spending a chunk of next week rewriting everything so that

SELECT DISTINCT a,b FROM table JOIN other_table USING(a) ORDER BY other_table.c DESC;

becomes

SELECT a,b FROM (SELECT DISTINCT a,b,c FROM table JOIN other_table USING(a) ORDER BY other_table.c DESC) AS V;

Ugh.

I did find this friend while looking through old notebooks to try and remember something.

• An interesting idea.
• Marvel doing something correctly.
• An interesting twitter thread about comic panel layout.
• There's a reason I'm a fan of Team Rocket.

Monday: MLK Day

I woke up and really wanted a mushroom swiss burger.

So.

And I evolved some things.

Round-o.

Jesus Christ, Get Those Lips Away From Me!

 Also:

Every single one.

And then what did this jerk do?

Sat on a different couch.

I wasted so much wood and cotton building you all sorts of nonsense, and you don't even play with it?  You're a jerk, Charlise.  You are never visiting my campsite again.

• Dolores O'Riordan died.
• I would love to see this happen.  I would actually watch his bloated face talking if it was a long, passionate rant about what we should be doing to terrorist-harboring Wakanda.
• "A ten year old was supposed to stop us!  This isn't supposed to happen!"

Friday: Going to Target was a mistake.

Because it was full of crazy people who have no sense of "not blocking the aisle" or "maybe you don't need to buy $350 worth of stuff at Target, holy shit, what is wrong with you?"  The worst part was the $350 person was in front of me in line, did the "I don't want these three items that sum to $4" thing, used a $10 gift card, couldn't load the app on her phone because her 4yo son logged her out and changed the password, lost said son when he wandered off, and then couldn't get her card to work.  "It usually works!"  I don't care.  I just want to buy my kleenex and toilet paper and get the fuck out of here.

The link from yesterday made me want to have Wendy's Time.

 And Gen 3 released:

With a new splash screen.

And my absolute favorite trash Pokemon.

And this thing.

Also a Plusle that I didn't screen cap because I was at Target trying not to get run over.

• Squirrel.
• Sailor V!
• Well then.

Friday: It's one of those days where you kind of just have to root for cancer.

Today I learned that my new phone can make gifs by itself.

• Meh.  They're in the future now.  Because why not, I guess.  There are so many issues with the first few episodes.  Who sent them into the future?  Why did they send them into the future?  Why not just fix things in the future by fixing them in the present?  Why didn't they send Fitz?  Why are the Kree there?  Why is there a fake reality computer thing from last season?
• Team Skull.
• Important information about sheep.

Friday: What an asshole.

When Obama would visit, he almost always arrived late in the evening, and he stayed out of the way, which minimized any extra traffic.  Then this fucker arrives:

Look at this shit.

He flies in, shuts down H-1 so he can go to his hotel in Waikiki (which is also all shut down), has a fucking nap because he's a feeble old fuck, shuts down H-1 again to go to Pearl Harbor, doesn't actively shit himself, then shuts down H-1 again so he can go back to the hotel.  They also had all the cross streets shutdown as well, so the only way to get from mauka/makai of H-1 was to take University.

The Inhumans was again a bunch of crap.  At the beginning of the episode, Medusa says, "We can't go around killing everyone!"  My first thought was "that doesn't sound like the Medusa I know."

I mean, here she is throwing a giant energy monster into a building.

Then, at the end of episode, I made the note, "How bout you go stab some people?" because that is literally the plan.  Green Inhuman Knife Guy kills like six guards, then punches Maximus a bunch before taking him to Black Bolt.  Then they have a "twist ending" that if they kill Maximus, the city is destroyed because he made a backup plan/they needed to fill out one more episode.  It's stupid, this whole show is stupid, ugh ugh uuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh.

• A good story about a beluga whale and dolphins getting along.
• This would have been a far better story.
• Yes, I did immediately buy this from Amazon because comics via kindle is super easy.

Thursday: Just when I thought everything was working

It isn't, so I spent like two hours today manually checking a bunch of stuff.  I think the first thing just needs some configuration changes.  The second thing looks like a scale issue, but it's not totally clear.  Ugh.

And then I got home and saw this shit.

This ugly ass truck doesn't fit in the parking space.  It's too wide, and it's too long, because no one actually needs to have a damn customized block of stupid.  I've watched the asshole who owns it park before, and he had to have his gf get out (because since he's backing in like an idiot, there's no space for her door to open), before inching it back and forth while I was waiting to get past his stupid ass.  Yesterday, he had it parked with the wheels on the yellow line separating it from his neighbor.  Today he apparently decided that he could just let his stupid-bus stick into the driveway by three feet.  If the stickers are true, this dumbass is a cop, too.

• Great.  Now we have racist kids.
• Nutella.
• Generally it's bad to make fun of how someone looks, but this is Mamoru, and that outfit is awful.

Thursday: I had a great title, but I forgot what it was.

I woke up today, checked my phone, and discovered that it was using 4G instead of wifi.  "Crap, did my computer crash again?"  Yes.  It had.  But not only that, it'd shut down completely, making me suspect maybe it was a power outage.  So I pushed the button.  Nothing.  Push the button again.  Nothing.  Slam press the button a bunch of times.  Nothing.

Crap.  I immediately started triaging: the old laptop still works, it just has a broken bezel, I could use that as a temporary replacement.  I would have to get things configured correctly, but that wouldn't be too difficult.  The biggest challenge would be getting data off the disks.

I took a shower, planned out what I would need to do, thought about how much of a replacement computer to get, and how quickly I could get it delivered.  As I was getting dressed, I had a thought.  This case is nearly 20 years old.  The button is a crappy plastic thing that gets jammed in the housing pretty regularly.  Maybe the issue was that the button wasn't working?  A quick google search later showed me the pinouts for my motherboard, and a switch swapped the power switch with the reset button.  Tap.  Boot.  So it's all ok, I guess.  For now.

The best I could do was an anniversary Pokemon.

Also the news was trash today.

• Racists are terrible.  I do hope that all the "liberal journalists" in these emails lose their jobs.  Don't pretend to be cool and then do shitty things secretly.
• Same thing with this asshole.
• I'm not that great at economics, but this makes sense.
• I look forward to watching youtube let's plays of this game that involve cat petting.
• A round bird.
• I saw stuff that made me think that Kelly Thompson might be going to write a Rogue/Gambit comic.  I hate Gambit, and am at best indifferent to Rogue.  Writing like this is why if it does happen, I will probably get it.

Wednesday: Doctor day.

It turns out I'm generally healthy.  Also that I can't get updates for some vaccines because it's not allowed with the medicine I take.  So that's fun.

I decided to just go home afterwards instead of driving back to work, since I can do things anywhere there's internet.

Except not when this asshole helicopter decides that it's just going to sit in the sky for a half hour.

Just sitting there, being a jerk, making all the noise.

Apparently it's some sort of traffic survey?  Wouldn't this be the kind of situation where a drone would make far more sense than sending up a helicopter?

I was able to get some emails answered, and since it didn't take much time to transfer images:

Some cool spiral galaxies.  Getting good color images is still tricky.

• Let's assume this summary is accurate (I'm too lazy to actually read court transcripts).  Hopefully this means we'll have real redistricting reform soon.
• The number of people in this article that should be in jail is astonishing.  "Doing things the right way is hard, so we send people to be slaves so 'Christians' can profit off them."
• I used to read this comic, and was so surprised when I learned that the Ian that drew it grew up to still be Ian Jones-Quartey.
• Part 1.  Part 2.

Friday: Thanks, jerk in the pickup truck swearing in the street outside.

I didn't have a picture for today, and going out to see you shouting randomly before nearly crashing your truck (twice) made me try to take a picture of the moon.

It worked about the same as always.

• I thought this story about women and D&D was interesting.
• Same thing with this analysis of lead in Flint's water.
• Fursona.
• Wait, what?
• Kero being bad at his job is kind of the start of the whole story.
• Team Rocket.

I finally have my RSS saved items back below 1000.  I should really sort out the ~600 items that have been there for more than a year.

Tuesday: Covfefe.

My talk went ok.

And everything worked with the projector on the first try.  That never happens.

 Are there new Twitter stickers now?  Brain explosion seems new.

Day ten.

And then, just before going home, I checked Twitter, and was immediately confused by the main trending topic:

I don't want to see his stupid face.

The fact that it hasn't been deleted is most worrying.  No one has access?  No one cares about this?  Have they all been fired, or do they not care because they think doing something about it will cause them to be fired?  I have many mean thoughts I will refrain from sharing.

• I saw this on tumblr, but opened the story and not the post.  You can also click through to read the full paper, too.
• Girl with the Skeleton Hand.
• I was enthused about this, but then I saw that they're showing them at 7pm on Wednesdays.
• Best tree.
• Bear detectives.
• Perversely spicy.
• The worst kind of baby.
• Yeah, that's pretty good.

I wish Peg from "Peg + Cat" used more dynamic range, and didn't say everything in some form of shout.

Saturday: I had to go to Target, because I needed to get new windshield wipers.

The old ones weren't any good.  They also didn't have the "here's the size you need for your car" book thing.  I kind of assume they got rid of it when everybody's phones could tell them the same thing.

Then to the park, which was super busy again today.

I think I saw three wedding photo shoots.  I will never understand the "groom gets to wear shorts, bride still has to wear her dress" style.  At least one of the groups had a designated dress holder, so it didn't drag on the ground.

The park now seems to be a Sneazel nest.

I did not have one before.

 So let me tell you about the gym.

WHICH I TOOK DOWN, EVEN THOUGH SOME JERK PUT A BLISSEY IN IT.

 I walked over, sat down, and wondered what the douchebag behind me was doing.  It turns out he was being a jerk and adding a Tyranitar to it.  So after I punched the Blissey in the face, I had to punch his stupid tiny head dinosaur in the face.  Then, he kept training it up, despite the fact that that just means I have to punch his tiny head dinosaur one more time.

Then, on the second lap:

YOUR POKEMON IS BAD, AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD!

He hadn't moved.  Sitting on the ground in his stupid white suit, with his stupid douchebag hat, fighting to keep this ugly jerk in the gym.

I guess I only caught three.

 Anyway, then it was time for lunch.

I went with the kalbi today.

 The eggs looked weird, but these were far better than most scrambled eggs I've had.  Being able to dip it in kalbi sauce didn't hurt.

And I got my Fidget Cube!  It's only been like eight months since I saw and ordered it.  I was planning on picking it up when I was in San Francisco, but Colby shipped it.  I've been playing with it all evening.

Then Samurai Jack ended, and it was sad, but it ended the only way it really could have ever ended. 🐞

• "They racist as fuck."
• A real BLT with cheese.  Now I kind of really want a BLT.
• Cat + bunny.
• This happens to me way more than I'd like.
• Why would you ever design a gear shift like this?
• I had the original when I was a kid, and when I saw this last night, I suddenly realized that it kind of stupid.  It was super big and heavy, and I always played holding it off the ground, kind of the complete opposite of how it was designed to be used.

Tuesday: Oh, apparently it can get worse. Great. Wonderful.

I mean, yeah, always good to see shit like this happening.

I'm still hoping that when this is over, he and his entire rotten family enjoys their stay in jail.

• And that people own the shame they should feel.
• Because things like this should never happen again.
• And this shouldn't ever be allowed.  Which is why it's unconstitutional, but still.
• And this is going to make the trip next month a fucking delight.  Also, this would be a stupid plan.
• Ok, that's kind of expensive.
• You shouldn't stand on that, bear.
• Have we talked about Artemisia Gentileschi before?  Because I kind of think everyone should.
• I thought the episode was boring.  All anyone wants to see is Ghost Rider chain murder Robot Human Girlfriend Superbadguy, and this episode felt like it's just there to fill space.