Tuesday: Back to work.

This wasn't the actual picture I wanted today, but the one I did want is boring, so I took a picture of this instead.

• Fuck this piece of shit.
• Yeah.  Just because everyone associated with that group turns out to be racist, doesn't mean the whole group is.  The fact that they don't kick people out until they publicly say racist stuff suggests it strongly, though.
• I didn't know about these online library things.

Friday: Stupid donking not-a-holiday today.

Evolved a ball.

Finally caught this jerk.

Two exact same raids right next to each other, and no one around to play.

I do too much work on post-it notes.

• Language.
• Zoning.
• A good costume for Ms Marvel.

Friday: At least I solved the final major issue.

It...kind of exploded into a bunch of SQL operations, but at least that looks like it works.

I should have taken a secret poptart this morning.

I had to draw this picture to figure out how one thing works.

Gym battle.

I really wanted Tikka Masala for dinner.  I ate until I was super full, and saved the rest for lunch tomorrow.  Or Monday.

• I don't understand why having competent people is such a polarizing topic.
• Huh.  Genetics is weird, I guess.
• Tunnels.

Thursday: A good end to the working year.

Except I have to rerun a test and do a merge and push.  Probably tomorrow.  But the main thing is that the big ticket I've been fighting to get approved for like a month is through, and I just need to finish it up.

Plus my new issue is already working well.

This guy.

I'm packed, I'm checked in, I have my ride scheduled for tomorrow, I should be fine to go.

• Yeah, this isn't disturbing at all.
• The 3818 at 6:25 should work?
• This shouldn't be the case.  Copyright shouldn't be extended like this.

Wednesday: So that works.

It seems to do all the things it's supposed to, but I know that at least one of the three changes is ugly and hacked together.  I'll sort out a proper set of changes tomorrow, but it's nice to be at a point where things make sufficient sense that I can get this close to a solution.

To be fair, I don't fully understand why it works, but I was tired and hungry and wanted to go home.

• This is horrifying.
• It's not that great of a burger.
• Amethyst.
• This is cool art.

Friday: An end.

I still need to turn in keys.

• I hope this ends up being true.

Friday: And that's how I spent $2000 in one day.

Yep.  And they didn't even do all the things I wanted.

And then I picked up $600 worth of drugs.  I guess I have to be happy that it's $600 instead of $15000.  Thanks, extractive pharmaceutical monopolies!

• Fuck you, Fox.  You're cool, NBC.
• Like this surprised anyone.
• Seriously?  People are going to be confused because now they won't have to remember which direction things are numbered?  How about the fact that gates 1-5 and 35-47 simply don't exist?

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: "Be the Tomoyo Daidoji you wish to see in the world"

That's always fun.

• Tumblr turned on safe mode for everyone.  Kinda.  Since I do most of my tumblring via RSS, I discovered pretty quickly that the RSS feeds are not filtered for safe mode.
• Twitter made a profit, which is good for my favorite social media site.
• Caity Weaver also got to go watch animals from her hotel room.
• I haven't had a fried bologna sandwich in ages.

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.

Friday: My headphones finally arrived.

It took 22 days from the time of my first order until the second order arrived.  Ugh.  Also discovered that it doesn't matter what kind of shipping you use if the destination has lazy package handling.  At least it wasn't something perishable.

Something worked correctly today, and I had an inch to use up on the page.

• An interesting analysis of the iPhone in terms of 1950s technology.
• It's like they assume they can automate everything, and have no consequences.
• DCAU timeline.
• If I ever to switch to music, I'm definitely going to change my name to Trickstrak Empester.

Friday: Everything is fine.

I use this too much.

Friday: I really wanted tacos.

I didn't get a good look at it, but it was real, and it was great, and everyday should have dogs at work.

And my phone did this crap when I was getting lunch.  Not cool, phone.

That's just further evidence that I should get a new phone, I guess.  It sounds like next week there might be an update of my current phone, which is probably way thinner and faster and all that.

Anyway, back to tacos.  Julie's post yesterday with the taco picture made me really want tacos all day.  So I drove all the way over to Kailua to get tacos for dinner.

I usually get the barbacoa, but I got one regular steak today.  That's actually much better, with a richer flavor that I wanted from the barbacoa.  It's also less messy, as it doesn't have as much juice.

Also I wanted guac, but they put soap weed in their guac, so it's good that I asked beforehand.  Mostly I just really wanted that bacon and avocado taco Julie had.  I want that so much.

• Julie just asked about this yesterday, and my response was "I saw a thing about spicer, but I think it was a tweet or something.  So maybe? But not officially?  I would not be surprised by them half-assing getting rid of somebody."  He quit, because they kind of half-assed it by surprise hiring a new guy that nobody likes.
• I love this meme.
• Squirrel.
• "Well then, I'm off to Switzerland."

Thursday: Waking up thinking it's Friday, then realizing it's actually Thursday is a crushing way to wake up.

Followed by many technical things at work just being difficult.

At some point I saw a tweet today that was some variant of "when I see a name in the trends, I always wonder what they did."  I then checked the current trends, and saw this:

And immediately thought, "Damn it, Victor, what did you do now?"

Got a movie, apparently.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• This all sounds like good stuff.  I know a lot of the tweets I saw about it were "why isn't my specific problem being addressed," but this sounds like an improvement.
• Julie has a new blog that I am looking forward to reading.
• Going back to Victor von Doom again, the tag on one of these is "guys comics are dumb" which is totally true.
• In which Victor points out how racist a military guy is, despite that guy siding with the guy whose name is Doctor Freaking Doom.
• In which Victor is like, "Fuck this shit, I'm going to tell my arch-enemy and lifelong nemesis Reed Richards to sort this problem out."
• In which Adam Warlock fails to understand words.  Also plants biology.
• In which Adam Warlock fails to understand what constitutes violence.
• In which Adam Warlock doesn't get busted by the cops?  FWhat?
• Dogs.
• "Until I almost killed the bishop."
• Just in case, the bishop should have a will.
• Why.
• How.

Thursday: Just before I went home, I realized that the hygenist did more actual work than the dentist.

Like, why not just have her do everything?  The dentist was kind of a jerk, and the only real "work" he did was stab me with the scrape-y thing and floss.  "Did she do the floss?" So she sometimes does that too?

And this was pretty much how work went.  Minus the tigers.  I added the tigers for fun.

I was also surprised at how much the Pobs value changes with Pexpect, but looking at the plot, it makes sense.  You have Nobs, and that's fixed, so if Pexpect goes up, that pulls the distribution upward, and the Pobs plummets.

I need to send more postcards.

• This is the reason I have most of my student loans paid off.  Republicans are garbage people.
• "So what do the dragons stand for?"
• I liked this.
• Being grownup.  Also, that is a sweet shark lunchbox.
• Ok, I'm a big fan of pancakes, and I'm a fan of sweet and savory, but I'm pretty sure "chili pancakes" are messed up, 1936.
• I always try to tell the birds which way I'm going, so they can run the other way.  It is not often successful.
• They are secret friends, and that is great.

Thursday: Mammals. On Dinosaur Train.

It was crazy.  Also, there's like nothing on at 9pm now, so I've been watching PBS Kids.

I did not buy this drink just because it has a sleepy Pikachu on it.

There's also an awake Pikachu, too.

And I had to draw out a bunch of stuff to solve this problem at work.

It still doesn't work right, but I suspect that's because something isn't getting scaled by the arbitrary factor of 13.5 correctly.  I also discovered that the answer to "how long is it going to take me to get through this eleven hour album" is four days.

• I watched this while waiting for lunch with the sound off.  The sound isn't actually necessary for it to be hilarious.
• There were a bunch of people acting like this was a disaster today on Twitter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Skinny Snorlax.
• Tony Stark getting punched.
• I'd heard of Sister Rosetta Tharpe before, but not Big Mama Thornton.  That is indeed far superior to the Elvis version of the song.
• Cats.
• The original "Sick" comic.
• James Baxter!
• Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
• This paper is a delight.
• Wow.  That's even worse than I expected.  Fuck everyone involved with this movie.

Friday: I guess I accomplished all the things I needed to get done this week.

Now to spend the weekend cleaning stuff.  Fun times.

Spiral eye emoji seemed fitting to finish this page of my notebook.  I knew I had to blur stuff, so I couldn't use Twitter stickers on it.  I assume you can't blur stuff in the Twitter photo

Plus, it turns out Twitter has the wrong picture for this emoji.

So I did it by hand with the Google version of the emoji, which is properly spiral-eyed.

• I believe the discussion here is that a place named "Aloha Tapas" that is actually an Italian restaurant doesn't really make any sense.
• Basically just because of all the great pictures of Michelle Obama.
• Yeah, pretty much.
• I see that I already have this liked, so I might have posted it already.  Mongoose.
• Maybe don't trust all online advice.
• Steven Universe/Initial D comic.
• The gay agenda.
• Always Be Beeping.  I know this is a rerun, but Always Be Beeping.
• This is why you don't go into the ocean.
• Japan has sliced chocolate.
• Honestly, these people are so stupid it's painful.

Wednesday: I think I figured out a solution to a problem we didn't want to bother with.

I think it's basically this going on.  It's actually not too hard of a thing to solve, but it'll require checking a lot of stuff and writing a quick model.

• Pokemon.
• Cool.  Daily bonuses will make Pokemon Go even more fun.
• I know I mentioned it last week (I think), but we all knew this, right?
• Not Pokemon.
• The Cubs finally won the World Series, so here are some otters.
• Father Jeff Bayhi is a festering pile of shit, and the Diocese of Baton Rouge should be ashamed for pulling this shit.  "[A]ffirms the sanctity of the Sacrament of Reconciliation." GO FUCK YOURSELF.  What the fuck is sacred about not reporting the abuse of the child who is in the damn confessional?  Fuck this shitty coward, fuck his shitty church, and fuck the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
• Best dog.
• The last gif.
• This is an optimistic map.  I hope that at the end of Hillary's presidency, we have a nice permanent Democratic majority.

Tuesday: Things always work great until they don't.

And I dated yesterday's notes wrong.  Whoops.

And Spooky Halloween Pokemon Go started!

Although I've had more bugs with this version of the game.  See that dot next to Weedle?  That's the shadow of my Pokeball, stuck and never returning to earth.

TldrL:

• Title:  The Nameless City
• Date:  1921
• Summary:  I didn't care to re-re-read it.  There's a city lost in the Arabian desert, and it's super spooky.  It's a spooked up Iram.
• Real Villain:  Geography.
• Last line in italics?  No.
• Writer writes instead of fleeing?  No.
• Rating:  2/10.
• Read it:  Here.

Agents of Shield keeps being dumb.  "Let's keep lots of secrets!"  "Let's send my uncle out alone, when there's a ghost looking for him so I can burninate a jerk who's already in jail!"  "Let's blackmail the director!"  "Let's help the ghost read the demon book, because how can this sentence possibly get any worse, holy fuck, I literally cannot think of a worse idea!"  I guess there's still one episode before Dr. Strange comes out.

Oh, and then the end bit shows the director working with the whatever-government-lady-senator-maybe who is actually leading the anti-Inhumans?  That's dumb, too.

• Pokemon.
• Eeveelutions.
• It's healthy.
• Not Pokemon.
• I now want to find a place that makes 365 different color shirts.
• This guy died.
• I still want more Peggy Carter.

Finally, fuck you, Charles Djou.  I hope you lose this election too, you smug bag of shit.

Supplemental notes, since I didn't bring my work notebook.

Testing of the site dependence code appears to be working, as of r39683.  It seems to find the correct local copy on find, and replicate and touch follow instructions as well.  I haven't tested the C interface, as I didn't want to write a program to call three functions today.  This should be done, and checked into the source tree, as the fact that we don't have a test program is kind of ridiculous.

Also, I'm still out of Pokeballs.  I had like 100 each of regular and great balls a few days ago.