Friday: I guess it's a good thing I had to get kleenex today

Yes, I took this picture of their sign just because of Pikachu.

Now that I actually pay attention (I was seriously concerned that the indecisive lady in front of me would take what looked like the last box of samoas), I probably should have bought the tagalongs too, if they're only $5 a box.  What actually happened was I saw them set up as I walked down the stairs from Safeway, and the vanguard girl scout asked if I wanted to buy cookies.  "You probably don't take credit cards, do you?" I asked.  "SURE WE DO!" said the girl scout, knowing that their adoption of technology had won another sale.

• Red panda attack.
• I've mentioned this before, but the fact that this isn't done everywhere is stupid.
• I kind of want to hear a few more reviews before I buy this.  The new X model I was looking at seems to be capped at 4GB RAM, and that's just not acceptable.  It looks like I can get this one for under $1000, even with an upgrade to 8GB and switching to an SSD.

Thursday: It's cold enough that I need to close my window.

66 degrees is cooler than it usually is.

Silent Hill.

• I'm glad I voted for him.
• Waluigi, now with music.
• So yeah.
• Well.  Then it's Aasif Mandvi, isn't it?
• That's a bit sad.  Then again, I've long ago stopped caring about the long term continuity, because the individual stories were so good.

Wednesday: Apple candy.

Apple candy.

• Apple candy.
• You got what you deserve, cat.
• Waluigi.
• You are a bag of shit, Antonin Scalia.  "Justice Scalia said the law “means what it says” even if that has “disastrous consequences.”"

Tuesday: So that's at least half done.

I was finally able to convince everyone at work that the big giant processing that used the supercomputer is now finished.  Finally.

Now they want to use the stupid supercomputer to do more stuff.  Crap.

I have a lot of camouflage cats.

• I'm pretty sure that's not how the judiciary works.  I assume someone will tell the Alabama Supreme Court this.  While we're talking about it, is there a reason we haven't just burned Alabama to the ground?  Is there anything good there?
• "Hi! We're your new neighbors!"
• I'm kind of curious about them, too.

Monday:

Pizza cat is not a palindrome.

• No.
• Bear.
• Squirrel.
• Fox Thief.
• The important thing that I learned from this is that pizza pierogies are a thing that exists.

Sunday: I really need to write a bot to decide what I want for lunch.

It's not too hard to do.  First, create a list of places I like for lunch.  Second, write a bot that periodically polls my blog to see what I had when.  This is a bit tricky, as I tend to not actually say where I went, using "sushi place," "ramen place," etc.  Still, new places usually get a link to the restaurant webpage, and until the place becomes the "X place," I tend to link back to that initial post.  So, if the initial list contains keywords, those can be used to match old places, and new places can be stored by detecting unique words.

The point of this is that I would then not have to spend an hour looking through yelp for someplace for lunch.

La Tour Cafe was the end decision.

• First point: why does anyone employ political cartoonists?  Haven't they been made fun of for decades now?  They haven't been relevant since the 1800s.  Second: why do they all have shitty art styles?  Third: Do you have to make a stupid signature to be an official political cartoonist?  If I didn't have other things to do, maybe I should draw some.  It seems I have the art skill necessary, and since you generally label everything anyway, it doesn't matter if I claim that this blue circle is "Obama" and these green stuff is the "common people".  I just googled to see if I could just find a "blue ball bouncing on grass," and this came up.  I guess the little girl represents "communism" or something.  TL;DR: Political cartoons are stupid.
• I had to stop eating lunch when I got to this post.  I then had to get more raspberry fanta to stop coughing.  Because yes.
• We had this, as well as a bunch of "don't play with guns, even if they just have blanks in them, because you could still start a fire."  I was confused who had piles of guns around, some of which were labeled "blanks only," and who would think to shoot them all over the place.  Also what "blanks" were, since this was like first or second grade.
• Technically, Perseus had the winged sandals of Hermes to fly and attack Medusa, and only after her death did Pegasus arise.  That doesn't really stop this from being kickass mythology fanart.
• This is the kind of comic book I would like to read more of. 

Saturday: Regular Saturday.

Regular ramen:

With the regular spoon that I like more than the other spoon.

I've also discovered that the thing I have running on the new supercomputer is hard to measure a rate for.  The problem is that the rate appears to be exponentially increasing, so instead of having a nice Gaussian distribution, I have a power law.  The nice thing about this is that at my current best guess, instead of taking 20 days from last Wednesday, I think it's actually going to take 7.  Fucking supercomputers, I guess.

• I got to this item in my RSS feeds while watching the show.  That cape is ridiculous.
• Red pandas.
• More red pandas.
• Fictional Biden is best Biden.

Friday: It's weird when you realize not everyone uses twitter.

Most of my tweets are random complaints, but having the constant stream of news means that when I wake up, I know that Leonard Nimoy died.  Even more, it means when other people find out via text hours later, that's already old news.  Didn't everyone already know that?  Since the time that happened, twitter pointed out that a Russian opposition leader randomly ended up shot, in a crime that totally couldn't possibly be tied to their current government.

It also means that when the local news gets around to finally talking about that dress thing, that's already more than 24 hours old.  That's so far in the past, it's nearly grumpy cat or something.  For the record, I saw blue and yellow, so I'm on my own little team over here.

With camouflage cat, I guess.

• Why having default word replacement is dangerous.
• Did I link to this essay earlier in the week?  It is worth reading if I didn't.
• I think I would actually write letters if I could use this.
• Squirrel.
• It has Pen onboard, so this sounds like good news.
• On a similar topic, that new PPG show isn't using the correct voices, so it's basically dead to me now.

Thursday: At least I'm nearly done with the stupid supercomputer.

I didn't use this one yet, did I?

• Why isn't this already how things work?
• I'm not totally sure a cheesecake flavor would work, but I'm not the biggest fan of cheesecake to start with.
• I never considered that.
• Otters vs butterfly.
• Bulbasaur.

Wednesday: For a moment, I thought maybe I was attracting animals that were dying.

With TGF yesterday, and then as I was driving home tonight, a bee landed on my windshield, and traveled there all the way to the grocery store.  In immediate thought about this:

But I didn't really want this bee to die on my car.

It is impossible to focus on a bee on a windshield.

Luckily, he was gone by the time I got back from shopping, so hopefully he can find his way back home.

• I'd heard about this youtube channel before, and how it's super popular with little kids.  It's interesting to find out who's behind it, but this story is kind of written in a "OMG SHE DID PORN IN THE PAST! SCANDAL!" way.  Given that you only ever see her hands and the toys she's opening, it's not really a big deal.
• David Tredinnick is the dumbest person in the world today, and he's not even from our country.
• Yeah, this is a problem.
• I want to see these new tales.
• Fatbirds.
• I laughed at this far longer than I probably should have.

Tuesday: :(

Taken over the course of the day.

I don't think Tiny Gecko Friend survived. I guess I'll see if he's there tomorrow.  I'm sorry, Tiny Gecko Friend.

• WTF, GM?
• Good, I was hoping there'd be a second issue.
• All cards should be like this.  This is the best card.
• Kaiten sushi disaster!
• A lot more people should have been shot in this episode.  Decent enough, though.  I want a second season as well.

Monday: Monday sucks, but I surprisingly have two stories.

Part 1: Tiny Gecko Friend.

I noticed this guy sitting next to my office door this afternoon.

So tiny.

 I tapped my foot next to him a few times, but there was no movement, so I assumed he was dead, and left it for the end of the day.  I then got a few sheets of paper, and planned to scoop him up and fold up a tiny envelope shaped coffin.

But then he started moving.

 I assume that tiny gecko friend was maybe just tired and hungry after being trapped in an office all weekend.  A few minutes later:

And a shake.  Sorry to drop you, TGF, but you need to live outside.

 Still no major movement a few minutes after being shifted outside, so I dripped some water next to him, since I could at least help if he was thirsty.

And before I left, I checked again, and TGF was no where to be seen.  Have a happy life outside, TGF!

Part 2: Trigonometry.

I have five colors of post-it notes, and I want to make a post-it-coaster.  The first time I did this, I did it by eye, and it didn't work so well.  Last time, I realized that I actually know math.

The base post-it.

 Five post-its means I'm making a pentagon.  The sum of interior angles of a polygon is 180 * (n-2) or 540.  There are five such angles, so each one is 108.  The excess from the 90 corner of a post it is 18.  Converting this to radians tells us that q = pi/10, so tan(q) ~ 1/3 (due to small angle formula).  The triangle formed from this has to meet the triangle from the opposite corner halfway across the base post-it (due to symmetry).  This means that the intersection point is 1/6 the height of the post-it.

Make a mark there.

 Now all the remaining post-its can be placed, keeping that angle in common.

And you get a tiny corner that isn't totally correct, but it's close enough.

Part 3: Links

• It's possible that fact based professions are biased one way, and extractive/rent-seeking professions are biased a different way.
• So yes, "small government" is just a different word for "you'll do what I tell you to do."
• Idaho Republican Rep. Vito Barbieri is the dumbest person alive.
• Threatening means he knows they're right.  If he wasn't scared, he could just ignore it until it went away.
• Finn and Jake.
• Princess Kaguya.
• Hamlet.

Sunday: Burrito day.

Mostly because I started driving to go to lunch, and then realized I had no idea where I was going.

• This makes the gif even better.
• Kaguya would have been my choice.  I didn't see the big popular ones, but I'd be surprised if they were better than the two I did see.
• Cats and dogs.
• Christmas tree bear.

Saturday: I am slowly working my youtube watch later playlist down.

346 videos as of right now.  It has been up to 550 before.  But then I went to get curry.

It just felt like a curry day.

Then I came home, read the internet, updated a program to be better than it was by not assuming an infinite amount of memory, and attempted to stitch a new panorama from my lanai.  I did not like the result, so I'll try again tomorrow.

I also tele-justified a purchase, although it annoys me that I could only find one of the items online.

• Basically an extended version of my rant from last week.
• This thing that everyone laughed about around New Years, but I've had in my saved RSS feed for days like this.
• A) That's cool. B)ees: "WHERE IS ALL OUR FUCKING HONEY GOING?"
• Red panda vs. snow.

Friday: I am the them.

I really had to cram that unhappy face onto that line.  Kerning-be-damned, that frownie would fit.

I didn't have my real camera battery charged, and when I did, the clouds had swallowed everything up.  So I had to do this with my phone.  The moon is obvious.  Venus is the bright slightly skewed dot.  Mars is the barely visible dot between the two.  I think.  It was still cloudy, and it may just be a statistical fluke in approximately the right place.

• It's like the social media person was like, "You want to play that game?  Yeah.  Let's play that game."
• So even if I had bought a new laptop, I wouldn't have bought one of the models that was stupid.  I'm looking at the T and X series.
• Squirtle.
• Powerpuff Girls.
• Ok, at least they didn't can Steven Universe.  The bear show looks interesting, too.
• Squirrels.

Thursday: Stupid supercomputers.

Thinking they're all great, because they have "super" in their name.  You can't even run tcsh correctly, you jerk!  What's so super about that?

Silent Hill 3 was full of some of the creepiest horror in the series.

• This is not nearly as dramatic as what I would suggest they should do, but it's at least a step in the right direction.  The fixed schedule thing is so fundamental that it should really be the law by now.
• FFS, Lenovo.  Can you try not to fuck things up?  I'm nearly ready to buy a new laptop, since you seem to have figured out that you can't just change how thinkpads work and assume everyone will still want to buy it.  And now this shit?  Do you have morons in charge of everything?
• The Lucifer pilot now has people attached.  I wonder how bad of a fuckup it's going to be.
• "in the TV show he’ll mostly be, wait for it – solving crimes. According to Variety the TV show will be about Lucifer using his Satanic powers to help the LAPD “punish criminals”"
• There you go.  Nice job not even trying to tell the story that's there.  Just shit out your own stupid story instead.
• And how can you possibly miss the point more than this?  Lucifer kicks everyone out of Hell, abandons it forever, and moves to Earth.  That's totally the kind of guy who's going to care about punishing criminals.  He explicitly stops punishing people because it's stupid and he's done with it.
• I can not create enough tabbed bullet points to express how stupid this is.
• so:
• A squirrel.
• A more different squirrel.

Wednesday: Gecko haiku

What are you doing, tiny little gecko friend, you cannot live here.
My office is big, and you are so very small, it is not safe here.

• Best state senator ever.
• Pachirisu.
• Bunnies.
• Someone did their research.
• Oh, that's right, it's pun day.

Tuesday: Can it just be Friday already?

I'm pretty sure this is fake.

• I agree with the comment that's on top right now:  I'm glad they killed off the boss, because he has had his head in his ass since I started watching, so I was happy when he went boom.
• Pokemon names.
• Avenger corgis.
• Basically this.

Monday: President's Day

I didn't know what I wanted for lunch today.  I kind of wanted pasta, but I also had the idea to maybe get fish.

Why not both?

It wasn't bad, and definitely nice to get something new there.  The shrimp are a bit tricky to deal with because they still had their tails on.

Obligatory mosaic.

• This is going to suck, as it means going to get ramen will be difficult.
• So this means that I'm not buying Sierra Mist again, I guess.
• Not that I care too much about this case (I decided I wasn't going to read the series until the author died, because he kept putting out giant 1000-page books.  Then he died, and I realized that I didn't care enough to get back into the series), but doing shit like this should not be legal.  If you put together a piece of shit to hold on to production rights, you should lose those rights, because you clearly don't care enough to do better than make a piece of shit.
• John Boehner is terrible at his job.  You'd think being useless and shit would make him want to quit.

Sunday: It was not good namasu.

It didn't taste like I thought it would after watching this video.

• Religion doesn't make people moral.
• That's kind of interesting, although the fact that the numbers are kind of just made up diminishes the impact.
• Bunny.