It's a rainy day here, but a lazy day is exactly what we need.

I've had grand next system ideas for my documenting habit, but this morning I woke with a small idea, and I dusted off the coding brain and prototypes this.. it's just a toot, but it's a toot format. WHERE?

scared away a strange dog in the yard this morning

Might go sit next to a river this morning.

31% The First World War. 33% Europe's Babylon. 34% Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom.

Walked for around one hour and a half under a cloudy sky. Did some bookcrossing and ended up with a cup of tea.

Currently reading Surveillance Capitalism. It reminded me of this classic article by Charles Duhigg: . The answer: they figure out what people tend to buy at certain points in their lives, then compare that to what you're buying now. Then they send you coupons that don't look targeted. That is, if they think you're pregnant, they'll put coupons for wine next to the coupons for diapers and vitamins. If it's too obvious, people get spooked.

"The way people spend money is the most reliable and revealing window into their desires and beliefs.” -- Surveillance State, Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Playing for the joy of it today.

Everyone's an armchair psychologist (or insert your expert field here).

Who is up for an elementary fun run…🙋‍♂️ Now let’s see how much fun my youngest really has and hopefully we don’t get rained on.

I need to get my cat to a vet. I also need to find a primary doctor.

How I made a 3D Level in a 2D Game -

As of April 27, 2024, trending topics include the aftermath of devastating tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa, controversy over Kristi Noem's new book, the release of the "Knuckles" TV show on Paramount Plus, the premiere of the movie "Challengers" starring Zendaya, and Richie Sambora's public apology for his departure from Bon Jovi. See more

I see and now . That’s nearly a crowd. One thousand years ago we would’ve called it an f crowd.

Update: is here.

I used to be a narcissist but now look at me!

Beth Orton was divine.

Going running in the rain this morning.

Retro video game show today!!

I love using Field Notes but I am getting frustrated at having to repair them all the time.

Stitched spines from Moleskine and others are much more robust.

We had wonderful Greek food in Filo in Kraków, Poland. It rains from time to time so that's a small issue.

Back on my funemployment bullshit

Sleepy

Fiz umas paredes, tratei da eletricidade e do lava louça. Agora e nos próximos dias vou fazer mais do mesmo.

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

Today invites us on a journey of transformation, suggesting it's time to actively pursue our goals with optimism and courage. Let past challenges serve as lessons rather than setbacks. As Mercury resumes its direct path, communication flows more freely, enabling clearer business strategies. The key is flexibility and openness towards new opportunities that align with your vision.

"If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." - John 14:14 KJV

3,745 pieces of Lego later and I have finished

Enjoying my early morning coffee before we leave.

I’m off to the pub, I may be some time 🍻

The iOS app store needs a good app for collecting quotes, with room for info on authors, sources and tags. File import and shortcut support are musts. Some underemployed developer might be able to make some pretty good dough on one.

Today was a good day.

No work talk allowed starting...now.

Found an Olympus 24mm F3.5 Shift lens at a store near me, in a “museum” display case. I am trying to convince them to sell it to me, I must own it.

After going to read Filterworld over coffee and while waiting to see if a dramatic price reduction finally sells that Makita, I tried to get an Amazon credit card just because the $100 gift card with approval would combine with my existing balance to get me the new Kobo, but being unemployed and supported by family means no instant approval and an additional check, so it was worth a shot but I’m going to say this didn’t work.

Celebrating my eldest daughter’s graduation from uni today. So proud of her!

Art museum

almost ready for Bible study (!)

The Simpsons

TIL CSS paint-order exists, and interacts nicely with outlining text.

via .

TodayILearned #TIL

Slightly addicted to Palia. I've got my house looking the way I want it to, and I've almost maxed out my friendship with my girl Tish!

Happy birthday to me!

Allergies are causing an earache

My great-grandmother hand wrote a recipe book for each of her grandchildren.

I’m now in possession of one of them and I’m digitizing it by typing it all out on a new blog

New homepage up

Weekend! Start!

Another rainy day. Good day for staying inside, working on my eBay, and catching up on other neglected chores.

I seem to have reached the age where a lunchtime nap is required

Who knew when I went out tonight there would be boot scootin’

Good thing I wore my RM Williams boots tonight.

Browsing .

Jealous of those who have meeting-free Fridays as a stare at my list of (currently) seven calls over the day. 5:30 can't come soon enough!

We tellen af naar het weekend....

Playing Splatoon 3

Whoops, is now using for DNS/CDN stuff.

I honestly didn't intend to rush into a major change like that, but my initial testing impressed me enough that I decided to press forward with the migration.

Of course, now I have to rewrite the blog post I'd been working on before I got distracted...

Currently playing: Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU and Rise of the Rōnin

Join me tonight at 11pm Eastern (10pm Central, 8pm Pacific) for LATE NIGHT WITH LOVECRAFT EZINE!

Sleepless in Oslo.

Juicy test status!

Just a little curious on what I want to do with omg.lol.

Pleasantly routine. Boring even.

Here's a of your data since they probably don't respect robots.txt

thank you for the flowers and the book by Derrida

Looking forward to writing/blogging later today or tomorrow, brain is still a bit foggy from the week and writing will help to sort things out.

someone please come fix my css so I don't have to learn css

A zombie apocalypse, but most of the available cars are all shitty Tesla's or other cars that sport rely on touchscreen controls

Chaotic workday. What else is new? Hoping to have the ability to just skim over top of it with ease.

Just blogged on Mozilla Hacks about our progress with llamafile, the easiest and fastest way to run open LLMs on your own hardware:

Conferences are cool

Sorry for the last minute change but I have to cancel today’s stream. See y’all on Twitch next week!

I woke up late this morning, for me. I went out late to listen to music and watch fireworks (after having already fallen asleep). It was a pleasure to see families out and about enjoying themselves. And the fireworks were good.

Pushing a fix for status.log that adds back support iOS 16. Sorry about that!

Time to clamp down on the socials usage again. On WAY too much.

Prepping for Hamvention

Finding my love for the sciences and engineering again, time to break out the telescope once more!

F#@*ing Liverpool. Title hopes over. Congrats to Everton for retaining their Premiership status for the next season.

Hear the haunting history of the Doctrine of Discovery and its impact on Indigenous communities with special guest Tink Tinker. This episode brings light to dark pasts and paths to healing. #IndigenousInsight #DoctrineOfDiscovery #CulturalHealing

Bird down. A little squab, no more than a day or two old, has died on the balcony in the cold snap.

Feeling rough as a ducks arse.

Episode 109 is out!

Feeling better. Catching up.

currently cutting a bunch of my t-shirts in half.

To make a t-shirt blanket, not just because I have no impulse control.

That's a different thing.

Work, work, work, work, work.

Making things!

I hate networking so god dam much but I got the vpn server to work so I’m not using Tailscale anymore think iv set interval blocking up properly this time my head hurts and my day is ruined

Getting started with Tailscale. I'm very excited about the possibilities

Uhhhh you’re tell me a Savant The’d this Idiot?

Putting a project and myself to bed.

I’m still not entirely sure what to do with this service. It’s a micro blog but you can’t follow people specifically or reply? I t’s just a fire hose? 🤔

Trying to keep it together.

Bookmaking class is so fun, I'm enjoying it so much. The mostly likely way I'll use this skill is to make sketchbooks for myself, but I was commenting in class that it can be frustrating when you have a nice sketchbook but screw up a page. Turns out our teacher has a class on that exact topic next month: techniques for covering a botched page in your sketchbook. Guess I'll be taking an art class in May, too! Oh darn. Twist my arm.

Nursing a bad back after a fall while ice skating. Hopefully no serious damage.

Hi Scottie Boi

But I don’t want to be an adult today…

Such a pretty day today. Working from the back porch 👨🏻‍💻

I'm so tired today I'm drinking my coffee and a red bull at the same time...

Finished Shōgun (ep10). Lovely. Yabushige was probably my favorite character.

Independent. Detach self

Day After. Slow.

test

does markdown work ?

blog post?

Browsing .

Here's to new beginnings! I have the itch to write more and hopefully it will stick this go around...

Just watched all (?) six episodes of The Butcher. Worth checking out if you like shows like Forged In Fire and weird niche competition shows.

i don't wanna do my TAXES AUUUGHHH

Obviously...

Ostatnio zaktualizowałem swój szablon do tworzenia notatek codziennych w programie Obsidian, który wykorzystuje też Apple Shortcuts, aby dodać informacje pogodowe, wydarzenia z kalendarza i zadania z aplikacji Przypomnienia.

Wszystko opisałem tutaj:

I have an idea!

Getting ready to see Bill Bailey live in Bergen.

Playing with scribbles, One thing that I notice (or did not find until now) is missing Markdown support (⁉️)

Things I’ve learnt this week: 🌶️ far too much about OAuth 2 🌶️ Liberia was founded by freed American slaves 🌶️ imessage can be used for protocols other than sms.

Have I spent all day learning the basics of Strudel? Absolutely:

Last person over 40 to realize that is a play on first name.

« [...] Tu pensa a un pianoforte. I tasti iniziano. I tasti finiscono. Tu lo sai che sono 88 e su questo nessuno può fregarti. Non sono infiniti, loro. Tu sei infinito, e dentro quegli 88 tasti la musica che puoi fare è infinita. Questo a me piace. In questo posso vivere. Ma se io salgo su quella scaletta, e davanti a me si srotola una tastiera di milioni di tasti, milioni e miliardi di tasti, che non finiscono mai, e questa è la verità, che non finiscono mai... Quella tastiera è infinita. Ma se quella tastiera è infinita allora su quella tastiera non c'è musica che puoi suonare. E sei seduto sul seggiolino sbagliato: quello è il pianoforte su cui suona Dio. [...] »

Tratto dal film « La leggenda Del Pianista Sull'Oceano »

opening night!

Sunday morning gaming with cat cuddles is the best.

Playing 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and diving into the story

Who’s ready for another riveting episode of The Max Verstappen Show tomorrow?

Once again in the 10+ person prescription pick up line at Bartell's. An old woman asked someone to mark her place so she could sit down. In the short term there should be a take a number system; in the long run we need to talk as a society about pharmacy deserts like we talk about food deserts

HealthCare #Pharmacy

Made it through my first week back after a whole week of being sick. Still have residual fatigue. Hopefully this passes…

updating the budget

Run off the bike

About to start streaming. Unfortunately, no Drehmal today, as Tamber is feeling sick, and Kevin is prepping for a big move and getting some personal time in. So I might play a few things, starting with Voices of The Void as my usual go-to! .

Biking again after a month of pause.

Happenstance?

Caramelizing onions

Happy Birthday Slone!

Everytime I see the word 'queue', the voice in my head says 'kweewee'.

A dream is what happens when you don't have a plan.

life

It's freezing today. At least the sun's out for a bit.

On my way to Vegas for two nights to go to a concert at the sphere tomorrow.

Earworm of the Morning:
Time — The Alan Parsons Project

Bringing our own chopsticks to this ramen place because the disposable ones here are terrible 😂

I wish I had still Holidays.

i can haz time machine?

git

Loving right now, it's fun to play with and doesn't make me worry about what colors work together nicely WHILE keeping things accessible 💙

this day’s been a week

Just set up my own Forgejo Instance, mirroring most of my GitHub repositories, and possibly a home for other projects too. Visible to anyone at:

About to watch the long Bluey episode with the family… will update afterward…

Shots fired.

.

Watching Fallout

Back at work. yeeeeaaaaawwwweeeeee

Okay. Fastmail is cool. I've been using it for a while now, but I only just realised that the way I have things set up, not only does it not matter what goes before the @, but I can have an unlimited depth of subdomains. As long as it ends with my domain, I'll get the email.

I think I’ve reached my annual limit of backed Kickstarter projects

I go visit a friend, they serve me tuna sandwiches and I like them. Next time I’m at the store I buy cans of tuna. Today, I organize my cabinets and throw out years old expired cans of tuna. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s been a long time since I rode the ferry. It’s still so nice to go into the city this way.

Just finished Audible's recently released version of 1984. Terrific performances all round, a chilling experience from a chilling source material.

Every once in a while open the former bird app; it’s a bad habit i haven’t gotten rid of yet. I regret opening it every single time.

I hate the sun. Moon powers.

Paris, here I come!

Hello Node Red!

4 days left to decide if i keep glass photo or no...

Maintaining // VO2 Max: 53 - Superior ↗️ // Load: 705 - Optimal ➡️ - 22.5km Race Pace Run -

Setting up my omg.lol stuff

I have so many side project ideas and so little time and so many responsibilities ahhhhh

Hitting some kind of stride. I think. Maybe. Maybe it's because spring is in the air..

my book A Pandemic Gardening Journal was featured in Littsburgh! Read about it here:

Getting back into Slay the Spire.

love 2 federate

My vacation starts tomorrow!

If you need people off their phones, you simply need to block out the sun. Cloudflare Radar reports up to a 60% drop in internet traffic during the eclipse.

Feeling overwhelmed

Dune Part 2 was great!

Five consecutive days waking up at 5am. Applying for a provisional membership in the 5amClub

Wrote about my new toy on my blog —

taking in the small things (an unexpected rainbow, butterfly flying by, flowers blooming everywhere, the way the morning sun is hitting the windows in my ) to help offset the roughest night of sleep in a long while.

This is some paste:

It's a good day when you need to create a folder called "Kung Fu" for really any reason.

Blessed my wonderful family and friends 🥰

Hyper bowling today was fun, I started off strong but beaten by the kids in the last game!

Can I toot this?

I’m not at all sorry that I have a strong and sincerely-held belief that, no matter how well-intentioned it may be, a state of the state address by a state governor in a statehouse surrounded by state representatives and state senators and state cabinet members and state Supreme Court justices all paid for with state tax dollars should not begin with a prayer in Jesus’s name. There is no place for such a ritual in a public address.

Cleaning the house

Working on prints, cool client projects and discovering Obsidian.

So MREs do go bad

Guh. Too tired today

Was heading outside this morning and saw it was dumping rain. Thought hey my grass and micro clover seeds are going to love that. Felt less guilty about forgetting to water them last night.

Back to the Hochschule: My new course on web-technologies starts today.

Would it keep you awake if it all just didn't seem so far away?
'Cause it keeps me awake, trying to work this out until my dying day

A lil tired rn

First 5K of the year! LOL

Just tried removing the CSS from my site in preparation for #CSS_Naked_Day, it was just a bunch of ginormous SVGs. I think I'll skip participating this year.

Going back in time

I'm about to watch the eclipse

The weekend off had quickly gone, and this week I have a pretty busy schedule. Starting with a 16 hours shift.

Feierabend

Nice to have a week at home between business trips. I try to space out travel to no more than once per month, but this month just stacked up for me. Gotta enjoy the time at home while I can!

joining the 21st century and making my blogroll into more than just a markdown list

I finally finished my exams and entered the Ramadan holiday, I plan not to go to my family and spend a holiday with my friends.

Ending a weekend full of resting - a ton of Dragon’s Dogma 2, a bit of LAD: Infinite Wealth, so much basketball watching, some Vampire Diaries, and even watched a movie. Felt good, y’all.

Performance Evaluation:

1. Meeting expectations : bare minimum of work.
2. 4-4-5-3 Find one thing they are good at and one other thing they can improve on

Tireddddd

Kagi's Quick Answers is magic. What AI powered search really should be. Also love the Universal Summarizer - use it all the time!

I still have no use for this account, but I want to have a used for it.

Spending the (finally) dry and sunny weekend cleaning up the back patio, getting rid of all the weeds that popped up along with the winter's grime on tables and chairs. Such fun.

Lazy morning in bed beside the cats 💗

Setting up a now page

Quake!

Finished up Masters of the Air and now moved on to Shogun - another brilliant show! And I have Loot s2 to keep things light…

🌊 and 🌳 make for a perfect holiday.

Going to a show.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

DJing at the Love Bar in Colombo tonight, assuming the rains doesn't sweep everything away.

Finally got jack.is as a domain, hehehehehehehe

Just created my omg.lol profile and first status.

Today: We have lost

Oh no! It’s the school holidays. I’m on DadOps duty. And I’m down to my last two coffee filters!! What do I do? Eat the beans whole and raw? Use a tea strainer or muslin cloth?!Grind them and spread it on toast?!! SEND HELP!!!!!

Guess I’m going to Dallas in June.

Astrologer recommends that during Mercury retrograde we heighten our commitment to saying precisely what we mean and meaning exactly what we say.

Updating...

Just bought a Pixel 8 Pro. Hoping it'll be real blast to tinker with! I don't know how I lived with a forever-locked Samsung for so long...

Taking another short break from social media.

I seem to have forgotten how to write online.

the sea and the sun gave us too much of themselves

How do you mis-measure the three point line for a major championship regional tournament? That seems like something the NCAA would check.

My take on various note-taking tools available in Emacs:

As of April 1st, I will be embracing a new role as Full Professor at the University of Hohenheim in the field of Information Systems and Digital Technologies!

Does anyone know if there’s a way, through iOS shortcuts, that I could set up a weekly repeating omg.lol status update. I’d like to post a weekly disclaimer reminder on my LinkedIn. Right now I’ve got statuses linked to a 3rd party that pushes to LinkedIn, but I’m not sure how to repeat the same status each week.

March 28 was my #OMGLOL anniversary... and I forgot to do anything for it, because I was deep in #StardewValley. Whoops!

Saved! And leaving Typhon forever. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Long time, no status.

Enjoying being on holiday, and not having to set the alarm.

Time to start rewatching Stranger Things!

Reading »Dune«

Late March /now update:

Scrobbling to last.fm like it's 2007 again.

This one should be posted to blog.

Moving-in day at omg.lol

Got my Abmeldung from Berlin done from 1st April onwards. I'll be officially a resident of Tallinn, Estonia then.

My life is pink

no job

All systems are great!

The fatigue is real.

I managed to speedrun an entire website in an hour! Awesome!

Time to build a homelab again!

Singin' in the rain

Spring training is over, now the real season begins. Go Rays ☝🏻⚾️🧢

My dad just had eye surgery. Although it was a small procedure, I think it initially shook him up a bit. However, once it was done, I could sense his relief from how talkative he was lol.

Setting up my Scribbles blog

Got some good stuff done yesterday. Today too.

Waiting for the weather to warm up.

Roasted two beautiful batches of coffee this weekend: 250g of Sumatra Giling Basah Aceh Bebesen Aulia for espresso and 700g of Kenya Nyeri Chinga AB for pour overs.

I was finally able to go for a run after being sick for a week!

Monday Migraine

The long weekend is almost upon us!

Having way too much fun tweaking my website.

Packing my stuff for a week of work and travel.

Another Mastodon user got in on the action and matched my donation. Today we gave away two 1-year omg.lol gift codes.

That was fun. 🙂

Well, I think that was easy enough. Happy that worked out.

Testing the omg.lol API!

Attempt Number 2

Learning to type faster is a lot of fun.

Just bought a new pair of sunglasses! very happy with it!