๐ย Microcosm - 2024 Jan 24-31
๐ JAN 31 2024 08:58
Prabu is a standout character in the Shantaram television show, but holy cow is he hilarious in the novel. That said he's in no way a purely comic figure and the impact he's having on Lin through their friendship is pretty powerful.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 30 2024 22:51
Still seeing tons of last minute transfer rumors for Spurs. Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth is the newest one and of course the Conor Gallagher ones still won't go away.
๐ JAN 30 2024 22:43
Got confirmation today from a few of my coworkers that the tickets to Saturday's St. Mary's game did in fact sell out instantly at 7 am Monday. A couple managed to get tickets, but others were in the same boat as me where we failed despite trying as soon as possible.
๐ JAN 30 2024 22:33
GU 92 - 58 LMU FT Nolan Hickman finished with a career-high 24 points on 10-14 from the field and 4-6 beyond the arc. Very encouraging to see him have a breakout performance like that. I watched roughly a third of the game and the Zags were getting to the rim at will. There was one play where Hickman hesitated slightly on a probing dribble into the paint and both players guarding him inexplicably switched away from him so he just went on to the basket without them.๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
๐ JAN 30 2024 21:24
Zags absolutely cruising tonight! 68 - 33 over LMU at just under the 13 minute mark in the second half.
๐ก JAN 30 2024 14:49
Weaving your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline. The Project Tapestry Kickstarter from Icon Factory looks amazing!
โฝ๏ธ JAN 30 2024 12:28
South Korea and Mali advance to the quarterfinals of the Asia Cup and Africa Cup of Nations, respectively. Both opponents have Spurs relevance as well as Korea face Australia, and Mali plays against Ivory Coast, and Serge Aurier.
๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ JAN 30 2024 12:19
Such a weird January. We're used to cold and dry winters here in the Spokane area, but it's been so damp and foggy recently that all the wood furniture on our covered front porch was absolutely soaked with moisture this morning.
๐ JAN 30 2024 08:51
Experimenting with the web versions of Office 365 today since I still haven't gotten around to getting my defective work laptop replaced. The experience is usable but pretty cramped on the old 14" MacBook Pro I tried it on first!
โฝ๏ธ JAN 30 2024 07:38
I really like Gio Lo Celso as a player, but his constant state of injury this season makes me suspect Spurs will finally move him on this summer.
๐ JAN 30 2024 07:29
Starting off my day by closing out a ton of Safari tabs and deleting a bunch of junk email. Then I should probably move to the physical world and clean off my desk.
๐ชฒ JAN 29 2024 22:46
Another duplicate post glitch. Pretty sure that I posted this one from bed using my phone, but again didn't catch it until later when it's harder to remember for sure.
๐๐๏ธ JAN 29 2024 22:46
Listened to the first couple chapters of the Shantaram audio book today. Humphrey Bower is an excellent narrator and really brings the characters to life. I feel like I'm right back on the journey I started with the TV show and I still have another 40 hours to look forward to.
๐ JAN 29 2024 14:48
Learned via a depressing blog post by an understandably depressed George R. R. Martin that David Drake was one of several author colleagues that passed in 2023. I really enjoyed the Belisarius series Drake collaborated on with Eric Flint (who I had no idea had died in 2022 until this moment when I looked him up on wikipedia). I enjoyed Flint's 1632 alternate universe books quite a bit, but didn't keep up with the highly prolific series after the third book or so.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 29 2024 14:19
Now I'm hearing that the Antonio Nusa to Brentford deal may be off because of knee and back issues that turned up during his medical.
โ๏ธ JAN 29 2024 10:26
Confirmed that the line of code in index.php which I had noted during my original pull request isn't needed and in fact does prevent the Setting page from displaying the correct value.
โ๏ธ JAN 29 2024 09:24
Running into a bizarre display bug between the Settings page and the value of show_edits that's bugging the heck out of me. Need to figure out if's just show_edits or an issue for other settings.
๐ JAN 29 2024 07:14
On a whim attempted to get two staff and faculty tickets for Saturday's big SMC game at exactly 7 am when they went on sale and none were available. I expected demand to be high and supply is always constrained for these complimentary tickets, but surprised to have them be instantly gone.
๐๐ง JAN 28 2024 21:06
Contemplating checking out and listening to the Shantaram audio book from the library since there aren't going to be any more seasons of the Apple TV+ series but it's 43 hours long!๐ฑ
๐น JAN 28 2024 16:33
AxodysFC 140 - Nusa To Brentford
๐งโโ JAN 28 2024 11:07
Absolutely brutal day on Arena today so far. I've completed my daily quests on both accounts with zero wins to show for it.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 28 2024 10:42
United sort things out and win 2 - 4 in the end.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 28 2024 09:41
Newport County just scored to equalize 2 - 2 to start the half against Man-U! Needless to say I'm going to put that up in the background now.
๐น JAN 27 2024 21:39
AxodysFC 139 - Spurs Saturday Update
๐งโโ๏ธ JAN 27 2024 11:39
Managed to get to Platinum with both my accounts this morning. Still need to get 7 or 8 wins on the secondary account to max out the weekly XP. Undecided if I'm still going to spend the gems for the mastery pass on that account or not before it expires in a week and a half.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 27 2024 11:34
Bayer Leverkusen 0 - 0 draw with Borussia Mรถnchengladbach. Leverkusen had so many chances, but couldn't overcome an uncharacteristically stout Gladbach defense today. Good to see American Joe Scally put in strong shift at the back for Gladbach.
๐ชฒ JAN 27 2024 09:04
This was the third instance of today's triple post. I was thinking that it only happened in mobile safari, but I can't remember how I made the original post.
๐ชฒ JAN 27 2024 09:04
Just noticed I had triple post (this one's two of three) again today, but no idea how to reproduce the bug yet.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 26 2024 10:10
Noticed ESPN+ has Kaiserslautern - Schalke today so put it on in the background. I haven't followed FCK very closely for the last couple months since taking a break from Sorare, but expect to follow more closely for this half of the season. FCK up 1 - 0 so far.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 26 2024 08:00
The Jurgen Klopp end-of-season exit news today was more surprising for the timing rather than the actual decision. He's had a great long run at Liverpool by any modern measure, and needing to take a break from the managerial toll is completely understandable. Putting this out there now seems likely to further galvanize his team towards a strong finish as they're still challenging for four competitions.
๐ท JAN 26 2024 07:40
Spurs pride going internet-wide.๐
๐ JAN 26 2024 07:29
Woke up with a headache this morning, but it went away pretty quickly. Shoulder is very sore, but I feel fine otherwise. Put on my new Spurs kit this morning in anticipation of the big match and Mary asked if I was going to go out in public like that.
๐ JAN 25 2024 20:21
GU 77 - 72 SF A win is a win but that was ugly.
๐ JAN 25 2024 20:16
Zags are absolutely killing me with their horrendous foul shooting to close out a game they were up 10 late. Feel like this is their season in a nutshell. Very fortunate SF has made some serious mistakes along the way.
๐ JAN 25 2024 19:48
GU 54 - 48 SF 6:29 Watson and Ike fueled run gives Zags some separation.
๐ JAN 25 2024 19:45
Super ragged game. Guard play and offense not up to the usual Gonzaga standard. 48 - 48 just under 8 minutes.
๐ JAN 25 2024 19:31
Some wild back and forth sequences immediately after I tuned in for Gonzaga - SFU. Zags lead 46 - 45 with 12:30 left.
๐ JAN 25 2024 19:29
Shoulder is a bit sore tonight. That was the thing that surprised me the most about my first Covid vaccination- the shoulder where I got the injection was sorer for longer than I ever recalled with similar injections from flu or tetanus shots. Subsequent boosters felt pretty typical.
โ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 14:25
I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't released their full Office 365 16.81 installer yet. They've released various individual 16.81 app updates like Word and Excel, but not the full installer yet. Doing a little further research I see they've released full Office 365 installers as late as the 31st in a given month though.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 11:14
I chose Kulusevski because of his work rate, creativity, and strength on the ball. Plus he probably wouldn't be the first (Son), second (Maddison), or third choice (Romero?) for most Spurs fans and I have a lot of appreciation for an underrated Spurs starter. The red hair and my own Swedish ancestry may have factored in as well.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 11:10
Excited to debut my third kit Kulusevski jersey for tomorrow's big Manchester City FA Cup clash. It's my first official piece of Spurs paraphernalia in a decade plus of fandom. If not for a generous Christmas gift card from my in-laws and a January sale I probably wouldn't have picked one up because of my generally frugal nature.
โน๏ธโโ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 10:35
One thing that my dad would really enjoy if he was still alive is that his three youngest granddaughters are the kinds of girls that love P.E. class.
๐ JAN 25 2024 10:28
One other random note from today's booster appointment was that I went to high school with the woman who got me signed in. She graduated from Ferris the year before me and although we didn't know each other personally she had had my dad for P.E. and recognized my name. It was nice of her to say that although P.E. wasn't her thing she always appreciated that my dad tried to make it fun for everyone.
๐ JAN 25 2024 10:02
Just got my first Covid booster in a couple of years. Curious to see how I'll feel tomorrow because I recall feeling under the weather the day after my third shot. On a side note all the medical professionals were masked up at the temporary clinic, which Covid aside, seems like a sensible approach to the winter cold and flu season.
โฝ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 09:29
Hearing today that Brighton are interested in a Bryan Gil loan. I could see that being a good move for him.
๐๏ธ JAN 25 2024 08:50
The Incomparable Mothership was my favorite podcast for the longest time (and it's still up there). My favorite coincidence is that my now eight-year-old daughter was born when many panelists were here in Spokane for Worldcon 2015 to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the podcast. That time was also memorable for having horrendously hazardous air quality from some nearby forest fires.
๐๏ธ JAN 25 2024 08:34
The Incomparable Mothership - 698: Incarnation of the System ๐ Being able to listen to this particular episode featuring Jason Snell, Glenn Fleishman, Dan Moren, John Siracusa, and Heather Berberet (who was new to me) discussing Foundation seasons one and two may or may not have helped motivate my recent binge.
๐งโโ๏ธ JAN 25 2024 08:25
It's been an off week for playing Arena so far. Partly because I was watching Foundation season 2, but partly just the end of set lull. Still need to get to Platinum on ranked in the next week, but otherwise not particularly motivated to play much.
๐ JAN 25 2024 07:17
Turns out it's not the original tag and it's 10,000 behind the original. I've found an extra one that's a much more appropriate vintage so I'll probably replace it again while I'm working on it.
๐ JAN 25 2024 07:06
Re-imaging a work MacBook Pro this morning that has an asset tag that's wildly out of sequence with its age. Going to dig a little deeper to figure out why while I'm working on it as is my wont.
โ๏ธ JAN 24 2024 15:09
Successfully set up a couple 301 redirects for my original atom and json feeds so that I could continue viewing both of them in NetNewsWire (and still have the entire history of previous posts). Feeling drained but productive.
โ๏ธ JAN 24 2024 14:46
In retrospect it's amazing how minor the fix was that triggered this huge .htaccess configuration debacle and eventual subdomain migration. Should be a million times easier to test, rollback, and update the microblog as needed going forward now. Also pretty trivial to deploy other subdomain microblogs should the mood strike me.
โ๏ธ JAN 24 2024 14:27
Whew! Crisis averted. I think I was living on borrowed time with the way I had originally set up this microblog as a sub folder and things finally went awry yesterday because of it. Creating the axodys.octobloc.xyz subdomain and moving everything over resolved the issue. I did have to directly edit a couple settings in my posts.db file, but not a big deal at all.