🗓 Microcosm - 2024 Nov 8-14
🦋 NOV 14 2024 13:54
My Bluesky feed is looking pretty dreamy. A nice mix of the tech/Apple-sphere people, Spurs fans, and creative wackiness.
💻 NOV 14 2024 13:42
Re-imaging Windows laptops for the first time in years. Key difference is that we boot securely and there's no legacy allowed anymore.
🖥️ NOV 14 2024 08:49
My main work iMac is finally up for replacement so considering all my options. I'm tempted to see if I can get a 24GB/512GB M4 mini approved.
📺 NOV 14 2024 07:59
Mary is a real classic TV show lover, and she and the kids just finished watching the entirety of M*A*S*H (via Hulu) a few days ago (I joined them for a lot of it including the finale). I grew up watching the nightly re-runs in the 80s so I've watched almost all the episodes at least two or three times myself.
🗽 NOV 14 2024 07:41
Many of Trump's initial cabinet picks so far are eye-rollingly bad, capped by Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence. I do wonder if Republican leadership feels more or less inclined to push back on his whims this time around.
⚽️🎙️📚 NOV 14 2024 07:15
Noticed Spotify has the Angeball audio book for subscribers so I may start listening to that soon.
🌤️ NOV 14 2024 07:13
Overcast, but bright drive into work this morning. Listened to part of Monday's MTG Goldfish podcast.
🤷🏻♂️ NOV 13 2024 15:29
I ate the whole bar.
😐 NOV 13 2024 15:13
Feeling pretty drained at the moment. Time to eat part of a Clif Bar.
🌬️🌧️ NOV 13 2024 15:10
Conditions were not looking optimal for running tonight when I went for quick afternoon walk outside. Super windy and rainy.
🌧️ NOV 13 2024 09:10
Raining harder now, but I still went out for a quick midmorning walk around campus. Looks like it supposed to continue into the afternoon when we're supposed to run today though.
⚽️ NOV 13 2024 07:32
Bentancur finally gets hit with a 7 game ban for his racist joke about Son last year. A better outcome than the possible 12 game ban that was floated, but a tough pill to swallow when even more blatantly racist and transphobic actions from Premier League players playing for their countries go unpunished. If you're on a Prem contact the rules should apply year round.
🌧️ NOV 13 2024 07:14
Light rain started this morning just as I got within a mile or so of work. Luckily I did have a hat in my backpack for the five minute walk from my parking spot.
📚 NOV 12 2024 21:36
Reading 30+ pages of Deathly Hallows aloud in one go is hard on my throat and eyes. Old dad problems.
🥁 NOV 12 2024 19:35
Just returned from my son's Mt. Spokane H.S. Marching Band end-of-season banquet. Great way to wrap up the season and recognize all the kids' hard work.
🧙♂ NOV 12 2024 16:05
Midweek Magic is Foundations Constructed. We'll see if I can make Elves or some kind of red deck work for that based on my daily quests.
𝕏 NOV 12 2024 08:12
Following count is now almost half what it once was at around 326. Time to head out.
𝕏 NOV 12 2024 07:51
Twitter purge continues while I'm killing time before heading to an offsite retreat for work.
🦋 NOV 11 2024 18:40
Taking steps to finally mothball my Twitter account.
🌐 NOV 11 2024 17:20
Today's unanticipated project is mothballing my Twitter account. I'm not going to delete it, but I am going to unfollow every single other account and delete all my posts.
🌐 NOV 11 2024 15:51
Finding my people on 🦋bsky.app so I can quit following anyone on hellsite and never return.
🚙 NOV 11 2024 13:06
Took my sons on a quick lunchtime practice drive through some nearby residential areas. They're both doing well and could take their driving test at any time, but I'd still like to see them get some more practice in.
🦋 NOV 11 2024 15:05
Realized it's trivial to switch my bsky handle to a custom domain so went ahead and did it.
⚙️ NOV 10 2024 11:07
Getting closer to being satisfied with my tweaked Bear blog design, but links are not particularly visible which isn't great.
⚙️ NOV 10 2024 08:40
Trying out different fonts, but not exactly sure what I'm looking for. I need to find that site that shows different combinations together.
📺 NOV 10 2024 08:30
Watched the first couple of episodes of Arcane S2 last night. Last season's cliffhanger didn't work out quite like I feared so that was a plus. Solid start to the concluding season. 👍👍
🤢 NOV 10 2024 08:25
Bunch of sick girls overnight, they're doing better this morning, but I'm going to be myself if I go for a run today.
⚙️ NOV 09 2024 14:34
I have mixed feelings about doing a light-mode design for my blog because from my perspective it's intended to be viewed in dark mode. Leaning towards implementing a lighter mode that is still darker than a typical white background web page.
⚙️ NOV 09 2024 14:22
Made some solid progress on my revamped blog theme based on the Bearming theme. About ready to start experimenting with fonts now.
🏃 NOV 09 2024 11:51
Just saw that my niece's high school cross-country team barely missed repeating as state champions for their classification by one point! Digging into the scoring further, one of her teammates was .1 second away from a higher place and I think they would have won in a tiebreaker scenario.
🗓 NOV 09 2024 08:41
It's been a while since I worked on importing older posts again. Need to look at my todo list and see where I'm at. Also need to get back to my theme customization work today.
⚽️ NOV 09 2024 07:40
There are some interesting games on today, maybe I should fire up Peacock and see what's available.
📄 NOV 08 2024 20:36
This is one of those days when it's already 8:36 pm and I still haven't figured out something worth blogging about. Actually, I just had an idea.
🚙 NOV 08 2024 14:24
Kind of curious about recent I-90 traffic accident statistics for the Spokane area. Is the uptick in my awareness of accidents in the corridor a function of WSDOT East's excellent social media game or have they been happening more frequently.
🍏 NOV 08 2024 12:47
The m4 mini has removable storage! It's also some kind of proprietary NAND rather than a full SSD, but in the future, it should be possible to get working third-party replacements.
📚 NOV 08 2024 08:53
Showed my nine-year-old my paperback book reading technique to avoid vertical spine lines now that she's starting to read more of the Redwall books. It takes a little bit of practice and paying attention, but she appreciated the difference between my well-treated books and some used paperbacks we compared them. with.
⚖️ NOV 08 2024 07:50
For the record I'm generally against capital punishment because it puts a huge burden on the legal system and American society has been unable to mete out this punishment in a fair and unbiased manner. But this is exactly the kind of exceptional case that tests that view.
⚖️ NOV 08 2024 07:42
There's a certain amount of grim amusement at Bryan Kohberger's defense attempting to get the death penalty off the table for the ongoing Moscow Murders trial. If convicted, he could actually face a firing squad in Idaho, whereas Washington, where he was a resident a the time, just formally outlawed the death penalty in 2023.
🌐 NOV 08 2024 07:19
Finally put in a request for RSS 2.0 with the snac project (it only supports RSS .91) and the developer was open to it. It's a c-based minimalist self-hosted activity pub micro-messaging solution that I first came across about a year ago when I was considering micro blogging options.