🗓 Microcosm - 2025 Sep 8-15
📱 SEP 15 22:45
Setting up my son's new iPhone 16e with Xfinity ended up being a pain because it was a SIM to ESIM phone number port and activation since he was moving over from his ancient hand-me-down iPhone 6s and you need an agent to do the process.
⚽️ SEP 15 11:38
Just watched a really good Prime video interview between Michael Carrick and Thomas Frank in the lead-up to tomorrow's Spurs Champions League game against Villarreal. Listening to managers talk shop about their coaching processes is completely my jam.
☁️ SEP 15 09:01
Gloomy day this morning, but it doesn't seem to be raining at the moment. Working from home today since I have to go into work on Friday.
🏆 SEP 14 18:25
Tramell Tillman winning the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his role in Severance is awesome and so well deserved. Being the first black man to ever win the award, though... this country.
🏡 SEP 14 10:04
Despite a few sprinkles, beat the rain and successfully took down the pool. Still a bit more packing to do to safely stow it away for the next several months.
⚽️ SEP 14 10:01
Tuned into City - United and Erling Haaland immediately does Erling Haaland things and scores a brilliant solo breakaway goal after United turns it over. 3-0 with twenty minutes to go.
⚽️ SEP 13 18:10
Spurs 3-0 West Ham - Great debut for Xavi Simons on the road. He notched the assist to Sarr off a corner for the first goal. Bergvall and Van De Ven added a couple more goals shortly after a Soucek red card.
⚽️ SEP 12 14:24
Just realized that Spurs play West Ham relatively late in the morning, my time, and it's right in the middle of my girls' games. So annoying right after the international break.
🏃🤯 SEP 12 8:57
TIL: A 16-year-old named Cooper Lutkenhaus came in second in the 800m race at the USA trials in an absolutely mind-blowing time of 1:42.27! That's like 10 seconds faster than the senior at my high school who won the Washington State 3A 800m title when I was a freshman!
🗽 SEP 12 7:53
Utah shooter is a 22-year-old white male named Tyler Robinson. Family social media and Halloween costume history point to a member of a typical conservative American family who was radicalized online, and this was factional rightwing violence.
🧙♂ SEP 12 2025 7:19
Terrapact Intimidator is a wild value card. Definitely a mythic uncommon of Edge of Eternities.
🍏📱 SEP 1 2025 6:13
The new iPhone 17s just went on sale this morning and I realized that I now find it kind of gross that there are still tech pundit class people that buy new iPhones every year and are up early to order the latest model as soon as possible.
🍏👾 SEP 11 2025 14:46
The "Macintosh" screensaver that comes with Sequoia is my absolute favorite and it's dynamically generated so now I really want to hack my own version.
⚽️🎮 SEP 11 2025 13:51
Getting excited for FM 26, but I'd like to see some women's gameplay footage.
📦 SEP 11 2025 13:47
Testing a bunch of new package deployments today at work. We're going to be rolling out MS Defender to most of macs as well.
📚 SEP 10 2025 21:56
Finished Ironheart: Born to Fly (👍) at S's soccer practice tonight. Enjoyed it and thought the differences from the MCU show and the 10 Rings stuff was fairly cool, but didn't love it.
📱 SEP 10 2025 15:07
My younger son gets a new iPhone this year as an early birthday present so now I'm trying to figure out the best low end value post iPhone 17 and iPhone Air announcements.
🪦 SEP 10 2025 14:27
Charlie Kirk has died from his gun wounds in the 46th school-related shooting of the year, and three high students are in critical condition as a result of the 47th that happened mere minutes later in the Denver area.
🤢 SEP 10 2025 12:11
Just saw incredibly disturbing live footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck while sitting and taking questions at an event in Utah.
⚽️🎮 SEP 10 2025 12:01
Heh, they just announced the FM26 release date and it's my 25th wedding anniversary (11/4)! Our plan is actually to get away during the weekend before or after.
⚙️ SEP 9 2025 8:54
I only dabbled in it, but Userland Frontier was an amazing scripting system for its time, and twenty-five years later theres nothing remotely similar with the integrated outliner and persistent database. The only thing it really lacked by modern standards is some kind of integrated version tracking system, but it did offer database object serialization.
👀 SEP 9 2025 8:38
Tweaking my accessibility settings and bumping up some font sizes to help out my old eyes. Also turned down the brightness on my display so large white windows don't overwhelm my vision so much.
💼 SEP 9 2025 7:10
Back in the office after taking my birthday off Monday, and working my usual remote day yesterday, A nice quiet start to my day so far too.
🎮 SEP 9 2025 13:40
Interesting CDKeys has rebranded as Loaded now.
⚽️🎮 SEP 9 2025 13:31
FM 26 will be the birthday gift I get for myself this year, but I expect its arrival to be closer to November.
⚽️ SEP 9 2025 11:50
Genuinely curious as to what Ange will do with his assistant coaching staff as he specifically doesn't have a coaching team that he brings with him from job to job.
⚽️ SEP 9 2025 9:51
Ange to Forest is quite the season 3 plot twist. Shades of end of Friday Night Lights season 3, and I'm here for the drama.
🔋 SEP 9 2025 7:40
I've been testing out all the charging options on the new brick as well. Right now, I have my Kindle hooked up to the micro-usb output, and I'm tempted to try a couple of others at the same time.
🔋 SEP 9 2025 7:24
My new rugged solar power brick actually has three times the capacity of an M1 MacBook Pro. The solar feature is a nice-to-have for emergency off-grid scenarios, but would take like three weeks of optimal sunlight to bring up to full capacity again.
🎁 SEP 8 2025 20:36
Got some great gifts this year. Nathan set me up with a hand-carved mini Europa League Championship trophy and Mary got me an awesome universal battery pack charger with solar charging.
🥧 SEP 8 2025 20:08
Really fun birthday evening with the family with Mary's take on Beijing Beef and Beef and Brocolli from Panda Express. The birthday berry pie was a real highlight in combination with the homemade vanilla ice cream.
⚽️ SEP 8 2025 10:38
Watching the new video from Vinai Venkatesham today. Nothing particularly new, just credible reassurances that it's business as usual, the younger generation of the Lewis family are longtime fans interested only in the success of THFC, and the club is not for sale.
⚙️ SEP 8 2025 10:23
Continuing my manual microblogging until I get my self-hosted setup sorted out.
🏃 SEP 8 2025 9:45
Good hilly 5.5K birthday run with the girls. Youngest was feeling a little under the weather and took the day off.