π Microcosm 2026 - Mar 24-31
πΊπ¦Έπ»ββοΈ MAR 31 19:37
Daredevil: Born Again S2E2: Shoot the Moon ππ Very ripped from ICE headlines vibe as Kingpin and his AVTF lackeys start arresting and harassing community members, but resistance is growing. Meanwhile, Bullseye remains an agent of chaos who may be stalking Vanessa, and we get a surprising reveal about who's doing the Masked Mayor Kingpin videos all over social media.
π‘π¨ MAR 31 18:27
Finished rebuilding the problem fence section in our backyard. Dogs shouldn't be breaking out of that spot again, at least.
ππ MAR 31 14:21
Looks like Mark Few finally got voted into the Naismith Hall of Fame this year. Totally deserved for a guy who has never missed an NCAA tournament during his coaching career, and has a shot to reach 800 career victories next season.
β½οΈπ MAR 31 08:19
Sounds like De Zerbi to Spurs is as good as done- a 5-year deal with no relegation clause, just waiting for the official club announcement. I have incredibly mixed feelings about this appointment.
πΆπ‘ MAR 30 18:41
Came home to a dog-escape disaster, so spent the rest of the evening repairing an entire section of fence in the corner of our yard behind our shed. Unfortunately, I had to pause halfway through to charge up my drill's battery. Hopefully, the sheet of plywood I put down to block the gap will keep them in for now.
βοΈπ€ MAR 30 11:40
Cool to see that my custom microblogging system has doubled the number of posts that I do in a month. I averaged about 60 posts in January and February when I was doing it by hand.
ππ€ MAR 30 10:44
Impressed that one of my coworkers picked 3 seed Illinois to make the Final Four and would have had all four if not for the wild UConn - Duke finish. Arizona is my sentimental favorite because of Tommy Lloyd, Michigan seems like the rational choice, but rooting for Illinois for the pure chaos of it.
β½οΈπ€ MAR 29 21:50
Now that Igor Tudor has departed Spurs by mutual agreement, my favorite wild replacement rumor by far is Ben Davies. He has his coaching badges, knows the squad, and is fully COYS. Probably makes too much sense at this point for Vinai and Johan to actually get on board with it.
βοΈπ‘ MAR 29 09:53
No rain, but kind of a gloomy morning. Mary's given me about three different tasks to complete around the house today so trying to be productive.
πΊ MAR 28 20:53
For All Mankind S5E1: First Light ππ A solid return to one of my favorite shows, and some interesting cast additions. It's also pretty wild how the casting works since they skip a decade every season. Sean Kaufman, the perfectly cast actor who plays the aged-up Alex Baldwin, is two years younger than Cynthia Wu, who plays his mom, Kelly Baldwin! Ruby Cruz, who I recognized from the Willow series, is a similar age profile in real life, and plays Lily Dale, Miles Dale's daughter, a classmate/love interest for Alex. It all just works, and the Aleida/Margo prison scene was probably my favorite scene between a couple of seriously aged-up old cast members and friends.
π€π©π»βπ¦° MAR 28 18:21
Mary and I spent a couple of hours at urgent care this afternoon getting her earlobe stitched up. One of our pups is prone to lunging at faces when excited (it's completely inappropriate, friendly behavior we've actively tried to discourage with limited success), accidentally caught one of Mary's hoop earrings on a tooth, and ripped a diagonal gash through her lobe.
ππ₯³ MAR 27 19:29
Put down a deposit to reserve the car we test drove last Friday, and it looks like we can pick it up tomorrow. Going to be a real relief to have enough cars to go around once again.
πποΈ MAR 27 09:51
Cleaning up my browser tabs, as you do.
ππ€ MAR 27 08:48
Arizona absolutely smoked Arkansas last night 109-88 in a game I kind of wish I had watched now. If I'm Tommy Lloyd, I'm not really sure that Carolina is all that interesting, especially if he wins the title with U of A this year.
π MAR 26 14:00
Wild that Tommy Lloyd's name is being tossed around for the Carolina job, and Roy Williams has been gone for five years already. We even lived in the same apartment building way back in the day when Tommy was the junior assistant coach on the Gonzaga staff.
πβοΈ MAR 26 09:56
Working on a few more M4 Mac mini Zoom Room installations this morning. I think we'll have at least twenty in use on campus within a few weeks.
πΊπ¦Έπ»ββοΈ MAR 25 19:58
Daredevil: Born Again S2E1: The Northern Star ππ Great return to action for Matt Murdoch and friends with a particularly fraught ending. Looking forward to finding out more about the juicy details of the Kingpin being in bed with the CIA.
πΊπ€ MAR 25 10:27
Just heard that Paradise has been renewed for season 3. It was originally planned as a 3 season story arc so this is great news. It's such a well-crafted show that carrying out the original vision as intended sounds like the best possible outcome.
πβοΈ MAR 25 09:13
Updating Zoom Room Mac minis this morning. 26.4 came out in the last couple of days and want them to be as up to date as possible on deployment. Pretty happy with how theyβre working in this role so far.
πΊπ€― MAR 24 19:16
Paradise S2E7: The Final Countdown ππ Banger penultimate episode to a highly entertaining season with a little bit of resolution, and a couple of major new questions. Oh, and things are looking grim for the bunker. Can't wait to see how it all plays out.
π€π€ MAR 24 11:33
Claude gave me a fairly brief amount of help on a task today before letting me know I had to wait until 1 pm for additional assistance on the free tier. Makes me think that I was on some kind of intro mode for a few weeks to get me hooked because I had to have been using way more tokens while working on building Microcosm than I did this morning trying to solve a macOS scripting problem!