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Enough tropical storms have formed in the Atlantic this year that NOAA has run out of names. For the second time ever. Any further storms will be named using Greek letters.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/18/21444296/tropical-storm-wilfred-2020-hurricane-season-greek-names
The last time this happened was 2005. The year of Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
9YO is in a small-group breakout school video session with 2 classmates who have the same first name, and all 3 of them have the same first initial. It’s a little confusing
OMG, I just realized that the other two kids with the same first name have the same *last* initial as each other.
We are now at the point where the 9YO who never wants to go anywhere is asking to walk into a coffee place for pickup instead of sitting in the back of the car watching YouTube in the drive-through lane, just for the novelty of being somewhere other than home.
Wow. That’s a way to make a point.
Why did I have a branch called “broken” anyway?
For a kid who’s spent all day complaining about how tired he is, he’s certainly dragging his feet on actually going to bed. 
It’s nice how the daily struggle to get the kid out the door for school has been resolved…
…in favor of repeated struggles to get him to log onto school in the morning and after every break. 
As it’s become clear that surfaces are so much less of an issue for covid-19 than droplets, I’ve been trying to go back to being less paranoid about touching crosswalk buttons when I’m out walking.
But today I saw someone reach out her leg as she approached the corner and press the button with the *bottom of her shoe*.
I mean, yay flexibility, but now the paranoia is justified for *non*-covid reasons
Denethor watches way too much cable news.
Neighbor is practicing harmony for the “I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me” section of Bohemian Rhapsody on the piano and it almost sounds… cheerful.
The way they’re playing it reminds me a bit of Tori Amos’ “Sleeps With Butterflies”
Which is more wistful than cheerful, but still…
This is not my terminal window. My terminal window was at a command prompt, not running tail -f.
This is not my terminal window. My terminal window was local to my machine, not a remote SSH session.
This is not my terminal window. My terminal window was five levels deep in the project I’m working on, not in my home directory.
My desktop is covered with terminal windows, and none of them is mine!
I don’t mind that IFTTT is introducing a Pro subscription for additional capabilities, and if there was something I wanted to do with those features, I’d go for it. But what I use it for isn’t worth $10/month.
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I don’t mind paying for stuff… But price points matter, and IFTTT is following the typical (and annoying) pattern for formerly-free services where they squash the free tier down hard and aim the lowest paid tier at people who are going to use a lot more of it than I am.
Whoa… Sutro Tower is surrounded by orange smoke in this shot by Vjeran Pavic above San Francisco yesterday. Via Daily Overview: https://www.over-view.com/overviews/sutro-tower
Kid’s friend had the same thing happen. I’m thinking Microsoft pushed out a bad update
Wait, isn’t that backwards?
Actually this whole #duolingo Spanish lesson has the kind of absurdity I’m used to seeing in the German lessons, with dogs watching movies, birds cleaning the farm, and even a horse cleaning the bathroom.
As if I didn’t already have enough reason to distrust the MS app store, it spontaneously uninstalled the kid’s copy of Minecraft. Which also deleted all of his local worlds.
Fortunately most of the persistent worlds he plays are either on Java Edition or on a realm, and we had a backup of the local Win10 worlds from a couple weeks ago, but WTF, MS – you don’t fucking DO that!
Best guess is it downloaded the latest update overnight, failed to install, and messed up the rollback.
When we were trying out the Minecraft beta a few weeks ago, we noticed there’s this weird thing where the MS store thinks he doesn’t own a copy of MC until you click on “Buy” at which point it realizes he does and starts downloading it. It could be a problem with that.
Or it could be a mismatch with Xbox Game Pass, which we just got.
Either way, though…
WTF…. apparently an interrupted update from the MS store translates to an uninstall
WHAT IDIOT CAME UP WITH THAT DESIGN
wait, that’s in the xbox forum…not clear whether that applies to microsoft store apps on windows 10 too, but given the ridiculous folder structures, I’d guess it’s probably the same thing under the hood.
Working in a parked car over a cell hotspot while the kid is in the backseat doing school over a cell hotspot.
Now we know it’s doable in a pinch, but it’s not practical.
Ugh… desperately want to get out of the house, but just as desperately don’t want to go out in the sun & smoke.
Wildfire smoke is making the sunlight a very wrong color