“OK, we’re not in the reactor shaft, you can stop singing Duel of the Fates….
“OK, we’re not in the reactor shaft, you can stop singing Duel of the Fates.”
– kid’s friend over a group Zoom chat
“Are you sure you want to cancel? Yes – No – Cancel”Wait, what?
When you forget to check “Remember Me,” does that mean the crew is going …
When you forget to check “Remember Me,” does that mean the crew is going to start disappearing around you?
Or do you just miss out on a guitar ballad for the duration of your login session?
Cooper’s Hawk on a Fence
I startled a ground squirrel while looking for something that was chirping in a fenced-off area of a park with a pair of transmission towers.
The squirrel hid, but this hawk – which I suspect was looking for the squirrel – flew out and perched on the fence for a few minutes before flying up to one of the lower struts on the nearer tower.
#photo #birds #nature #hawk #CoopersHawk
I heard repeated chirping from a fenced-off area of a park with a pair of transmission towers. As I got closer, I couldn’t spot a bird doing the chirping, but I did see a ground squirrel hiding under a small palm tree. I took a photo from a distance, then moved closer, at which point I startled the squirrel, which ran into one of the holes, and also a hawk, which flew from who knows where inside the fenced area to the edge of the fence. I was able to walk around and get some nice clear shots of the hawk, both as it sat on the fence and after it flew up onto one of the lower struts of the nearer tower.
Fox Squirrel (Wilson Park, on lawn)
A few days ago I set up test accounts on several password managers/wallets on an …
A few days ago I set up test accounts on several password managers/wallets on an alternate Gmail account, to get a sense of how they work without interfering with my regular accounts. I’ve been getting marketing emails from them.
Today I got an email apparently from LastPass on my *main* gmail account encouraging me to continue setup… 🤔
Some possible explanations:
1. It’s a coincidentally-timed phish.
2. I entered the other email somewhere in LastPass as an alternate contact or something.
3. LastPass somehow figured out how the accounts are connected.
4. LastPass somehow ended up with the info from the phone’s primary account when I installed it on the secondary account.
I’m really hoping it’s #1 or #2…
Picked up a multimeter. Kid is testing ALL the cables to see what parts actually …
Picked up a multimeter. Kid is testing ALL the cables to see what parts actually conduct to what.
But the pitch and duration are almost exactly the same as the one-minute-left beep on the oven timer. :blob_dizzy_face:
I write my main gemlog by hand since the code is so simple…
Replying to @ajroach42 asking how people manage their gemlogs:
I write my main gemlog by hand since the code is so simple, and I wrote a perl script to manage the tags, categories, lists and next/previous links.
For another blog that’s in 11ty I wrote a shell script to send each page to md2gemini, which is a really useful markdown-to-gemtext converter: GitHub: md2gemini
My super-awkward but fully self-contained gemlog management script, still full of too much hard-coded stuff specific to my own site that I intend to eventually generalize: GitLab: gemloginplace
Upstairs neighbors: Drop something heavy on their living room floor.Me, on my way to …
Upstairs neighbors: Drop something heavy on their living room floor.
Me, on my way to try once again to get the kid to wake up: Can you maybe drop that in that room over there?
The tavern in the cavern has the brew that is true.
The tavern in the cavern has the brew that is true.
food gone bad, gross
Finally placed the vague nasty smell I’d been catching in the kitchen all day: A leaky bag of potatoes.
Fortunately there were only 3 left in the back, and I caught it before the puddle spread to the box with all the brand new groceries I bought earlier today
I guess I should put new potatoes on the shopping list
Some butterflies from an exhibit, including a banded orange, a postman, an two morphos…
Some #butterflies from an exhibit, including a banded orange, a postman, an two morphos (they had SO many morphos)…
one of which decided to land on my leg and stay there. They had made it clear that we were not to touch the butterflies so as not to damage the wings with skin oils, so when it still hadn’t left after a couple of minutes, I asked a staff member to remove it, and they coaxed it away with a sponge brush soaked in gatorade.
Fox Squirrel
Monarch
Canada Goose
I think until they can make higher-res displays, a lot of it depends on finding a gameplay/use case that works better with the interface.
Reply to @brion’s remarks about VR and screen resolution
I think until they can make higher-res displays, a lot of it depends on finding a gameplay/use case that works better with the interface. I’ve tried a bunch of games with VR modes, and a bunch of games that are VR-based but could easily be screen-based, but only a few that are actually better in VR.
Beat Saber’s one of the best. You slice cubes with lightsabers in time to music. It really wouldn’t be as effective on a regular screen, even with something like a wiimote.
I imagine FPS and stealth games would work pretty well too. I played a demo of a Star Wars game at the mall a couple of years ago that was impressive, at least for the first experience.
Kid just found this parody of The Sound of Silence as “Portal: The Sound of …
Kid just found this parody of The Sound of Silence as “Portal: The Sound of Science” 😂
In other video gaming news, the kid has discovered Portal 2. “Shut up, GladOS!” …
In other video gaming news, the kid has discovered Portal 2. “Shut up, GladOS!” is a frequent refrain.
(Also: we’re playing through the co-op levels for the first time. I’m really impressed at how well they’re designed to *require* co-op strategy.)
Realized what I like about No Man’s Sky is that it combines aspects of Minecraft …
Realized what I like about No Man’s Sky is that it combines aspects of Minecraft (which I’ve played a LOT over the last 5 years) and Wing Commander: Privateer (which I played a LOT of back in the 1990s).
Both open-ended, self-directed sandboxes. Like Minecraft you seek out resources and build equipment and bases. Like Privateer you fly through space and do different types of missions depending on what you want to do.