Kid: “Why do you have to force me to do whatever I want, no matter what???!!!!”
…
“I mean whatever you want. Sorry about that.”
Asides
phone helpfully focused on the window screen instead of the squirrel behind it. 🤷♂️
phone helpfully focused on the window screen instead of the squirrel behind it. 🤷♂️
Covid vaccine, family
Parents managed to get the first dose of the Moderna vaccine. MIL made it through an asymptomatic case & has an appointment for a vaccine (I forget which one). Feels like *something* is finally moving forward
Kid just referred to “The Backyard Scientist” as “Florida Man” and…he’s not wrong
Kid just referred to “The Backyard Scientist” as “Florida Man” and…he’s not wrong
Also dreamed that I’d worked on a satellite to deliver an EMP to a target …
Also dreamed that I’d worked on a satellite to deliver an EMP to a target location on Earth, had the targeting app on my phone, and was trying to figure out a way to make the satellite self-destruct so no one could actually use it, without it tracing back to me.
I wonder if that’s related to having listened to the Rogue One soundtrack recently.
covid-adjacent, dream
Also dreamed that my employer was holding one single in-office day for everyone to pack things up for storage before we went back to remote work. Everyone was distancing but at some point we all realized that none of us were wearing masks
Dreamed I accidentally opened Facebook on my phone for the first time in over a …
Dreamed I accidentally opened Facebook on my phone for the first time in over a year while trying to open an app to order McDonald’s. Despite the fact that I don’t even like McDonald’s.
Pre-dinosaur reptile Kongonaphon kely, “tiny insect slayer” was just 40cm long, and appears to have …
Pre-dinosaur reptile Kongonaphon kely, “tiny insect slayer” was just 40cm long, and appears to have been a common ancestor – or at least very close to the divergence – of both dinosaurs and pterosaurs
Kid heard the phrase “Yellow submarine” but didn’t know the song. Now he’s singing it …
Kid heard the phrase “Yellow submarine” but didn’t know the song. Now he’s singing it to the tune of “Pinky and the Brain”
Spent a good chunk of time last night & this morning (post-windstorm) trying to fix …
Spent a good chunk of time last night & this morning (post-windstorm) trying to fix a broken boot loader on my desktop. (Pro-tip: when power’s flaky, make sure the computer is *off*, not just asleep.)
I figured out pretty quickly that UEFI was missing an entry for the Linux install, but since manually creating boot entries in UEFI isn’t something you do very often, it took me forever to find the right steps to fix it.
Blog post for future troubleshooting: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2021/01/fix-uefi/
Windstorm kicked up overnight. Power has been flaky all freaking day. I’ve been able to …
Windstorm kicked up overnight. Power has been flaky all freaking day. I’ve been able to get work done on the laptop because I only need intermittent internet access.
But between losing power & losing internet, the desktop’s not available for gaming, and the kid is getting seriously restless.
Plus we forgot to do laundry yesterday and can’t rely on the washer to stay on through a whole cycle.
Hmm, maybe if there’s no reliable computer access tonight we can get the kid to actually go to bed at a reasonable hour?
Yeah, right, who am I kidding?
Online school vs. power outage
Power goes out for a few seconds, knocking out the computer & router.
Kid gets back onto school session on phone, as router finishes rebooting.
Teacher: “Thanks for getting back on–”
Power goes out again, knocking out the router….
Project Loon is being shut down because Google couldn’t find a working business model for …
Project Loon is being shut down because Google couldn’t find a working business model for internet balloons.
When I first read about the idea (aimed at places where cell towers would be hard to set up, or during disaster recovery) I immediately thought of the aerostats in Robert Charles Wilson’s SF novel, “Spin.” In that case it was a solution to replace satellite communications because a mysterious barrier had blocked off access to Earth orbit.
The weirdest migraine aura I’ve had added several hours of aphasia to the usual (for me) flashing zigzag lines and blind spots. I understood all the scans they did at the ER, but I could barely string a sentence together. I was back to normal the next morning.
@theavandiepen @TeamPumfy @StructuredSucc The weirdest migraine aura I’ve had added several hours of aphasia to the usual (for me) flashing zigzag lines and blind spots. I understood all the scans they did at the ER, but I could barely string a sentence together. I was back to normal the next morning.
Just noticed the list price for the Donougher translation of Les Mis is $18.32. How appropriate.
Just noticed the list price for the Donougher translation of Les Mis is $18.32. How appropriate.
Misspoke “thread ID” as “threat ID” and now I’m thinking about advanced persistent threads
Misspoke “thread ID” as “threat ID” and now I’m thinking about advanced persistent threads
Yes, I know there are always more dishes to do. But I can still enjoy the feeling of having caught up, at least for now.
Yes, I know there are always more dishes to do. But I can still enjoy the feeling of having caught up, at least for now.
TFW you put in the ear buds, turn on the music, and realize immediately that …
TFW you put in the ear buds, turn on the music, and realize immediately that YOU LEFT THE VOLUME WAY TOO HIGH because last time you were listening to a podcast or maybe just something recorded before the Great Loudness Wars of the 1990s.
Teacher: Right now all I can see is your wall. Kid: Actually it’s my ceiling….
Teacher: Right now all I can see is your wall.
Kid: Actually it’s my ceiling.
Teacher: The camera needs to be pointed in your direction.
Kid: It is pointed in my direction, just a little up.
Me: *sigh* Think three dimensionally.
Kid: Fine …
Kid is too tired to go to bed, but not too tired to send .gifs about how tired he is
Kid is too tired to go to bed, but not too tired to send .gifs about how tired he is 🙄