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I carry around a lot of worries and anger and anxieties and insecurities. For some reason, driving up to San Francisco seems to set off a lot of them. I need to get over it. It's dumb and embarrassing ( Read more... )

Often, "clever" "abstractions" just make it harder to figure out what software is doing. Maybe I'm really dumb, but I find myself digging into a piece of code to repurpose it slightly all the time, and before I can actually Do A Thing, I have to understand your bespoke DSL for configuring configurations and handling any conceivable use case in Full ( Read more... )

OK, let's try this: for the rest of the month, first thing in the morning, I'm going to do a little bit of strength training. Enough for an "Arnold", if you recall "Arnold's 1% challenge" from back when ever'body was on Fitocracy.

Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

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I fixed my sick Playstation 2! That was really satisfying.

Pictures and description over on that other blog.

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Just read Machinamenta: The Thousand-Year Quest to Build a Creative Machine by Douglas Summers-Stay ( Read more... )

For another ska resurgence.

4th wave, forthcoming! Let me know if you want to be in my ska band.

(tonight during dinner I was spinning this elaborate backstory for one of Lindsey's coworkers, whom I don't know very well, about how she's super into ska and always wears two-tone checkerboard patterns and clothes with enough freedom-of-motion so she ( Read more... )

People are often like "ew, the South Bay". And there are valid reasons for that! But you know what kind of stuff is in the South Bay? The Digital Game MuseumThere is *so much* computing history around these parts, and the Digital Game Museum is doing quite a lot to catalog it and archive and preserve it ( Read more... )

There's a repeating scene that happens at our house. The doorbell rings, and at the door is a youngish man, typically Black or sometimes Latino, and he's dressed in a suit or sometimes a baseball uniform. Selling magazine or newspaper subscriptions. And he's got a patter down; he says he knows that you don't need magazines or a newspaper on paper ( Read more... )

As of this evening, I turned in another dissertation chapter! Now up to 4 of them.

This hasn't been a necessarily smooth or fun or rewarding process! But I'ma get it done.

Check check check itIt's entirely possible that my advisor and actual-acting-advisor will have a lot of feedback for that chapter, but I already got, and responded to, quite a ( Read more... )