Now for the test tickle
Category: IT
blog’s been a bit wonky
sorry if it has not worked well over the last few days. Should be okay now.
cri de coeur
As sustained and limitless as the human consciousness that presents it:
can’t tell the difference
Elon Musk cannot tell the difference between bots and new users.
He believes he’s driving growth, instead Romanian bot farms are chugging along hard. User numbers are up? Must be his free speechification of the site.
I felt so good this morning and my mood has crashed again. Hard.
Shown below is the Rosette Nebula, credit the Hubble I do believe
whoever keeps trying to break into my blog
Jeff warned me. Lots of people are visiting, good luck with breaking things; Jeff is a prudent and cautious individual and this site is protected as well as one can thriftily make it.
Russian soldier says fuck it. When this link breaks, his name is Pavel Filatyev. He has both deserted and fled Russia.
2173 words
Katie messaged me yesterday afternoon asking if it would be inconvenient to get Alex to come over tonight for a sleepover and I’m like
She never tries to take advantage, what a kid.
Today, prescription refill by way of a walk before it gets too warm, then over to see the kids briefly to review the ‘family spreadsheet’ and talk about our feelings because hoo boy it’s been tough this week.
The beets Zanne bought for me in Cache Creek have been PROCESSED and are now resting comfortably in the fridge. Reminder to self: That first trip to the bathroom will scare you, BE PREPARED. I still owed her a bit of money from the trip but let me tell you, my outlay ended up being a couple of CBD gummies, a 3.5 g bag of weed and 120 dollars, and for that much fun (and such COMFORTABLE NIGHTS OF SLEEP) I would have paid MUCH MORE. And I got to drive into the sunset when the mountains faded into haze and it was like being suspended in a picture postcard for hours.
Zanne told me about tabby kittens ready to go, but no ‘new’ news on the kittens. And the poor queen (owned by an unhoused woman who lives in an underpass) is pregnant AGAIN. Woman doesn’t want to give them up but I’m going to show up with a bag of kitten kibble and a hundred dollars in small bills and ask nicely. If the fates are propitious I shall name her Sookie.
Trying to learn to get by without milk in a jug… I may be switching over to powdered and condensed. Right now there’s been no fresh milk in the house for a week.
Buster has returned from catting and got his brekkie.
There was an additional episode of Sandman that I was not aware of and it had, like, ROMANCE in it which was very attenuated but also very welcome. Tom Sturridge STARVED HIMSELF for the role, and in that first episode it’s obvious, he no longer looks like a healthy human being and you can see his face plump up over the course of the show as he puts maybe five pounds back on.
folks wandering up to Neil Gaiman and saying ‘I am absolutely not racist why did you cast Black and Desi actors in Sandman’ and him responding, ‘YOU – PERSONALLY – I DID IT TO PISS YOU OFF! – DIE MAD U SALTY BITCH’ is the shprinkles in my coffee this am.
No ac today, it’s not supposed to get warmer than 19. I’ll turn it on if I need to.
Amazing thread about cryptocurrency
Local MLA office vandalized
The terrible behaviour of anti-vaxxers that we saw on Wednesday when they blocked the path of an ambulance and cancer patients in front of Vancouver General Hospital has spread into Burnaby with a despicable act of vandalism. Burnaby-Lougheed MLA Katrina Chen announced on Twitter that the window of her constituency office had been vandalized. The words “no passport ever” were smeared on the window, referring to the upcoming B.C. rule that will restrict some activities of unvaccinated residents, like going to a movie. This is out of control. How long until these conspiracy theorists start physically attacking people?
Rest of the article by Chris Campbell is here.
Her kid goes to the same school as Alex.
In other news, Microsoft continues to release shit without testing it.
revenge, revenge, revenge of uninten-ded consequeces
Does anyone else think that this has not been thought through? I read the article and thought man, WHO WANTS TO HAVE THREE FUCKING KIDS AND THE STATE TELLING YOU THEY CAN’T HAVE SCREEN TIME WHEN THEY’RE ALL YELLING AT YOU AND EACH OTHER.
Fuck the CPC, man, what a bunch of dolts.
For the bit rot, quoted from SCMP Published: 6:53pm, 30 Aug, 2021, writer Josh Ye:
China limits gaming time for under-18s to one hour a day on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
China’s top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media has formally issued the rules to combat video games addiction among teenagers
The NPPA said video gaming companies are the main entities responsible for stopping children from becoming addicted to games
Beijing has issued a new rule limiting the gaming time for players aged under 18 to between 8pm and 9pm only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays, marking the country’s most stringent measure yet to tackle video gaming addiction among young people.
The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), China’s top watchdog for gaming and other forms of online media, formally issued the rules to combat gaming addiction among teenagers, according to a report by state media outlet Xinhua.
I will not be buying this software today
open this image in a new screen to embiggen
When you go to the checkout (SchedulePress individual, on sale for $39 now!) and this appears, do you back away slow? or do you back away fast, take a snapshot, and then send it to customer support because you’re a dirty great cow!?
Yes, I went for option 2. (Later, no, I didn’t bother. My classic laziness reasserted itself.)
I guess I AM REALLY PISSED OFF about how within two seconds of my having installed it they were bugging me to review it. SO I DID I gave it a good review, not five stars because I haven’t used it all, but it looked good so…
Now every other day I’m being asked to review the software, and every other day I type in “I already reviewed it,” so
candidly
I think this is the kind of thing I’m allowed to whine about.
And since the iteration I have is free, I need to find another kind of software. brO it was a great suggestion and I was using it, but this is… suboptimal
I’ll tread where I please
The Don’t Tread on Me flag with “Don’t call my employer and say you recognize me in the FBI photos from the Capitol” tagline
OH MY FUCKING GOD Susie Bright just followed me on Twitter, excuse me while I fan myself.
web traffic and irony
20 people who are human beings visit my site every day. The other 430 visitors are bots from Russia.
There will be a planned outage late Sunday the 12th.
wotcher
How’s everybody this morning? Good? Not so good!? Hm. Let me see what I can do about that.
Just when La Mami Naturaleza seems to have shot her last bolt in the weird department, along comes something like this. Do please watch the video.
I bought and now have used a bunch of equipment for my rehab. I am already stronger and more able to extend my arm forwards at 90 degrees. Jeff rolls his eyes when I do exercises while watching TV, it’s quite distracting.
Jeff’s first impressions of the Mac Mini. There’s something useful in there about the Home/End issue which people transitioning from pc to mac always trip over.
Hey, I don’t mind fashion when it looks like this. Possibly, erm, not suitable for work.
More evidence, although it didn’t need to be adduced, why Stephen Fry fucking RULES.
The Nepean Redskins will be changing their name and logo at the end of this season. VERY PLEASED ABOUT THIS. On the other hand there is this piece of dreck masquerading as a sports common tater. In a hundred years we will look back and wonder why the hell we did this to ourselves.
And in this Brave New World, homeless people use Bitcoins.
I could do this without breaking a sweat. After all, I’ve already done it, just ask Jeff.
Lard t’underin’ Jaysus
What a day yesterday. I bailed on the workshop because it occurred to me that the only thing, and the most important thing for me to be doing in that same time period was prepping for the meeting with the bookkeeper. That went well. Continue reading Lard t’underin’ Jaysus
RIP Herbert Lom
Died in bed at 95 in London. May his memory be blessed with laughter and tears.
Stupid bill re recriminalizing abortion did not pass; the Minister responsible for the Status of Women should be escorted from the Commons in the electoral equivalent of chains.
Although the title and the illo are THOUGHTLESSLY hyperbolic, this is a good article about privilege. 2020 says Hugo Schwyzer turned out to be rillllly problematic, but I’m leaving this here as evidence of progress, and it’s amazing given the drubbing he took that this writing is still available
I have a very heavy day of appointments and church related work in front of me.
VCon starts, I’m not going. All I will do is spend stupid amounts of money on clothes. Hilariously, RobW called me last night to complain about the Vcon website; this does not bode well for how good the con will be.
Paul and Katie and I had a lovely walk in Deer Lake Park on Wednesday; we saw a dozen frogs, a juvenile eagle, a Douglas squirrel and possibly a baby bunny, who did not linger to make our acquaintance. I got some video of the frogs but it’s basically a streak heading for the rushes. I also got a pic of the Douglas squirrel but not at very high resolution, even though the little guy POSED in TWO SEPARATE POSES for me. We also picked up a hawk feather, which I stuck in Margot’s fur when I got home and resulted in a couple of charming pictures, one of which I posted to twitter. 2020 says that was a flicker feather, not a hawk feather, no kidding.
I’m going to ask Jeff to help me figure out how to post pics directly to my blog through WordPress, although possibly not today.
After many months of being okay, my temperature regulation at night has gone off the rails. I have acceptably ordinary physiological reasons for this but waking up poaching in my own bed a couple of times a night is harshing my mellow. This too shall pass.
Yet another sports figure is being accused of sexual and physical abuse of youngsters in his care. The way it’s being reported in the press is quite bizarre. I guess we’ll let the courts sort it out; the reporter had more than half a dozen affidavits detailing misconduct in hand before writing the story, and while we all know that there are false abuse allegations, it’s not the way to bet, especially since we’re talking about a Catholic residential school for falsely imprisoned young aboriginals.
Raincoaster just tweeted that an alarm went off close to her and a stern voice is speaking in German. Helluva way to get woken up, unless of course she was already awake. She and I trade tweets in the middle of the night fairly often.
What’s up on facebook: 18 billion reposts from reddit, mine among them, and people commenting about the things that make them upset – relatives dying abruptly in car accidents leaving young children, angst about how this is the first time her only child is out with the non-custodial parent on a football game day, the fact that 27 million people globally live in slavery, and me attempting to get a copy of (this poster). 2020 says it was something cool by Matt Danger but now it’s gone.