Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Got an email today where my usual response would be that what they want to try hasn't been done to my knowledge, with too many unknowns for me to want to have anything to do with remote troubleshooting, and their best bet would probably be to just fly me in to look it over and see what I can figure out, but where they're at is under a level 4 travel advisory so I'm not offering that.

Playing an alternative bird game

What's all this about honking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YnaYGzxiwE

To put it in perspective, my first laptop was a Toshiba T1600 left over from outfitting a school library (these were already obsolete at the time so the kids who repaired the donated machines also got to keep one, 286, 3 color display) and I'd be totally fine lugging something of similar size.

One of these days I'd kind of like to build my own laptop, make it 1-2 inches thick, put a really good keyboard on it. If I stall long enough I can probably just use desktop components.

@cwebber I frequently apply that approach. Once you build it it's at least easier to see why what you did was wrong and get closer to the shape of right. The danger is when the wrong way works well enough and you never get back around to fixing it.

You know those bags of assorted cookies that come out during the holidays? The cookie factories need to do a variation that's all cylinders. The cylinder shaped cookies are the best tasting ones in the mix and there's never enough of them in the bag.

@codingquark herself in the phone screen

#caturday

It's 11:54PM. Time to make toast.

Worked out a new decaf espresso blend today to take advantage of recent arrivals.

Fairies are strategizing. Please wait warmly.

No more Visionary Fairies in Shrine

Drafted another chunk of book this morning. This past week I've been creatively non-productive so it feels good to get something done.

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