Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Tried to buy groceries but new road construction turned the intersection I needed to turn left on into a right turn only so I hit a drive through instead.

Apparently Space Kook is just upside down Santa (or is Santa upside down Space Kook?)

Was given some Christmas candies. The assortment included red blobs that when viewed one way are Santa heads and when rotated become the head of Scooby Doo villain Space Kook.

The cat has requested and received a hug.

If you emailed me asking for technical support a few days ago and don't think you've heard back from me yet, please check your spam folder.

I prefer KDE.

Microsoft Word 5.1a ran well on a Mac with 1MB of RAM and a <7MHz processor. It already did then more than I'd use a similar program for today.

Needed to reboot my phone. Haven't been able to send text messages for a few days because the stupid app refused to believe it was connected to a network. (never mind that it could receive messages and everything else could see the network connection) It's pathetic that the only fix is turn the whole phone off then back on. What is this, Windows CE?

The cat continues to be confused as to why I would do something other than hug the cat. The cat has now been hugged and she's much calmer.

cat: *loud purr*

Someone spent a painted quarter today.

@deshipu@mastodon.technology ballmer peak?

Today I found out that the librarian from back when I was in high school recently passed away. I didn't use the school library much (I had more convenient access to better libraries) but she was one of the academic decathlon coaches so I knew her that way.

phone UI idea: an explicit screen orientation control so people who put the device down on a level surface (for example, as a desk calculator) don't have to play games to get it to not auto-wrong that setting.

She wanted to get under a blanket.

There's a cat standing on me.

@Satsuma *sigh* I've written code intended to avoid exactly that problem. (So have lots of other people so it's not like there aren't tons of examples of how to choose graph ticks that don't do that if anybody bothered to look.)