Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

My mother's cat, Autumn, has passed away. She'd been pretty low energy for a while and had been developing some movement issues, but today she was very clearly in pain. All of the possibilities that the vet could come up with for what might be wrong weren't fixable.

Fun fact: the cat the lives with me is a big fan of Hatsune Miku. Since Miku Expo moved online this year, she got to attend that last night. The cat enjoyed the concert.

Today's junk mail at the shop included a pitch to get my staff trained as "cloud engineers". This is a coffee shop. My staff makes cappuccino and such. Not a ton of overlap on those skill sets.

@peptostate After how badly the Enterprise crew handled that stupid disk and funnel shovelware, can you blame them?

@sean What's the going rate for Myspace these days? Could I buy it for $20ish?

Lately I've noticed a guy near where I work (but just far enough away that it's inconvenient to walk out and chat with him) and his thing seems to be standing in that very specific place, very still with good posture, while wearing a very nice suit. That's it, just standing there, sometimes checking his phone but mostly standing at attention, for who knows how long, in a suit.

The drive home had a cat sitting in the middle of the road, but it at least had the good sense to move to the sidewalk when I slowed down to navigate past it.

Saw an especially crazy squirrel on the way to work today. It darted out in front of the car in front of mine, then turned to run between its wheels before continuing to the yellow lines and then it turned again to run between the wheels on my car.

@stux Yep, pest control officially.

@stux I once had a hotel cat escort me from the lobby to my room at check in.

Saw someone out walking their lizard.

@fribbledom black. insurance rates reflect that.

@mhoye But without the cloud, how will you manage to alert criminals to when you're not home or starve your pets when some random third party botches an update?

Discovered that Linux support for some really nice data acquisition hardware that I have may have improved to the point that it's usable on non-obsolete distros (and only a decade too late to matter!), but wow has the price of the nearest thing they still sell gone up. Is it good? Yes. Is it so good that it's worth paying nearly $1000 when there are comparable options with better support closer to $50? Not so much.

@mono Become soylent green.

How to Klee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeviiH9YVVA

@Taweret@octodon.social I didn't think about it when it was on the screen, but apparently Big Bird was pure nightmare fuel.