Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@mhoye Makes sense. I avoided the things until I could get something that I could treat as a pocket computer running stuff I wrote for it myself (didn't even let my first cell "phone" on the cell network, Nokia N900) so not being able to just shove files in/out would have been a deal breaker for me.

@mhoye It's always baffled me that people bought ringtones instead of just making their own (or asking a tech savvy friend to do it for them).

Woke up to see a nice financial contribution from a long time supporter of my software work. I've been using some of my vacation time to get some good work in toward the next release.

There's a tiny lizard in my hotel room. It's not doing any harm but I hope it finds its way out before it gets hungry.

One of the interesting things about this vacation has been picking out which languages people try to use to talk to me. There's been quite a range.

@dansup Back in the Usenet days it was common for clients to have a kill list. The sound of a troll getting added to that was *plonk*.

The place I'm having lunch at today has "space chicken" on the menu. I'm 85% confident that's a translation error.

@mhoye My production machine does have a camera mounted over the sight glass used for live roast level estimation.

@mhoye I should connect my coffee roasters to the fediverse some time.

@jamey Not how it works, but if the IRS agents are all fired you can probably get away with it.

Today's lunch reminded me of why I almost never order ribs. They were delicious, but entirely too much effort to eat.

Took a look in the cutlery drawer in my hotel room. The spoon selection is certainly a choice. Half of them are a bit too big to eat with and the other half are too small. Not that I'm planning on using any of it.

Also, I'm pretty sure the hotel has dogs. At least I keep seeing the same dogs out front whenever I'm leaving or returning. They're usually asleep.

Found a shop where you buy food and immediately give it to cats.

Saw that it's -9 back home. Picked the right time to vacation (it's been in the 80s here).

Between an early arrival and a longer layover I could take ICN more leisurely than SEA. Enough time to use a bathroom, fix my hair.

Connecting flight 1 wants to leave early. Did fast walking and used the non-moving stairs to get to the gate fast enough to beat the all zones boarding call.

Got the seat with leg room.

I've been informed that my cat calmed down 10 minutes after I left.

Made it to the gate for today's first flight. Very little traffic, everybody at the airport has been pretty chill.