Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

So I got a Blu Ray drive that I can hook up to my laptop. If I pop in a disc and fire up VLC it says I can't play the disc because my drive is the wrong region. I have no idea what region the drive is set to and the drive didn't come with any software to change that. But I can use a ripper to extract the raw streams and get a nice set of MKV files that play just fine at full quality without needing the discs, no problem (actually better seek perf). Why do media execs think this makes any sense?

Someone just followed me on tumblr and I'm like, wait, didn't I get rid of that multiple acquisitions ago?

Grocery run was shockingly cheap. Store must be making it up on eggs which were priced multiple dollars higher than a store 2 blocks away.

Needed to hit a grocery store while doing errands for the shop and got a coupon for cat food at the checkout. I was planning to go back after work and buy cat food (among other things) so that's good timing.

@mhoye I will admit that older me appreciates the quality of life improvements in the PS5 remake of the original Wizardry, though I knew there was a generational change happening when it seemed like I was the only person who actually enjoyed Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (the one where the game design encourages you to strategically plan around where you game over).

Reasons to write your own software: So you can have good scroll bars instead of whatever that abomination everybody else seems to be using is.

The cat has not adjusted to DST.

Considering ordering a pizza.

Update: I can see the cat now. She's looking for things to shove her face into.

I wonder what the cat is getting into.

The cat has declared it hugs time.

This morning I woke the cat up by pulling my phone out from under her. She proceeded to curl up in my lap and go back to sleep there instead.

Started with the dumbest, fastest to write, least efficient implementation of a thing that should work and while in this particular case I know there's no way I'm going to ship this, I suspect that even a 10-15 year old computer would still run this at acceptable speed and I'm half tempted to test that idea.

It's cat o'clock.

You encounter a rubber laptop foot. The side that adheres to the laptop is slightly sticky. You check the bottom of the laptop. It still has all its feet.

The last thing I did at work was sanitizing stuff so of course the cat wants to be all over my bleachy hands.

Fancy eggs were almost 20 cents cheaper than normal eggs today so I got the fancy eggs. A while back the difference was smaller and I saw someone take the broken egg out of the last carton of the cheaper fancy eggs and swap it for an egg from the most expensive eggs the store had. I didn't say anything because it's not like I'm the egg police.

Anyway, I'm taking home a cake.

One of my employees came in with a bunch of cakes to give away (he's going to school for such things)

There's a cat foot on my foot