Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I've just been informed that it's cat hug time.

@sean Might not be applicable for your situation, but the classic answer to this is re-use. For example, Gust used to do 2 or 3 games in a series with basically the same engine and a lot of the same or only slightly updated graphics. Some of my favorite games from the shareware era were done by people who did a small game then flipped a concept to get a completely different game with relatively minor changes.

My favorite Christmas tree growing up was the year we had this little hand made thing about 2 inches tall that some kid was going door to door selling so he could afford to buy presents. Set it up on a snack tray, put the presents under that. No decorating/undecorating, no watering, barely any transporting, no issues with disposal. Proper trees always seem like too much hassle.

Tasting my next limited edition coffee. Production test batch turned out the way I expected. It's on the lighter side of a dark roast and has a flavor reminiscent of sweet apples if you imagine that both in coffee and good.

Updated the shop's web site. This change removes the note that we're closed Thanksgiving, adds the holiday closed/closing early info for Christmas and New Years, and provides information on what we're doing for our traditional start of the year charity fundraiser. Online sales January 1-3, 20% of the the total (including shipping) is going to Racine County Food Bank. 20% of in store and phone sales January 2-3 (we're closed on January 1) will similarly be donated.

The cat is wet. Why is the cat wet?

@apLundell@octodon.social or goofy hats

@apLundell@octodon.social Given that the holodecks were totally used for porn, you'd think a little shower/changing room at the entrance would be standard, but even Quark doesn't offer that.

@apLundell@octodon.social Holodeck programs didn't get tutorials until Voyager. The doctor's holonovel dropped heavy hints and Seska's take over of insurrection alpha had some instructional elements. In TNG the holodeck characters were lucky if they could get players to show up with money and proper attire.

Trying to get loan pre-approval for a car (I found a low mileage thing that's basically the same as what I've got only 8 years newer and with a nicer feature package for less than double what the repairs on my current car would run) and it's being complicated because I'm self employed so my "pay stubs" don't have any useful information on them. My sister lost my tax filings (she's in charge of the office stuff) so I'm waiting on my accountant to send an electronic copy of those.

@apLundell@octodon.social Don't fall for it. The best swords come from quest rewards.

2020 is the year that just keeps giving. Car repair estimate came back and it's far enough outside of my budget that I'll just be replacing the vehicle. Ugh.

@Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi What did they do to Sasami's hair?

Car needs a new engine. My mechanic is looking for a couple options but pretty much no matter what I do this is going to cost substantially more than I was hoping.

My favorite part of a post getting popular on fedi is seeing everybody's cool domain names.

@flugennock@mastodon.social Punk's (the cat) ideal schedule for me is I should hang out with the cat for 36 hours, then go to work, then hang out with the cat another 36 hours. She doesn't get that, but does get a lot of attention.

@sean Mine was a then obsolete 286 based DOS laptop that was left over from a project to get machines that could be checked out from a school library (more computers could get fixed up than the little portable printers those were paired with so even with spares we had some left over for us kids fixing those up). 3 color screen, 1MB RAM, 40MB hard drive, very sturdy.

It's time to pet the cat.