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Hey Chicago people (and people who might visit), apparently this is a thing you can go to, for playing games and petting cats: thecatcade.org/

Had a productive phone call today. There might be a path toward continuing my work on the CSP. The people I was talking with need to take my ideas to a couple upcoming meetings and sort out some details, but if a couple key points end up as real things, it's a good first step toward addressing my concerns.

Atelier Rorona DX in the catacombs after the cut scene with the teddy bear it's possible to move Rorona without triggering her walk/run animation.

Cat wants me to pet the cat instead of eating dinner.

I did a lot of volunteer work as a kid building school computer labs out of stuff donated by local companies. The labs were obsolete when they were installed but better than what they'd been running. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those labs haven't been upgraded since.

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Knowing how obsolete school computer labs tend to be, I wonder if we've reached the point where many of these might have flying toasters now.

I think the new web site is finally at the point where there's more legit traffic than script kiddies scanning for non-existent vulnerabilities.

Marked a box of part. It's a controller where the NO terminals have turned into NO except sometimes C at random with no indication other than PV continuing to go up well past SV. Fine for doing short communications code tests, not so fine for keeping in production equipment.

Supplier web site was still down today. Have ordered from elsewhere because this is ridiculous.

That any single person walking away should be such a big deal is proof of my point: that we need to minimize the barriers to participation and have some mechanism for identifying the next generation of people to do this work, getting them the opportunities and mentoring so they can be effective when they step into the role I left, and providing incentive to do important work. The current direction has abandoned all of these.

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After a conversation, I had an idea for a bot named Alanna (I feel like this has to have been done).

She posts small, generic things about Windows or video games (tagged of course), summoning a certain subset to 'splain to her.

THEN, she responds with things like "tell me more" or "That's fascinating," or "I'm a little confused", in the hopes that the person will keep it up. Alanna keeps a tally of accounts explaining to her and how long, and at the end of the year, the score is posted.

Today was the first meeting of the committee I left since that resignation. I wasn't there but it seems that they spent a lot of time talking about my letter and that my position is strongly supported at the committee level. Hopefully incoming leadership will not be stubborn about the current path. If the current situation isn't corrected soon I doubt I'll be the last person to leave.

Sometimes the cat turns on the air purifier's oscilate feature. I've never seen her do that.

Day 5. A supplier's web site is still "down for maintenance". Nobody has considered that it might be a good idea to put a phone number on the page to continue taking orders that way.

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