Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I've received 2 emails letting me know that Internet service at my house is down. (Phone still has Internet and tethering works, but will get really slow if I need to use that too much.)

UPDATE: While typing the above, I got a text message letting me know they think I have Internet at home again. I'm at work and haven't set up anything that would let me check that.

The rain was a bit too hard for me to want to be roasting coffee in (that's a rare problem for me to have) so it looks like I'll be staying late to get that done after the shop closes.

O HAI, I found my cat in a video game.

Once upon a time, a syrup company had one called Vanilla, but they didn't have one called French Vanilla (because there's absolutely nothing French about vanilla), but coffee shops were having a problem because gas stations were doing something named a "French Vanilla Cappuccino" and people were apparently going into places that offered a real cappuccino and refusing to order the vanilla one because they wanted French vanilla. So they made a new French Vanilla SKU but put the same thing in it.

The cat was a little gassy this morning.

I guess it's time to get hugs from the cat.

So someone is working on that disc goes in the funnels game that everybody was addicted to in that episode of TNG for Apple's HMD thing, right?

Got a pizza and now the cat has decided to climb into my lap.

Got donuts today. I still have a couple left to eat later.

Reminder that in the 24th century, the only place baseball is played is the planet where Kirk had to remember how to make gunpowder while fighting a guy in a lizard suit. It's unknown if they use a pitch clock.

Today's notable spam is a message that's half in Japanese from a domain not credibly associated crypto-currency claiming I can get an amount of bitcoin which at current exchange rates would be valued at a few hundred million dollars. Link in the message is to a completely unrelated domain from the sender with a .xyz TLD. Not clicking the link, but if anybody wants to send me a few hundred million dollars without laundering it through a scam first, you can do that here: https://typica.us/

Registration for my favorite trade event of the year just opened. That means I need to sort out if I can arrange things so I can go to that. I've already done a bit of searching when it comes to the travel arrangements (the suggested options are terrible from a cost and travel time perspective, but I've found some better options). I haven't been asked to teach anything this year, so I'd just be a normal attendee for a change.

When you're on the Enterprise you know you're going back in time because the ship's clock starts running backwards. You know how fast you're going back in time by how fast the clock is moving backwards. This was called out multiple times, so presumably someone thought this made any kind of sense.

It does not.

The cat would like to curl up and have a nap on me now.

I also considered just driving the whole way, but that would be a 31 hour drive and I'm not doing that.

Did some travel searches for an event I'd like to get to later this year. The event web page gives an airport and shuttle information, but it's one of those little airports nobody flies to going that route I'd have long layovers and it would be very expensive. Alternately, I can fly direct to a major airport much cheaper, rent a car, and have a 2 hour drive between that airport and the event location. I'd get there faster and about the only way that doesn't end up cheaper is if I rented a Tesla.

The cat says it's time to pet the cat.

The cat thinks I'm cool.

Last week's focus on reports got a lot of progress and a nice list of remaining tasks that for the most part are easy things to pick up later. This week I'm going to focus on the configuration related stuff. That's what I'm going to try: focusing on a different functional area each week, see what I can get done on that which I can just start using, leave future me some guidance on what's left to do there.

So we know that the Enterprise-D cleans itself (good for the bloody ship, it'd have to given just how huge it is for the size of the crew else everybody would be too busy on janitorial duty to be at their stations), but the supposedly more technologically advanced Voyager has at least one crew member with a messy room. Did Voyager lose its self-cleaning function or can crew members just opt out for their quarters? Do Federation starships steal socks when people aren't looking?