Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Would Google+ have worked better had they chosen a middle ground instead of starting out with "go away, you're not cool enough to use our new service" and then switching to, "hello YouTuber, I will cram this G+ account down your throat whether you want it or not"?

Probably not, it's Google, shutting things down is what they do.

This time around my solution is a Brazil setting on the brewer, but I'd love an explanation of how this can possibly be such a widespread problem for years in Brazil and not an issue anywhere else in the world.

Switching to a Sul de Minas for my Brazilian coffee for a little while. I was hoping that I might be able to do a medium roast and get something that can be brewed in a 3L pot without resorting to tricks but whatever is screwing up the rest of Brazil (without affecting the rest of the world) seems to be causing this problem there as well. I talked about the problem in a video a while back: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/21c63495-4828-4773-ae64-452375a40855

Who decided that ghostbusters needed a magical girl transformation sequence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEXsdZMkDQ4

I should buy an assorted bunch of peppers on my next grocery run, chop them up and stir fry them. Rainbow stir fry.

The great thing about reading emails in plain text instead of auto-loading images/html is I get to read all kinds of great lorem ipsum and unedited templates sent by broken mailers.

I also considered putting it at the start of chapter 11, but I think it flows pretty naturally from the findings of chapter 9 and I'd rather put the material earlier than later.

Today's notes will probably end up at the end of chapter 9.

Wrote a few more pages of notes to incorporate into my book draft. I keep a small notebook in my pocket so when I think of things that ought to go in the book I can write those down. A ribbon holds the place where I haven't yet transferred those notes into the draft.

The cat wants to throw my pen.

Petting the cat, getting pet by the cat.

Look at this cat.

Last night there was a giant opossum in my back yard. #UrbanWildlife

I should probably clarify that that's QML extended by some custom C++ I've written. QML doesn't out of the box have anything appropriate for some of this stuff, but I've written that code for videos before so I can reuse that.

Spent a little time with the presentation for the next class I'm teaching. If I do redo it in QML then I can embed the raw data into the presentation and make the graphics a bit more dynamic.

I hear that the presentation template for the next event I'm teaching at is bad and instructors who ask are being told that they should just go with a neutral dark background instead of trying to use it. I might rework the whole thing in QML anyway (I use that for the visuals in a lot of my videos) so that would simplify matters a bit.

I should replay yoiyami dreamer (also, US release for this game when?)

Just saw someone recommending the local videos on my PeerTube server on a forum instead of linking people to the YouTube channel. https://video.typica.us/

Punk the cat requests belly rubs.