We had a big tree in the garden that was rotting, so now it’s gone. I did not expect to feel as strongly as I did over it.

Seeing the stump is so visceral, representing something that I thought of as effectively permanent being suddenly gone.

It shaded the garden and the house, it held a rope swing, so it was a tangible loss, but I think that its size is part of what made it so affecting.

Isn’t that twice as much tarp as you need? 10801080pi for a circle the same size.

I felt sorry for the one that nearly drowned in the recent LA rains

I mean, most objects are not human.

I recently went to the bank to get a letter on their headed notepaper to act as proof of account ownership. They just printed it out on blank paper from a laser printer.

“Our Pixel range has a fast easy-to-find fingerprint reader on the back. It’s possible to unlock the phone as you’re removing it from your pocket without even trying. How can we improve that?”

“How about we hide a slow, unreliable one somewhere under the screen. You can’t feel or see where it is. When you do find the right spot, it’ll illuminate your finger with the light of a thousand suns. Then, it might unlock the phone, if you’re lucky.”

Is this another example of him hiding some disguised image, just as he hid a picture of the brain in the Adam And God painting?

https://clintavo.substack.com/p/the-mystical-secret-in-michelangelos

If you wait long enough you can sometimes win the battle is wills and it goes out, meaning that the problem has fixed itself. Or that the bulb also now needs repairing.

Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.

I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)

Grep was originally written to help identify the authors of the Federalist Papers.

There are much more powerful tools to automate that kind of pattern matching now, of course.

I was in a company that was slowly downsizing.

I was in one of 6 rooms off a corridor, each room holding two desks (well, one room was storage). As people left, I was the only one left in those rooms, so I used to think of it as “my wing of the building”.

“Future father” at age 22 is a strange achievement.

Music went through this many years ago.

iTunes would have drm’d music files. Amazon too, I think.

Then at some point it all became sane and I could buy an MP3 and download it.

And why isn’t “raccoon” “wash-bear”?

But there are distant trees on the horizon, so if this was, say, maybe a mile away to appear relatively small, those world have to be many more. That works only work on a flat earth.

Also, the moon and sun appear flattened when near the horizon due to atmospheric distortion.

Kinda related

https://xkcd.com/331/

Intensive Pickle Unit

https://youtu.be/qXioAqTB7UI

In recent times I’ve played Baby Steps, Cocoon, Inside, Slay The Princess, Thank Goodness You’re Here, Hyperbolica, Unpacking… Going further back, Unfinished Swan, Untitled Goose Game

I don’t think that originality has gone. Maybe it’s just easier to churn out shovelware, but there are still new ideas appearing.

Just having driveway alarms can be useful. Battery motion sensors trigger a chime on the base unit. Enough to give you an alert that something needs to be checked.