It’s hard to hold court with no courtiers.

I’m alone and thinking. Never a good combination.

“But even understanding everything that’s happening, much less determining how to respond effectively, is like a distributed denial-of-service attack on people with empathy.”

Oof. Yeah. Good metaphor.

Random thought: fake nails made of Gorilla Glass.

After almost seven and a half years, Zot hits 50k miles-since-purchase.

Windows is the ‘business’ OS, right? So why has L been fighting with it to print some trivial labels thru my HP laserjet, while I just downloaded a free app to my iPhone and did the same thing in about thirty seconds? Why did my Mac just Know what driver to use when I added the printer, while win10 needed a half hour download from HP to get drivers?

These are rhetorical questions.

Heh. tk-421. That’s funny.

So, I’m watching Mars, the documentary/drama. These episodes are from 2016. Which means they’re old enough that SpaceX was not yet consistently landing rockets. They’ve shown video of several failures, while in the present they’ve just managed to land the full set of boosters for a falcon heavy.

It’s always kind of fun to watch the future happening.

And no, I'm sorry, but it'll always be "Cash 'n' Carry", I'm not down with the new "Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores' brand.

Corporations aren't people, and I don't feel compelled to respect their feelings.

Had breakfast at Dandy Dogs in Bothell after hitting cash'n'carry. It was quite good.

Woo, on vacation at last.

Really hating people today.

In general, not so much in specific yet.

Just finished Tiamat's Wrath, and whooo that was a thing that happened. "Yeah, I know that too". Whee.

Stupid cow, why did I let you do that?

“Of course, you don’t get giant turtles that small.”