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bitprophet, to random
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Big day: saw a baby that shares some of my genes in a only-slightly-roundabout fashion.

Big head, not much hair, tiny feet/hands, alternated between being audibly upset and sleeping: yup, that's a baby.

(Also describes me, but like, who's counting.)

Torn between "well at least /someone/ is carrying on the family name” and “gonna feel /so/ bad for this kid once they grow up enough to see the ugly future staring them in the face”.

bitprophet, to random
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NYC MTA finally got with the 21st century - tapped my smartwatch to enter. No more forgetting my expired MetroCard at home! 🤣

(Photo only related by virtue of being taken inside the station. 33rd St 6 train.)

ParadeGrotesque,
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@bitprophet

Yup, last time I was in NYC was when I started using Google Pay all the time... 😊

bitprophet, to random
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RIP, Hotel Pennsylvania. You were too nasty for this world. Also too in the way of whatever generic modern monstrosity will be developed on top of your grave.

Photo of a big bright sky just outside NY Penn Station, which previously did not have such a view. But at least the Empire State Building is visible now!

bitprophet, to random
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Finally done with precautionary post- isolation. Tested negative✌🏻

ghickman,
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@bitprophet props for thinking about some else’s newborn 🤗

But tbh, kids get exposed to so much stuff. Like, awww baby timmy found the cats tail! Ok it’s in his mouth now, oh yep now up his nose.

bitprophet,
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@ghickman yeaaaaaaa

bitprophet, to random
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Practicing “just do a 'good enough' job" (VERY DIFFICULT if you are a me) by only doing most of the weedwhacking (and resultant leafblowing) instead of all of it.

It's better than I found it. Good Enough.

Alas, my arms are still turned to jelly 😵

bitprophet, to random
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It was still up?!?!
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/112497243524133218

bitprophet, to random
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ME: “lol, who the heck goes out and drives all over the middle of the continent just to look at (severe) weather???”

ALSO ME: drove round-trip equivalent to 1/3 of the way across the continent, just to look at weather* the other month

  • ok, astronomical event, but still
tpherndon,
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@bitprophet Yeah, but astronomaly happens rarely, weather happens increasingly frequently

bitprophet,
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@tpherndon alas

bitprophet, to random
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boy I /wish/ they would “Recall" Windows 11!!!

...

for serious tho it's enough to make a body start reconsidering the PC Gamer life.

OTOH, I'm not sure I’d expect any better privacy-respectin' from uhhh…the same fucking company…or Sony.

(I already have a Switch, obv, so I guess that would be indie games sorted, albeit leaving a AAA-sized hole in my life.)

(Oh right, or: Steam Deck, or its handrolled analogue, “Linux on the Desktop: no we SWEAR this time”)

joshourisman,
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@bitprophet @onelson and your primary OS is what, now? 🤨

danny devito batman GIF

bitprophet,
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@joshourisman @onelson honestly, these days, i(Pad)OS 🤣 but otherwise, macOS?

The Windows is only in here for the games, and the Linux only for the hacking.

bitprophet, to random
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Walking through a cloud of vape emissions: it's only slightly less nasty than cigarette or joint smoke 🤷

bitprophet, to random
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Belatedly realizing I can now step on every sidewalk crack I see, and there will be no meaningful consequences.

bitprophet,
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@onelson this is just how my brain works. "No humor too dark"

onelson,
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@bitprophet I think about dying all the time like it's normal. I get it.

Clarifying: not thinking of suicide, just ways I might die now or eventually.

bitprophet, to random
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Was chatting about at dinner one PyCon evening (pretty sure with @davidism) and it struck me today (as my “anime OP/ED" playlist was playing) that we never brought up one of my favorite Kanno works, the soundtrack.

Especially the main theme, "Moon”, whose vocal performance is credited to one Gabriela Robin…eventually revealed to be a pseudonym of Kanno herself! Turns out she can compose /and/ sing (and how.)

https://youtu.be/y4imRkny0iM?si=pLDdR53qbiylcdn_&t=12

mpirnat,
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@bitprophet @SnoopJ Wing was also my intro (via VHS fansubs), and +1 to the “great soundtrack” votes.

mpirnat,
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@SnoopJ @bitprophet In my day we watched “Warriors of the Wind” and we liked it. 😂

bitprophet, to random
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son of a—

BillySmith,
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@bitprophet

'Tis an Augean task. :D

bitprophet, to random
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Home, tired. Downside of mere 6-day trips (especially ones where 2 full days are travel) is they're /just/ long enough to get used to the new context, and then BLAMMO, it gets taken away again.

—

Also, Pennsylvania is very pretty to drive through…IF you can ignore the repetition of

  • Jesus billboard
  • Gun billboard
  • Child abuse billboard
  • Trump billboard

in various combinations.

And? Highly amusing: as soon as one gets within 20 miles of the NJ border, /all/ the drivers speed way up.

bitprophet,
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Time to pretend my home office is a spaceship (or a cyberpunk apartment, also I need to get back to CP2077) while I isolate from my spouse for the next 3-5 days.

Good thing it sounds like cats cannot transmit the plague, so I can still see them at least.

bitprophet, to random
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OH (typo): "sweat tea”

bitprophet, to random
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ME: yikes this non-sweet iced tea has like 36g sugar! JFC. Let's move on.

ME: oh man I haven't had Vanilla Coke in a long time, maybe one last dietary cheat for the road?

VANILLA COKE: ayyy!!! I've got 70 grams of sugar!! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

ME: tea-time it is!

bitprophet,
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@onelson @basepi oh sorry, it was "non sweet" in the "it's not labeled 'sweet tea'" sense, ie, Southern sweet tea.

There is also "unsweetened tea" which is what it says: just tea. no sweetener of any kind. That is what I normally get.

I forget how much sugar actual sweet tea has but it's likely >= the Coke.

bitprophet,
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@onelson @basepi anyway so the "regular teas" (typically peach, sometimes raspberry or lemon flavored) still have cane sugar added, but “merely" 36-ish grams.

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