Alright, I turned off all notifications, went periscope down, got some stuff done, emerged to find some wasps had buzzed against my notifications, but it's quitting time so 🤷‍♂️

@joshua Yeah, I was just wading in a kiddie pool though and brought a snorkel. No titanic tourism for me

Beginning to imbue my spell book with some chosen sigils. Also found this neato Lamy Al-Star tablet stylus

Also slightly surprised to find that the stylus guts appear interchangeable with fountain pen guts, so I can swap over to the body of my old beat up purple Al-Star. Like, compatible parts, who woulda thunk it

FWIW, I've also re-read 50 issues of The Sandman comic on this BOOX Tab Ultra C color e-ink tablet so far and have been enjoyably impressed with the experience. At least half of those were partly read outside on my deck in sunlight, which was one of the main reasons I got this thing

@sindarina I want to say I got it from Two Rivers or Weird Sisters, here in PDX. They're a yarn shop & a book shop sharing space

https://www.tworiversweirdsisters.com/

@montag I liked some of the materials in Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot books - a lot of fungal based stuff in places that starts breaking down by default unless it's kept up, so that buildings self-compost when abandoned. Some other places are literally made of reclaimed trash

@montag that’s true, those books are rather cozy and the conflicts aren’t so materially existential

So I listen to NPR news podcasts, including Up First. There’s a host named A Martinez.

Somehow I missed that. So, for a few weeks now, my pre-coffee brain kept wondering if a large number of folks reporting and being interviewed were Canadian. They were ending their segments saying things like “thanks, eh?” and “back to you, eh?” and “sure thing, eh?”

https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2021/09/20/1038900359/faces-of-npr-a-martinez

@yerald same here! I listen in the shower, while brushing teeth, etc. I’m not exactly at my mental best heh

I was really confused when he was talking to Dan Karpenchuk, who is Canadian but who I’ve never heard say “eh”

https://www.wbfo.org/people/dan-karpenchuk

Sudden random project idea: a little static site generator that ingests an account export from Mastodon and outputs a static site of all the toots. Search indexing via Pagefind, could be hosted on github pages or s3 or whatever. Could accept incremental ongoing public updates by polling an outbox endpoint URL

@yerald so far, the boox neoreader installed out of the box has been entirely acceptable for comics and papers in PDF format. I haven’t tried things like novels yet, since i also have a Kindle Paperwhite for that

@yerald yeah, to be honest, it’s not a silky smooth experience on the device. But, that’s mainly e-ink and partly so-so quality Boox software. Still, for writing & reading and being grass-adjacent in sunlight, I’m enjoying it a ton.

Oh and i also have the keyboard case, which is not perfect but i have productively used to write creative exercises and blog posts for work. The e-ink refresh can be tuned to be satisfyingly fast enough (to me) for typing

Maybe we can all agree on good public healthcare for all and subsidized privately-manufactured lowest-bidder submarines for billionaires?

I think I'm having a lot of friction with a few folks at work who see project management as an exercise in politics & persuasion, versus me who's trying to approach it as an exercise in capacity & timing.

Lots of circular conversations where I feel like I'm fending off repeated social engineering attempts to somehow hack me into changing my assessment of how much work can get done in limited time by a group of humans.

This is very unpleasant.

I'm not the most assertive, confident, self-assured person in the first place.

So, having to repeatedly make confident assertions about the same things really feels like gaslighting me into doubting my own competence at judging anything.

Why else would they keep apparently distrusting & disbelieving my answers? (well, because they don't like the answers, that's why)

@antijingoist I also feel like I'm a bit of a soft target. If you work me over long enough, I'll probably budge. I also know that, so I also try to duck out of and avoid meetings where I'm bound to be worked over. But, that can't always happen

@Macross @TheDarkHorse It's time for two-hundred-and-fourty-dollars worth of puddin'

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrx6we

@cmdr_nova holy crap, that sounds brutal

Got me a bluesky account now (thanks @zoomar !)

With the domain-as-ID thing, it looks like the fediverse with all the fun instance names except now individual people are called things like "ponyshow.gay" and "my-old-twitter-handle.com"

@squeevening they knew what they were doing when they wrote that dialogue

Unusual bean configuration detected

The thing I love about new small social networks is when all they talk about is the new small social network

(same goes for old small social networks that a bunch of folks think are new)

((i am also subtooting myself))

Oh yeah also, I am lmorchard.com on bsky, if any fedi-traitors are two-timing it over there too

It is unlikely I will be a good poster over there, though, but we will see.

@dave0 I think I need to find an allen wrench

@dave0 I think we accidentally threw the one he came with along with the packaging :blobsadleft:​

@TheDarkHorse i'd say stop trying to make fetch happen except i make fetch happen all the time on mastodon

@majorlinux Thank you for your service

@majorlinux And I'm not even joking :)