In case you wondered if kids ever get cheaper, this just happened:
Kid: Hey Dad, uh, can you pay my tuition?
Me: When’s it due?
Kid: sheepish grin, looks at wristwatch
We’re watching the Netflix “Senna” series, which is fun to see, and in which you learn that he was a flawless, dedicated, morally perfect saint surrounded by wonderful supportive people, except for the other drivers.
Word of the day: hagiography.
Currently reading: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 📚
Our living room smart lights had been turning themselves on randomly for the last few weeks. There were no automations triggering this. Not even motion sensors in the same room! And yet, I’d stand up and the lights came on.
Today I learned the new Nanoleaf switch has a motion sensor built in.
Finished reading: The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran 📚
Me: Use the open sriracha before you open a new bottle.
Kid: OK! opens the new bottle
Me: Why did you open that?
Kid: I couldn’t find the other one.
This is literally where I found the old bottle when I opened the refrigerator.
I just released Frozen BBS v1.3.0. It has a boatload of backend improvements, not all backward compatible. I think this will be the last change this large. It now has all the base infrastructure I’d imagined from the start. Future releases should be more incremental.
It happened! It happened! Berkeley Mono v2 is here! It’s a Christmas miracle!
This year’s winner of the “Most Random Present” award: my buddy who gave me a set of throwing axes and some night vision goggles. I’m still not entirely sure how this all goes together.
My kid wanted to watch Airplane! tonight. This is the best, goofiest movie ever. I could watch it 1,000 times.