It’s time to view the samizdat, the Entertainment.
Since Ben Surtees sold his Bartender 5 app to some (IMO) shifty company without telling his users, I’ve deleted it from my Macs and installed Ice. It’s not yet as nice as Bartender, but it’s open source and does 95% of what I wanted.
The conference has little rubber duckies all over the place to play with.
My boss was right: having an unusual job title is an excellent icebreaker.
A dozen times today someone’s done a double take, then laughed. “What on earth is a Chief Security Alchemist?” “Hah! Well, let me tell ya!”
I’m heading in to staff the booth at a convention. That’s far outside my comfort zone, so when my boss asked me, I immediately said yes to commit myself to doing something new.
This has traditionally worked out well for me. I highly recommend everyone do this to extent they can.
There are more people at tonight’s Oakland B’s game than at the average A’s games this year.
John Fisher can bite me.
We’re getting ready to see the first ever home game of the Oakland Ballers. Go B’s!
A friend just pointed out:
ADHD creates impulse control issues and, consequently, advertising takes advantage of a disability. Ergo, ad blockers are assistive devices and interfering with their operation for commercial gain constitutes a willful violation of the ADA.
Let’s do this.
This is what Hell looks like.
My old debit card got compromised last month so I got a new one. The replacement had my name wrong so my credit union sent me a new one. “The numbers will be the same”, they said. “Go ahead and update all your accounts with this one”, they said. “It’ll be fine”, they said.
It was not fine.