I’m standing in the office kitchen, slowly munching a snack donut and watching traffic. A big delivery truck stops in front of me for a red light. The driver, bored, looks around. He sees me see him. I nod and wave my donut. He laughs and waves. I smile and wave back. He gives me a thumbs up, then drives off.
I love those little moments when you can briefly connect with a perfect stranger and have a fleeting instant of shared humanity.
The Tic Tacs website is nostalgic in many ways:
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
PC: Operative system Microsoft Windows Windows 7/8.1/10. PLUG-IN Adobe Flash Player 9 downloadable from the site
MAC: Operative system Mac Os MacOS 9/10/11. PLUG-IN Flash 9 downloadable from the site
I just wanted to buy some Dr Pepper Tic Tacs, but alas, I don’t have Flash.
Snow on Mt. Diablo, as seen from Brentwood.
The scariest people I know are also the kindest and most generous. They don’t have anything to prove or anyone to impress. Their self confidence lets them be open and inviting.
If you find yourself talking to a friendly, outgoing person at a biker bar or security conference, don’t mess with them.
Transit pup.
We’re having an honest-to-god thunderstorm in San Francisco! I’ve missed this so much.
I’ve gotten tired of struggling against Entware on my Synology NAS (and darned if I’m using its Chinese mirrors), so today I’m using synology-nix-installer to switch to Nix. This has been a learning experience.
My new Seiko watch with an 4R34 movement loses about 2 seconds per day. I’m pleased with that, especially for a mechanical watch.
It’s not possible to get the iOS Clock app to show you the current time’s seconds, except by looking at its animated icon, or adding a clock widget to your phone’s screen. Inside the app? No. No, you can’t see the exact time in seconds. That’s not something regular users want to do, or something.
Dress code in the Bay Area means wearing jeans and an OCBD shirt and having coworkers repeatedly ask why you’re wearing fancy clothes.
