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Call me suspicious, but I bet that’s not my real year end bonus notification.

Screenshot of an email from "strauser HR Support Desk/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP [...]", titled "Important: strauser End-of-Year Compensation", to me, with an attachment named "strauser_Year_End_Bonus_Form_[...].pdf". Zooming in on the sender's info show it was sent by "anthony@boobie-brands.com".

My wife and I have been spending a lot of time with the new version of “Animal Crossing”. As it was during COVID, it may again be nearly the perfect respite from a challenging outside world.

It’s been a long time since I’ve worn a watch that didn’t involve electricity.

Closeup of someone wearing a Seiko SSK003 watch. The sun is shining on its face and reflecting the deep blue of the bezel.The same watch in a very dark room. Its hands and markings are glowing almost radioactively, brightly enough to read the numbers near them.

When I say there are a lot of self-driving Waymo cars near my work…

Photo of cars on a street moving toward a traffic light. There are 5 white self-driving Waymo taxis, a red car who wandered in, then another Waymo.

Google Cloud emailed me a reminder that they’re about to make breaking changes in permissions that will cause currently working things to stop working.

“Remind” is begging the question by implying that I was ever minded in the first place.

But really, if you use GCP, check your email.

I realized that my entire career seems to be built on saying, “huh, that can’t be right…”

I just got an email from AWS support asking for some data, saying, and this is a copy-and-paste quote, “You can provide this information by replying to this message.”

I replied to it.

A minute later I got an error message. Only then did I notice that they’d sent the first email from no-reply-aws@amazon.com, and that “replying to this message” was guaranteed to bounce.

They get me every time.

With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky behind them, the San Francisco skyline almost looked like a render.

San Francisco from street level, looking up at tall buildings (including the Salesforce tower). The buildings are blue and shiny. The background is pastel pink. A low wall in the foreground is covered with graffiti.