My Animal Crossing island tune is the intro to Depeche Mode’s “Black Celebration”.

I’VE HEARD that you can load your Flipper Zero up with Amiibo so that you can invite any visitor you want to your Animal Crossing island.

You should not do this, because you would not download a car.

After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny : NPR

Just then, a young man approached her. He was wearing a furry lavender bunny suit and riding an electric unicycle.

“Are you OK? Can I help you?” she recalled the young man asking.

“Stunned by the impact, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, when you die in San Francisco, you’re greeted by a spirit animal,’” Moschella said.

This is my favorite place on earth.

Sam and Dean are growing up, and they’re still best friends.

An orange and white kitty and a black and white kitty are laying on the back of a couch. They’re facing toward each other and resting their paws together. They’re both fuzzy with long whiskers and ear hair.

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…”