Notices by Sean Heber (bigzaphod@mastodon.social), page 4

As I feared, something of course has gone wrong with the install - the big fan unit that sits where the old furnace used to sit (I forgot the official name for it) requires 240v to run the circulating fan. They knew they wouldn't be able to connect the backup heat strips today due to lack of power/box space, but everyone was assuming the main fan ran on 120 but apparently the unit that they spent the whole day installing turns out to require 240 for the fan, too, and so now we have a problem.

Why do these construction people like to get up so early?!

Okay, so they are sending someone at the butt crack of dawn again tomorrow (7:30) to do whatever hack it takes to get cooling to work since there's already heat advisories being issued for this coming weekend and they (and us) are concerned about that so they want to make it right.

Once the electrical box is upgraded later by the solar people (or whoever ends up doing it), they'll come back and make sure the heat strip stuff is all connected and setup properly before winter comes.

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Office Space (1999)." This is the first documentary we'll have watched for movie night.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is the only good cop show.

Time to catch up on Doctor Who season whatever.

I’m re-reading The Expanse books and there’s never been a TV series that was so perfectly cast to fit the source material, I swear. I cannot hear any other voices in my head than the actors that were on the show. Just perfect performances by all involved.

Comedies are tricky, but this looks good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N8IIq_8I

Crap. I cracked my phone screen. Dropped it on tile. I never use a case - this is the FIRST TIME that I've ever cracked a screen and I've had an iPhone since the original one.

It's not a bad crack - just a line across the bottom right corner radius. I think probably only cracked the top layer? It seems to be still in there pretty firmly. Can hardly even see it.

Still though. Annoying. I'm still rocking an iPhone 14 Pro and feel no need to upgrade. BUT NOW IT HAS A CRACK... so now I'm not sure.

It's been about a month since Tapestry 1.0 was released and we're up to version 1.0.3 now and working on 1.1.

Time flies when you're shippin' updates: https://usetapestry.com/history

#TapestryApp

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 was chaotic fun. Jim Carrey easily stole the show - I swear he was born to play Doctor Robotnik. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of references or callbacks to the previous two movies and/or Sonic lore from cartoons and whatnot but since we can't remember the other movies and know basically zero lore, they all went totally over our heads. I definitely enjoyed the gag about blowing on the USB stick the same way we used to blow on video game cartridges back in the day. lol

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (2024)." I remember enjoying the first two movies, but that's all I remember about them. Oh, and Jim Carrey. That's good enough for me.

We watched @TechConnectify's video (https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA?si=66Ta4COQo1wMhFCo) tonight with the kids and spent an hour talking about it with them afterward - longer than the video itself! I think it's important to discuss this sort of stuff with them. Their world is going to be a lot different than ours was.

Baahubali: The Beginning is amazing. It's so over the top and ridiculous while being totally engrossing. It's like a video game cutscene come to life. The whole thing. It's like watching a dream of a comic book. Part Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, part 300, part low budget early 2000s straight to home video fantasy adventure, part big budget summer blockbuster, part Lord of the Rings.

I don't really know how to describe this movie. It's great. I mean, how could you not love a scene like this?

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)." This is something new and different for us - we've not tried any Indian movies before. I ran across some clips of this (and its sequel) online and it looked like a totally over the top action movie kind of vibe with some terrifically good reviews so we're all looking forward to some action fun. It's a long one, though - nearly 3 hours!

Happy Iconfactory Tapestry release day! https://usetapestry.com

#TapestryApp

So... I mean, if they're not gonna follow the rules, why should any of us pay taxes?

Lots of people angry at Zuck about the fact checker thing but I haven't EVER seen anyone impressed with their prior fact checking so, like... is this even gonna change anything?

Tonight’s movie night movie will be, “The Wild Robot (2024).” The trailers look absolutely stunning and give me serious Iron Giant vibes. Looking forward to it!

2025 is gonna be an odd year.