@colingourlay the bad guys only know now that

A. You ordered a very expensive alienware computer
B. Where the very expensive alienware computer was delivered to

@GreenSkyOverMe .. *PUNY CODE*..

Eclipse totality done.

I think what I found coolest or perhaps disconcerting was how dark it got... but unlike at sunrise or dusk there were no shadows. Like the streetlights came on but there's no *shadows*.

"Is that Aloo Matar?" asks a coworker. "Looks good."

Thanks I say. Its one of my GF's favourite recipes and I like making it for her (I do all the cooking).

`<coworker eyes me picking all the potatoes out>`

What?

"Its called Aloo Matar. 'Potato Peas', literally."

I don't like potato!

"Then why do yo make it?"

And make two of everything? fuck that shit. You do all the cooking then.

Aaand its bedtime. Just binged e1-5 of #Netflix's #3body #ThreeBodyProblem. Quite excellent. No spoilers but:

- waay better screenwriting than the Tencent adaptation
- teeny bit less faithful to the book
- location shift to the UK doesn't really affect much
- does a better job at the time jumps
- moves a LOT brisker
- trimmed out some stuff that I don't find are missed
- the hard concepts are explained really well
- the cool bits are HECKA GOOD (yay Netflix budget)
- casting is *excellent*.

One of the leaders of the Truck Idiot #Convoy is speaking right now, on the 2 yr anniversary of the Great Canadian Idiot Parade err I mean the invocation of the Emergencies Act in #Ottawa #Canada.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/freedom-convoy-members-returning-to-ottawa-two-years-after-demonstrations-ended-1.6771925

It/he/they are a hot mess. Rambling. Incoherent rhetoric. The government conspiracy blah blah. Unfair oppression of a province (Alberta, oil).

Mike, from Canmore, was a better communicator.

"I truly believe that Canada has never been in a more economic bad condition than it is now."

"Good governance has left this government. No ethics. No accountability. Secrets. Secrets are repugnant. No accountability."

So... thats why the proceedings of both EA tribunals were held behind closed OH WAIT THEY WEREN'T.

"Our PM wants to turn climate change action into a health issue, where's the science behind that?"

holy fuck.

I read Liu Cixin’s #TheThreeBodyProblem trilogy back to back when I first heard about them maybe 5-6 years ago. Excellent novels.

Then I was excited to hear the duo behind #HBO's #GameofThrones, Denioff and Weiss were adapting it for #Netflix. *THEN* I hear that #Tencent already adapted it in #Chinese, and it aired last year!

While I couldn't find it at the time (sorry, so I torrented it), its showing up on streaming platform #Peacock.. tomorrow?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/24067865/peacock-three-body-problem-stream-date-trailer

@jeffowski yeah but if I don't park over half the sidewalk/walkway Ill stick too far out into the street/asile and someone might ding my $90k penis compensator.

/s

*suddenly people weren't getting as sick in the winter? Yeah.*
*I'd keep an eye on things; we might be prudent to roll back to WFH thing if things get worse. *To which they smiled in that way executives do when they want to acknowledge they heard you but they ain't gonna listen to you* *and said *maybe we will*.

Seriously, I should run this place.

There's always lighting the place on fire I suppose.

*something something stapler mumble.*

3/

After a pause* *I said *Heck, I don't know where any of you have been or who you've been licking over the holidays* which got a laugh, but then I followed up with *No seriously; all the markers are trending upward again in fact they're approaching the bad times from the start of 2022. And, you know, cold and flue season. Remember 10 yrs ago with sars or bird flu N1 whatever and we put hand sanitizer in the bathrooms and conference rooms and*

2/

Over the holidays VLGF and I looked at dismay at our local and #provincial #covid monitoring results (#wastewater, hospitalizations, new cases etc) and decided that when we went back in public, or to work, we'd be #masking.

My first day back on Tuesday I ran into the COO and CEO (med. size company) in the breakroom, me sporting my mask, and they asked *why the mask Spruce?*

1/

Bad code smell #27: when your app updates itself everyday for more than two days in a row, thats a sign that you're

- rushing updates into production
- not #testing properly
- not #coding properly

All signs of a development team being forced to move too fast and break things. Tech bro CEOs think that's cool, but I think its fucking dumb.

#Facebook #messenger I'm looking at you.

Historeddit. Everyday a random comment from my now dormant Reddit account.

`If 2020 was a meal what would it consist of?`
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hovm7u/if_2020_was_a_meal_what_would_it_consist_of/fxkasfw/

*Its too early to tell what Dessert is, but I suspect Kurtwood Smith comes out of the kitchen, stands at the table with arms on hips going "You want dessert?", he kicks the table over, pours brandy all over you and sets it on fire and says "there's your dessert. Fuck you."*

Well, after the usual morning emails, dumpster fire putting-out, filing and collating, time to get to work.

<launch <priorietary system> client>

`Downloading 150k of 3.5 GB update........ ETA: 12:30pm`

*fck.*

@BobHorowitz here ya go

Wut? #Metaverse #game #development with #blockchain? Oh god no. Why i beleive id rather stab myself in the face with a large fork.

Micheal Whelan has created the cover art for some of the most notable/acclaimed science fiction and fantasy works ever made. If you don't follow him on on Mastodon you should... every few days he tells the story of one of his works including inspiration, false starts and preliminary drafts!

@MichaelWhelan

Today's is Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth. I read this in *high school* holy shit.

https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/111562391952852142

Ok #xkcd is doing video adaptations of their #whatif series and that is OK FINE by me.

https://www.youtube.com/@xkcd_whatif