Friday is the big ove, but my goal is to get my home office in a workable state by tonight so I can work from the new house starting tomorrow. I’m 80% there but need to finish my desk setup and some networking problems.
Fuck Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox and anyone else involved in the cruel way they canceled valid grants and harmed many researchers and their families (including mine).
What happened to all the money that was supposed to go to those grants?
And it’s making tech so expensive. This was going to be the year I built a PC with my son to teach him how a computer works. Not going to happen with these prices. We will tear apart my 12 year old dell Desktop machine and he can learn from that I guess.
I don’t use these, probably out of spite. I feel like we are being forced to use AI in everything, particularly at my work where they’re making me take some training for AI.
I don’t like it. I don’t trust that if I was using it for some big task the answers won’t include made up crap.
I just about lost it in the car tonight when I opened the app for my grocery store to double check that it would still be open when it told me to check out its new AI assistant.
I’m sure somebody worked really hard to add this feature nobody outside of some executive wanted, but I’m sick of it.
Happy year of the horse! I’m looking forward to displaying my Year of the horse Optimus Prime when I have a place to display things again.
Yeah, Rochester area.
Yeah, last summer. My wife got a job here. It’s really nice, reminds me of Madison in a lot of ways.
I will also say that it is nice that I was able to buy a replacement DC-in jack from Dell for this 6 year old laptop. $10 and it works again. I’ll probably need to buy a new battery too, that’s going to be another $100.
I’ve been playing with different Linux distros on my old laptop. I’ve been enjoying Bazzite for the game support, but I want to try and see if I can use this for more day to day stuff. Installing ZorinOS now, then I might try more traditional distros like Mint.
Thanks. I’m sure I’ll post more about it once we get in it, but it’s got a lot of things on my “want” list like Ethernet pulled to multiple rooms. My wife is going to hate me with the tech stuff. LOL
Don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but I have to post about it somewhere. We are now under contract on a house and hope to close mid-March. Lots of stuff to do, but we are so excited and happy it’s happened so fast.
Always respect the parking chair. I just learned that it’s not just a Pittsburgh thing. Chicago does it too and calls it “dibs.”
Comic by @nathanwpyle.bsky.social
Welp, finally got off my butt this week and began the process to find a house here in NY. The inventory isn’t very high where we want to live, but we have a few months before our apartment lease is up. Crossing fingers that we find something and the process isn’t too frustrating.
So if when talking about the new NFL helmet Transformers and wanting to get one, and my wife casually says I should get them all, she’s not able to get upset that I now have all four, right?
We were 20 seconds early. Not bad. Happy 2026 people!
Found out that my 97 year old grandmother passed away in her sleep earlier tonight. We were expecting it, but didn’t know how soon it would be.
I’m glad 2025 will soon be over. Hope 2026 is going to be better for everyone than 2025 was.
Similar vibes. Happy new year Derek!
This year instead of Star Wars, the kiddo wanted to time Back To The Future with midnight. We started it at 10:19 and lightning should hit the clock tower at midnight. We will see.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. This is a recent picture I took of a fox that came within 10 feet of us on a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park near Alberta Falls.
The photo was taken with my Nikon Z50 and touched up with Lightroom on my phone.
I haven’t had this much fun watching a Memphis Tigers football team in years. Our last few teams have been great, but this team is just so good and does not let up on the gas. We need to run up scores like this and make it clear that we are the best team in the American. #gotigersgo
When I see someone BS about something I know well, how much other stuff are they lying about? Probably a lot. I agree with @scottniswander.bsky.social, Ben probably didn’t watch the movie, or at least didn’t understand anything that wasn’t spelled out explicitly in the movie.
Watching @scottniswander.bsky.social destroy Ben Shapiro’s Superman review on a purely factual, comic history basis was something I needed today.
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I like a lot of Tom King stuff but still don’t forgive him for Heroes in Crisis.
Most of mine are spam. I need to declare inbox bankruptcy and just mark all as read, then start fresh.
I’ve been trying to use the Microsoft To Do app more to stay on top of things. It has pretty good integration between with my calendars too.
Inbox 999+
My Outlook Mobile app has given up.
Early Alt Mode this week because @yakk0.org isn’t used to not working last minute! Enjoy our talk about the @skybound.bsky.social Transformers Kickstarter! www.transmissionspodcast.com/2025/04/alt-...
The other day my wife looked at the pond in the park nearby and exclaimed “why are the Canadian geese still here?!?”
Without missing a beat I responded “tariffs.”
It took a few seconds for her to recover from the amazing response. Or she was trying to recover from a groan. Either way it’s a win.
Tried the new @plex.tv mobile app yesterday and immediately forced quit on it. What the hell is that? It's too busy. Too many steps to get to my stuff. The old app wasn't perfect, but it was usable.
I didn’t have a lot at home. School we had some, but really it wasn’t until I was working that we really did pranks. I still love the easy and harmless post-it under a mouse one.