She's already purchased it!

I sent the link to a friend who does geeky crochet. It's right in her wheelhouse.

Ran into one of my old college buddies today

dude was one of the most cracked devs I knew. like reverse engineer a os from binary cracked

found out she transitioned.

I asked her why, and this hit me like a ton of bricks,

"kiran, a computer contains no techbros, but millions of trans sisters"

I expect we'll will. We've really been enjoying this show.

We've been waiting for this new season and plan to start in on it this evening.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

how will dukat make bajor pay to build a subspace graviton field

TACO Tuesday

Award-winning science fiction author Joe Haldeman is coming to Soonercon 34!

An Oklahoma native, Joe has won five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards and the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award in 2010.

Learn more about Joe and purchase your memberships: https://soonercon.com/guests/joe-haldeman

May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.

And yeah, the soldering isn't the greatest, but I the sense of accomplishment is!

Now that my infusions are three instead of two weeks apart, I now get a week or so where the brain fog isn't so bad. I felt like starting a project today. This will be a desk companion. Waiting on more parts before I continue, but I'm happy this worked!

Alt text: A white mini breadboard with a XAIO ESP32-C3, a small OLED display, and wires connecting everything up. The display is showing animated faces.

I had the soldering iron out today. Be afraid.

It's a good thing I'm getting a 600% discount on my chemo drugs.

(/dripping sarcasm)

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

What a fucking shot holy shit

And seniors. We've paid into Medicare all our working lives. We're paying premiums now. It's not "free stuff."

(To be clear, I'm for Medicaid as well.)

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people."

(Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

Adult. So pissed off I couldn't even type.

Because their bombs are more important than my cancer.

Because their bombs are more important than a sick working adule.

Because their bombs are more important than a sick child.

Just saw that and really enjoyed it. I'd like to see it again, but may wait a few months until Chemo Brain dissipates.

I thought about seeing the new WUTHERING HEIGHTS movie, but after reading some reviews I decided it was abridgment too far.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.

(Since there's no way to post alt text: An antique post card with a drawing of a calico cat sitting against an ivory satin pillow on a bed with the phrase "A Happy Birthday" in gold over an ivory satin diamond. The diamond is outlined with silver glitter.)

New in the Nostalgia Section... Ah, much to do today!...

An actual web site update that isn't related to my health!

www.barrettmanor.com/julie/archiv...

But he says disabled people can vote by mail. He has bone spurs, after all.

(/dripping sarcasm)

I feel your pain.

Picture of Glinda, the good witch, from The Wizard of Oz, wearing a huge sparkling pink dress with a hoop skirt bottom. The picture is captioned, "Dress for the job you want they say. Me arriving at work".