GMail browser window with Chat selected, showing a chat request from Google Drive which says, "Welcome to the Google Drive app!"

Google Drive initiated a chat with me in Google Mail, to welcome me to the Google Drive App.

I have no idea what I did to trigger this, and I don't like it.

Oh, my. We lived through my mother's Alzheimer's progression for several years, she moved in with us for the final years of her life.

Solidarity, I'm so sorry for him and for y'all.

Oh NOES

They got all the way to a production prototype... then cancelled it and destroyed all of the prototypes.

Instead, they built big gasoline trucks for the next couple decades.

It had a magnetic inductance charging paddle which was very slick but fairly low current, and no charging network. Charge at home.

But it was so, so early. Incredibly, astonishingly ahead. Breathtakingly so.

I remember seeing the GM Impact while studying engineering, in about 1991. It was amazing. Primitive compared to today, lead-acid batteries and no cellular connectivity.

They brought it to the University of Michigan, parked it in an building lobby on the engineering campus and gave presentations.

I ate the last of the Macadamia nuts in the house.
They should not go to waste.

I believe you are supposed to wave it over your head in a threatening manner, whilst glowering. Canonically, it is stored in Hammerspace between such incidents.

Recommendations welcome.

We'll spend at least one day in Kitchener to take a tour of the University of Waterloo.

We'll probably take a day trip to Niagara Falls, the kids haven't seen any big waterfalls.

Ok, spur of the moment decision: we're looking to spend 1-2 weeks in Toronto, in July.

Hope I haven't waited too long to be able to book stuff.

I am a grown-ass adult and if I decide that I want to eat an entire container of ice cream then I totally can.

I'm sure this will fix me.

I would prefer to pay someone to fight the dragon for me. I wish to hire Swordfighters-as-a-Service.

Oh.

Oh no.

Sent off the Thingy I've been working on for a few weeks.
Now we wait.

"necrotising monkey smeg" really takes it to the next level, honored to witness a virtuoso at work.

May I humbly suggest:

I discarded that draft.

You know the one. The one which would be so satisfying the instant you push send, and then be immediately regretted.

I discarded it. Gone. Sent screaming into the void, where it will cause no drama.

Oooh, I have one of those two, though the screen got damaged and it has this black inky blotch along one side.

Also a Newton MP120. And an HP95LX DOS palmtop. And a spinning hard disk iPod. And a Palm Pilot.

I honestly miss some of those. The Palm Pilot with Graffiti was amazing.

That looks amazing.

We still go over to Fremont occasionally (eldest sprog is in college and comes to visit via Amtrak, we pick them up over there). We'll pencil in a visit to the Crab Shack, thank you!

Hmmm. We lived in Fremont for ~20 years but somehow never went there that I recall.

We live just across the Dumbarton now, and lobster rolls do sound good...

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

They have not said.

"In my opinion fake news has done more harm to our Country than Biden and his perverted cabinet did. They have democrats believing so many lies about Trump that they are full of hate and are so blind to any truth !"

Ignoring the projection: they are still watching a source other than Fox News.

More today: "Has the fake news media lied so much for so long they believe their own lies to be true ?"

Post from Tennessee family: "I have been watching Network News the last week and I can see why democrats who have been watching such crap for years are so ignorant and stupid !"

Ignoring the projection: they decided to watch a source other than Fox News, which is extraordinary.

Usually Superb Owl Sunday is a good day for shopping and going out to eat, because so many people really seem to enjoy watching that Owl on tv.

This year though, the event is in a town a few miles from us. I'm not sure what to expect in terms of traffic and how crowded things will be.

T-Mobile advertisement: "let's be friends with lots of benefits."

Eww.

Absolute morons.

Searching for "tiktok toilet 2am" was a mistake.
Cannot. Unsee.

Yet still didn't find this video.

What on earth is that?