2024-06-02

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 06:06

Cats have gotten comfortable enough in the new place to start checking the acoustics in each room.

Which – yay but can you wait a bit? It’s 6am, I’m still working on first coffee, and the reasonable people are trying to finish sleeping.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 06:39

The least they could do is come downstairs to do their yodeling practice, but no. The cats are still uncertain about ceiling fans, so they’re sticking to upstairs. Right outside the bedroom.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 08:36

Never change, Amazon.

EDIT for context: We just moved.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 13:12

(sees a bird)

(tries to look it up)

“bouffant desert pigeon”

hm no results

Oh wait no I remember: quail!

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 13:31

Bouncy Dog needs to pee at 1:30pm and 97F, refuses to acknowledge the indoor pee pad.

So on goes the SPF 50 and on goes the five minute timer.

Make it fast, kid.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 13:33

More about the time than the temperature. Sun’s aiming right for you at this time of day.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 14:52

Nothing says “you’re not living in the Pacific Northwest anymore” quite like getting an excessive heat warning for Thursday. In Juneuary? How weird.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 15:07

A little desert #Bloomscrolling for you from this morning

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 15:16

LinkedIn’s network assumptions are such that I can’t browse jobs from my laptop while using my phone as a hotspot.

We should have better Internet within the next couple hours, but LinkedIn will still suck.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 16:22

Settled in enough to fill out the easy job applications and start the reading-up part of following through on some recommendations.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 16:29

Getting sufficiently tired of job posted to the city you’re searching in, and in the details “requires relocation to the other side of the country”

must be willing to relocate to Madison WI

look if I wasn’t willing for San Francisco, it ain’t happening for Madison. Sorry. Reported post as broken or incorrect.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 16:51

Yay, proper Internet!

Now I just need my monitor, desk, and security blanket PC tower.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 16:59

Cable guy talking about local weather: “It’s only hot like three months–” (pause to reflect) “It’s only really hot like three months of the year.”

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 17:06

It’s not a direct match, but sufficiently similar speech qualities and tangents that the five minute conversation felt like getting the newcomer intro to Tucson from Michael Peña.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX9fBrZtMLs

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 17:27

And with my contributions it was basically a conversation consisting entirely of tangents that still managed to communicate the relevant details amidst the restaurant recommendations, mountain view, weather contrast with Seattle Juneuary, shared preference for Cat 6, geological tidbits and travel suggestions regarding local mountains with comparison to the Sierra Nevadas, wardrobe habits (he wears a long-sleeved shirt and shirts the whole year through though when it’s cold he might put on an undershirt but always the long sleeve to protect from the sun), etc

I think any neurotypical witnesses would have considered the conversation a psychic assault.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 18:17

The Living and The Dead is maybe my favorite graphic novel ever, so I clicked play the second I saw this.

Elegant Simplicity For Humans (Select Work Of Jason) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 19:33

You haven’t lived until you’ve successfully sliced a pizza with a plastic picnic knife.

Or maybe you have. I don’t know. I’m not your coroner.

hackers.town: 2024-06-02 Sun 19:43

Looking at how folks set themselves up on Fiverr and how many of them use terrible AI-generated header images and I have my own hand-drawn terrible images I could use tyvm