I am cleared to give volleyball 🏐 another shot after a few months of PT. Because of work travel and life, it’ll probably be a couple more weeks, but I’m hopeful things might be working well enough to return to sport.

Sometimes, I read the comments, and it’s worth it. Like this bit of gold:

How Nintendo will leverage that functionality, who could honestly say, but that’s the genius of keeping a toy company mindset in an industry full of sports car company mindsets.

I’ve had like three long blog posts half done that I just can’t get the energy to finish. And I feel bad I haven’t been commenting much lately. The energy going into inauguration is bad.

Skeleton Crew does an amazing job at following the absolute best genre— kids being brave heroes while the adults are either evil or kind of hapless because they’re hindered by rules and expectations. This is the fun, uplifting, action-adventure I adored as a child.

Also, give me an At Attin hover bike ride at Disney immediately.

Ernst is a fucking coward, and it’s insane that it even matters that she is. It’s insane that a woman who is a combat vet has to be held up as the singular roadblock to someone who is not just deeply unqualified to lead defense, but who is also a despicable, disgrace of a human being.

Ideas are frictional, factional entities which wilt when pinned to flowcharts. Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions.

— Kaliane Bradley, p110, The Ministry of Time

Gaiman was a hero of mine, but who he turned out to be is horribly distressing.

I can’t believe how far some of my friends came to watch our first show, which was meant to be a low stakes thing away from home. It was a blast to be on stage again after almost 20 years. I should have asked to have vocals and keys in the monitor up front, but oh well. Also, my old Dunlop pedal tuner is a piece of shit that was tracking terrible so I was not able to correct some tuning issues probably only I noticed.

Very successful first run out.

I really dislike how some apps just don’t make it across the ecosystem. Why can’t I view my Health data easily on my Mac?

My band has its first show tonight. It’s been almost exactly 20 years since I was last on a stage with my guitar.

I have the most ridiculous and excellent friends.

This is a Naomi Wolf-esque desire to be worshiped by someone, anyone. And if the people you originally aligned with are always pushing you to be better by challenging you, fuck them, you’ll align with the crooks and conmen and sociopaths.

– danah boyd The Ministry of Empowerment

I am not out in the world working so much. Today, I met up with a few folks locally at a food hall to co-work. I’ve been on and off Zoom meetings all day, writing code, doing my job, and after 7 hours of work I still have 29% battery life. Apple laptops are really incredible.

I guess I’m supposed to be proud or something that I’m doing my civic duty, but I couldn’t be less excited about jury duty tomorrow.

I don’t really think it makes sense to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power as upholding democracy. Upholding democracy required Trump’s impeachment four years ago. Without our mechanisms of accountability, the system has already fallen.

I am devastated that so much of the progress that has been made during my life time we’re now reversing. I can’t believe how much more cruel America is than it was ten years ago.

I put back on S2E1 of Shrinking to watch with a friend and I forgot just how far things progressed this season. Makes me even more convinced it was an all timer.

I haven’t seen a personal website that really inspired me in a little while. Share your favorites!

I realized this morning that our new home EV charger had a little WiFi symbol on it. It doesn’t feel crazy to add that as a new device, even though my car app can tell me about charging state it’s kind of slow.

So I registered and added my charger, and now I’m getting 3x faster charging at home.

Turns out, you need to configure the amperage of the circuit for the charger to take advantage of it. Because I did things properly and spent far too much money to have an electrician install the charger on a dedicated circuit to spec, this made a huge difference.

I was moderately happy with the previous charging speed– I could go from 20% to 90% in about 12 hours. I’m ecstatic with the new rate, which will let me more properly take advantage of cheap electric rate timings to keep costs low.

Overall, I have to charge so infrequently it’s not that big a deal.

It’s the end/beginning of the year, so there’s been a lot of “cleaning out” and “cleaning up” going on in my life. The crap is never ending though. Today, I’m seriously considering declaring bankruptcy on podcasts.

So my friend has basically convinced me that I either want to go very basic and get a Bambu Lab A1 mini and see if I like it, or go all the way and get a Prusa CORE One. Decisions. 💸

I just put on a Vision Pro for the first time, and even with every conversation I’ve heard about it, I came away pretty impressed.

I am not ok with how fucking cold it feels outside right now.

This Elephant Gym performance on KEXP is so great.