Today has big “I just want to rot, but there’s work to be done!” energy.

Always find the bookstores

I feel like being able to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines is yet another small victory the Biden administration (or at least executive state under Biden) can claim. They keep tearing down these little nuisances, even if they’ll never get credit. This is the good government I want.

Anyone got great coffee and/or food recommendations in Charleston, SC?

The most troubling fact in American Politics is that Trump is still in this, with at least even odds.

I’ve started to fantasize about deleting LinkedIn, but I’ll need to get hired again some day.

Every time I love an Existential Comics I want to send it to Jess even though she hates them. This time, it’s about “who is the real nerd?”

New Tele day

Are we friends or do we just share trauma?

So tonight Elsa played three Sabrina Carpenter songs on YouTube. Of course, I had heard 15 seconds of each in countless short videos on Instagram.

I was struck by how uninteresting the entire rest of the songs were (but how gorgeous the videos are). I don’t ever remember pop music, admittedly not my thing, being barely songs. Those small clips I have heard a thousand times are absolute bangers, but everything else is boring, bland, and straightforward. Maybe Rick Beato isn’t just cranky.

I guess pop music really has changed because of TikTok.

I look at LinkedIn like once every 2 weeks and write nothing. I don’t blog or microblog anywhere about work or what I’m doing professionally. The great conscious uncoupling of my identity is well afoot.

Hopefully this just leads to better mental heath and no professional consequences of note.

Elsa: let’s go for a walk this morning!

The walk: 5 minutes to Chuck’s Trading Post for breakfast.

≈36 min set is complete, with another song pretty close. Time to book shows.

The current set list for Ancestral Worm is:

1. Global Worming
2. Italiano
3. Cake Day
4. Tekoi
5. 93 Decades

Optional: Everybody Blast Now

The one chore I absolutely have to do today is change the strings on my main electric. I hate doing it so much, but I’m playing enough now that I can’t really go longer than 4-6 weeks.

Back in 2011 I wrote about how I thought the social web should work. This isn’t what I’d describe as my ideal social web anymore, but I wish someone had taken a shot at this.

Technical debt: when all of the senior members of your team begin to grumble about the same part of the code base and/or circling introducing the same new abstraction/refactor from different angles to solve different problems.

Twitter is just a platform of bots training other bots. I can’t remember what book it was, but it reminds me of an SF book I read about a whole portion of Mars being given to the robots because they’ve been adversarially evolving for decades and it’s incredibly dangerous to enter it…

Another day, another HDCP issue.

I’m begging you Amazon, please stop with this war on buttons. Hardware page turn buttons are non-optional.

I’m going to end up buying a Kobo Sage aren’t I? And converting hundreds of Kindle books.

I confirmed today that I have some issues with my rotator cuff, which is what has kept me off the volleyball court almost entirely since May. I’ll need an MRI and to start physical therapy, and hopefully that’ll lead to a full recovery.

Somehow I just showed Elsa Johnny Cash’s - Hurt video for the first time and I feel like I have failed in some deep way.

Shrinking is continuing its streak of dumping straight joy into my soul.

I just learned about the Fender Meteora and… oh wow. I thought I’d be getting a Tele next for sure… but…