I’d happily pay for, or subscribe to, Signal if it had some customizable spam protection. It lacks that, so to cut back on interruptions from political campaigns and companies offering to buy my home (I’M NOT SELLING), I still have to use the default Google messages for incoming SMS.

Usually the discomfort from injections is trivial or nonexistent — but every once in a while it’s painful, or the dose sprays back out as soon as you remove the needle, or it sits there in a weird lump under the skin, or you get a drop of blood you’ve got to clean up so you don’t stain your shirt.

Just generally it’s a…

If I can really block the Kardashians, bodybuilding tips, and memes in Russian with keywords, that would be great. But the “Not Interested” thing seems to have been turned into a placebo years ago.

People said the same thing about recorded music — it would put musicians out of jobs. And that synthesizers would put “real musicians” out of business. And that “home taping is killing music.” I’m sure disparaging things have been said about photography. But all of these have led to (many) new genres and forms and…

Going from “normal” synths (both hardware and software) to modular was a huge eye-opener. It’s like a different universe, and I felt a bit like a beginner all over again for a while. But I found it really inspiring and still do.

I used to collect and (inexpertly) paint miniatures, I am a big Sanderson fan (on my third reread of the Stormlight Archive right now) and I could use a new tactics game... yoink!

I just LibreOffice personally, though we use 365 at work.

Visual Studio subscriptions *are* ghastly though. Every year or two we go through this hassle of getting people certified to qualify for some kind of discount. The test is this ridiculous thing almost completely irrelevant to the sort of development we do on a da…

Well, that describes my childhood.

I honestly don’t understand not enjoying this movie. I think it may still be my favorite Neil Gaiman screen adaptation overall, even including Sandman.  It’s just super charming.

I’ll be disappointed if some astronomer doesn’t name a star Chorizo.

If the tank is 13.5 liters, that’s about 3 gallons. There are relatively few fish in the aquarium hobby that can live healthily in a tank that small. Even if you choose appropriate nano fish or shrimp, a tiny tank is much more difficult to maintain stable water chemistry and requires more frequent cleaning and…

MusicBee has some pretty great library stuff, a variety of layouts, skinning, etc.

(I am not super thrilled by VLC, but since I produce music on my computer, sometimes I just want a lightweight, no-frills player to listen to recordings or samples.)

Winamp has gotten into the NFT game/scam, much to the chagrin of its founder. So I’ll just stick with MusicBee.

“When I was President we had tremendous covid, strong American covid, not this weak liberal covid,” Trump added.  “Re-elect me and I’ll make covid-19 great again!”

The St. Louis area does have a lot of Catholic-sponsored anti-abortion billboards, but it is also far more Democratic than Republican politically. Mayor Tishuara Jones is progressive, Rep. Cori Bush is progressive and very activist. The Republican state government pretty much hates us for that (and also, it’s because…

I agree, I thought I was going to love it for the cat doing cat things, but it’s the scenery that makes the biggest impression. Even the overgrown sewer at the start was gorgeously executed. And I wanted to just hang out in Clementine’s flat for a while.

I also found in some places when you have the Defluxor, you can literally just run in a circle and they will all miss you, every time.  Which was the only way I got through the worst parts of the sewers, *after* unintentionally getting the 9 lives achievement.

The tried and true Facebook formula of “keep making changes even if people don’t really want them.”

Huh, I’m playing on PC with middling hardware, and it’s been a totally smooth ride.

the emotional scene between Will and his brother, Jonathan, was actually not in the original script