Notes

My friend George, whose terms of service I have referred to before, has once again updated them in a very humorous way.

I finally decided to cut off Substack and Medium posts from Hacker News, as they don’t provide a way to filter the posts I see.

Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with the information assurance requirements of NATO nations.

Kid and I watched all six episodes of the “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” (★★★★★) HBO series, starting last Saturday, ending last night.

I chuckle and, often, laugh out loud, when I see people posting screenshots of their desktop, stating that they “love <insert a Linux distribution here>”.

Even though I moved away from using 1Password in 2023, Horsie wasn’t able to do so.

Gisèle Pelicot, February 4, 2026.

I just had the best Horsemade jajangmyeon.

Desert Guard, at the Burning Man festival in 2018.

Thrive in obscurity https://www.jeetmehta.com/ → If you’re in it purely for the promised land of love, praise, followers, and fame from millions of people – it’s impossible to sustain.

Horsie mentioned to Martin that recently our credit score took a -7 points hit, to which he replied “Well, 7 points down isn’t a disgrace.

The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a Fire Weather Watch, which is in effect from Sunday afternoon through Monday evening.

We came to see bố today, just like we do every weekend.

Fumei Chōja brandishes a Buddhist sutra to dispel an evil nine-tailed fox spirit.

If you have too much credit, your score goes down.

The expression “this isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure” is used quite often, when people—often in rage—quits an online platform, telling everyone they are doing so.

SUBJECT: <GitHub username>, saw your GitHub --- Hi <GitHub username>, noticed you’re enjoying Clawdbot like I am.

Deleting a BIG-IP F5 partition is such a royal pain!

When mum messages me, no matter what, I reply right away.

If there is a white line covering the width of the road at that “entrance” of the parking lot you are trying to use, you are going the wrong way.

Happy New Year of the Horse!

Just finished watching “Left-Handed Girl” (★★★★★) , a Taiwanese drama.

I want to nap, but it is almost 17:00, and tomorrow is back to work, so I feel the need to use my time in something more useful than sleeping.

In a few hours I’ll be gone.

Prompting an LLM to “generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle” is the new “tell me how many Rs are in strawberry”.

OpenAI sent an email to a bunch of us—well, those of us using their service, albeit indirectly, like me—stating, amongst other things, that: Ads may appear on Free and Go plans.

Ema at the Hie-Jinja shrine, Tokyo.

There is no better way to start my Valentine’s Day than sipping coffee next to my Monkey, and then going to auntie’s house to replace all her light bulbs—yes, you read right, all of them!

Lord Tyrion Lannister, Hand of the King (and, later, of the Queen).

Each time I see me surrounded by “stuff”, mostly not mine, I must clarify, Mark Pilgrim’s “The Pursuit of Happiness” comes to mind: Stop buying stuff you don’t need Pay off all your credit cards Get rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in your house/apar…

Because staying hydrated is something that’s recommended (by doctors and whatnots), drinking water when not thirsty has become sort of a norm.

I dreamt we launched seven nuclear-armed missiles, and that they had reached their targets: one hit China, one hit Russia.

What a way to start the week.

Tonight will be another subzero night.

The line below from this website drew a chuckle out of me.

I visited a prison yesterday.

The Cuban Spiky, Pseudarmadillo spinosus, is one of the isopods most prized by hobbyists.

“Proponents of the diets praise them for being easier to follow than regular diets and offering greater weight-loss and metabolic benefits.

Next week I have a—dreaded—dental appointment.

I walked into my workplace’s kitchen/break-area yesterday while someone was warming their lunch.

“New York City has a clean-air program that allows people to report commercial vehicles that are parked and idling for more than three minutes, or one minute outside a school.

Finished watching “Plur1bus” (★★★★☆) sometime last week.

We saw so many movies, and series, during the holidays that I would be dropping notes for a while, should I remembered them all.

“The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”

Microsoft 365 services, or whatever they’ve picked to call them this week, have been down, affected, on/off, for a few hours now.

The scrub sponge (dish washing sponge) conondrum: they are quite hard and difficult to use when new.

Re: Claudrod #1768922650 As someone who uses “wishing and hoping you are doing well” truly, and sincerely meaning it, I will offer a different point of view, my point of view—that is, for other people, your thought may as well ring true.

AI slop (also known simply as slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality or deeper meaning, and an overwhelming volume of production for content reasons.

With 0°C (feels like -2°C) this morning, today is, so far, the coldest day of this year.

Each time I tell the kid he should upgrade his iPhone because critical security fixes were released, he jokes, and complains, and tells me all his friends are using even older iOS and nothing ever happens to them.