Thoughts and bits

I’ve been watching This Is Us with my wife, we’re halfway through season 1, and it’s a fine, pleasant show.

I know that such signals aren’t perfect, that bad people also get pride tattoos, that there’s no way to say “I’m safe” unless someone actually interacts with me and makes that value judgment themselves.

i wrote this post last week but i actually came up with the joke back in the fall. i've been mulling it over ever since, and i think i know why it resonates. this might take a moment to write out tho, so my apologies up front.i will start at the end.after…

I’m at the final section of Guacamelee and this game is charming as hell. 2/2 from DrinkBox, tho Severed was significantly better.I can’t wait to finish the main game and then 100% it.

Trans Jerry: I have a suspicion that she’s transitioned just for the jokes.Father: And this offends you as a trans person.Trans Jerry: No, it offends me as a comedian!

My wife May: You kids want yogurt and granola?

fun fact: our first date, the day i proposed, and the day we got married fall on the same day, jan 11th, each a year apart. makes counting and planning really easy, i highly recommend it.this photo is in the rhinegeist brewery stairwell where we had our f…

i spent multiple days thinking about a way to approach a technical problem, and decided that starting fresh was the right way to go. i gen'd a new project directory, opened the main file, and then sat and puzzled like the grinch for 3 hours until my puzzl…

Everyone I know posted their Spotify Wrapped at the beginning of December.

My 2.11 year old opens the door to the bathroom while I’m in it, says: papa, whenever you’re done, wheneve-when you’re done with your penis or butt, when you’re done pooping or peeing, or pooping and peeing, papa when you’re done in the bathroom, can you…

NoahTheDukereviewed Death Stranding: Director's CutCompletedonPlayStation 5The first real mission, you have to carry your deceased mother’s body to an incinerator for cremation.

Me: i wonder what its like to enjoy giving and receiving presents My wife May: you’re an insane person

NoahTheDukereviewed Cobalt CoreCompletedonWindows PCI’ve beaten the boss twice and each time, I feel like a god.The music is brilliant and the art is cute and the writing is really funny and the conceit feels right for the gameplay.Reviewed on Dec 22, 2023

Perfectly captures the experience of the original Pokémon Red/Blue soundtracks.

Every time I watch it (sit and view, or spy it while my kids watch it), I’m taken aback by Abuela’s callousness and cruelty and selfishness.

I wrote this draft months ago right before bed, planning on coming back to it in the morning.

Me, holding six books at Half-Price Books My wife May: that’s a lot of books for someone who doesn’t read books.

the funny thing about chat servers is that they're self-contained communities. to feel comfortable in one, you need to spend enough time to both know the other people and to be known by them. you gotta learn the implications and usages of the emoji, you g…

@voidmoth asked:do you have a preferred method for generating/integrating CSS in Clojurescript projects (via Garden, CLJSS, or whatever else) or do you just end up writing CSS normally?

got to the last batch of stages in neon white and these might be the best yet. spoilers below

a friend asked me recently about my "poly" status with my wife, and i started to write a short thing which turned into a long thing. here it is as i sent it to her, to avoid editing and nitpicking it into not getting posted.here's a bunch of pieces that a…

Me: the sunset is beautiful.

i have a number of friends i used to see semi-regularly (at least once a year) that was helped by us both being active on facebook. now none of us are very active on facebook and i had some kids and everything is harder to schedule.it's easy to say, "hey i

Before I got married, I heard lots of advice about how to handle money in marriage, such as “have separate bank accounts” and “only use one joint bank account” and “as long as bills are covered, you should buy whatever you want” and “every penny must be a…

I’ve started Death’s Door as a palate cleanser after finishing Ghost of Tsushima.

On the one hand, I don’t wanna hate on someone’s favorite thing.On the other hand, I’m watching a truly boring-ass deathcore band rn and while I already don’t like deathcore, these folks are only making me hate them and the whole genre even more.Giancarlo…

got the platinum trophy cuz i was roughly one hour of collecting away from it.good game, would recommend. i spent way too long on it tho. i tried to resist my base urge to do everything and accidentally did everything, so it took me 55 hours to reach cred…

owning and running a company is already mired in a complex set of circumstances and power relationships that i don't have a firm grasp on, but i at least see an aspect of "thing i built alongside other people and have pride in and want to see succeed as a…

https://oromet.bandcamp.com/track/familiar-spirits?

Me sowing (staying up until 00:45 having sex): haha fuck yes!

One of my favorite thrash bands is Warbringer.

i watched elemental last night and while i'm still coalescing my thoughts on it, i decided to rank the pixar films. feast your eyes on this and scream at me in the comments and rechostsdescending, so cars is my fave:cars toy story 2 turning red coco ratat…

i do a lot of hobby programming. it's my primary hobby. i spend a lot of time writing code for fun, but it's quote unquote boring stuff like tinkering with an alternative test framework or building a linter or fixing a bug in a library i use.i sometimes t…

idk why or when this happened but at some point i learned about super stimuli and became deeply unsettled by them and i’m now leery of anything that resemble one. feels too easy to fall off the cliff and lose a sense of what’s “average”.maybe i’m just par…

up front: i gotta pee real bad and im falling asleep on the couch but i had this desire to write some thoughts down and i wanna get them out before starting the work week and forgetting everything until next friday so excuse me. this is gonna be rambly and

My wife and I finished Fast and Furious 6 last night.

i accidentally got nerd sniped and wrote up a patch to fix this. i suspect it wouldn't be accepted for fear of breaking existing code, but maybe we could at least print some warningsi gotta find a different hobby than "write patches for clojure that will…

roughly 20 years ago, i watched a live action web series, a "tv show" but made by nerds and uploaded to the internet in mp4 or quicktime or whatever format we were using back then. i'm searching for it now and cannot find it (cf popular post about how goo…

Rewatched Coraline on our vacation because my 3 year old imprinted on a Coraline doll at the grocery store.The movie fuckin bangs.

Just remembered without provocation that roughly 14 years ago I had reconnected with an old friend from Livejournal.

I hate that gamergate someone buried itself into our understanding of games journalism and games criticism.

when it comes to hobby programming, i don't believe in pushing myself to work on stuff i don't feel like working on. i just lean as far into my strange desire as i have energy, and go where my curiosity leads.for many years this led to heartbreak and cont…

Meetings:Guess I’m not getting anything done today

I have spent every evening over the last week and a bit working on the parser, because a parser is a very good place to start when linting code.My code is bad, I don't know why it works after not working in many other different configurations, the whole m…

me: i probably woulda been a pretty good queer my (bi) wife : hm, i don’t know

I spend a lot of time thinking about my linter’s performance, and I’ve changed some of the ways I program in Clojure to support that.

I’ve been putting off implementing a feature in Splint for months because I worried it would be annoying to write, but I needed it yesterday so I took a stab at it and it basically went as smoothly as I could hope.The feature?