Antarctica Starts Here.

A few weeks ago I realized in mid-act that I hadn't gotten around to writing something I'd intended to some years ago - how to upgrade Huginn if you're running it in a reasonably pedestrian (read: not using Docker) way.

Last year, one of my favorite bands went on tour with two other old-time bands from my childhood that I never got to see live, Modern English and Soft Cell.

If you've been on the job hunt lately (and that's rather a lot of us) you've probably been doing some combination of sitting on Google/Teams/Zoom/whatever calls, and possibly sharing your screen so that the other end of the connection can see your desktop.

Pictures from seeing the opera Carmina Burana live in San Francisco with a full chorus.

cat toying - verb phrase - Making your own tools, materials, or other such things but never actually using them for anything.

Yes, late pictures are late.

As I write this, it's been about a month since my unemployment ran out.

Everything is so much, all the time, at once.

Getting laid off just before the holidays has given me time to think about some things that, somewhat paradoxically, don't have anything to do with looking for a new job, doing paperwork, or worrying about insurance.

nerd osmosis - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which one picks up a small amount of knowledge about something one isn't particularly interested in because they spend time around other people who are and who talk about it a great deal.

I've been asking myself that very question, every morning, for the last couple of weeks.

Windbringer's internal clock tells me that, as I write this the calendar date is 27 December 2025.