Interesting start to the day: waking from an unremembered dream muttering ‘there is no history’ to myself.
Reminded today of the sheer power of the expression, ‘he’d give you the shits’. An old favourite of my mum’s. You don’t need it often, but it’s a fine one to have in your pocket.
Forget the Die-Hard-is-a-Christmas-movie thing, I’m starting the season with the original Ghostbusters(es) and will hear no complaints.
I was the clever person, the wise person, and also the fool who spent hours on it.
Just had a perfect illustration of the clever/wise distinction in the Day Job.
The clever approach was all nice techniques to manage a bunch of unrelated moving parts in a large codebase. Did the job well.
The wise approach was to realise that all of the code being modified could just be binned and have the same effect.
With a very similar vibe—but with commentary!—to those Slow TV style train journeys, the Travelling Turtle is perfect dark-autumn-evening chill viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=RDPy0xm3b5K9VtCG&v=qSQapm0UyWU&feature=youtu.be
@mr_whateley I wish I could get a physical subscription to your blog delivered on glossy paper to my front door.
I was chatting with a friend today about the catch-22, for those of us so-wired, of needing a self-imposed target in order to achieve anything, then finding the weight of that deadline too much a shackle to move forward at all.
Words have been written! A tiny number, thousands behind schedule, and badly, but we’re well underway. Might amount to a full paragraph by the end of the month.
Hmm, I had fully intended to try a NaNo again this year, regardless of the status of the org, yet somehow we’re already on day three and a word count of zero.
I say that as though it’s different from any other year.
Looking properly dark and autumnal out there today; more leaves in the wind than rain.
Slightly astounded that the White House ballroom thing is apparently real and not LLM. Reality seems so vague and easily spooked these days.
Interesting little video in terms of the amount of money hobby YouTubers with millions of views actually make; and the disincentivising of positivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=pFlvtXvnpGni4VCG&v=nVcrFMfnyyc&feature=youtu.be
Big Duvet nights. The best time of year.
I did point out that, in my defense, this would slow a person down.
I just had a friend explain to me that to ‘pull your finger out’, meaning to hurry yourself up, apparently has a military origin to do with canons. This… was not at all consistent with my own highly-specifically backside-oriented mental model.
Starts to read a little better with a strong highlight placed and a little bit of secondary colour replacing the surrounding primer.
Looking significantly less yellow the more yellow is attempted. Lo, such is the path of yellow.
No bits of house lying in the garden this morning, calling that a result.