Watched seven hours straight of The Pitt, which absolutely nails ER for the 2020s, my only critique is that it gets a little preachy in places but I’ll forgive that for bringing back Noah Wyles as a super competent ER doctor. The only reason I stopped is because I did the maths and worked out watching the rest of the season would take me to 1am.
@an0key I have this so often, especially because if I’m setting a reminder via voice I was probably doing it half asleep from bed.
Today, in entirely useless discoveries, you can use a Fruit Pastille to operate a capacitive touch screen. This even seems to work if I’m holding it with covered hands. Maybe I’ll carry one in my pocket so I can use my phone while wearing gloves.
A Highland Song was lovely, an incredibly relaxing game with beautiful art. I have now escalated to lying under my duvet on the sofa while watching TV.
Today I will mostly be chugging Lemsip and playing A Highland Song. If illness is going to stop me going for a nice walk in the woods for real I’ll have one in the hills as a consolation prize.
A mixed day trying to make a game today. On the downside, I’ve mostly been fighting temporal aliasing as the engine tries to keep up with me throwing lots of neon lights around a dark level. On the upside, fighting temporal aliasing sounds like some bad ass sci-fi.
One day I’ll finally bite the bullet and use a constraint solver to optimise for oven and hob use.
@robinwhittleton @jonty this has reminded me of an early job which involved training people who barely knew what a computer was how to do the basics. I was once asked why the mouse wasn’t working right. I rotated it 180 degrees so the cable was coming from the top rather than the bottom and all was well after that.
@an0key 180 in the oven, temperature probe it frequently, pull it out at 65 and it should coast up to a proper temperature while resting.
There's always chefs on telly around this time giving their top tips on making Christmas dinner. Here's mine.... don't worry about it. Do your prep. Listen to some banging tunes, dance and sing. Make a list. Check it twice. Do your timings. They'll all be wrong. You'll probably forget something. At least one thing will go wrong. Noone will notice or care so don't mention it. Get your potatoes right. They're all anyone cares about. You could serve a bunch of rubbish but the whole thing hinges on your potatoes. Love your potatoes. Make sure at least one is really terrific then take a photo of it and send it to your family and friends as a power play. If anyone responds with a better potato, ghost that person forever. You are the superior potato person now.
Reminder to open and setup any gift gaming consoles before Christmas morning. Switch2 took 23 agonizing minutes to transfer data over from the first switch and several hours to download and install old games. #gaming #switch #christmas
I have to go get a blood pressure test tomorrow (nothing to worry about, I’m fine) and it’s dawning on me now that Christmas week was maybe a bad time to schedule that.
Tesco, good, occasionally busy later. Sainsbury’s, moderate to good, rough in toilet roll aisle.
Asda, light to moderate, heavy crowds by evening.
M&S and Co-Op, fair.
Waitrose, fair to moderate.
Lidl, rough at first, easing later.
And that’s the end of the Shopping Forecast.
@benc it was designed to be persistent between events without things breaking, build away!
@0xabad1dea additionally, do not reply “thanks” when someone in a support team replies “that’s all sorted”. They’re just going to have to close the ticket a second time.
@andrew just watched the ATC recording, as ever I am in awe of those guys. Barely seemed to be breaking a sweat at the prospect of a plane without a concious pilot landing in the wrong direction on his runway.
@andrew truly amazing stuff, although I feel for any air traffic controller who hears the automated message coming in. I’m still unclear if it can handle ATC comms or if it just screams over the relevant frequencies that it’s landing on 27L and everyone should get out of the way.
I’ve worked out what’s been going on with all these Cloudflare outages lately.
https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/115759707567428478
@gsuberland “all I have to do is watch every film and TV show set in [town] and eventually it will be revealed”
@jackeric China is without a doubt the most foreign place I’ve ever visited. Went out there for a week with work and we weren’t even able to buy coffee without help from our hosts because at the time you couldn’t get a WeChat payment account without a Chinese bank card.
@fesshole don’t be. This is how we learn. Nobody was born intrinsically knowing how to spell I, or elephant, or anything in between.