Wilhelm Fitzpatrick @rafial@hackers.town

This leads right into my second favorite movie: "Student physicist seeking belonging investigates corrupt government contractor"

Okay, I think I figured out my entry in the "describe your favorite movie in the most boring terms" game: "Amateur physicist dealing with the death of his wife investigates corrupt government contractors"

Here's how out of touch I've gotten. I'm wandering around the house thinking "why are people setting off fireworks all of a sudden" and then suddenly realize "oh, yes, it's July now..."

"When using with a drink, be careful. Do not use during continuous rotation."

(via Google Translate using text recognition)

OMG, I didn't know this was shipping. I am 😭😭😭😭 that I cannot get it on a real table immediately!

_That_ had to be from the 120 whose picture I posted earlier.

Woah, my Newton MessagePad powered online journal was a going thing in '96, and the Wayback Machine captured it! https://web.archive.org/web/20040410154206/http://www.rit.com/~rafial/travel/us.html

I wanna go plug this into a payphone somewhere, and hack @thegibson

Busting in to the pandemic deep stash!

I've reached the dead hard drive layer in my home deep clean. Can you believe, 3 GB in something so small? 😉

While cleaning up my house, found this clipping of a heartwarming human interest story from the Seattle Times of 20 years ago about a retired cop making sure his buddies were equipped to brutalize protestors during the upcoming WTO summit

I'll say this about my current experience working with a general contractor to remodel my house is that I now have a really strong appreciation for the product manager/project manager distinction!

We are so over budget, we couldn't even afford the 't'

Just finished slogging through a 180 ticket development backlog, eliminating duplicates and putting "estimates" on the rest. Now I wait for the PM to tell us how vastly over budge we are.

Here's where the "Learn More" takes you https://support.google.com/android/answer/9888358?

Intriguing. It seems the infrastructure half of contact tracing framework has quietly shown up on my phone