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  Did mastodon have an update that changed the colors of things or am I crazy?

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  Many interactions on mastodon are like: Me: Wow, my microwaved popcorn was too hot and I burnt my tongue! Responder A: You could maybe put the popcorn inside a bucket made of ice to quickly cool it. Me: I don't want to do that and I also don't have any buckets made of ice. Responder B: A bucket of ice can be made by putting water between an inner form and an outer form and freezing it. Me: Ok, but I don't want to do that and it would also take many hours to freeze the water....

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  So IMDB automatically makes an account for you now if you visit the site and you have an amazon account? That's fucked up. You can bet I deleted that account immediately.

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  My work schedule should be adjusted to permit me to become crepuscular this time of year

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  From tonight's bike ride

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  I work in PR for a university, and for most of my time here, it's been about promoting cool and interesting research taking place on campus. But in the last year or so, it seems like almost everyone at all levels of management has caught hype psychosis. Anything that mentions quantum or AI is the most important and critical thing. We have to stop doing whatever else we're doing and promote the latest thing that has some connection to quantum or AI, no matter how transparently dumb or c...

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  Look how good my pineapple is doing

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/116207312113330693 I got 0.0046. That's good, apparently.

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  Why is it 80 degrees at 8:45 at night? It was only 90 degrees today.

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  Both of the chorizo brands are the market are missing the soyrizo option today. I wonder if this is some new shortage

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  After a very long week of rehearsals and shows at the theater, quick turnarounds to be in work or ceramics in the morning, going out drinking with part of the crew Saturday night, and then doing a matinee on Sunday ... ... it was really nice to go to bed at 9 pm last night

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  Dreamt something about digging a "rat pit" that was meant to trap rats by tricking them into digging tunnels in the soil in one specific place. I've forgotten all the context for why I was trying to trap rats in the ground.

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  Every day on this site I witness the use of computer terms I've never heard of before or don't understand.

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  I've just been reminded that its the 25th anniversary of 9/11. 25 years of the country having lots its mind and not regaining its sanity

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  I was driving and saw a business called a "teeth bar." I stared. What the hell could a teeth bar be? Some kind of dental thing? I looked again. It said tea bar.

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  I've learned something new about the community theater economy. Increasingly, theaters seem to be using projections, in place of sets. These are basically just stock images that you download from the internet. A theater that wants to use projections just needs to put up a scrim (a kind of translucent cloth) and project these images onto it. I had a planning meeting with the director and producer for our next show last night, and they got to talking about the projections they want to u...

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  I want to know why hamburger buns now come in an abundance of types and qualities, but hot dog buns are still limited to that plain, white form that's barely better than foam. I remember when hamburger buns came in only one type that was equally bad, but then new offerings came along. The same hasn't happened for hot dogs. I know what you're going to say: "What about french rolls?" or "My grocery store has hoagie rolls." I've anticipated this, and before y...

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  I escaped the heat for three hours by going to see The Odyssey. I enjoyed it. The people seated next to me did not. "That was too long," she said as soon as the lights came up. "Too long," he replied.

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  I went out into the garden and startled a jumping spider that was in the middle of catching some little leggy bug. The spider leaped away from its prey in fear of me, but then i witness something amazing. The spider had a strand of web attached to the bug like a tether, and from its hiding spot under a leaf (where it thought i couldn't see it), it reeled the bug in by pulling on that strand. I've always admired those little spiders for their intelligence. Now I've seen one fishin...

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  My boss just flew to scotland for a vacation. It took them 48 hours to get there because a flight was cancelled and they ended up stuck in atlanta. Now they're in scotland and all of their luggage is missing. I hate flying and every time I hear about anyone going anywhere these days, it reminds me even more to never fly

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  I love getting asked to do a thing at work, fully aware that the thing I do is going to get completely thrown out and replaced by the bosses' version. Then doing the task, and having it completely thrown at and replaced by the bosses' version.

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  I'm supposed to send out a press release to a new mailing list this morning, so I go into the platform we subscribe to to get the mailing list so i can export it and put it into the other platform we subscribe to where the release is. Can't export the list. Only the creator can export their own list. My coworker, the creator, is on vacation. Ok, well, this platform also has the option to send out press releases. I rebuild the release over there and go to send it out. Stop. Before y...

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  It's interesting to think about how amethyst was for millennia considered as valuable as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. The they discovered loads of them in Brazil, and now they are not a rare, expensive gem anymore. Imagine if people discovered huge amounts of gold somewhere -- so much gold that gold was suddenly just a run-of-the-mill trinket -- something that you could buy nuggets of at rock and crystal shops for a few bucks.

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  Hobie is so cute

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  The newest officespeak in the office is "for your situational awareness" in place of the previous "for your information." Very dumb. Situational awareness is for hunters, marines, bank robbers, rabbits that might be preyed upon by foxes. No one in an office has any situational awareness. Everyone is in a trance while staring at their emails.

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  Two of me squash plants have a very strange condition that's causing them to develop leaves that are almost purely white except for small dark green dots. I've never seen this before

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  Several of the minnows in my pond have disappeared. Ordinarily when fish are disappearing from my pond, it's because raccoons are getting them. But when raccoons do it, they leave everything in the pond upended. That wasn't the case here. Everything looked normal. Just, some fish were missing. As I was looking for them to see if they were hiding somewhere, i found an empty exoskeleton floating in the water. Then I found another. And I remembered that when I brought the aquatic plant...

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  I pretty much always eventually adopt new slang and phrases, no matter how dumb they sound to me at first, but I've never adopted hella and I never will. It sounds as dumb to me today as it did when I first heard the kids from norcal saying it in the dorms freshman year of college

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  I stopped by the ceramics studio this afternoon and talked to the head of the ceramics program. He's putting me on the very short waitlist for the saturday class for fall. He said I'm almost guaranteed to get in, and that he will put in a good word for me with that instructor.

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  The construction "if/when" or "if and when" is used in English to mean something is more likely than just an open-ended "if" would imply, but less certain than the absolute certainty that "when" implies. I think we just need a single word for this kind of squishy conditional