I've never seen Better Call Saul, but I've seen a few clips of Mike Ehrmantraut, and he is my spirit animal.
In one scene, he stealths his way into a warehouse, steals a hi-viz vest and motorized cart, and drives around and yells at people, to remain inconspicuous. In another, he avoids attention when tracking a truck by firing a rifle into the air repeatedly. The best way to hide is out in the open.
Video I'm watching: Bob Odenkirk is of course best known as Saul in Better Call Saul
Me: Oh, is he Saul? To me he's known for Mr. Show, a sketch comedy on HBO from the late 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA (We're earthlings! Let's blow up earth things!)
Jucika's second job
Did Queen Elizabeth ever donate blood? If so, did she see the IV and think "oh hey, the royal blood line"?
11h agoThe time is 8:47 AM. Current topside temperature is 57 degrees, with an estimated high of 80.
My arcade cabinet has been getting crowded.
If you don't see the alt text, for size reference: that is a 3/4 scale arcade cabinet, and a 3/4 scale BLÅHAJ.
There are only two companies on my resume which still exist, and they are both private companies owned by billionaires who have just completely gone off the deep end.
Now, I'm not saying this is 100% because of me, but it can't be discounted.
Today is my first day on Ozempic. Not a big deal, as I've been on Rybelsus for diabetes management for several years, and yesterday just happened to be the day when I ran out of Rybelsus and needed to switch to the Ozempic prescription.
So what is the difference between the old, discontinued Rybelsus, and the new Ozempic?
1) Ozempic has new patent protections.
There is no 2.
10/19/2026Rutherford is having trouble sleeping; T'Ana prescribes him warm milk with nutmeg and off-label Retinax V. Boimler challenges the senior staff to a competitive Fun Run.
I had to enter the code manually because this is what it looks like when you try to line it up. Pulling out farther does not work either. It crashed shortly after I took this screenshot.
I already redeemed it to my account so I didn’t obfuscate the code, but their app is so poorly made that I wouldn’t be surprised if it allows for double redeems. Go for it.
It was for a small ice cream cone, which is apparently up to $2.59 now.
YOU WON
FOOD
Jucika in the wave
10/19/2026The time is 8:47 AM. Current topside temperature is 53 degrees, with an estimated high of 79.
Since I only vaguely remembered getting it to send to the network, and had not (at the time) found the source I wrote back in 2020, I actually had to reverse engineer my own engineering.
Jogging the dial would send 36 bytes of binary data to port 12123 on the network's broadcast address. This ended up being jtlvi (Just TLV it!), a general-purpose TLV standard I wrote years ago which would be XKCD 927 except I'm sure I'm the only one who has ever used it.
Tag 0 was 8 bytes of what looked like random data. Tag 1 was always 0x1ebf. Tag 2 was the event; I worked out 1 for step up, 2 for step down, 3 for single press, 4 for double, 5 for long. For step events, Tag 3 would be set to the number of steps seen during the event window.
I was later able to find the actual firmware source I modified, and the mystery of Tags 0 and 1 were solved. Tag 0 was... literally 8 bytes of random data. No idea why, but that's what the source was doing. Tag 1 was hardcoded to 0x1ebf; maybe I intended that to be a node ID.
In 2020, @foosel released plans for a dial/push button using an ESP8266 and a rotary encoder, with some MicroPython firmware. I built one, modified the firmware to be generic (sending events to the network’s broadcast address over UDP), played with it for awhile, but didn’t find a permanent use for it and it went into a junk drawer.
I came across it today, and ported it to ESPHome. The button event works perfectly in Home Assistant, with single / double / triple / long presses detected as events. The dial works as a rising / falling counter, and would probably take some templating within HA to make useful as e.g. a volume knob.
If you want to make one yourself:
https://forge.colobox.com/rfinnie/esphome-packages/src/branch/main/esphome/foosel-dial.yaml
https://github.com/foosel/SonosRemote
Jucika is studying
10/18/2026The time is 8:47 AM. Current topside temperature is 50 degrees, with an estimated high of 71.
From trawling the California DMV, the following (non-exhaustive) vehicles are classified as commercial and taxed at a higher rate:
Pickups
Vans
Concrete Mixers
Hearses
Taxis
Tanks
Toyota Celica Liftbacks (though I think this may actually be all Toyota Liftbacks, not just Celica Liftbacks)
1966 GMC Handi-vans
All vans are commercial regardless of use, with the exception of camper vans, which are classified as Van Conversions (VC). #Jovanna was actually incorrectly registered as a van. Last year I went to the DMV to get her re-classified, which included an inspection (despite the web site explicitly saying an inspection wasn't needed for re-classification, grr). The actual inspection guy was chill though; verified the VINs and basic safety stuff, and the entire procedure to verify it's a proper Van Conversion was to ask "does it have all the RV stuff?" "yep" "okay then."
(The renewal notice for Jovanna just arrived, which kicked off this little deep dive.)
Americans will do anything to avoid measuring linear cheese in metric.
