I’d like to thank the state of California for providing a constant reminder that literally everything is slowly poisoning me.

I got the first news alert about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak within minutes of discovering a bunch of fresh mouse poop in our garage. For several surreal seconds, I thought the Washington Post was reporting about an outbreak in my own house.

Imagine being a mouse and just effortlessly pooping perfectly consistent little cylindrical poops all day long, no matter what garbage you eat. We should all be so lucky.

In written fiction we only have two plots: someone comes to town, and someone leaves town. The movies also have “William Randolph Hearst, what a piece of shit”, but we mostly stick with the big two.

#movies

This paper by Margaret-Anne Storey is the most important thing I’ve read about the field of software engineering in years.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22106

The Harry Buttle Index is how often per day you think about Terry Gilliam’s 1985 visionary dystopia Brazil, and my HBI is running precipitously high at present.

Where did Doc Cochran go, and how did a hermit crab get into our house?!

#CatsOfMastodon

Feeling restless. Want to convince someone to watch John Frankenheimer’s 1964 masterpiece THE TRAIN, full of real trains and real Burt Lancaster doing their own stunts!

French resistance fighters and railway workers trying to stop an SS colonel from stealing one last trainload of art treasures before the Allies arrive in Paris! Suspenseful and gritty and beautifully filmed in B&W! Rent on AppleTV or stream on AmazonPrime! Is it bedtime? Or is it THE TRAIN time?!

#movies #recommendation

Our cats are premeditatedly trying to melt me into goo by spending the entire evening snuggling in the little cabin of the cat tree.

I am under ATTACK! (Plz don’t send help.)

#CatsOfMastodon

Violence is the only remaining source of authority for a government that no longer has the consent of the governed. Every act of violence is an admission of weakness.

"Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail" by Lalit Maganti https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

No notes, 100% correct on all counts.

RE: https://pie.gd/@faerye/115896030643700006

This movie is a ton of fun. I went in blind and could not have been more delighted.

Alma is a sophisticated lady-cat who absolutely could get the mousey toy out of this bowl if that was her aim. She would never sit on it and then scrabble comically. She’s just hanging out here being extremely casual, as you can see.

#CatsOfMastodon

It’s remarkable how unwieldy the Google Docs comment UX is for having discussions about specific content within a document given that (I would estimate) millions of people use it for this every day.

My mom thinks Doc Cochran is the cutest cat on Earth, and I swear acts as though this reflects on me somehow as an accomplishment. Obviously I have to reward this nonsense with a stream of Doc glamor photos!

#CatsOfMastodon

No one, not a single person: …

1990 Wim Wenders: I will make a weird 4 hour and 47 minute movie so vivid that more than a year after seeing it, viewers will still suddenly long for it as if it is a place they once visited, where they were happy.

https://boxd.it/7oFDcT

Was starting to worry that we were gonna have a garbage night without a high wind advisory but nope, there it is, right on schedule.

The kitties are curled up in separate chairs, so I think they've decided not to give me any more opportunities for #caturday cuteness this week. So here are Wednesday through Friday's poses! (2/2)
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My cats were snuggled up especially adorably last #caturday and I forgot to post them, so I made a little project of trying to capture them being cute together every day this week. I only missed Tuesday! (When I only photographed them being cute separately.) Caturday everyday! (1/2 -- hoping to get a good snuggle photo today before posting second batch!)

#CatsOfMastodon

Portland area folks, as you prepare for heavy rains and high winds over the next day or two, be sure to bookmark https://outages.piffle.io for super fast, lightweight, phone friendly information about Portland General Electric power outages, including a snappy live-updating outage map.

I built this after the January 2024 winter storms because I never again want to get caught trying to load PGE's bloated outage site while freezing in the dark with one bar of cell service. 😬

#portland #pdx