@tea_bird (i say this as someone who neither lifts nor runs. but i think i finally look ‘normal’ after years of carrying my kids on the right side, which formed me into the shape of a fiddler crab)
one statistic i calculated today: this year i did not commute for 42 weeks. at 3 days per week, 110 miles r/t per day, that’s 13,860 miles i didn’t drive, $1,100 i didn’t pay for 400 gallons of gas.
watching watered-down new years entertainment and a phrase really struck me: don’t say “we’re all in this together” when you’re addressing people who work harder than you do
my health insurance charges a monthly surcharge if you partake in activities that increase your risk of health problems, i.e. smoking. what should health insurance companies do for people who refuse the covid vaccine?
while we miss the snow we had last week, we had the chance to use our new christmas gifts (adirondack chairs) on our new patio (lots of hard work this year)
shout out to th designers of the Apple Store app who thought it would be cool to make you panic and think your ipad crashed and rebooted itself when you launch the app. brilliant.
don’t know if Big Sur or M1 or (my external drive enclosure) but this happens every time my computer sleeps, and when it wakes itself up/sleeps again. all night. anyone else seeing “Disk not ejected properly?”
if you force someone to enter their Role when they’re signing up for a conference, and they don’t see their Role on the list - does that mean they’re not welcome/won’t get any value out of it? 🤔
considering setting my kids websites up with a repo they can edit, submit PRs and i will review them. give them feedback. when changes are merged to main, they deploy (netlify or similar). simple framework/CMS recommendations?
one quirk with my M1 Mac Mini - i have a USB drive attached, and it seems every time the computer sleeps/wakes, it warns me that the drive was not ejected properly
today at home depot, a lot of chin-masks, and some folks who wore them walking through the door then immediately took them off. and rubbed their noses.
that thing where you finally get a stretch of time to concentrate on code for longer than 4 minutes and you get into the zone and you're making progress and ... oh it's 5pm on friday.
just a reminder that absolutely no amount of fret and worry right now will change anything. the only thing you have left to do is vote (if you haven’t already)
a great failure of people in history is neglecting to imagine what they will do, how they will react and how they will go forward, if some momentous event does not go the way they hoped and predicted. what will you do if tuesday does not turn out like you hoped?