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Scrivolical
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mastodon 4.7.3I’m a Canadian COVID-averse mask-wearing technologist in Toronto trying to survive this dystopian hellscape we’re in.
I’m a music composer, was a music software and hardware dev, synth patcher, and was heavily in the music scene in the 1980s. I’ve probably collaborated with someone you’ve heard of.
Was in the film industry, and also an actor, but prefer to be behind the scenes.
Pioneer video game developer in 1970s up until the pandemic.
Writer. Editor. Systems Administrator.
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Holy Science Experiment, Batman!
It’s so hot and humid in downtown Toronto right now, that the dried and solidified salt (and/or salt substitute) stains on my boot mat from Winter have spontaneously liquified!
There are pools of liquid where the dried stains and small clumps of salt used to be on the mat!
There hasn’t been much yahooing today, compared to last night. Pretty quiet out there in downtown Toronto right now.
It’s the first night I’ve had the balcony door open into the extended evening. I know there’s going to be a cooling off later in the week, but for now I’m just sitting here enjoying the weather.
I like that I can say “open .” (no quotes) in Terminal.app (or equivalent) on macOS, and it will open the current working directory in Finder.
If anyone looks closely at me I’m tempted to say that I’ve been enlarged to show texture
Due to having so many avocados ripen all at once, I now know there is such a thing as having “too much avocado.”
My spicy guacamole salad benefits from exactly two avocados. Less, and it’s not creamy. More than two avocados and I feel like I’m drowning. I tried one with four avocados, and that’s when it was definitively “too much avocado” for even making three portions worth.
Two avocados. Just two. No more, no less.
I’m still a little pissed that (a long while ago now) Microsoft forced me to migrate my classic Minecraft account to a Microsoft account, and some point after that the Microsoft account just stopped working with bizarre errors and all the recovery steps don’t work so I’ve just lost my Minecraft account.
Like, fuck you.
Also my Microsoft accounts tied to my old Xbox consoles are also individually broken, and steps to recovery are broken, so I guess I’m just a Playstation person now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When you start to enumerate all the things we could do, should do, must do, you start to realize how deliberate the cruelty is to not do them.
Yessss! We’ve got a yellow warning for heat in downtown Toronto (Canada). +30°C, with Humidex it will be +36°C Monday, through to Tuesday.
Awesomesauce!
Parsing and normalizing XML feels like a rat got into a rabbit warren and made a nest.
I have done productive things today rather than enjoying myself and I feel conflicted about this.
I went to bed pretty late. I’m tired, but my body said “no more sleep for you!” so I’m up, drinking coffee, enjoying the awesome heat and humidity in downtown Toronto.
Holden: “The AI lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.”
Leon: “What do you mean, I’m not helping?”
Holden: “I mean: you’re not helping! Why is that, Leon?”
Okay, this temperature (and humidity) in downtown Toronto feels *very* nice. Very nice.
If I was a lizard I’d want to sun on a nice rock.
3 days of nice temperatures, followed by a little cool-off. I’ve been waiting what feels like forever (Canadian Winter) for these temperatures.
I’m going to do everything! (*does nothing*)
Invisible banana added for scale
[ Hot Weather In Your Area Waiting To Humid With You ]
The humidex was supposedly higher yesterday, but it feels more humid today by a wide margin in downtown Toronto.
Government of Canada is saying the humidex is +43℃ now at 15:20, however it feels higher than the +48℃ reported for yesterday.
40% chance of showers, risk of thunderstorms, starting now until 21:00.
At street level in downtown Toronto, it’s so hot and humid it feels more like swimming than walking. People’s deodorant give it an almost chlorine-like smell, so walking down the sidewalk it really does feel like you’re in a pool.
My coffee beans have arrived, so I will have to venture out at street level heat & humidity to pick them up. So far I’ve had three deliveries without problems, so fingers crossed I think we’ve figured out a reliable way to get them delivered.
It must be warm and humid today, because I just opened my fridge (not freezer) and the air coming out of it started misting into a fog.
Wow, *YEARS* after opting in to the mailing list for Winnebago, they finally sent me an email, for the first time.
They emailed me about the (presumably new) “Winnebago® Elora™/Resa™”
https://www.winnebago.com/models/elora-resa-family
Regardless of whether I have any interest in this or any of their products, I applaud their restraint in not sending email every week just to keep engagement up artificially.
Yesterday Toronto was +48℃ (humidex). Today also pretty much the same (+45℃ to +48℃). Plus potential thunderstorms.
Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom. Boom boom.
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@veronica@mastodon.online There’s also the Cube connection, with both Nicole de Boer and David Hewlett starring in the movie Cube (1997), so this episode is also a bit of a reunion.