Capitalism is kind of awful sometimes.
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Oh wow. Book 5 of #dungeoncrawlercarl just made me cry. I was not expecting that. I’m not even that far into the book. 😭
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I know exactly why I’m not rich. My brain is wired such that it goes into fight or flight when corporate ideology breaks my personal ethics. Which is why I typically get angry and vocal first, and then I quit after my stress level hits the roof — usually right before bonuses are paid out because my timing is the worst.
And yes I am in a hammock on my balcony staring at the blue skies of Chicago while reading. It’s pretty great.
Built another mostly useless thing with Claude that no one needs. It connects SillyTavern, a local AI chat thing, to Voicebox which does local AI based TTS: https://github.com/willasaywhat/SillyTavern-Voicebox-TTS
Admittedly you’re probably better off with XTTS or AllTalk, but this was fun to build.
Standing in my kitchen eating a chocolate egg and sipping coffee I just hand ground and brewed pour over. It’s been a long day of meetings, and I needed the breather.
Needed to find a space for a meetup, so I built this. Libcal-Viewer scrapes the availability of Chicago Public Library meeting rooms and provides a monthly view you can filter with time ranges. It just makes the process of finding a space that much easier.
Started playing my 3DS again. Hoping I get a Streetpass today at Collect-a-Con. #collectacon #chicago
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@Apiary@mastodon.social Naomi will destroy the blinds if I don’t get up. We had to install new, heavier duty ones. I always thought she wanted food or attention.
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@Apiary@mastodon.social is that why my cat is up at 4am and not because she wants food? Because she’s stopped eating it, and keeps trying to get us up.
We have this hammock chair stand thing and I remember thinking to myself “why does this exist and why did we buy it” and now I’ve found myself looking for it whenever I need downtime. I think my amazing wife has been buying sensory chairs for us and I didn’t realize it. 😅
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@penny one ring to bind them, and in the garbage collector find them
hehehe this is awesome
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@Apiary@mastodon.social I used to play a game of “what’s the most expensive bath tub at a hotel” and definitely sent a hotel a message that I was going to take their $7k tub with me. They said I was welcome to try. 😅
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@nami@tech.lgbt @Apiary@mastodon.social I am reminded that I got mine in 2016 for similar reasons and need to renew soon. 🙃
And yes, I do have 76 reviews left to do. I only know that because my plugin tells me.
I’m doing some CFP review that uses the Sched system, and I missed how much faster other platforms are so I vibe coded a Chrome extension to solve the problem: https://github.com/willasaywhat/sched-cfp-reviewer
You’ve heard of toucan Sam, but what about two can Spam?
We had a great time at #collectacon and I even managed to get two streetpasses on my DS! Pretty sure whoever Dan and Matt are that they know each other, but it was cool to get a #streetpass 15 years later. 🤣
Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody was extremely good. Yes, it’s funny, but also the entire cast was amazing and sang so damn well. This is probably going to usurp Titanique for the off broadway crown, or better. It’s just that good. The songs have no business being this catchy.
The Real Kyle McCarren was so damn sad. Yes, it had funny moments, but also this one hit me like a sack of bricks. It, also, had some amazing songs but above all the story was just intensely heart warming and wrenching. It’s worth seeing, but do bring tissues.
Okay, I lied, we saw Macbeth: Blood and Bluegrass as well. Once again, the cast was musically amazing (definitely a theme this year), and worked well together. The source material was a bit verbose, but you know, Shakespeare. Genderbent Macbeth was a treat though.
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@GayDeceiver@mstdn.social @witch_of_winter@hachyderm.io “The Sign” destroyed my wife and I. 😭