matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

http://catandgirl.com/thrill-seekers/

Some people see the relationship between me and my roommate's cat and assume I'm not much of a "cat person". But I am, it's just that her cat isn't much a "person cat"

I think our router has been slowly dying for the last 6 months and that's been causing all of my problems. I noticed it first because I'm much farther away from the access point. The signal just got slowly but steadily worse. Finally it stopped working for my roommate, who is much closer to it.

So we replaced it with my identical model router and so far it's been 100% stable

This would have been nice information to have before I tore all my hair out trying to fix my internet

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And her eyes are a blue million miles

They take their smartphones camping with them, and at first I was like "you can't do that! How can you enjoy the peace and solitude of the outdoors if you have a phone with you connecting you to all the stress and urgency of the real world?" But all they use them for is taking pictures and sharing them with cute messages to their friends, and listening to music

And it dawned on me that my phone isn't bad, I make it bad

Laid-Back Camp is giving me life http://www.crunchyroll.com/laid-back-camp

I wasn't expecting this to be the year I got back into anime, but you know what? I'll take it

I have a lot of trouble getting into or creating fiction recently because I feel like everything has to be meaningful, everything needs to leave me feeling enlightened or with a perspective I didn't have before

But sometimes just seeing people hanging out and having a good time is exactly what I need

(source http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/149092824100/the-sega-digitizer-system-a-tool-used-by-graphic)

I used to think that basically until GUIs were mainstream that all video game graphics were made by painstakingly plotting out every single pixel by hand in code because that's how it worked on my Apple II and I couldn't imagine any other way of doing it. I knew that light pens existed but I thought they were too impractical for development

I saw these pics of Sega Digitizer System a couple years ago and it blew my mind

Look at this fucking thing

Picked up this lovely little kit from someone in my town. The first-party motion plus controllers are surprisingly expensive if you buy online, I spent probably a quarter of what I would've after shipping on ebay or whatever. And getting everything in this color is... the cherry... on top... ah... haha...

More "more"? More like more "like"

Warlock? More like morlock

My enchanted plastic ring mail grants me total protection against birds

Yep, that was totally it. Only reference I could find re:which port to unblock on the internet is this thread on Github https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/836

I don't know why they think unblocking the ports is a problem exclusive to "power users". Do other people just... not use firewalls??

I don't know why the Beaker browser thing I'm running isn't working. Do I need to open any ports or anything? I thought I'd have to but it sure doesn't have any info about that in the docs.

Oh, the advisory never lifted, so it looks like I'm going in raw tonight.

Sorry, work. Enjoy the rich odor of freedom.

Oh that reminds me, when I learned about The Humane Interface I put myself on the waiting list for a digital copy at archive.org and it just became available. It's a little ugly and cumbersome but it seems readable. Here it is if anyone wants it. Rehosted at a random filesharing site, the second link should hopefully work in beaker browser

https://uploadfiles.io/2a8kk

dat://3e9a21b93f4ae984a02d196f6ff93b7a470f0b3ce50a25c26dd1bf4b0fbb4deb/Humane%20Interface,%20The/

If I ever do an unboxing video I'm just going to toss all the manuals and cables and junk aside and immediately pull out the thing

Who gives a flip about the warranty information card?

The last dataslave who talked shit about my deck got fragged. Feeling lucky, chummer?

I can't take a shower or wash clothes because there's a "boil water" advisory, the third in my area in the year and change I've been living here

This is West Virginia American Water, the subsidiary of the giant for-profit corporation famous for allowing a coal company to poison a quarter million people's water in 2014

I'm starting to think this isn't a very good company!

Thank god this is America and I have the freedom to take my business to a competing... oh. lol