The Drama. It was fun.

When nobody pays taxes, there’s plenty of dry powder to prop up bad economics.

I banged my head on this four many hours and couldn’t get it to work directly in Linux. The key issue seemed to be that ADE and Kobo had to be installed on the same device, so I’ve resorted to using a Windows VM (VirtualBox). It works fine enough.

I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium a few years ago and didn’t realize it was from STIV until I got there and thought, hmm this looks strangely familiar. Many spots still look exactly the same!

With New Vegas being vastly superior to the others in story and characters.

Most iPhone purchasers at that time were high income, as it was an expensive new technology and the general consumer was happy getting ‘free’ phones from carriers. It was also costly and difficult to switch carriers. And further, I know from having worked in banking that it is very difficult to get accurate income data.

Taken together, my guess is this is just detecting the effect of higher income on lower birth rates.

All of which I learned how to do step by step, reading the manual and asking questions. These are not special talents or hidden secrets. I’m not unique.

I’ve been saying some variation of this at work for years. Yet still, somehow I’m the only person that can read and understand the data and the documents.

I work in this field. It’s really about uncertainty. Banks rely on certainty to make choices about lending. When political leadership is unsteady (and corrupt) and times are uncertain, the prudent move for lenders is caution. No one wants to be caught holding the bag in the crash.

When the Duck Tales theme drops

Hah, now I understand why all those 4.5+ places I went in Munich two years ago sucked.

The Nerd Reich

Sure, but what about when shove comes to push.

80 hours and counting of Fallout New Vegas.

Airport gate announcements. Terminally unintelligible.

NetNewsWire on iOS has been awesome for years. Free and open source to boot.

It lives up to the hype. Great acting, amazing pacing, and so many fun scenes. I was slapping my knee when he fell off the roof, hit multiple branches and somehow got up only to get tasered.

Excited for CarPlay, but unfortunately after the app update I’m not seeing CoMaps available as a CarPlay icon one of my cars, but it does show up on my other car. This is on iOS by going to General > CarPlay > (car) > Home Screen Icons. I have 26 icons available on one car and 27 on the other, with CoMaps being the only difference. Any reason availability would be limited by car brand?

Edit: This was solved by a phone restart. Weird.

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

+1 on Mystic Quest. I still get the battle song stuck in my head on a regular basis. Incredible that such a basic game had such a badass soundtrack.

By midday Monday, in a happy ending for the neighbors,

Nice.