wild literally watching the wind arrive in boulder just now—went from beautiful sunrise to overcast and rainy in maybe one minute

us health care: HIPAA!!!!

doctor’s office: is in a strip mall

doctor: you have {condition}, here’s an elective procedure and a bag of samples

me: dang, okay, lemme think on it

me, in a shake shack, holding the bag: why are people staring

bag: DO YOU HAVE {CONDITION}?

me: 👀

the new, air-quality-sensing air purifier kicked into high gear after i gave it a solid crop dusting and at my age i can’t tell if i am proud, ashamed, impressed, offended, or indifferent about this response

🧐

(i will limit my whining about $ISP to this, probably)

how it started: “ah, a free moment, time to work on that project”

how it’s going: ssh -vvv

this is a great gag

shadow comp #1

fabriano, ensso, PDG, earth flora

whichever nation-state or ad-tech company that’s somehow hacked into my computer and installed a key logger thinks i am one of the following:

• a geriatric computing enthusiast
• an incredibly talented cat
• owner of an apple laptop with butterfly-style keyboard

what if you were always remembered by the sign you posted on the door when lockdown happened 📷 #lockdowns

what if you were always remembered by the sign you posted on the door when lockdown happened 📷 #lockdowns

what if you were always remembered by the sign you posted on the door when lockdown happened 📷 #lockdowns

what if you were always remembered by the sign you posted on the door when lockdown happened 📷 #lockdowns

what if you were always remembered by the sign you posted on the door when lockdown happened

#lockdowns 1

me: grinds black pepper onto blue box mac and cheese my fruit watch: good job! really well done, be proud of yourself! me: continues grinding

thank you for your patience

huh, okay, micro dot blog doesn’t like animated gifs—here’s a link thisisreal.net/served/ou…

i had some time off work. since i don’t know how to rest I made something—wanted to recreate an affect casey reas used in the “sleep well beast” video. also processing (the…framework) is weird youtu.be/kwraJAssy…

remember when iowa rescinded their mask mandate two weeks ago? if this is correct (not showing on the NYT tracker yet), that action undid 2 months of progress www.npr.org/sections/…

keeping myself accountable on this—co’s numbers continue to go down, but epidemiologists still argue my point: tinyurl.com/2eq78fg3

tfw you pull up the latest covid data and see new cases have been on a downward trend for ~1 month in your state but you remember the governor opened restaurants as soon as the new variant was confirmed in the state, about two weeks ago

shadow comp #0

wingback, grovemade, ikea