The confidence of youth
Me: I can teach you how to beat Baby Bowser.
Emily: Jump on his head three times?
Me: Sure, but I can teach you strategies for doing that easily.
Emily: I don’t need more than one strategy!
Technological tribulation VI
“as long as you don’t need to worry about version consistency, python is great” —@hanslovsky (https://gitter.im/imglib/imglib2?at=592fdba75e34568d5eb07e26)
Unattainable rewards
Dada: If you have a good day at school, then you can have red tablet time in the evening.
Teddy: Nooo! That means I’ll never get to do red tablet ever again!
Mama: What do you mean, Teddy? You just have to have a good day at school!
Teddy: My friends all fight me!
Kids know best
· 😄 amused
Anna: I’d really like to go to Catherine’s and get some new summerwear. And right next to there is—
(Teddy interrupts and asks a slew of questions.)
Curtis: Teddy, Mama is trying to talk. Can you please be quiet and listen?
Teddy: I’m gonna tell Mama what she means!
Kidsplained! Happy Mother’s Day!
I tried
I gave vim-sneak an honest try for a few weeks, but losing s was just too painful. I’m too old for that new trick, I guess!
If only lunch were that easy
Every time my university mails me about the “Upcoming Sandwich Generation Program” I think: “Have 3D printers finally come that far? Yum!!”
Emily was awesome this morning
· proud
Emily has been playing Minecraft lately. When we start the game together, her world loads, the UI frame is white, the game autosaves regularly, and all is fine. But when she starts it alone, the UI frame is red instead of white, and autosave is disabled. I figured she must be making different menu choices, but was not sure what it could be.
This morning, after Emily played for ~90 minutes in red mode, I was concerned she might lose her work, so I asked her to save it. When she tried, there was a notice that she was using a “trial texture pack” and would need to sign in to PSN in order to buy it before she could save. Evil.
Of course, Emily plays under her own local user, which is not associated with a PSN account. We tried signing in under Anna’s account, but the PlayStation will not let you use the same PSN account with two different local users. Our only option would have been, I guess, to create a PSN account for Emily specifically, which IIRC is against their TOS since Emily is under 13.
Anyway, Emily got impatient at this point and decided to just reload her game with the normal texture pack. I expected her to be upset, but instead she happily said, “Hmm, I broke this ice before. But I’m glad it’s back! Now I can break it again; it’s SO FUN!”
Mr. Ed ain't no fool
You can lead a horse to Kool-Aid, but…
The epidermis of Theseus
Need to escape from a predator, fast? Just rip off your skin! #gecko #evolution #yuck
Just like old times
· energized
Wow, what amazing weather for my first real workout since the injury. It was awesome to run on ice and feel like a badass again, if only for a few minutes. It’s crazy slippery out there folks—stay safe!
Worst-case scenario
When my family sleeps late, I worry that they have somehow died during the night. But I don’t want to check on my kids, because it will wake them up and the quiet time will be over. Please tell me I am not the only one.
Dust in the Wind
· demolished
On Thursday, What.CD was raided by French police. It was a veritable “Library of Alexandria” for the world’s music, painstakingly curated by a worldwide group of passionate enthusiasts. And now it is gone forever, metaphorically burned to the ground. We live in a worldwide culture that sanctions mass destruction of information and knowledge. What a tragedy.
Technology is improving so quickly every year, and yet we cannot take the continued existence of anything for granted. For that reason, and many others, I renewed my donation to Wikipedia today. It is too late for What.CD, but at least we can contribute to other critical reservoirs of knowledge. I invite you to do the same, and in the words of Jimmy Wales: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
Vertebral artery dissection
Dear family, friends, colleagues and loved ones,
The wisdom of Siri
Me: “Have you heard of ImageJ?”
Siri: “You know what they say… a lie can
travel halfway around the world
while the truth is still getting its
pants on.
I’m not sure I get it, but it’s funny.”
Thanks macOS, that’s very reassuring.
Infinite sadness
Teddy: “Dada, did you know sometimes I cry forever?”
Emily: “Teddy, if you cry forever, you could only cry forever once!”
Who made the world?
Teddy: Dada, who made the world?
Me: There are a lot of passionate opinions about that. Some people say that God made the world. Do you know who God is?
Teddy: Nope!
Me: You’ve never heard of God?
Teddy: Nope!
(I tell Teddy about God.)
Me: But nobody has any proof.
Teddy: I have proof!
Me (intrigued): You do? What is it?
Teddy: I know him!
Me: Really?
Teddy: Yeah, I met him.
Me: Wow. What did he say to you?
Teddy: I forgot. I made him.
Me: You made God?
Teddy: Yeah. Out of iron, sauce, and sugar. Also metal.
(Teddy lets that sink in for a moment.)
Teddy: Uh oh. I said “uh oh” because I have the hiccups now. I hate having hiccups.
Technological tribulation V
“Lambda expressions cannot be used in an evaluation expression” Window > Show View > Expressions. So awesome in theory, so lame in practice.
Third degree knee brace
Note to knee lovers: crescent kick is a finesse kick, not a power kick. My body reminded me of this fact last night! #thinkfirstkicksecond
The new sensation sweeping the nation
OMG, it’s like the zombie apocalypse out here. Only instead of zombies, it’s people playing Pokemon GO.
Hilarious grammatical incorrectness
Best spam in recent times: “Mobile is Eating the World. FOUR WAYS TO RETHINK CUSTOMER”