doephin @Doephin@awoo.space

Parker has a particularly disgusting treat tonight. The dance around getting the dog in the bedroom without bringing the treat in has been kinda hilarious.

Dog: *drops treat, stares at closed door*
Soreth: *opens door*
Dog: *grabs treat*
Soreth: *closes door*

annnd loop

Stupid thought of the day:

I want a fire alarm that instead of doing the "beep every 30 seconds" thing when low battery plays the C&C "LOW POWER" voiceover

Read an old time description about how to diagnose and treat lycanthropy earlier.

...the description of symptoms is disturbingly close to late stage rabies. I feel real bad for both the patient (the treatment was REMOVE MOST OF THEIR BLOOD AND MAKE THEM SMELL NICE) and the likely-infected doctor

Bad News: The dog escaped

Good news: He ran out to the car because DOG PARK. I WANT DOG PARK. So I just put him in the car and took him on an errand.

He was very disappointed.

dog...park? :(

The autumn sun has now dropped far enough to get nice warming sunbeams on my office chair.

It's not exactly full recompense for the short days and cold but I'll take it

Clearly you all need to learn how not to be wrong!

Ask them how we're paying for now.

https://energynews.us/2020/10/16/southeast/this-arkansas-school-turned-solar-savings-into-better-teacher-pay/

A school is AK has gained $2 million in it's budget by installing a solar array and upgrading the school, slashing their energy bills enormously.

Who is tastier?

Well so much for reasonable.

"I need you to do x"
"I literally cannot do x that person is asking for a response from a specific person and I am not that person"
"I need you to do x"

repeat with variation for entire call

my boss was a actual reasonable human being during my performance review

this feels weird

Hah, Hereforge is bonus shady. I emailed to delete my account because of the recent TOS change (yes I've seen their reply, no that's not what their TOS actually says)

Their reply includes this lovely line:
"Please make sure to cancel any subscriptions before confirming you want your account deleted, or you will continue to be charged."

...WHAT. How is that in any way, shape or form an acceptable thing? "Yes, we're going to continue to charge the account that no longer exists and which you can't log into to turn off". Seriously?

Today on Gameplay Accidentally Imitates Life:

Playing Seedship, where you are the AI of a colony ship sent from a doomed Earth. I found a planet with OK conditions and alien ruins. And a pre stone age civilization.

Ok, they probably nuked themselves. Maybe my colonists won't be fucks this time and they can help

....my colonists were fucks again and killed them all. Sigh.

*adds "humans are assholes" to the next AI priority tree*

A news story in which I'm siding with a fucking Pinkerton.

(yes that Pinkerton. They're still around)

IT: we're updating Windows 10. this won't touch your files, no need to back up

The update: "This will wipe the hard drive and install.."

Huh. Apparently there's a "Space Empires 4x" boardgame that's, well, a computer 4x as a board game.

The weird thing is it's taking it's entire game design- including the graphics on the tokens! from Space Empires IV the PC game. But it doesn't seem affiliated with either the developer or publisher.

Useful Masto feature reminder: users can block entire domains for their own account. This is totally separate from admin defed decisions!

The current meds I'm on have the weirdest potential side effect:

"Do not wear contact lenses with this medication as it may stain them."