Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

A friend and I tested one of their first menus — at discount — when they first popped up in that location. And I guess they figured out how to end the streak.

I hope it continues to work for them.

Among the restaurants that landed there: multiple Thai restaurants of mediocre rapport, one brief attempt at an upscale wine bar, and a pinball-arcade-Americana fusion called Highscore Burgers.

A few months after the burger place folded, it was bought by the protege of a master chef and converted into a “five star” Indian Tapas fusion restaurant called The Guilt Trip. And, years later, it’s still there — now being advertised to me on the back of a bus.

Some of the Renton city busses are advertising a restaurant right next door to my old home, and it’s kind of funny to me.

Back when I was living in an apartment complex on Eastside, there was a small house next door that had been converted into a string of unsuccessful restaurants. A new place would pop up once every couple of months, fold with little warning or fanfare, and then pick up a few weeks later under a new owner. Rinse, repeat. For years.

Tonight I learned that you can sponsor books to be added to Archive.org’s Open Library project: https://openlibrary.org/sponsorship

Doing so pays for buying a copy of the book, scanning it, and creating exactly one digital license for that book to be lended out through their service, in two week intervals.

This is genuinely the most cat thing Hobbes has done.

Coworker: How do you know so much about <thing>?
Me: Because I am a mysterious and unknowable dragon on the internet.
Me: Shit.

Which isn’t exactly hard in this case, because infosec and furry have a rather large intersection. But I still maintain that barrier to prevent work and social lives merging together.

Untitled Goose Game is one of those games that uncomfortably intersects furry circles and work chat. In which I get to pretend that I don’t follow many of the people talking about it in either circle.

That moment of existential horror when I realize I have 34 TOTP keys to migrate over to new hardware.

I am entirely on board with the new charizard kaiju design and the inevitable fanart that follows it. 💜

Someone made a set of Animal Crossing amiibo cards for the MH World monsters, and I love them all. 💖

https://samsantala.tumblr.com/tagged/monster-hunter

Our winter hummingbird population is large enough now that I’ve put out three feeders for them.

Last winter, they were consuming 32oz of nectar a month. The consumption rate peaked this August/September, at this same amount every two weeks. It’ll probably go back down as more birds migrate South, though we have quite a few Anna’s hummingbirds that stay here year-round.

It’ll be interesting to see how they adjust to the new feeders.

I managed to get KeepassXC on the tiny computer, since it seems like the best TOTP manager for the job. Now to see if I can make this thing usable, or if I’ll need to try a different program.

After a point, working in computer security made me at least one part near-future SF writer and one part horror writer. Which I guess makes sense.

Some advice from the sf and horror writers’ community for those who, like me, have trouble speaking up in difficult times:
https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/the-rant/amp/