You know, if I was really smart: I’d be at least half as comfy as these three goonie birds with fur.
Month: January 2020
Upsides of Friday: being able to have a cup of coffee at 2000, and not feel guilty.
Downsides of Friday: being ready to snore loudly by 2200, despite coffee.
On a mostly positive side, having had pretty daily visits to the vet thanks to blistering, Misty’s next appointment is Monday. For what will probably be a very trying day for all of us. But for her, I expect it’s been least fun.
Also on the positive side, the side with the blisters, aside, she’s been doing pretty well from her dental surgery.
So far I’ve been using an ESR for iPad Pro 11 Case with a surprising level of success. When I ordered it back in October, I found several similar ones, which likely means same thing from the same place with the branding of whoever is paying for the batch, lol.
Generally, I’ve tended to keep my devices naked. Tablets are already too damned hefty for my tastes, and most generic cases add considerable weight. First party ones tend to be ridiculously expensive, and likely due to litigation happy Apple, somewhat hamstrung into sucking.
Pretty much I wanted to solve two problems:
- Better protection at work, and some screen protection while its in my work bag.
- Be nice for writing position on my desk.
Most of the generic cases I’ve had for my Android tablets, failed because they’re too heavy once you make the generic adaptive frame and affix the cover. Most first party cases, traded cost for weight by using lighter plastics but suffered the same problem. It’s just the first party result was more like sewing pads together than a one piece plastic mold.
As someone who takes care of their overpriced electronics, my interested in cases tend to be less about drop protection and more about utility. If you’re going to toss a tablet out the back of a truck, or have risk of it being pierced by something dropped on the screen, by all means: get a highly protective case. I’d even recommend Otterbox for that.
But for me the protection factor is more like having my laptop and tablet in the same section of my bag, or my tablet laying on a work bench where things may get shuffled around a bit: but even a scratch or crack is like more a worse case scenario. I’ve only managed one damaged screen despite having used tablets since Honeycomb.
The trick that’s made this case sick are really down to the design. It’s magnetic connection allows it to be a very thin, lightweight case rather than one that tries to prevent catastrophe. Plus or makes our very easy to remove without scuffing or stressing the device, so when I want to use my iPad without the case: that’s so easy, I don’t worry.
Throw in how useful it is to have a kick stands like function along with the basic screen protection, and I’ve ended up sticking with it. By contrast, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get more than a few weeks before discarding other cases I’ve had for past tablets.
The catch, I think has less to do with the cost of integrating sufficient magnets: and more to do with Apple’s inclination to sue the pants off other tablet vendors if they made the same style of folio case. Or least that’s been my feeling since Samsung almost nailed this problem with the Tab S2, but fell shy due to weight and using metal “Snaps” instead of magnets for attaching the case to the tablet. But that’s probably cheaper than dealing with their legal department, never mind actual circle jerking over the idea.
A notable side effect is for generic cheap ass cases like this, for most tablets you’re stuck adapting some kind of plastic frame or similar system. In the case of modern iPads, the magnet thing seems suitably generic amongst iPads at this point.
Since my mother learned the recipe in high school, my family has enjoyed the potato chip based tuna casserole. Left to my own devices, I sill make it pretty often.
Coincidentally, Willow really likes fish. Not so much that humans get dibs on the people food.
Things I can blame on ninja: finally seeing what graphviz / dot files look like, in their textual form. Which is really neat! If you wanna generate a graph from a program, definitely look at graphviz and its various tools like dot.
Things I can blame on programmers: when “ninja -t graph | dot -Tpng -ograph.png” gives me a 50meg file that is over 18,000 x 32,000 pixels. Which is due to the size and complexity of the code base.
On a positive side, my part of the job was mainly getting it to build in a non broken way. Not writing software several times the size of Jurassic Park.
A reminder from a friend, who also grew up in Florida, lol.
Me: “Can I tickle you?”
Tickles Willow’s sides.Willow: “No you may not!”
I’m not sure this says more about how often the dogs get tricked, out how often I usually reserve the option instead of phrasing it that way. Lolololol!
On one hand: I try to respect how much care seems to have gone into Steam’s controller. Whether it was an internal Valve team or an external, some real TLC was put into its design.
On the other hand: trying to use it makes me feel like I’ve had a frontal lobotomy, and don’t really feel like my brain cells can ever adjust to it versus a normal controller. Where normal is probably anything in the vein of a PlayStation or Xbox (modern) or Super Nintendo or Genesis (classic) controller.
Yeah, I think it’s going to end up in /dev/closet. Unless someday they’re worth something on eBay.
The point at which even I stop playing: crashes of no continue.
When I originally tried playing Deadly Premonition, I stopped because it was impossible to get out of the hospital without crashing.
Revisiting the game with the current brew of fixes posted in Steam Guides, I found that less of a pickle. So much as it seems the game fires off an exit after x time, almost as if it keeps leaking resources or something. Faster while driving and mapping than wondering around the shadow world.
And then, I save at the community center, go walk the dog, come back, and find the game silently crashes to desktop the moment it is done loading my save file :'(.
This reminds me that the ‘360 version is like $15 in the used game bin. I’d like to hope the backwards compatibility and old release, suck less than the PC port that was pushed to Steam and GOG.
Thoughts over cornbread prep
Psuedo-Random passing thoughts from mixing cornbread batter:
When you’ve got the cornmeal, flour, eggs, etc right there; or as close as a supermarket, making cornbread is really low effort. Like really, the biggest effort is to get the stuff out and ready before you start mixing. It also helps if you remember to start preheating the oven and the skillet before getting all the stuff ready.
Now if you had to grind your own corn, churn your own butter, or deal with your own chickens, and so on: maybe not so much.
The closest most people in the first world will likely ever experience to that is playing games like Minecraft.
Hmm, I wonder what our ancestors who lived off farms and mills, would think of Minecraft. Would they think it absurd given how much of that hunter-gathering-building their society was, or be equally addicted as us squishy happy go lucky descendants from the age of the supermarket be?
Yeah, I’m not inventing a time machine to find out.