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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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Human: “Donut!”
Dogs: “Give me!”

It goes without saying, how this exchange worked out. Omnimnom!

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Given the difference between how willing Misty is taking her pain tablet, versus the dropper of antibotics, I can only assume the key is flavor. Surely someone making medicines for dogs will have figured out a way to make the taste non-horribad.

Much like how the Flintstone’s vitamins my mother gave me as a young child, had a taste much closer to candy than shoe leather.

Which is also kind of a relief. I remember Coco, when she was alive, was a nightmare to give a pill. For a while she had been on a med, and we quickly came to the conclusion that if there was a way for her to spit it out twenty minutes later, she would, so you basically had to pry her jaws open and shove it down her throat. By contrast getting Misty to take her pain med, a little pressure towards the tongue and she crunches it almost like a treat.

I’m also left wondering if dogs have less pain reception in their mouths, or if I’m just more easily disturbed. Misty’s definitely recovering better than I did, from a similar bout of dental fun times nearly a decade ago.