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Not sure what bothers me more: that I’ve probably owned flash media smaller than nVidia’s driver updates have become, or at some point in my life, I could probably have squeezed it onto a hell-of-a-lot-of-floppies without running out.

Actually, I’m not sure I wanna know how many floppy disks I still have between home and office. That’s kind of scary, given how few machines I have that even have the hardware for that.
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Adobe deals with ‘painful’ early reviews of Photoshop for iPad

If I was Adobe: the thing I would fear most is the top competition on iPad OS becoming a threat on Mac over the next ten to twenty years. Much as if I were them, my biggest worry would be Adobe making rapid headway on iPadOS over the next two to five years.

Right now: Adobe is still in a fairly powerful position. Or as I like to think of it: the subscription reflects their needs of doing business, and the feelings of a clawed demon hand gripping your balls, reflects users’ dependence upon Adobe’s products. Despite much grumbling about Creative Cloud, everyone is still either looking for a non-paid option, or using Photoshop and friends in their workflows. Much as before.

But nothing ever lasts forever, and maintaining dominance isn’t always assured. Today is not tomorrow, nor is it yesterday.

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Discounting the seasoning things that last next to forever between restocks, I figure this works out to about $3.50 of deliciousness.

The beef cube steaks were under $5 for a package of two, and trivially fried with a smidge of sea salt and a nice helping of black pepper. I find it rather curious how my mother usually fried these, and made brown gravy because her mother  never used it in their cooking; my relationship to black pepper is pretty much the same thing a generation forward.

Much to my surprise, I found edamame in the frozen food section, and this was about half a $1.70 bag. Steamed, tasted, and salted. If it wasn’t my first time trying it, I’d probably have mixed it into the rice. The leftover half makes me wish I bought beer.

Some leftover rice was passing time in the fridge, so a little soy sauce and beef flavored rice seasoning solves the filler. The variety bundle of furikake packets I bought basically is the gift that keeps on giving, in terms of how long the packets last. Plus rice is basically free IMHO. The 5 and 20 pound bags work out to somewhere between $1 and $1.25 a pound, even with buying a kind that I can use for onigiri.

Willow’s number one problem is having to wait until after human foods before dog treats occur. Misty just wishes all food was belong to her.

But I am still forgiven for enforcing the pecking order, that their main treats come after dinner. Which tonight amounted to a helping of canned meat/gravy yumnums, and then a regularly scheduled dog treat, lol.

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The way things work around here:

Misty: stares
Me: I’m going to take a shit, not get food.
[Returns]
Misty: You’re thinking of giving me a treat. I know it, human.
Me: Oh, fine.
[Gets a treat]

SMH.

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How to generate moments of confusion in the morning:

Step 1: turn off your monitor, so you hit the power button when the desktop won’t wake by mouse clicks.

Step 2: leave your keyboard switched to your iPad, so you start typing your login password into the wrong machine when prompted.

Step 3: remember how you carried out steps 1 and 2.

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3M Laptop Stand, Raise Screen Height to Reduce Neck Strain, Vertical Design Allows You to Bring Screen Closer, Compact Foot Print Saves Desk Space, Non-Skid Base Keeps Laptop Secure, Black (LX550)

This might actually be what I’ve been looking for.

Ordinarily, my workspace looks like this:

laptop | monitor | tablet

And frequently my mouse pad is closer to the monitor with my keyboard shifted a bit to the left. Making it easier to access my tablet and shift its and my position as I work.

But a 14″ Latitude is kinda chunky and takes up a lot of bench space. Along with being too short and far away from my peepers to really use as a second monitor without crowding my Bluetooth keyboard. So, I’ve been thinking of late how nice it would be if I could open the system and elevate it closer to the vertical.

Such that the laptop would effectively be optimized for use as a secondary monitor rather than for using the keyboard and touchpad. Because let’s face it: I’ve got externals for that, and prefer it that way when docked.

Otherwise, I may as well just shut the lid and slide it out of the way; for the time being it’s mostly serving as a keeping-tabs workspace rather than a working monitor. E.g. I’ll leave a terminal there that I’m waiting for a long program to finish running, or for a summary of incoming mail. And then do everything on my external monitor, that’s better positioned; or on my tablet that’s more portable.

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https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1480613325

While I’m not particularly fond of Photoshop, and there are people who aren’t entirely happy with its first showing on iPad, but I like the concept.

For Adobe: they can either take the path of being a leader as iPadOS grows or be left behind as others grow with the platform. So it’s good sense for them to maximize what Photoshop can do on the platform. I’m also pretty sure their are crazy people at Adobe who would like a more desktop grade Photoshop on their iPad: just as some of their customers do.

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How Gundam’s Amuro Ray Changed What It Means to Be an Anime Hero

Amuro is a curious character as heros go, or more accurately perhaps, I’ve rarely considered him the hero of the story: so much as caught in it. Which in of itself could be considered a Gundam-trope by now, 40 years later.

Given a different circumstance to the war: I’d rather invision Amuro Ray in protest to military conflict at all, and that it’s a kind of bloodied, twisted irony that he ended up one of the most notable heroes of the One Year War. And as such would still be active much later during the Londo Bell era.

A large part of Gundam’s first set of story arcs centers around the fact that he’s pretty much got a simple choice. He can pilot the Gundam into battle, or he can kiss his arse goodbye before the shooting even starts. That’s the card they’ve been dealt. Really, he’s kind of a dick during the earlier parts. But over the course of the series he evolves much better as a character.

I think the article’s parting bit puts it more accurately than the tile. Less that the character changed what it means to be an anime hero, and more that he’s a different type of protagonist to fill the role. ‘Cuz let’s face it, the Saturday morning go punch the villain slot isn’t dead yet and it’s been decades, lol.