I have decided to make a drastic life change: I am throwing out all empty boxes, no matter how sturdy, clean and perfectly sized they are (with the exception of the original packaging for expensive electronics). I will trust in the universe to provide boxes when boxes are required.
Please pray for me during this difficult transition.
Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: The first lawn Santa of the season.
Here’s something I saw while walking the dog: The Goodyear Blimp
If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would be going back to 1995.
Reading “Lord of the Rings” continues. The scenes about the barrow-wights are pretty good. At least it’s not descriptions of eating or forests and Tom Bombadil doesn’t show up until the end.
The smallest hill I’m willing to die on: I dislike virtual backgrounds that are representations of rooms. Virtual rooms are all bland and dystopian. Just use the blur effect or an abstract virtual background. It is acceptable to use a virtual room or some other real-world image if it is very, very clever — but they never are.
I made a disparaging comment about Los Angeles to an angeleno on a team call, and the angeleno agreed. Angelenos are usually willing to agree heartily with any disparaging remark you make about Los Angeles. Makess needling them less fun.
I went on the San Diego subreddit to see if anyone can see the Northern Lights from here, and I fell down a rabbithole of reading a thread of people ranting about people who don’t pick up dog-poop on the sides of hiking trails. The original poster included photos to make their point. Why did you feel that was necessary, u/Adventurous_Yam_5?
I very nearly quit reading Lord of the Rings. I’m about 350 pages in and a third of that is description of forest. I don’t even like forest — we live very nearly in the desert. Another third of the book is description of food, and none of it is pizza or burritos. They just left Tom Bombadil’s cabin. Tom Bombadil is extremely annoying. He is the guy in “Animal House” who was playing the guitar and singing “I Gave My Love a Cherry” and John Belushi smashed his guitar.
But I will keep reading.
Hofstadter’s law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law.
This has been much on my mind lately.
