Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • mr woodc

    I'm talking about the 2006 Billy Bob Thornton vehicle. What a pile of absolute shit. I saw this in my recommended section of YT for free with ads. I have UBO, so no ads on that gluttonous site for me. Obligatory Manifext v3 sucks. Anyway, it is an incredibly cruel and unfun "comedy" almost completely devoid of laughs for anyone who either is not a complete sociopath or has an IQ above 80. Mr. W. is a PE teacher with less empathy than Stalin. He constantly treats his students who aren't good athletes as less than vermin, repeatedly humiliating and taunting them. A PE teacher for I believe a middle school in Nebraska is doing this, not some "normal" kid who was never loved. They could entitle it "Making a School Shooter" and it would still have the same PE scenes.

    Anyway, one of his pudgy weakling students (Seann William Scott) grows up and sells a self-help book to millions, I think. Maybe not. Anyway, he's going to be honored by his hometown so he travels back and does some advertising. He soon finds out his tormentor, Mr. W., has become his mom's new boyfriend. After catching up and realizing that a few of his old friends feel the same way about him, while the rest of the town lauds and has crushes on him (He's like 60, at least twice the age of most of the characters, and is still unkind. Disgusting). Anyway, Mr. W. asks to marry the main character's mom and she accepts(?). It's filled with half-baked plans to expose Mr. W. that obviously go awry, and it's only when his mom sees her fiance about to pummel her son, holding him against a locker like like a TV movie, that she rejects the engagement ring.

  • Uh-oh

    Yesterday went well - we played down our set (more or less, took out two pieces, added one) for the second time in a week, and it felt something like autopilot. I made fewer mistakes. I played probably about as well I could've hoped. After the performance, I dug into the catered lunch, had half a cup of lukewarm coffee, and headed home.

    Got in and showered and spent some time with my partner. It took me a while to unwind. Performance adrenaline is a powerful thing. We had a light supper, watched a little TV. The rest of the day, nice and lazy.

  • monumental

    crying in my hotel room 
    not because something is wrong 
    but because something feels right
    and the shift
    it is monumental
    

  • A Mild Monday

    Unremarkable, but enjoyable day to start the week with

    Today was a rather relaxed day! Work was busy as always, though I managed to scavenge some downtime to take care of architectural work I needed to get done. I'm the only developer at my organization and we've no infrastructure in place, so I'm always torn between mentoring my interns, working on new developments, and figuring out how to get some standard processes in place so I have more time to work on the former two. It's a lot of trial by fire, learn as I go work, and while that's not bad, it can be overwhelming a lot of the time.

  • A Sleepy Saturday

    Today was a nice day! That cute neighbor I've been talking-staging with spent the night and it was oh so nice to wake up to a friendly face instead of an empty bed for the first time in a while. Made some breakfast together, brewed her my homemade chai recipe to try and help with a stuffy nose she's developing, and split off I could run my saturday campaign!

  • Hit Man (2023)

    Initially disappointed that this wasn’t an adaptation of the video game, then pleasantly surprised by this being a pretty great film in its own right. It’s funny (a bit). It mostly keeps you guessing. It has how-can-he-possibly-get-away-with-this energy, reminiscent of the also-apparently-true Catch Me If You Can.

    The fake confrontation near the end is wonderful.

  • interaction

    The development of speech in early childhood is not linear. It plateau for a while and then jump. In a spiritual development you have a similar curve. It lingers for a while, and then reality shift all at once.

    These shift can be traumatic, and we all deal with them in our own way. At first it feels like a step backward for a bit, but after many of these shifts, you start to see a pattern.

    The last few weeks have been quite liberating and energizing. It was quite the pressure cooker of evolution.

• Technology and Free Software

  • The Console (Probably) No One Else Wants

    When the OUYA had come out, I had never heard of it. It wasn't until a family member got one for his kids. I was around 14 (I think) at the time and developed two of my own Atari 2600 games. When I heard that there was a cheaper console I could save up for myself and even potentially develop my own games, I was sold. Spoiler alert: I never did develop any.

    Despite not creating my own games for the platform, I still enjoyed it for a few years, playing great games like Duck Game, Amazing Frog?, Sonic CD, etc. It is also what sprouted my current hobby of emulation. While I had unknowingly partaken in emulation before on a different relatives old laptop playing Earthbound, this was my first active foray into the scene. I purchased the PS1 emulator for $1.99 and put games that I was familiar with like Tekken 3 on it as well as experienced Metal Gear Solid for the first time.

    Metal Gear Solid was so fun I beat it in a week, which is fast for me. At that time, I only played MGS3 on the 2DS which is what kicked off my interest in the series (although it could be argued that it was more so Super Smash Bros. Brawl). I also had gotten Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and beat it the following week.

  • The switch

    This weekend I finally got around to switching to Linux on my desktop PC. Like many others, I've become increasingly annoyed with how Microsoft has been pushing changes that help them but hinder me. Unfortunately, despite my paying good money for a Professional license, I am viewed as the product and not as the customer.

    I'm not scared of Linux. I've used it off and on for quite some time, first getting curious about it all the way back in the bad old days of Windows Vista. Remember how bad Vista was?

    That said, I'm not a Linux pro by any means. I still need to look things up fairly regularly. I expect (and require) a certain level of things "Just working". That's just the kind of user I am; I like tinkering with things, but it needs to be on my terms.