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A few months ago I caved to a combination of interest and frequent internet advertising and bought a Flipper Zero, figuring I could do some interesting fun things with it, especially as someone who…
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Last weekend we did something we’d been thinking about for months: we attended Taylor Swift’s second-to-last Eras Tour show in Vancouver, BC. It was just a short overnight trip across t…
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I’m at re:Invent this week for work. Yesterday I had some time between customer meetings so decided to do a touristy thing since I’ve never been to Vegas before. Obligatory selfie Looki…
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November kind of got away from me between the election and recovering from being sick and the holiday… so you’re getting an October post in December. Oops. Maybe November’s list w…
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Hosted all the local family together today and we made a tasty feast. Main course Three desserts We centered tasty tofu this year and made a bunch of delicious sides and desserts: Rosemary Hazelnut…
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This little blue dragon is well chomped. Pike notices when I have my phone out and avoids being perceived. Is that a camera? Don’t look at me!
on Nov 26
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Did an impromptu run to one of our usual vegan donut spots, Dough Joy. Instead of our favorites we tried three seasonal flavors (clockwise from upper left): Vanilla Latte, Caramel Apple, and Chai C…
on Nov 24
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As Stephen Hackett noted recently, iPhone Mirroring is Very Good. My use case is a little different; instead of letting my Mac run iOS-only apps, it’s more about separating my work and person…
on Nov 24
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A Bit of History I’ve been UltraNurd everywhere online since AIM and Yahoo! Games in the late ’90s. (I’m not sure exactly anymore which was first, and the registration emails are …
on Nov 23
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A few days ago I finally deleted my Twitter account. I had previously downloaded my archive from when I stopped posting there in November 2022. It’s now available online, much like how my Liv…
on Nov 22
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After steaming seitan to use for the week we decided to again make a delicious soy curl recipe by Thee Burger Dude that we tried recently. Winter lighting is hard, okay? We didn’t have a jala…
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WordPress has been yelling at me for a while that I don’t have the PHP module imagick installed. When I moved to an updated server running AL2023 and PHP 8, I lost it. As it turns out the rea…
on Nov 17
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Finally deleted my Twitter account after confirming my archive was in a good state. I haven’t tweeted actively since November 2022, when I made my profile private; all my posting energy is ov…
on Nov 17
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Much like in 2016 I’m still a bit in a state of shock, probably a side effect of living in a bubble where practically everyone I know was voting Harris. I mostly distracted myself today with …
on Nov 7
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I got the new D&D PHB back in September and finished reading through the whole thing last week. (Yes, even the full spell list for some reason.) While I haven’t played this updated Fifth …
on Nov 3
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Kid requested silver dollar pancakes for a Saturday morning treat. Yum! Several years ago we found the best vegan pancake recipe from America’s Test Kitchen (subscription required) which we f…
on Nov 2
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Yesterday we dropped our ballots in the county box down the hill. The nice thing about King County’s system is that just a few hours later we got the texts that our ballots had been received,…
on Nov 1
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We needed to throw together a vegan treat that our kid could have at the class Halloween party today. Naturally we found a good option from one of our go-to vegan recipe creators, Minimalist Baker.…
on Oct 31
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This weekend kid had an event at the Ice Box Arcade in Fremont which meant we got to tag along a play a bunch of classic pinball tables and arcade cabinets for free. Definitely the best way to samp…
on Oct 30
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Kid got one of those crystal growing kits a while ago and finally got it cooking. This is about two weeks of formation. I think it’s neat.
on Oct 28
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We’re over a month into the school year (5th grade and last year of elementary!) and right in the middle of our fall birthday season. Somehow we’ll soon be hosting several tweens for a …
on Oct 16
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We have a tree right on our property line that the squirrels love. I think it’s some kind of chestnut 🌰 based on the spiky seed pods. The Art The Artist
on Oct 7
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Routines are changing with the start of the school year but we keep our Friday family movie night tradition. A variety of things this month! Movies Young Woman and the Sea A solid sport movie, and …
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If you haven’t been following the latest drama in the WordPress world, consider yourself free. In short, Matt Mullenweg, one of the co-founders of WordPress, has been having a very public feu…
on Sep 29
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The inaugural post of my return to blogging (this time on a self-hosted WordPress install instead of LiveJournal). I hope my post frequency will be higher than it has been the past 3.5 years.
on Sep 29
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My wife’s birthday is starting off with her desired fall vibes and fog, but it’s sadly also quite humid and is supposed to get hot (for September) as it burns off later. 🌫️ from 34th fl…
on Sep 24
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 The whole family is now boosted for both COVID and flu! We used one of the Seattle Public Schools vaccination clinics operated by SVNA. I went with COVID (Moderna) in left arm and flu in right ar…
on Sep 21
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I’m not on the beta train (in part because I do rely on my phone for some work stuff) but so far the things that I was excited about are turning out to be rather useful or fun already. Obviou…
on Sep 21
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While Starbuck’s PSL remains non-vegan, one of our local vegan donut shops, Dough Joy, offers both the fall beverage and a pumpkin spice old fashioned donut. Naturally Andrle and I had to squ…
on Sep 20
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Both Pike and his beds got a bath today, which resulted in this ridiculous tiny Yorkie display. Scrooshling his face in one of his beds.
on Sep 16
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Yesterday we took the Kitsap Transit fast ferry across the water to see my family near Southworth and celebrate my mom’s birthday. It’s pretty convenient to take a bus downtown, walk do…
on Sep 15
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While Bluesky seems to be one of the more obvious Twitter alternatives, I’m not really active over there since I found my home on Mastodon. Following up on yesterday’s POSSE post, I qui…
on Sep 14
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The Personal Web I’ve written before about how I’m trying to embrace the POSSE (Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) model. In the last week I’ve seen some great back-and-…
on Sep 12
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A busier project phase at work combined with the Olympics and other summer projects for a bit less media consumed and enjoyed this month. I should probably try to draft these as I enjoy stuff so it…
on Sep 10
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Kiddo wanted to make a seven layer dip today since I had grabbed a giant bag of Fritos Scoops at Costco yesterday. We didn’t find a vegan sour cream at TJs where I got supplies so technically…
on Sep 9
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We weren’t quite sure what to make for dinner last night but then realized we had all the components we need to throw a brinner together! We did our favorite tofu scramble from this bowl reci…
on Sep 3
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Yesterday I took our son to his first PAX. I hadn’t been to one since 2019 (with the exception of PAX Online). My peak PAX attendance era 2008-2013 was before he was born! Now that he’s…
on Sep 3
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I stirred too greedily and too deep. Touch up painting at Oma’s is going well
on Aug 31
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It’s August 30th, 2024 so I am contractually obligated to post about one of my favorite Star Trek time travel episodes: Deep Space Nine’s “Past Tense”. The Episode The refer…
on Aug 31
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As part of our First Contact celebration we decided to make root beer floats. We had missed some free floats at PCC yesterday which gave us the idea… and in the process of getting some fancy …
on Aug 25
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Fifteen years ago today I was single in Boston and browsing OKCupid. I spotted a new super cute nerdy profile that mentioned Star Trek (something I rarely saw on the site) and started an intro mess…
on Aug 25
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Yesterday I took the day off and we completed another item off of kiddo’s summer bucket list: we rode Wings Over Washington at Miner’s Landing down by the waterfront. It is very much a …
on Aug 24
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The other day we were at Target to get most of the 5th grade school supplies list. Kiddo wanted to spend some allowance on something fun. He selected a small Transformer, which is interesting since…
on Aug 15
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Kiddo had had getting boba on his summer wish list… and today at Trader Joe’s we spotted a brown sugar boba pearls kit in the freezer section! He had some decaf tea boba with oat creame…
on Aug 12
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It’s been a long time since our last order that included dry ice, so we decided to have some fun! Water + dry ice Sublimation Kiddo had been wanting some Yo Eggs, a vegan egg replacement that…
on Aug 10
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Looks like the winds have shifted and Western Washington is getting smoke from fires to the east. Thought we might dodge it this year!
on Aug 8
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Even though I don’t really use Facebook for anything other than Buy Nothing, I had been crossposting select blog post links to my personal Facebook profile. I don’t otherwise post there…
on Aug 6
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A few weeks ago I wrote about failed image uploads. In that post I used an embedded Asciinema player, recommended by long-time SCCS friend Branen, to show the console output of atop. I had initiall…
on Aug 4
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Two posts constitute a trend; I’m writing another one about media I enjoyed in the last month. Managed to fit a lot in! I’m thinking I need to make a template for these and also draft t…
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