I remembered about a long-forgotten section of one of my websites and I updated it so that it's quicker/easier to updated in the future. If you are good at identifying plants/insects/birds/maybe other things eventually, please help me

I could be the hero who introduces rats to Alberta

is basically the #1 site for if you want to hear people talk about blue sky

Shit, yes. I worked out what is going on the list but I haven't written it up yet. Tomorrow maybe. I am still excited to recommend movies

We're out here using brannock devices when we used to use fluoroscopes

If they had localized fear.com to the appropriate domain for each country (e.g., .ca, .co.uk, etc.) it would have done so much better

Anyway, I think we should forcibly make every US corp change their domain to com.us if it's a US site

and yet, every time I see the tag section for reviews (which I have forgotten for roughly all of my spooktember (wait, I guess it should be spookvember. how did I not notice this until just now?!) film I am greeted with the 'helpful' tag suggestion netflix. Truly, why would I want to tag a film/review as being netflix?

Just rewatched The Stepfather (1987) which I forgot has a completely-out-of-place soundtrack that sounds like a decade out of date and unfit for purpose. There is a synth flute early on that is literally this flute

The obvious takeaway from this is that I would love to see or make the film for which Univers De La Mer is the perfect fit

Richard kind of looks like an asshole here

I think we should just call cheese pizza pizza. You can have pizza without cheese but I feel like that's a modification and cheese is the default. This is not to lessen cheese pizza, it's the opposite. It is enshrining its place.

Alternately, we should start calling the base version of anything in a sort of redundant way. Like calling cars without any optional features wheel-cars

They were out of gorm last time I was at the store

I am enjoying Colin's new series (part 1, part 2) about building a replica computer. Check it out

yeah, I hope there's a post-credits scene. Otherwise what am I even watching?

I don't know how many people alive in the 20s when the statement was made are still alive but we can't be more than a decade away from that being definitively false.

So, uh, get ready for the rapture in the next 5 years I guess

stopped by the cheese shop on the way home from working at a cafe and because it was near close they gave me a free baguette

Is there a better (which is to say good) election-themed horror movie? I am feeling like I have to watch the Dead Zone and I think it's just not great (maybe I'll have a change of heart). I guess I could watch something like lottery related?

This soup looks real good

(hmm, why is my site not letting me import this post? problem for another day)

I mentioned previously that I had completely switched my speedrunning set up (pun unintended). how's that going? Okay.

Mostly, I haven't had much time to play around with it. I haven't tried modding the pro controller to give it bigger deadzones but I picked up a bluetooth receiver so I could use the xbox controller I had been using on windows.

For a little while, I had thought this was adding some lag to the system. Controls felt off and I wasn't sure if this was the controller or the receiver. Then, today, I had a revelation. The problem is my TV. I had never set it to low-latency mode and I sure can feel the difference. No wonder I didn't think the OBS stream latency felt that bad. Unfortunately, the low-latency mode on my TV is also not great. The game feels way better to play but the ghosting is incredibly noticeable.

I think I might need to move my switch to my office so I can use a monitor instead. That means I'll have to use my laptop to record (or my windows machine, ha). This should be fine, my laptop is more powerful than my desktop, but it makes it a bit more annoying if I want to listen to music while I stream as I don't want that captured in the recording.

I don't have time to move things this afternoon but maybe I'll try this out this evening and report back. I feel like we're close to being in a position where I can start improving runs again

Photos from the second half of my vacation last month are now up on my blog (part I, interlude).

What did I do for the rest of my vacation? I went to Paris to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the writing of my favourite book. I wrote a little essay/journal about it. Mostly though, I just wandered around and ate good food and and took photos (some also good). As I mention in the journal, this book, has had great effect on how I approach photography so if you're going to check out both, maybe read it before you look at the photos

Thanks

It just gave me an ad for a Jordan Peterson tour

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watching a bunch of horror movies on halloween to amp themselves up for watching a horror movie a day in November

The emoji picker is now content-aware.

Previously, when you pressed 🌐 (or command + option + space), it would just open the emoji picker. Now it looks at the previous word you typed and if it matches an emoji it will suggest entering that (e.g., world it suggests 🌎, 🌍, 🗺️ [but not 🌏, even though it's present in the full pickers options for world] and with mad it suggests 😠, 😡). You have to press down or press 🌐 again to get the full picker. If you choose a selected one it will replace the word with the suggested emoji.

I don't like it. This might make sense in a touchscreen environment but it just makes things inconsistent in a keyboard environment. Now I no longer know if pressing will take one press or two. It's also inconsistent insomuch as when I open the picker and type, return will insert the emoji. if i get the small popup, enter only sometimes works (this might just be part of the general flakiness of the picker)

I haven't been doing the crossword during the week lately, so thanks for the heads up. I liked it!

I had been having trouble identifying a tree growing along the Seine and I was annoyed that I couldn't identify it because it was distinct and also because I even had found English-language articles about "trees growing along the Seine". It was confusing me because the leaves looked like maple leaves but it had almost-mossy round conker-like seedpods. This confounded me because it would be impossible to mistake maple trees wing-like seed pods with conkers and it would be equally impossible to mix a chestnut leaf for a maple leaf. [ed: It's revealed in the next paragraph. Pause here if you want to guess]

I had been busy the last few days so I hadn't looked into it further but this morning before work I was trying to confirm that a seed pod in a separate photo was a datura plant (I'm all but sure because the pod and leaves both look correct in shape but I'm used to the pod hanging down and this one is facing upwards. I wish there was a flower) and I accidentally stumbled upon the right answer for the tree. It's an oriental plane (platanus orientalis, sycamore is a North American tree in the platanus genus)! I still don't know about two different purple flowers I saw growing wild so get ready to tell me what they are whenever the full set gets posted.

Anyway, I'm unsure why I thought I'd be done this early this week and am even less sure why I publicly posted it. Optimism aside, there's no reason to set a date on a personal thing unless it's explicitly to force me to finish it. It's a thing I'd like to do less. I'm sure some of you are excited to see those photos but it will be fine if you see them next week or next month (Wait, next month is actually earlier than next week. Fucked up).

A channel that puts out videos in the style of the lockpicking lawyer but each video is the person opening one of those prank containers where springloaded snakes fly out. They could also do jack-in-the-boxes