Knuckledragger

Visited some friends in the fine city of Gloucester (GLOAHstuh). It's a wonderful fishing port that's being (not so) slowly gentrified to the moon. While there I picked up a shiny new MacBook Pro (yay!), a new iPhone (double yay, my old one was nearly dead), got my vacc booster, and got a bottle of Georgian (as in the country) catsup as a gift. Weirdly, getting my vax boster shot proved to be a PITA. The first THREE places I called said "yeah, we don't do that anymore." As best I can figure, most of the country is already boosted and the remaining population mostly consists of pants-on-head retard anti-vaxxers "the vaccine-hesitant." ADD fucks who are a day late and a dollar short but not Flat Earth Society antivax like myself are a rare breed. In any case, I got my jab and my arm hurts like hell.

No, I'm not Kuckles' Tech Tips. TBH, the new Macintop is STILL in its box and it'll be a bit before I have it fully spun up. In the next few days I have to: Either un-fuck my current version of 1Password or upgrade to the new one, which SaaS with a monthy fee. Ugh Aftering doing the above, get 1PW up to date and running on 4 computers and one iPhone not including the new lappy. Sign up for Proton VPN (officially broke up with Nord) and get it running on the same machines. Did I mention I bought a new iPhone? Get IT working with all my various 2FA sites/apps/etc. Update a bunch of passwords that are past due for refreshing. Finally start in on the new lappy, which will take days of work including data migration and account/software setup. Pay my property tax, which was due on the first. I am a nearly 50 year old clown.

Soon.

Tweets that aged like a fine wine:

Was supposed to pick up my new lappy and iPhone yesterday, but an unforscene complication on the other end put the kibosh to that at 9:30 in the morning. Currently everything is up in the air.

Malcom Cecil and Robert Margoule's Tonto synth.

RIP Douglas Trumbull.

A fascinating short on the attempts to save an amazing bit of architecture: Also holy shit is the Scottish accent like getting hit by a claymore when you don't expect it. I say this as someone who has watched 5 seasons of Shetland.

Ew.

The Chinaman doesn't have battery life issues, Dude. Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.

Gah. Just went out and cleaned off part of the Fit so I could plug in its trickle charger. Yep, that's some fuckin' snow. Biting arctic wind as well. It's pretty awful outside.

This is going to exceed the attention span of ...nearly everyone. I watched it tonight. I found to be utterly fascinating. It starts with the '08 housing crash, the birth of crypto and the "rise" of NFTs. It confirms many of my prejudices and biases, but also covers a lot of areas where I frankly I had no fricken clue. YouTube really is the best worst thing ever.

Canon is shutting down its Zhuhai factory in south China, citing low compact camera demand and chip shortages. Unsurprising, but still ...ulp.

Craaazy winds here. Power was out for six hours, tidily from ~6AM to noon.

America, fuck yeah!

Dropped the tea cup I've been using for nearly 30 years. 😕 It was a nice big one, vs. the standard entirely-too-small sized ones. "The en" indeed.

A very Head Case smrtphne.

Oh boy. This short film from 2011 by the Beastie Boys got uploaded in 1080p to YT recenty: It's so full of cameos, there is an entire guide to spotting them. I hadn't seen it in years until yesterday. While I think it's hilarious and it reminds me of everything I like about the Beasties, it also kind of makes me sad. Spoilers: Adam Yauch (gone 10 years this spring) looks in rough shape during his brief appearance. He'd not live another year.

I referenced this nearly 30 year old usenet post today and of course exactly no one knew what I was talking about.