Matt

Matt

@mattbelanger.dev

Techy, fantasy nerd, video games.

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I am "can't sneeze with a coffee in my hand without causing intense back pain" years old, and I do not like it

Weird to get another buddy show between Telemicus and Menelaeus though (I know I butchered some spelling)

I've been out of work for 33 weeks as of today. I'm really good at what I do. I have had some great interviews recently, and now I'm just sitting here and waiting for an email to arrive. I'm losing my damn mind.

I don't know a ton about troubleshooting Wifi routers, but something I have learned (more than once, somehow?) is DO NOT disable the only wifi network on the router unless you're hard-wired to the router, or really want to do a factory reset

In related news, my Rogers home 5G router just stopped working all of a sudden. Maybe it's a weird hiccup with the tower (the phones are fine), or maybe my router is melting because of the heat.

Can you imagine being Stephen Millers secret service agent? Like, your job is to stand between THAT GUY and an active shooter? How do you even get out of bed in the morning?

And worse, think of all the time you have to spend in the same room as him? Where you can hear him talk? Vile

I will be so mad if Trump ruins Wrestlemania by showing up. Maybe if he gets booed so hard he cries it would be bearable

I'm scared of JD McDonagh and JeVon Evans together in a WrestleMania ladder match. They don't even seem to have heard of self preservation, they're going to do something W I L D on Saturday night

I've heard stories from people who've visited Facebook offices about the way people there talk about Zuck. Shit like "OMG, sometimes Mark sits in there and thinks about the world" when passing a meeting room. The idea that an AI Zuck would be in the works at Meta is deeply unsurprising to me

I'm prepping a script to do reference checks, and I keep typing "Candidate" as "Canadadite" and I propose the second is what we use to refer to everyone running for MP

Why won't that stupid motherfucker just let me look at pretty pictures of the moon without thinking about the horrific shit he's planning later? Leave us all alone goddammit.

The next time Survivor does a multi person eviction, I want it to be done in one TC, with the whole group voting, rather than their usual split tribe thing. I think the dynamics would be fascinating, especially with a mini TC between votes.

Saw project hail Mary Friday night. Loved so much about it, but weirdly it's the karaoke scene that I can't get out of my head. Remarkable acting from Gosling and Hüller

Tone wise, it reminds me of my favorite part of the book, where Ryland is talking to his students and thinks about how fucked their lives are going to be because of climate change (oops, astrophage) and don't even realize it. The despair is palpable, and relatable

I love this house, and we moved out here for good reasons, but me being unemployed would be *much easier* if our mortgage was what it was in the old house. Now stuck in a horrid limbo - it's so hard to find work, but risky to start my own thing when I'd have to drop it if I did find something FT

Has anyone thought of telling Doug Ford that if he simply did not do corruption, the FOI requests wouldn't be that big a deal

Climate change is a burning (lol?) issue that needs to be addressed imminently. Unfortunately, the fuck heads in charge of everything right now means we first need to fix government institutions so they can do the hard, necessary things to address climate change.

My leatherbound Eye of the World came today. Beautiful piece of work. Worth the money imo #TheWheelOfTime

"Illegal wars are bad" is such a low bar to clear, it's fucking pathetic how many people are desperate to dig under it

Buncha people in the world who make it really clear that they'll only ever do anything if it presents 0 (zero) risk to themselves or their interests. Currently well represented by Carney and his trained seals clapping at his enabling the latest international murder spree

The Leafs must feel great about having Auston Matthews on their team and not Mitch Marner, given how the last week has gone.

My favourite use for copilot: generating test data for the silly practice scripts I'm writing to prep for a coding interview tomorrow

Love the heat pump going out during the second cold snap of the month. The backup heat options are not cutting it

🇨🇦 🏒 🥈 🥈 Rough ones. Always hate losing to 🇺🇸 in hockey, twice in the same Olympics, in OT, just awful

Curling is my favourite Olympic sport. It's mostly a chill watch, but can still deliver some drama & excitement. You can understand the state of the game at a glance, and there's enough strategy that good commentators can reveal the depth of what's happening in a way you grasp quickly.