Edgar Anderson

One year, my parents both left to go vote. They told me they were going to the polls. At that point in life, I had only heard of the north and south poles. I was terrified they were leaving me alone while they went on a months-long expedition.

"The Science Vulcan Directorate has determined that time travel is... unfair."

Does anyone else find it off-putting that campaigns treat the election like an auction: whichever candidate raises more money wins? There might be truth to it, but I still find it off-putting.

I wish Centerpoint had let me know my gas meter was going to be replaced today. My first notification was loud noises coming through my wall.

Will vampires turn to dust in light from any fusion reaction, or is there something unique about sunlight?

I have been blitzed recently with spam calls. Several per day for the past couple of weeks.

If snow days are "built into the schedule" but there's no early release on years with no snow days and any used snow days have to be made up, there are no snow days built into the schedule.

I made カリーライス today. It was delicious.

I've seen a couple of YouTube videos recently where the presenter looks human, but the script they're reading sounds like AI. Even granting the presenter IS human, I don't think that makes it not slop.

I don't check my mail often. Apparently, the post office "tried" to deliver a certified letter. The "attempt" did not include coming to my door or ringing my doorbell. I'm not going all the way to the post office to collect this letter.

I am laid low by a migraine today.

An elderly woman called me "cute" today. That's... not exactly what a man my age wants a woman to call him.

For the first time, I'm actually seeing multiple links in my MLO Wi-Fi.

A little bit of manure smells earthy and wholesome. Tons of the stuff just smells like shit.

For an amount of data I want to back up, I worked out that an LTO tape drive would cost the equivalent of 3 years of cloud storage. However, LTO tapes can store data for ~30 years.

I'm a billionaire in worthless Internet points!

I've done some setup recently to enable me to connect to my home network from anywhere. Just in time for it to be too expensive to go anywhere.

The kitties like their new cat tree #CatPics #Cat #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #CatsOnBlueSky #Feline #Felines #Furbabies #Pets #PetSky

I really hope the Windows 95 user agents I see in my logs are false.

Particularly with AI generating so much content these days, I find myself increasingly concerned with epistemology. What Is Knowledge and How Do We Know Things?

The auditor wanted to see evidence that our RSA encryption was asymmetric.

You'll note the plural form: lineS

I have not been having much luck with Seagate's RMA process. Of five disks received as RMA replacements, I've had to send three back as nonfunctional. It costs $20 and two weeks every time I have to send a drive back.

"The English remained paralyzed by their own rivalries until the following April, at which point Æthelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead"

My car has been in the shop for two weeks. It's hard living in a car-dependent suburb without it.

Do you ever wonder who you might have been if conditions had been different?

Windows hiding file extensions by default is a really terrible practice.

I just remembered a rhyme from high school English (to the tune of "This Old Man"): He loves her She loves me I love him though I'm a "he" Orsino, Olivia, Viola the three Stars of Shakespeare's comedy

One of my cats feels the need to challenge the vacuum cleaner whenever I use it. He'll come from anywhere in the house to bristle his tail at it and swat it if it comes too close.

This is quite a range: "Possible symptoms include rashes, eczema, and possible death." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenoxy...

I got an automated email about an RMA I'd submitted. The attachment had a .xls extension, but it was a plain-text file. I wonder if the company knows they're doing that.

I spent some time on the road behind a cybertruck last night. Its tail light is a strip of red LEDs across the entire width. When it brakes, the central 1/3 or so of the light strip turns OFF.

There's a habit many people around Houston have of turning on their car's hazard blinkers when it rains. At night, when seeing is poor due to rain, flashing lights in my face is absolutely unhelpful.

Do you think Weyoun's criticisms helped make Jake Sisko a better writer?

I read in a book today about Edward I siezing vast quantities of "corn" to feed his armies. I knew that couldn't be referring to maize because that's a New World crop unknown to 13th century Europeans. Apparently, corn used to be the word for any type of grain.

This is true today

There's no L in joyeaux. It would be kind of strange if there was.

Workmen repaired the water main outside my house today. I heard all the water drain out of my pipes when the pressure dropped. It's quite a sound.

Homemade lentil soup

One thing I haven't seen discussed is the selection of Dolby AC-4 audio for ATSC 3.0. Opus has been available since 2012. Choosing a different lossy codec is simply an error.

I've never seen a ventriloquist dummy in any fiction that isn't intensely unpleasant.

Bow down and worship the golden image of Charlie Kirk or be thrown into the fiery furnace

Who comes up with vendor due diligence questions? All the ones I've seen are gibberish.

I worked out one time that a 131,072-lane highway would be about 300 miles wide.

For years, my kitty has begged for whatever I'm making in the kitchen, only to refuse to eat it when I put some on the floor for him. What is it he finally eats? Lentil soup.

Happy Labor Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=pItM...

I had all the insulation sucked out of my attic. It was 20+ years old, and I could hear rodents scratching around up there. I'm hopeful the new insulation that arrives tomorrow will do an even better job, but for tonight, my AC is really struggling.

I've made appointments with two different exterminators recently and they both never showed up.

This was fun to make #origami

I checked out so many origami books from the library when I was a kid. I didn't pay much attention to titles or authors, plus it was a quarter century ago, so it's difficult finding those books again now.