mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Playwright, author, and Library Clerk living in BC, Canada. Sometime juggler. Cosplay builder.
Maker of terrible helmets. Dalek owner.
I saw something about supermarkets and some corporations trying out "dynamic pricing", where the price of something changes based on their estimation of what you might pay based on their surveillance of you.
So I'm going to announce my trial of "Dynamic payment", where I pay what I think a service is worth, based on my experience. Bad news for Apple TV, for a start. And Amazon Prime owes me money already.
My face when being asked to cry for AI companies having their intellectual property stolen....
Isn't modern technology wonderful?
I had an MRI on Monday, and thanks to the modern internet, I can access the images only twenty four hours later.
So instead of vaguely worrying about what it may show, I can specifically worry about things in the images that I have no idea about. Is that bright spot supposed to be there? Why is that lumpy shape only on one side? Is that a spleen? WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS THERE?
Wonderful.
Just had to look up how to spell "MacGuffin". And this is why I don't have any interest in the internet trying to shape itself to my needs, because I have to look up all KINDS of bonkers things, and no computer can predict what they might be. Just give me an accurate search engine, please. And no ADs!
Getting exercise ironically by building an exercise bench from wood.
My wife's having a great Mother's Day so far. Her brother has been airlifted to hospital after suffering a heart attack while hiking a mountain on a Greek island, and now our lawnmower has caught fire. ON the plus side, there's cake....
Image from the WHCD of RFK JR being pushed into the line of fire to protect human beings from injury....
I made this years ago, when I suddenly realised that ANYONE can make things to post on the internet, not just re-post stuff other people have made. That was in the G+ days.
Another lunchtime, another pointless angry screed sent off to Microsoft Customer Support.
Hey, isn't today the Ideal Date? April 24th, it's not too hot, not too cold, you only need a light jacket...
Just a reminder that in English , "then" is to do with time or order of things, and "than" is comparative. This is important for sayings like "It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees." Because of you change that to "then" it's just nonsense.
Also, chairs don't have any gender in English. Phew! You just use "the" for everything!
Traveling to work on the Skytrain this morning, there was a woman further down the carriage who had my first name tattooed on her neck. I didn't take a picture because Duh, what would be more creepy? But it was strange. Growing up, after the Omen films, my name was a joke, a punchline. Now it's turning up in unexpected places. A character in the TV adaptation of Day of the Jackal. In Dungeon Crawler Carl. Feels odd.
Anyone out there know any Damians?
I hear the new Apple CEO is actually the same as the old one, he just has a range of different colour suits and a better camera....
