Pictures from seeing the opera Carmina Burana live in San Francisco with a full chorus. Here you go. You can watch a performance (not the one we attended, unfortunately) here if you like.
cat toying - verb phrase - Making your own tools, materials, or other such things but never actually using them for anything. Source: Some Cat
Yes, late pictures are late. It happens. For the last couple of years Lyssa and I have gone back to DC to spend Thanksgiving with her family (my in-laws), and one of the things we do is see a hockey game while we're there. In 2024 it was Washington Capitals vs. New York Islanders and somehow (I don't quite know how) my brother in law managed to score box seats for the game. Here are the pictures I…
As I write this, it's been about a month since my unemployment ran out. The upshot to this, I suppose, is that I don't have to spent each and every day scanning job boards, cranking out variants of my resume 1 , and applying for jobs, because when you're on unemployment you have to track the positions you applied for, when, and what the end result was. 2 Unfortunately, this means that a certain…
Everything is so much, all the time, at once. Have a .plan file update. The usual warnings and disclaimers apply.
Getting laid off just before the holidays has given me time to think about some things that, somewhat paradoxically, don't have anything to do with looking for a new job, doing paperwork, or worrying about insurance. Specifically it's given me time to reflect upon a conversation I had some months ago about how people relate to computers has changed in the last thirty years or so. I'd been in a…
nerd osmosis - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which one picks up a small amount of knowledge about something one isn't particularly interested in because they spend time around other people who are and who talk about it a great deal. For example, it's possible to pick up a little knowledge of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its fandom without being a brony just because you are surrounded…
I've been asking myself that very question, every morning, for the last couple of weeks. The job hunt continues as well as before, which is to say not well at all. The only really noteworthy things that have happened were a couple of recruiters thinking that they were being cute by saying things that are highly inadvisable under any circumstances 1 , and one "interview offer" (not even a job…
Windbringer's internal clock tells me that, as I write this the calendar date is 27 December 2025. To be honest, I kind of lost track of the date just before Christmas of this year. Everything started blurring together around that time, in part because it had been raining so much in California and in part because my schedule - my usual sense of how things are supposed to happen - no longer exists.…
Snowhawk (n): The ridge of snow in the middle of the roof of the vehicle that the driver couldn't reach and is driving around with. Source: Nauga Clown