adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

vintage canadiana

did y’all know plexiglass is just a brand name for acrylic? they’re the exact same thing? who knew my kids were painting with “plexiglass” this whole time.

From: @khird
https://qoto.org/@khird/112803286579994165

pretty impressed with the cursor code editor so far! https://www.cursor.com/ basically its VS code, but with a bunch of AI autocompletion/autocoding stuff baked in.

so far i’m being super boring with my edit requests (just asking it to do stuff like switch uppercase to capital case for example) but anyone else tried it?

huh. never noticed how similar the vent holes on the bottom of the #mac #g4cube are to the mac pro vent holes from 15yr later!

think the g4 cube is repairable? epoxy maybe… not sure if it’ll be strong enough though. thing is dang heavy. still don’t know where most of the shards went

i’m not in the EA community at all, but i dig the way the lesswrong.org forums work, and just realized the software’s open source! anyone tried setting it up before? https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum

just kidding, i didnt actually cry. but i feel like i should have. man, why didn't i move it first?

just smashed my dad's old macintosh G4 cube to pieces by moving the shelf it was on without taking it off first. AMA but no i only cried a little (so far)

glad to find out someone loved "hot fuzz". enjoyed the clips and comparisons with the director's pre-industry just for fun work too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdz-jfxIRUY

why is it that northern canada has terrible biting bugs — mosquitos, black flies, deer flies, etc. — but patagonia reportedly does not?

a day starting with dish-washing, tidying, then lunch at flux brewery with my friend mark, and then helping go through stuff at my grandpas (he just went into a retirement home), and then various more chores at home. nice to have busy days that aren’t consumed with “work”.

mainland = maitland :/

back from falls reserve @ mainland river conservation. loved chilling in the falls (such warm water!)

prepping for a camping trip with some dudes this weekend. what am i gonna forget? so far realized i’d left my toothbrush off the packing list, so that’s a close call.

well, this is annoying. i thought i'd taken the election to do the "quick method" of HST returns for 2023, but turns out i didnt actually submit it, and now i've got to go back and get alll those HST amounts out of my expenses. 😫

oh, actually it's tonight! and this'll be the first time david's touring as his own drummer, which is cool. folks are saying it's giving a whole different feel this time around, and from the video samples, i bet it's a good one.

he’s playing at the great hall again tomorrow night (toronto); wishing we were going again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJyFBVK-NY

new "santa cruz" pedro the lion album is one of his best ever i think… hopefully i’m not overselling it — it’s a lot about his childhood experiences, ones which resonate w me. and the production is in my wheelhouse… on first listen it was kinda underwhelming but now i think it kinda clicked.

enjoying listening to neal stephenson’s “some remarks”: https://open.spotify.com/show/7b2CRYmx13dtzngLSS4xq4?si=PQVI7S_dQjeAwptfnBZDmg