brennan

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yeah, it seems inevitable we'll have local opus at some point

we need to build and defend that future

yeah, I basically left when it started feeling like I'd say something and get literally zero response

let me know!

I'm level next-to-nothing, but even just having extra eyes up seems to be helpful

I can't prove it, but I think the random gamer kid strangers are charmed by my midwestern canadian accent when we're under attack and my reflexive responses are "oh boy, oh jeez, shoot, no no, gee darn"

yeah, I'll have to sit and reflect on this one

but I think my initial reaction is "on a long enough time scale every fine <pocket watch> ends up as scrap, but we make and polish and tune them just the same"

is it that we've jumped the animism to 'off is death' in a way that clocks don't get?

started ARC raiders

it's really quite pretty

it's on the tv and then each player uses their phone as a controller, sort of like jackbox games

there's also pictionary and others

that's okay, you can do pushups and squats anywhere, any time

I was in vegas for a work thing and wanted so badly to try their free auto-taxi thing, but I couldn't download the app on my canadian phone

devastated

we've been playing boggle on netflix and I wanted an offline version

asked for it, answered a few questions and then it planned, designed, built, tested and deployed everything from there on out

boggle.brennan.computer

bsky.app/profile/bren...

the workout plan is simple:

- every time claude is discombobulating, you do pushups

- every time your window is used up, you go outside. you can do literally anything / nothing, but has to be outside

- every feed you scroll down is one bodyweight squat per finger scroll motion

maybe cowboy holds immense power, we don't know

calgary weaselhead park, yyc, photography, sunset, bike ride path forest

calgary weaselhead park, yyc, photography, sunset, bike ride path forest

it was lovely warm but the paths in the cold lee of the lake are still slush / ice / icy slush and it was EXTREMELY HARROWING

I was harrowed, y'all

nice sunset tho

our shop was, for many years, in an industrial bay that we shared with a band as their practice space

some of my favourite memories are friday nights after work, big bay door open, warm summer sun, we'd be welding and crafting, they'd be playing fast rock from the mezzanine

good guys. miss 'em

"I have $20, arrive within 30 minutes and no meat. go!"

midjourney, ai art, linocut, printmaking, card

quote: Ryan Warner

summer around Lake Tahoe, shot on Kodak UltraMax 400

https://x.com/ryanadrift/status/2001099599122194505

our racing game is 4.8 MB

three levels, ~2 minute race length. if you took out the song MP3 and maybe some sound effects you could probably get into that range, they're relatively heavy

editions-summer-2025.shopify.com/editions/sum...

apparently I've been on this train for a while

scoring high on the BSRI with this one

I've seen human drivers - multiple times - backing up or plain driving the wrong way back down a highway ramp because they took the wrong exit

the bar is uhhh, not high here

ah, I think it does

I mean, we know that saying stuff doesn't make it true, but if feelings are more real than facts, then it's all appeasing the same self-soothing goals

oh, I bought in summer, so I'm laughing

so I get the newegg flyer emails every few days and this is the first time in months (since the start of this) that there's been RAM on sale

it's still horrendous pricing compared to the before times, but just as a signal? interesting

(prices in CAD $)

increasingly suspect it's one of those "every statement people make belies something they wish were true" things

if we look at it through empathy, I think folks are just nervous and scared and this is a subconscious reflex to fight against what feels overwhelming

yeah it's like 6 am on a saturday stateside, everyone's sleepin'

oof, I'm so sorry that the feedback loop for "this sure brings out the dismissive bigot in folks" is thousands of comments from dismissive bigots doing exactly that

I suspect there's an unspoken but surprisingly large psyche difference between rage and cruelty