Brian Smith

Hmm, ok, where did that snapshot come from? As far as I was aware, iCloud data was encrypted and not available for data mining.

I have recently seen (very) gendered gingerbread men.

Apple's notes app?

That's a RPi 1A+? That's like 10 years old -- retro.

Indeed. And I never did find the Kewpie mayo.

Maybe he just had a wild scene the night before?

Because sexy nipple rings?

Common problem.

And then take SELFIES while doing it. What could possibly go wrong?

I’d have to brace myself for buying a Windows box again. My Intel MacBook Pro found a new home some months back. Not that it was great for games - the Intel graphics being as good as an nvidia board from 2013.

I tend towards bed at midnight, but Grant likes earlier, so usually 11ish.

Though no idea what the hardware requirements will be for this critter. I expect I’d need to update.

I like the open world exploration focus. But now I need to find friends in a compatible time zone with good gaming hardware? Aw, stink.

Oh, right, that lawsuit thing. So annoying. Mine's old enough that even if I was in the US it'd work.

I was putting on my Apple Watch and a cockring about the same time and suddenly wondered… would that work?

And yes, an Apple Watch can measure your pulse and spo2 from your junk. (Though my blood oxygen was reading at 91%, so probably not the best location for that.)

Weird. I’ve had no issues, and the consulate and the IRS both know my home address.

Google seems to think they’ve allowed it since 1990, so maybe you got leftover red tape at the time?

Things might get tricky if you haven’t been filing your US taxes.

Maybe time to renew the US passport? Sounds like they’re going to be dicks about it.

I thought the rule was that if you're a citizen of country X, you must arrive in that country using your passport from that country.

But with a smaller special effects budget, clearly.

To be fair, you didn't have any rockets boosting your ass.

... though honestly, we all knew this was going to be a shitshow.

I did my annual stock sales back in February because I was worried about the year ahead... and I am now feeling like some kind of prophetic genius.

I had conceived of noodling around the US in a tiny motorhome for a summer… but that involves fewer airports and hotels.

Maybe not in the current US.

Three months traveling? The phrase “marathon” or “death march” comes to mind. Maybe that’s just me.

Twenty years ago this week, at the Harbour City Bears Bear Essentials (the week before the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras parade) I met a bearded fellow from New Zealand... who would one day become my husband.

I find myself thinking of giving up on Bourbon and switching to Canadian Club. But need to give Irish Whiskey a try too.

Is it just me, or is "seated heats" the best spoonerism ever?

Who would fail to notice something that hard in their sandwich? Usually old folks in cognitive decline, but also alcoholics, maybe stoners. Everybody eats.

NZ has eliminated plastic bread bag clips (now cardboard instead) because they're not recyclable. This may end up saving lives. Yay?

Or like: Plastic bread bag tags kill people. If you accidentally swallow one with your sandwich, it can hook onto a fold in your guts and cause some nasty problems. They have a density similar to flesh and so don't show up on x-rays.

Fact 2: Women who get abortions tend to have the same number of children they would have had otherwise, just later, when they're prepared for them.

So... readily available abortion may increase the proportion of gay folks born into the world. (No idea what the numbers are.) Yay?

I love putting together odd facts in ways that *might* mean something.

Like: Fact 1: The odds of a woman giving birth to a gay baby increase with the number of pregnancies she has had. Abortions and miscarriages contribute.