Matt G

I'm rereading hitchhikers guide books for... Age-related reasons. Boy oh boy the third act DRAGS. Life, the universe, and everything is just a slog. And so is the book, I guess.

The problem with book swaps is I never want to give any of my books away 🤔

THE MOON AND MERCURY TONIGHT.

What a stupid, stupid way to run a government

It's Olympics season, babe. Get ready for Matt to yell about winter sports for a couple weeks!

Going to the grocery store the day OF the big snow seems to have been so much more enjoyable than going the day BEFORE. Remarkably chill, really.

Ground beef is expensive. Aldi is seeking ground pork inexpensively, which can be an interesting riff.

And then Hahn playing Barber/Meyer, and now On The Step You Handed Me Pieces Of The Plan. Apparently I need soothing tonight.

Welp. Music, I guess.
Catching up on some bandcamp backlog. Seashine is pretty great, and it turns out they're local. Songs written in 2016, recorded in 2022, release in 2025. Dude, that's my schedule. Dreampop/shoegaze. Let's go.

> @amysiskind.com

Listening to Barber's violin concerto for the first time, that first minute sounds way more modern than I expected. Basically only heard Barber's Adagio as a reference point. Send good listening vibes.

John le Carré Series ‘Legacy of Spies’ Set at BBC and MGM+; Charlie Hunnam, Daniel Brühl, Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu Join Cast (EXCLUSIVE) The John le Carré series "Legacy of Spies" has been picked up at the BBC in the U.K. and MGM+ in the U.S., Variety has learned exclusively.

Aww yeah Matthew Macfadyen is gonna play George Smiley. Tom from MI5 gets promoted, I guess. This sounds great.
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Area dog still confused about the time change. Insists it’s dinner time an hour early

Nobody knows what this means, Google. Who are those avatars? What does "+2" mean? Stop not making sense.

High Violets playing at civil life and heck yeah

New business idea.

6 overflowing recycling dumpsters

Some tweaks perhaps should be made.

"the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we "grow" our lives - we believe that we "make" them."

My to-do list today is:
1) *some actual work task*
2) Try not to have a nervous breakdown
3) *Retake a work survey so I can complain about something I forgot to complain about*
4) Figure out how to take that wellness day PTO I supposedly have.
Things are not well over in Mattland.

Umm, is the outro vamp on Titanic's Lágrima del sol a Dave Matthews reference??

I get filled with existential angst every time I have to chose "No end date" on any recurring calendar item at work. Yuck.

Love it when you have a git problem and the best resource you found is a Stack Overflow thread from 2018 saying "Something is definitely odd here..."

sudo rm -r stupid-repo

Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.

Definitely not me yelling at the universe right now, "I don't need more shit to be depressed about! They keep coming up with NEW SHIT." That would absolutely not be what I just yelled at the universe, no.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

A photo of me and my cat Biscuit in front of a giant old school MS Paint themed mirror (the window is called Untitled, and it has a menu bar and buttons for tools). The canvas area is the mirror part. Biscuit looks up at me as if to ask "really?". I'm smiling, and making a peace sign

Did I buy a giant MS paint themed mirror?

Yes. Yes I did

Update: people here at the Alamo loved Hackers.

As they should.

It turns out, I should have taken a mental health day today. No joke, just like... Not functioning today.

I am once again reminding you that dates should be stored with some kind of date-like datatype in your database.

Conrad - The Shortest Distance Between Two Points View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CDr release of "The Shortest Distance Between Two Points" on Discogs.

Holy Shit I have a discogs page: www.discogs.com/release/6115...
And the data is mostly correct. Some rando out there seems to have found a CD??