Except it’s May. May!
Yes, the 10-day forecast for the first half of May mentions rain or showers EVERY DAY.
I mean, this is no doubt better than ten days of heat domes and will do wonders to dampen the threat of forest fires, but this is a little silly.
Maybe some day we’ll be living in some Star Trek future where we can control the weather. Until then, a boy can dream.
It is May 1st and April was a trial. I do not want May to be a trial.
That is all.
How the lyrics for “Disco Inferno” appear in Apple Music (Mac version):
As you may or may not recall, the song is 10:51 minutes long. That is a lot of burning. The conventional wisdom is people don’t listen to the lyrics, and that would apply even more for a song meant to be danced to in a disco (inferno). But streaming music services means we can not only see the lyrics, we can follow along to them in real time and appreciate just how utterly inane they are when depicted visually. I don’t mean this as a bad thing. In fact, the idea of “Disco Inferno” actually having profound or meaningful lyrics is way more disturbing than seeing the word “burning” appear 24 times in a row.
Or: When you don’t need anything more than the headline.
UPDATE, JULY 4, 2022: I am going to periodically update this post with more examples of how "vibes" is being inserted into articles and things where it never would have been before, because it is still the NEW HOT WORD.
The below added July 4, 2022, from an article in The Atlantic. The writer could have written “the economy” but no, we got VIBES happening.
October 26, 2022: YouTube wants me to know it’s refreshed its vibe:
How did “vibes” become the new hot topic (on the web, which is now our replacement for reality, unless your country is being invaded by Russia)? How did this happen? What will replace vibes when vibes are no longer hot?
Am I doing vibes right? What is my vibe? I just don’t know.
Related: When did people decide it was hip to refer to products being offered in different colors as “colorways” when “colors” works just fine?
Why are people so weird?
Also, a fancy cat:
I am tired of being a good person (or at least I think I’m a good person) and seemingly being punished for it.
I am tired of being nice with no result, no effect.
I am tired of indifferent and incompetent people.
I am tired of inconsiderate people.
I am tired of people. I am tired of this world.
I am tired.
I am tired.
I am tired.
It’s always cat time. Have a rolling cat.
I had over 40 draft posts saved up on the blog and I knew a bunch of them were just titles and nothing more, since WordPress aggressively (and thoughtfully) autosaves as you go, so last night I took the time to purge the drafts and in the end, I did it. Yay!
Here’s how it turned out:
It felt good.
Now to get back to my blog redesign, ho ho.
April 5, 2022: As the title suggests, this post was originally written at the start of February 2020--a month prior to the official declaration of the COVID-19 global pandemic, which is still ongoing as I write this update. I haven't edited the entry, but thought it would be interesting to post in a time capsule sort of way. I mean, February was kind of better. March, though...
I fell well short of my post-per-day goal in January, but I also got a nasty case of the flu (which still lingers on in a few minor ways two weeks after I first got sick). This took what was a minimal desire to write and squashed it like a bug under a very large boot.
It also rained 28 of 31 days in January, so I may have also have been hit by TRD–Torrential Rain Disorder, in which even someone who has lived their entire life in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island eventually starts cracking from the incessant, endless rain.
But perhaps February will be better. At the very least it will be shorter. And perhaps a smidgen warmer.
And now I know the name for those terrible doors: Norman doors.
Here’s the article, it’s breezy and informative and makes you think, which is more than I could hope for in an essay that mentions pooping in the title: You should not open a door and see someone pooping
I saw this posted in the comments of this Ars Technica article on mechanical keyboards (I am typing this on my Keychron Q1 mechanical keyboard and the CLACKS are so very satisfying). It was in response to someone writing that “Mechanicl (sic) keyboards are the nerds’noisy crotch rocket.”
It is my favorite thing on the internet today, and something I will try to remember when someone likes something I don’t like.
Know Your Meme explainer: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/let-people-enjoy-things
Actually, the weather today was pretty miserable–cooler than normal and heavy rain. But I don’t care, because it’s spring! The second-best season of the year!
Have a dancing duck to celebrate (captured on camera at Reifel Bird Sanctuary yesterday, when the weather was much more spring-like than today):
