I’ve been experimenting with coffee-based sodas again. Unlike last time, I decided to experiment based on the espresso kola idea. | Continue reading
I wasn’t planning on getting into VR tonight but I ended up doing it anyway. | Continue reading
This search engine seems pretty cool. So far the catalog appears to only have human-submitted feeds, though. I’ve already submitted a couple of mine, and hopefully more folks get on board with it. | Continue reading
Today the Niro became available for test drive and purchase, and I got the next available appointment. CarMax was super busy and they weren’t able to see me until nearly an hour after I arrived (ugh) but the process went pretty well.I gave the car a test-drive and found that I re … | Continue reading
A random conversation tonight awakened a memory in me, namely, back in the 90s, we didn’t refer to fursonas as fursonas, but as “personal furries,” and I had it in my mind that the term “fursona” actually started out as derisive and came from an anti-furry space. Which led me on … | Continue reading
Oh yeah, today the replacement heat bed sensor cable arrived. It was a major pain in the ass to replace. I ended up routing it differently than the manufacturer intended because the factory routing is clearly what causes the conductors to wear down and fail, and anyway doing it t … | Continue reading
Turns out it’s kind of hard to do???1 Last night I had fun trying, and mostly failing, to build a self-sustaining fire. I got a lot of advice on Mastodon. None of it worked.Today I’m trying the technique described by This Old House, which is similar to techniques I’ve seen on su … | Continue reading
The fireplace work has finished, and conveniently today my firewood storage rack also arrived. The fellow recommended that I wait another 24 hours before lighting it up, though, as the cement needs time to cure.I’m wondering what to do with the decorative logs that were left in t … | Continue reading
BathroomPlumbing was supposed to happen today but they somehow forgot to put me on the schedule. Which I found out when I’d called the plumber to find out when they were intending to start, and they had some more questions for me anyway, and it turns out they’d meant to send a ne … | Continue reading
These are the documentation files for my critter avatar. While some of the information in here may be of general interest, it is really intended as reference material for those who have purchased the avatar. As such, if you find any of this information helpful, please consider bu … | Continue reading
So whatever happened to my VRChat avatar project?Well, it went really well, so well that I decided to make it a purchasable base model. You can get it for as low as $25 (with a suggested minimum of $30). It also comes with extensive documentation about how to add more materials a … | Continue reading
“Are you frontend, backend, or full-stack?”I really hate this question, for so many reasons.First of all, it presupposes that there’s only two sorts of things that are done in software anymore: either you’re making websites (frontend) or services called by them (backend), or you’ … | Continue reading
Today I had a followup appointment with the cardiologist following the incident. He said that most of the lab results from the ER were good, but there’s a slight concern from my EKG, and of course he’s concerned about my high cholesterol and triglycerides (as well as borderline A … | Continue reading
For the last few days I’ve been feeling anxious and having an elevated heart rate. That’s not just subjective, that’s what my heckin' Apple Watch has recorded. I keep on waking up in the middle of the night with a pounding heart, too. It’s hard to tell if it’s anxiety raising my … | Continue reading
Earlier today I got an obvious scam email: | Continue reading
Recently I finally set up a shopping site for me to sell some of my art and other merch. In doing so I evaluated a bunch of different shopping cart providers, and decided I should share my findings. | Continue reading
As an independent musician who has been distributing music online since the late 90s (and selling it online since 2000), I am always keeping track of the current landscape for selling music, both online and physically, with a focus on small fanbases and narrow-scale distribution. | Continue reading
Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds. | Continue reading