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It’s funny seeing people I know log jobs on the computer system at work. It shouldn’t be, but it is.

I think Jalopnik has serious problems. I have fond memories of that website, and it’s still in my habit. My ‘j’ still autocompletes to Jalopnik on my home machine. But I don’t read them much anymore. I hope they take a breather and have a moment of clarity.

Is it meaningful to point out problems in events you don’t watch, participate in, or particularily follow?

What if it’s so popular than you’re exposed to it by breathing?

I’ll tell you what I do like: cheesecake.

Do you have any idea when was the last time I did eigenvalues and eigenvectors longhand? I don’t. [V, D] = eig(A);

I don’t manually adjust my spark timing either. (Though I do row my own gears, so maybe…)

I’m surfing for games on my phone when I see this 1-star review.

“Pass this game by! No tutorial!”

No tutorial, you say?

…Install

Apropos of nothing, I really liked Common’s character Cassian in John Wick 2.

Cassian had an upper level he was capable of, but he didn’t go there. He could have. The character had ceiling in his will to violence, ceiling Clausewitz would have urged him to explore. And in his first meeting with John, when John basically admits he killed Gianna, Cassian goes nearly to that level, drawing and shooting in a crowd. But after that Cassian is subdued, playing with the line between repressed and controlled. I rarely see that.

It might have been more intense for Common to play a screaming psycho, but it would have been less enjoyable. The character wouldn’t have been as cool. For a series like the John Wick movies that are anchored in their shtick, it would have been the wrong move. Common played Cassian exactly right. He fit the texture of the story. His character matched.

I hope there’s no bad blood in there (between actors/directors/etc. in the real world). I’d love to see a John vs Cassian movie, just two assassins going at it.

The High Table could be supporting Cassian as a patsy. Cassian might even know and not care. But I’d like a full movie of those two trying to kill each other, set against the backdrop of assassin politics.

I have no idea how to do it without waving my hands and saying, ‘Sorcery!’

I write fantasy.

How do the phases of the Moon work in my geocentric world?

SORCERY!

I think it’s time to find an alternative to WordPress.

The techbros who write software have a hard problem recognizing anything that isn’t right in front of them. They update software in an annoying and less userfriendly way, but it solves some backend problems of theirs so they like the update. The users don’t, but the devs just say ‘you’ll get over it.’

And we do. We get over the software.

Facebook did this. Their user growth finally stagnated.

A few games I used to play did this. They’re all in the glide path now.

WordPress is making it more and more difficult for me to just do what I want to do. They shove me toward features I don’t want and take away features I do. ‘You’ll get over it,’ they say.

They’re right. I’m over WordPress.

I forgot a function and all my Matlabbery is Matwrongery.

Ach.

Hold on.

I gotta uninstall my video games. I have the attention span of a gnat.