The Burnaby South by-elections were a bit of a joke, with only a 30% voter
turnout, the PPC lady reaching 10%, and the whole liberal candidate debacle…
Jagmeet won as predicted so at least we’ll get to see if he can do something
with the NDP now:
http://enr.elections.ca/
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Ah WPF, you crazy, magical, maddening, unicorn poop of a tech stack. We meet again.
I bought a little bit of Emmental cheese. Hopefully it can last until next week.
So… this happened over the weekend. Got it for cheap, and pretty happy about it!
SNOW DAY!
Last week I finally ran the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Haunting”. My players stayed in the house for a few minutes and after weird shit started happening they said NOPE, hacked the front door, and ran outside. 😅
A Crap Guide to D&D (5th Edition) https://www.youtube.com/
Lovecraftian horror movie by Hardware’s director, starring Nicolas Cage? I’m, uh, both intrigued and horrified https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3536502/nicolas-cage-topline-richard-stanleys-colour-space/
The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote
A rant on Ars Technica:
I wanted to love the Apple TV remote. It was sleek and futuristic. Plus, it
had an accelerometer and its own little trackpad. Besides which, I didn’t
think I’d really need the remote, anyway, since I could simply tell the TV
what I wanted to watch. What wasn’t to love? Turns out, pretty much
everything.
I largely agree. After Apple added 3rd party app support on the Apple TV, I
considered it for a bit (I don’t care about the iTunes eco-system, I’m mostly a
Plex + Netflix kind of guy, but I’m interested in getting AirPlay/mirroring
working between my iPad and the TV). However, after test-driving the new remote
and asking friends about it, I realized I didn’t like it at all. It really felt
like one of those times where Apple designers care more about how it looks that
how it gets used. The Roku remotes are not perfect but immensely better as far
as I’m concerned.
This is super cool: test driving over 50 programming fonts in your browser https://app.programmingfonts.org/