The Stochastic Game

Last week-end, the good fluffy boy met a bunch of new weird animals. He was NOT impressed, and immediately alerted me of the danger.

Good morning! I hope everybody had a nice evening yesterday!

Having a dog means potentially doing a 2 hour hike with a bag of dog diarrhea at your belt

Good morning! A little change of scenery…

Good morning! Here, have a cat picture for a change!

I enjoyed the Barbie movie but originally found its message to be pretty ham-fisted (beyond the shock of a movie about Mattel dolls even having a message to begin with). But this excellent video essay points at Barbie actually being too subtle for some… plus lots of other good and insightful stuff.

To all the people pronouncing “GIF” with a hard “G” because it stands for “Graphical”: I wish you good luck for pronouncing “LASER”.

“What We Risk by Normalizing Poilievre’s Politics”: given he’s adapting Trump-like populism to Canada, we know exactly what we risk. And we’ll know even better in about, errr, 174 days or so.

Since last time I looked at personal finance software years ago, it looks like they all migrated their handling of banking credentials to something called “Plaid” which asks for your bank password, phone number, and date of birth and I’m like NO FUCKING WAY

Steve Jackson Games’ online store, Warehouse23, has turned 25 this week… oh my. I remember back when buying stuff on the internet was new and weird!