I genuinely think I’ve hiccuped more this weekend than in the preceding decade. It sucks, and I’m starting to wonder what minor deity I’ve offended.

The thrill I feel at wrapping up grading has been immediately destroyed by the email from my Kentucky state rep reflecting on the theological significance of Christmas. C’mon dude, at least pretend to separate church and state.

Kiddo learned an effective “stop hiccuping” technique from a podcast months ago, but tonight was my first bout of hiccups since then, and I was skeptical. Well, it turned out that it worked, and now she’s really smug about it.

In the ~2 months since The Verge launched ad-free podcasts for subscribers, I’ve listened to more of their audio content than in all the years that I’d been reading them previously.

Reading about Apple’s manufacturing practices and thinking about Fairphones again.

Woke up this morning from a dream about curriculum redesign. How’s your end of semester going?

Today, on the last day of class, a student shared some of their ongoing efforts to mess with local Flock cameras and develop makeup patterns to defeat facial recognition. It was like realizing I’d had a Cory Doctorow character in class all semester, and it brought me joy and hope.

Because I only use Mastodon as an extension of a POSSE setup, I missed the rollout of quote posts, but I’m thrilled that (as I expected) they’re a simple syntax translated by the Masto software into a specific presentation. Means that I can probably build it into a POSSE workflow somehow.

My spouse asked last night what that morning’s advent calendar tea had been. It had been a long day, so I couldn’t remember at first, and that short exchange entirely justified the 45 minutes I’d spent on Monday building a new “teablog” content type onto my Hugo site.

Même quand il fait -3, ça fait du bien, un vélotaf après une semaine et demie de pause.

Worms Whamageddon

Current mood: Going through Cory Doctorow’s year-end book review summary and reserving more titles from my local library than I have time to read.

I promise that I understand all the reasons for different approaches to winter weather, but I will also never stop being angry that my university keeps holding classes on days my kid’s school is canceled.

December 1st means it’s time to add all the SomaFM Christmas stations to my internet radio client and try once again to broaden my listening beyond a handful of Alsatian stations (même si DKL a une webradio Noël que je devrais aussi ajouter).

My university just parted ways with our football coach for undesirable results despite the investment of millions of dollars, so I wonder if they’ll be willing to do the same for all the AI initiatives they’ve recently announced.

Very nearly discarded a custom bookmark given away at my grandfather’s funeral when preparing to sell some books, and now I feel a great moral weight to clearing my bookshelves.

“Don’t listen to Daddy, he’s being meta at you again.”

Il m’arrive de devoir chercher un nouveau vélo, mais il paraît qu’on oublie que les grands aussi ont envie d’être vélotaffeur. Si je faisais quelques centimètres de moins, tout serait bien plus facile.

Chaque année, ça brise le cœur d’entendre « Black Friday » sur la radio francophone.

Black Friday is one of the worst things to ever happen to our world, but if I had to suddenly consider finding an expensive replacement for the bike I use to regularly commute to work, I guess I’m glad the choice came up this week?

Thinking about how I don’t know much about the Great Recession because I lived in a Mormon missionary bubble during that time—and about how during that time, I was supervised by a recently retired high-ranking Fannie Mae executive.

Between purging bookshelves and using the filtering feature of my RSS app, today is a big day for overcoming my tendency toward completionism.

I also want to give myself a winter project of adding yet more social functionality to my core Hugo presence (ActivityPub? reposting social stuff?). I shouldn’t be giving myself more winter projects, but this is stuff I’ve wanted to do for ages, soooo

Heading into another phase of following more sources but using Reeder features to keep it manageable. We’ll see how long it lasts before another phase of following fewer sources.

The most I can ever relate to Superman is during a cloudy day when a lack of sun makes me feel tired and weak.