Max @max@smeap.com

Think my Dentist just scammed me out of a couple hundred dollars. It may be time to look for a new one. It's always Dentist offices for me with the worst staffs and what seems like the most attempts to up sell or worse trick me into things I don't need and my insurance won't pay for. Maybe I've just had bad luck.

I hate the way that iOS Safari shrinks/grows it's browser chrome by the way it overlays things meant to be visible (and forces extra scrolling), and wish I could disable it. I find in general iOS Edge handles it much better, but obviously I can't switch In App browsers to Edge.

Also, it may not have been as cool as a symbol for Pikachu themed revolution before, but it feels like it needs to be now. Sieze the means of hype.

Thoughts on a new acronym for HF? Help the Future? Hold Fast (Against Tyranny)? Helpful Force?

Admittedly today was a work day so it doesn't mean that much that this was an all day rabbit hole as it's not like I devoted anything but random snippets of break time to it, but it stumped a number of friends including I'm told multiple employees *at* The Pokémon Company, from what I was told.

Thanks to Niantic and my friends for help in such a random internet mystery of weird answers. I shall wear the hat proudly in irony now that I know what it means (capitalism is crazy).

I started playing Pokémon Go in April. Today I found a strange rabbit hole in the game when I asked what I thought an innocuous question that maybe was a sign I didn't watch enough of the cartoon and am not a real fan. "What does this logo mean? All it says is 'HF'." Was a villain team? A secret Pikachu loving anti-Pokemon Battling resistance league?

Today I learned about HYPEFEST. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/8/17952040/hypefest-2018-brooklyn-hypebeast-adidas-streetwear-photos

Watched the DS9 documentary. It was good, but a lot of fan service.

The biggest surprise takeaway for me was that prior to the doc I had not connected that The Orville's Dr. Finn was DS9's Kasidy Yates. Fascinating. I think it was the difference between SD and HD footage for me.

She held the netglass aloft in her sinister hand, its runes illuminating her face and shifting constantly in response to the barest motions of her thumb across the glass. Her dexter hand held carefully the handles of an incredibly lightweight and flexible, yet incomporably durable bag made from the chemically distilled essences of long dead life. It's contents a varied cornucopia from the local merchant hall, most of which was caravaned from thousands of miles away.

Had some SoT arena matches on in the background for the Spinal Figurehead code. A) I don't hate watching the Arena as much as I dislike playing it, B) watching the Arena still doesn't feel like SoT to me (like why are some of these streamers in first place when they are bad at ship basics or chest finding?), C) most streamers were less toxic than I imagined, and D) most streamers hide their health bar and I wonder about hax on maybe a few of them.

Just picturing some twelve year old not allowed to play Gears of War or Destiny recreate what they've heard on the playground about those stories using Star Wars and Iron Man action figures. It's super twee, and basically me at that age, but also how does that get made on a AAA budget in this decade?

Just started Anthem with low expectations and the story is still underwhelming me.

Beyond the obvious problems of how Destiny it feels and how didactic "as you already know" it's been explained:

It’s literally about a macguffin straight out of a KOTOR subplot reenacting for some reason the plot line of Gears of War. AT-ATs even show up in the hands of the bad guys using a synonym for Empire, the Dominion.

It's fascinating, maybe not surprising, and says a lot that at this year's BUILD conference all the major keynote uses of a phone are running iOS.

You know how restaurants sometimes have table service guacamole? I'd like to order one home service guac, pls

Got to mandatory, unconstrained, asymmetric PvP and noped entirely out of the game. I don't find that fun or interesting. Also it feels so very not Star Trek thematically.

Everyone in this city is dressed up for parties this weekend and no one invited me anywhere.

Outlook on my phone lately has been forcing me to triage a subset of old email about 40-60 at a time every few days to pop the count badge. Some of it has been interesting. I've made it back to July of last year so far.

Came back to email my father sent off the photo collage he made for my grandmother's funeral. I saw it a lot that funeral so I didn't even bother opening the mail having seen the subject line.

The body said "Please share." 😭

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AkQwwfqxgHzNzPAMc-4U_W5RpougbQ

So on the bottom bar in iOS I currently have in order Outlook, OneNote, Cortana, and Edge. Looked at it funny and just realized it kind of spells ONoe which seems like a weird mood.

Maybe I need an L at the end to make it feel less gloomy.

(Also, yes I know it says something those are all Microsoft apps.)

@JPEG Enjoying Mast so far.

I like how the CW overlays look and work, but would love an indicator if I already read one (when scrolling back, or retooted, for instance). Also maybe an easier way to read the subject line again without scrolling it around.

Why are the macOS build machines still at Node 6/npm 3? I now know that it has a whopping 7 days of LTS support left, but every other build machine is on Active LTS (10) rather than the oldest possible Maintenance LTS!

(Also, how likely are they to even fix this by the 30th when support ends? Guess I should file a bug to User Voice.)

Pokémon Go finally made me realize one of the things I don't like about Material Designs floating action buttons (Mastodon's blue new tweet circle button too): they are always on the right. While I'm mostly right handed, for multiple reasons I tend to use my pocket computers left handed.