Max @max@smeap.com

Another day, another half dozen ways the corporate firewall gets in the way of me getting my job done for the sake of security theater and surveillance.

Dreamt I had to sell the usefulness of handfuls of mostly finished projects not far removed from actual unfinished projects I worked on over the years. Most of which the usefulness was only to a situation at the time. Most of which are obsolete now or likely never finished.

On the flip side I ethically regret some of the code I wrote that I'm sure is probably still in use.

I've had a weird software graveyard of a career so far.

Apollo Guidance Computer ROM was needle woven by (primarily women) textile workers. Another fascinating cross over between textiles and early computing too easily forgotten.

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html?m=1

I wrote a lot of words about music in the MCU because I'm a little tired of people saying it is bad but not having much more reason than that Every Frame a Painting video. http://blog.worldmaker.net/2019/07/02/mcu-music/

Why does my employer still pay for this stupid, crufty software that hasn't been relevant in two decades (!), and keep reinstalling it every time I uninstall its 300 MBs (!) of bad-UX bloatware?

20 fucking candidates? This is a shit show as circus as Are you fucking kidding us? Are they trying to lose? Have they failed such basic, fucking civics that "divide and conquer" has somewhat entirely escaped their fucking grasp that they'll just divide themselves up for immediate slaughter? I don't know what the fuck is going on other than the Barnum Principle meets the motherfucking Apocalypse and Millions of Dollars is being thrown on this bullshit.

The DS9 intro is still one of the best in all of Star Trek. Majestic and it still gives me chills every time I hear it.

My high school job in a theme park had the DS9 theme at the start of the playlist and I'd often be one of the first in the park, just in time for the song to start and corresponding start up/first test of the water fountain up front. It was a grand start to the day when that happened.

Maybe something to do with the Angels/Hosts, even the fallen Angels being the protagonists in Westworld? Is it misanthropy?

I tried watching a couple episodes last night and had some anxiety issues with the overtly Gnostic imagery/references that I'm having difficulty parsing, particularly versus say my reactions to HBO'S Westworld using some of the same stuff.

Season 7 is the one season of DS9 I didn't watch much of when it aired or watched out of order and was lost, because none of it feels familiar enough and only rewatching it now on Netflix does it make any sense.

Imagine being beholden to scheduling grids for when you must watch TV properly in order. Such a primitive time that used to exist.

@aparrish @aparrish It feels like another round of MMO fever, with the same companies making the same mistakes they always make when a big MMO captures the Zeitgeist. Yet almost painfully, hilariously worse because these same companies in this case refuse to call most of these "live service games" MMOs so the mistakes are sometimes self-inflicted by not even talking to their existing MMO arms on purpose b/c "not MMO". (Both Anthem and FO76 got accused of this by sib teams.)

I wonder sometimes if the amount of olive juice I throw out annually would make some Dirty Martini fan cry. As a fan of olives, I do like Dirty Martinis when I drink Martinis, but as a fan of whisky and rum first, I somewhat dislike Martinis relatively so I rarely drink them and almost never have the ingredients.

Got to Level 6, decided I wasn't having fun and uninstalled it.

I feel like we should talk about how problematic its character customization system is to the point that Niantic abdicated all responsibility for it, doesn't actually use it for game play (what's the point?), and instead leaves moderation and privacy controls to Facebook et al. I see some friends having fun with it, but I don't like it.

I didn't hate HPWU like I hated what I saw of Ingress, fwiw.

OH: "I liked how it mostly followed the movie."

This comment was meant as a compliment, but wow.

They should have used that BLDE for trailer video protagonist. That's a protagonist that would be interesting. E3 always has enough boring white dude with or swords footage every year. Smash the white male default.

Someone young at lunch order today laughed when I responded to an "or" question with yes and the follow up "which one?" Response was "both". Poor kid doesn't know enough programmers, probably. 🤣

Microsoft announced today a new tiny office planned for my backyard (Downtown Louisville) tied to larger regional endeavors in AI and IoT.

Maybe one step closer to that dream job of living with my current cost of living but a Seattle paycheck and the option for Summers in Seattle? 🤔

Just wish I was less dour about AI or more excited about IoT.