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If I'm on holiday and a hotel offers me eggs benedict for breakfast, I'll almost always order it. But I'd never make it at home.
I tell myself that this is because hollandaise sauce is notoriously easy to mess up. That I don't want to go through the learning process only to make something inferior to what I eat as a holiday treat.
But maybe it's just that my brain wants to keep eggs benedict as a signifier that I'm on holiday. That I can unplug from the world, stop thinking about work, and enjoy a leisurely breakfast with some creamy eggs and a long black coffee.
Maybe eggs benedict just has to remain "holiday food", for me.
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RSS readers rock. Having a single place you connect for a low-bandwidth bundle of everything you might want to read means it doesn't matter how slow the WiFi is on your aeroplane, you can get all the text content in one tap.
(I'm using Capy Reader to connect to FreshRSS, by the way.)
Time to catch up on some news, blogs, etc.!
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Our kid doesn't like bagel holes. She'll eat the rest of the bagel, but not the hole.
At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for finding things like this most mornings.
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On a plate, buttered bagel has been nibbled all around the outside, leaving only the hole surrounded in a thin circle of bread.
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I like it when the Internet says "yes, and".
I like it when the Internet says "yes, but".
I even like it when the Internet says "no, because".I'm not so keen when the Internet says "well, actually",
(Probably because it reminds me of what
a shit I was in some not-yet-forgotten time.)But I don't like when the Internet rallies a brigade
To pick apart a character flaw I have, but hate,
Or to attack something I'm not, and expect me to defend.So perhaps next time, start with "yes, and", "yes, but",
Or even "no, because"... or just say nothing, and
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Highlight of my workday was debugging an issue that turned out to be nothing like what the reporter had diagnosed.
The report suggested that our system was having problems parsing URLs with colons in the pathname, suggesting perhaps an encoding issue. It wasn't until I took a deep dive into the logs that I realised that this was a secondary characteristic of many URLs found in customers' SharePoint installations. And many of those URLs get redirected. And SharePoint often uses relative URLs when it sends redirections. And it turned out that our systems' redirect handler... wasn't correctly handling relative URLs.
It all turned into a hundred line automated test to mock SharePoint and demonstrate the problem... followed by a tiny two-line fix to the actual code. And probably the most-satisfying part of my workday!
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This morning it took me three attempts to put on a t-shirt the right way around.
I don't think I slept too well.
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As previously indicated, I'm not anticipating cosplaying anybody. But I think I could do Greg Universe.
Not young Greg Universe, the Star Child of 'Story for Steven'... which seems to be the only variety anybody's ever cosplayed as before if an image search is to be believed. No, I mean: overweight old balding Greg Universe. I could totally pull that look off.
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Composite image showing Greg Universe from Steven Universe, in both his 'young, rock star' version and the more-familiar 'old balding car wash owner who lives in his van' version.
Fake tan lines, white t-shirt (I'd probably make a 'guitar dad' one!), sweatpants, carrying a guitar. Easy.
Again, not that I'm planning to. Just saying that I could...
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Still at MegaConLive. I've not done this kind of con before (and still wouldn't, were it not for my tweenager and her various obsessions). Not my jam, and that's fine.
But if there's one thing for which I can sing it's praises: everybody we've met is super friendly and nice. Sure, you can loudly telegraph your fandoms and identities via cosplay, accessories, masks, badges, bracelets or whatever... but it's also just a friendly community of folks to just talk to.
The fashion choices are, more than anything, just an excuse to engage: a way to say "hey, here's a conversation starter if you'd like to talk to me!"
Overheard a conversation between my kid and another of a similar age, and there was a heartwarming moment where the other kid said, "oh wow, I thought I was the only one!" Adorbs.
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Convention stage with MegaConLive branding.
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I may have been dragged to MegaConLive London by my multi-fandom loving 12-year-old, but I at least managed to find somebody worth getting a selfie with.
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Dan Q with Eddie Bowley.
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My 12-year-old's persuaded me to take her to MegaConLive London this weekend.
As somebody who doesn't pay much attention to the pop culture circles represented by such an event (and hasn't for 15+ years, or whenever it was that Asdfbook came out?)... have you got any advice for me, Internet?
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Inspired by a conversation with Elle (@e11e@mastodon.social), I expanded my FreshRSS-to-blogroll generator to support injecting 88×31 buttons (where I have them) for folks I follow.
There's still a way to go, but my blogroll's looking a little prettier as a result.
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I think my "six seven"-obsessed younger child was in the kitchen with a biro earlier. How do I know, you ask?
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Close up of a bunch of bananas. The numbers 6 and 7 have been drawn on them in ball point pen.
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Well my day, week, and year (which has been off to a slightly ropey start) got a whole heap better today when I received a postcard from August (@august@chaos.social) & Sappho (@kruemmelspalter@chaos.social), sent from 39c3 on a CCC postcard... with a CCC stamp (thanks, Deutsche Post)!
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Both sides of a postcard. The reverse shows a red-on-black illustration of the shape of a computer keyboard, superimposed upon the outline of a star, alongside, white text reading 'Chaos Computer Club'. On the front is the message: 'My girlfriend and I really love your blog, so when we saw that you accept postcards, we knew we had to send you one from this year's Chaos Communication Congress - 39c3! You're awesome, please keep doing what you're doing! August & Sappho @august@chaos.social (Mastodon) kruemmelspalter.org (Website)'.
Super cool, and exactly the mood boost I needed today.
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Tonight I learned that when my electric car gets down to 5% battery, it sounds an alarm.
And that when it gets down to 4% battery, it sounds a louder alarm.
And that when it gets down to 3% battery, it engages 'limited performance' mode and shows a picture of a tortoise.
And that when it gets down to 2%, and you've already turned off the heating and the radio and you're wondering how much power the windscreen wipers are using... that's when it stops showing you it's estimated range.
Fortunately, I then only had half a mile left to go. But for a while there it felt a little bit hairy!
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Electronic car dashboard showing 3% battery, a 'limited performance' warning, and an icon of a turtle in a yellow circle.
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Bitterly cold and starkly beautiful, this morning: West Oxfordshire is blanketed in an impenetrably thick freezing fog.
It's quite pretty, though I'm regretting not bringing my gloves out with me!
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Tree-flanked fields almost impossible to discern through a blanket of thick white fog.