Oddments of High Unimportance

A software engineer posted all the Google searches she made during a week of work:

What I’m trying to show with all this is that you can do something 100 times but still not remember how to do it off the top of your head. Never be ashamed of googling, even if it seems like the most basic thing you’re looking up.

Google doesn’t know everything, of course. An engineer I work with spent an hour using Google searches to find a specific mathematical formula. He found a book on his shelf that gave him his answer in 3 minutes.

Still, I hardly ever bookmark pages anymore because…why create another junk drawer to lose stuff in and rummage through? Just search – Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing – whatever your pleasure.

Orange Crate Art:

So from small to large: nonpareil, minion, brevier, bourgeois, long primer, small pica, pica, english.

The latest in midway fun foods at the NC State Fair.

My stomach hurts just looking at the pictures. The Reese’s Donut (which tempts me, I’ll admit!) chock-a-block with the The Sloppy Pig (Texas Toast covered in Sloppy Joe mix + cheese + topped with bacon crumbles) is enough to make me urp.

Currently reading: Outside the Gates of Eden by Lewis Shiner 📚

A stupid text message I got today from a stupid spammer.

Birthday breakfast at Hope Valley Diner

Uncle Terrance | Eruditorum Press

There are countless figures who made Doctor Who what it is. Indeed, there’re countless figures who made it great. But Terrance Dicks is the man who made it a show that thrills and vexes me enough to pen a million words analyzing it and still not feel done with it. He made it at once inscrutable and approachable, simple and fun yet endlessly thorny. He’s not why Doctor Who is good. But he is why generations love it, and why generations more will. There will never be anyone like him again on the program. There never could be. People like him don’t happen twice. They scarcely happen once. Thank the gods they did.

And the latest update. I have Downlink set to update my desktop every 20 minutes today. Not sure of the lag time between the satellite snapping the image and the app processing it, but it’s effectively real-time for my needs.

Working at home today, awaiting the rains from Hurricane Dorian here in central NC. The coast has been evacuated. This screenshot is of my desktop; the photo is NASA satellite imagery from a Mac program called Downlink.

Where supper and the toasted butter coconut pie cannot be improved on.