I work for a tech company. A decade ago we got rid of user acceptance testing (and our entire QA team) and invested in a bigger service desk department. We only do unit testing, but actual customer facing bugs are discovered and reported by customers. AI, if we actually invested in it, could improve our quality if we used it for UI regression testing.

So it goes.

“You see, I’m a bilingual. I’m a bilingual illiterate. I can’t read in two languages.”

My wife just sticks her fallen hair on the wall tiles. From the moment I first saw it I knew she was a keeper.

Looks like Alan Rickman. I wouldn’t mind him running the US government.

Tiger Woods golf was the shit! I miss a good golf game on the Switch…

Here I am, happy with my 10 yo desktop, playing games from my backlog, and teaching my kids to play Duck Tales and Dynablaster. Can’t wait for to introduce them to The Secret of Monkey Island and Sam and Max Hit the Road. From what I hear, most parents in my neighbourhood are doing something similar, so there’s little peer pressure to get the latest hardware to play the latest games.

My first thought was to flush the toilet whenever you needed warmer water. I used to rent an apartment where I had to turn on cold water in the sink to get hot enough water in the shower.

Cassidy from The Preacher would like to have a word…

I was recently thinking that if I died and went to hell, the greatest torture that could be inflicted on me would be to show me how much productive time I wasted pulling the meat.

Mouse jiggler running for third day, volume on max to hear a potential Teams message, and I’m spending my days playing board games with the kids.

Haha, no. I was tempted to visit Paddy’s Lunch, but being in Boston I opted for clam chowder, a good burger (where you actually get to specify how you want it made), and some Italian. I was mildly amused when I walked by a pub that advertised a band called The Gobshites. Certainly won’t help to dispell Irish stereotypes.

Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.

In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.

Just came back from a long weekend in Boston, and I loved it. It reminded me very much of Dublin where I live:

• Expensive as hell.
• Weather forecast is never right.
• You can understand the locals only when they are drunk.

But the food was great, and the T was lightyears ahead of the Dublin metro system.

Last weekend I found that my original floppies for Eye of the Beholder II are still perfectly usable. Now get off my lawn, you young whippersnapper.

Banned from r/worldnews for “racism” (said that the Russian elites have been committing social and moral degradation for centuries, by killing, imprisoning or exiling anyone with independent thoughts). Banned from numerous subreddits for “participating in a hate subreddit” (correcting someone once in r/KotakuInAction).

Mint, and I’ll stay with mint. Perhaps I’m not a good Linux user material, but I just want something that works and doesn’t get into the way. You know: a reliable, unobtrusive operating system.

I have two alarm clocks set up. One on mu bedside table to wake up, and one in my home office to go to bed.

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I’m having UFO: Enemy Unknown flashbacks.