Aaron

I’m happy to report that voting from overseas is remarkably easy if you’re registered in Alabama. A friend of mine had the easiest time. Meanwhile, I am jumping through hoops for Texas to let me vote.

A reminder to please vote.

I dont speak other language. Also they spelled favor wrong!

I dunno, Thomas is still there, and I’m sure he wouldn’t be with their iron clad ethics guidelines, right?

I mean they don’t deny it. Here’s some of their representatives’ Christmas cards: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/christmas-card-guns-lauren-boebert-thomas-massie-start-new-culture-ncna1285709

I’d settle for inventory sorting

“Don’t look down! Don’t look down!” shouted the man standing before the crowd, pumping his fist to accent each word. The chant went on for about 15 seconds, around 8 times the Florida crowd copied the politician before them. The crowd hushed as he began to speak again: “This… Is about control” he started. “‘They’ want you to be fearful, to be obedient… But we’re not falling for their nonsense! They tried with the plan-demic and they’re trying again with this. Well I say NO. We will be FREE because Patriots like you and me will never let them take that freedom!”

The crowd roared in cheers as the water lapped at their ankles.

A game that captures the feeling of when Arthur Dent crash lands on that primitive planet in “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” and makes a sandwich. I want The Sandwich Maker.

You crash into this procedurally generated world. All the plants and animals are new every playthrough, and you slowly learn about them through experimentation and from the native population who has never heard of a sandwich and really doesn’t do much except eat raw ingredients. When you cook the meat from an animal instead of eating it raw, they all lose their minds with wonder and you become the town’s chef.

You harvest wild crops and cultivate better ones. You find ways to use the animal fat and meat and “milk”, you find plants that work as food, maybe their seeds are great crushed up with a little water into a paste, maybe you need to dry them out, maybe you need to de-seed them and mix them with another plant to make it taste better… on and on.

You need to work with the people there to make tools, and together you iterate out exactly what you need.

Eventually you have to find something that matches your randomised flavour pallette for the perfect sandwich. You assemble all the ingredients you’ve collected, cultivated, or created, with the tools and techniques you and the townspeople have developed, and you take a bite. It’s perfect. You win.

Thanks! Inaturalist looks way better and doesn’t require a subscription. Got a plant right away, and I like how it gets more and more precise as you move around the plant.

No you indict a ham sandwich, you convict criminals.

You guys only got one isolated revolt last time, and remarkably anyone who had a gun illegally didn’t fire it, and anyone who had them legally didn’t fire until it was the last option. Hopefully it won’t get out of hand if he loses again, and I feel a whole lot better that someone stable is in charge for the lead up to a potential transfer of power this time.

All that said, I don’t have high hopes. Bo Burnham said it best: how is the best case scenario Joe Biden

I like his automotive channel as well

A bit wet in Christchurch today

If anything good can come out of tragedy like this, maybe it can be better mental health awareness/action.

Hah yea I’ll need to do it. I got lost looking into fediverse image sharing

It’s amazing up that high, but wow was it tough to get there. That whole route is like 45 degrees incline the whole way, or its walking in a creek bed and trying not to sink in the mud! I may make a post with some pictures later today

Back to work today. It’s crazy how fast it goes from “I guess I could do more on this” to “Do all the things” so quickly.

This was a good weekend though. Went out for some geocaching on Matariki, and climbed one of the two Mt. Haast’s on Saturday, and had friends over all day Sunday.

My partner gave the reply “No, we’re just practicing”, the lady looked horrified. You asked about a near stranger’s sex life, lady. I don’t know what she expected.

A surprising variety so far. Nobody else from Christchurch?

Oooh I’m looking forward to Starfield as well. I’m hoping it’s a game I can get lost in. Also second d Deep Rock, it’s an enjoyable time with friends for sure.

All those storms lately, I’m guessing you’ll have a lot to sort through. Cool job though!