Absolutely bluer than blue skies this morning — completely cloudless, with a nice breeze.

Why, then, does it smell a bit like rain?

What a blast from the past!

“…you’ll probably want a calculator that has at least the add, subtract, multiply, and divide functions…”

https://youtu.be/km02aeRjlpw?si=DomDqE59ZowlI2cE

Two guys at table next to me having a discussion. One young, another older. Older one speaking like he’s a life coach. He’s explaining how fear is both natural and what must be overcome for a fulfilling life.

So many platitudes and sound bites.

I’m counting the minutes till he says, “Fear is scary.”

I'm typically a fan of many of the things the EU stands for and does — but not all of them.

Privacy is a good thing, I like it. And I absolutely DETEST the requirement that my address and phone number must be publicly available to sell anything in the App Store in the EU. That's fine for actual businesses, but for a solo developer with app(s) that might net me $5 year (WORLDWIDE), I simply can't afford to pay to protect my privacy with a blinded phone/address.

They can fuck right off.

A degree in textile art, a job in a fabric store, a $25 1980’s sewing machine from Goodwill and you get… bespoke stuffed animals!

A trio of isopods seen here.