Just filled out the Mozilla Foundation 2026 supporter survey. I identified as a long-time supporter, contributor, donor, etc.

On this question, I might have blurred lines between the Foundation and the Corporation, but the brands are heavily intertwined so I have no regrets.

For an upcoming LARP "Arts & Science" competition I'm planning on performing a song I transcribed from Alternate Reality: The City, a Datasoft game from 1986 that I played on the Amiga.

Most of my audience would not have achieved sentence or even existed when I was playing that game. Sigh.

The game kind of sucked overall, but the songs were a highlight!

https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-alternate-reality-the-city_s9876.html

It's -25⁰C on the picket line (-37⁰C windchill) but our hearts are warmed by colleagues who flew in from across the country to stand with us.

Oh, and the anger at the employer burns fiery hot!

Thanks to Orvie from UManitoba (on the left in the photo) who joined us today, along with a number of other representatives from across Canada.

The Laurentian University Faculty Association is on strike: https://www.lufappul.ca/?page_id=6355

Sucks to be a Canadian Ex Libris customer right now.

Always fun to see current outages starting at a date in the future (07/09/2024 05:03:37 when it's 2024-09-06 22:13 UTC-4 here).

It's nice to include time zones when you have international customers. Even nicer when your services stay operational!

Sporting my brand new FloMask at work today.

Felt cute, might delete later.

Spike, a two year old uromastyx, joined our family today.

Her former owners are moving to another province and (rightfully) assumed that she wouldn't survive the three day car trip. They posted the ad on Christmas Day and Spike was in her new home twelve hours later.

I think she'll enjoy her new predator-free living quarters. Her old place had three cats and one dog, and her glass terrarium was at right angles to another terrarium housing a much larger bearded dragon.