Finished reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚
I really liked this one. It’s a wild, dramatic story well told. I relate in very broad strokes, especially towards the end. Eveyone who wanted to read this probably already has but I recommend it.
I didn’t realize that the Coyote vs. Acme movie is based on a short piece in The New Yorker from 1990, by Ian Frazier. They’re both good!
This is absolutely fascinating.
Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.
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Started reading: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 📚
I had a draft saved from 2 years ago about my media diet. Some may say it’s too late to finish and publish it, but I say let’s sit with what I was peeping back in 2024.
I laughed a lot.
It’s not every day I learn a new word. Today it was “squamous”.
covered with or characterized by scaled: a squamous black hide.
Surprisingly heartwarming! Others have noted the anti-capitalist themes, which are certainly here, and made more relevant by the movie almost not seeing release so Warner could write it off on their taxes. It's also got some solid jokes and Will Forte is always great. I didn't love how the movie looked; the animation is all 3D made to look like hand drawn, and it ends up looking like a video game. All and all, good fun.
I spent too long getting Retro Achievements working with my emulator, but it’s finally done. Now I’m off to earn digital awards for 30 year old games. 🕹️
Very funny. Relationships go boom.
Clocked.
I was standing on the street and suddenly got the powerful and unmistakable smell of Garnier Fructis. No one was near me, and I wasn’t moving. The only possible explanation: a ghost was taking a shower.
I stumbled across the dc command, after mistyping cd. It’s a math tool. It’s pretty esoteric in my opinion, but you can switch bases, which means you can do something like convert from a hex color to …
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Finished reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 📚
Two weeks ago, I wrote about finishing Wolves of the Calla.
Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.
I made a mistake; my thoughts, above, were supposed to be for Song of Susannah, which I finished on August 11th, not Wolves of the Calla. Looks like I forgot to log “Wolves”!
I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana.
Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the mainstream and people moved on to hip hop and dub step and then everyone got sick of rock and roll and went to raves.
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I recently learned about the wcurl command. It’s a wrapper around curl, focused on making downloading files simple without passing options. It has some heuristics to figure out what to do with the …
The old God shot, taken from a car window.
I was muttering the abbreviation API (a, pee, eye) under my breath, and shifted over one phonetic stop to “ape pee eye”. The puerile interpretation is right up front, which did make me …
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Started reading: The Dark Tower 7:The Dark Tower by Stephen King 📚
Finished reading: The Dark Tower V Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 📚
Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.
Silly dream: I want my domain, chrisdeluca.me, to return something for every protocol supported by curl. 💽
What do you call an undead creature that sucks your nose?
Nostrilatu.
Today I learned about the Trivial File Transfer Protocol, and the matching tftp command. It’s like FTP, but much more simple, less secure, uses less memory, and is sometimes used in initial bootloading on low memory devices. It isn’t used over the internet, given the security concerns.
This trivia brought to you by me mistyping something in the terminal and seeing this command in the autocomplete suggestions. 💽