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New M1 Apple Silicon iMac. Day one: setup. Day two: it disconnected itself from my Apple ID, forgot my fingerprint, and locked up irrevocably in System Preferences, requiring a full-on yank-the-cable move. Cool. Cooool.

Might seem unimportant but... tonight after a long Thanksgiving Day I'm grateful that my crazy-go-nuts dog was reasonably well-behaved and everyone enjoyed her company.

pre-meal meal

"Live" icons in Find My is prettttty cool.

In all kinds of weather…

"Just save me a drumstick and the neck, Chuck."

This short story by Lavie Tidhar is pretty good. RIYL Vacuum Flowers or Neuromancer ("Mili" / "Molly"... some references are too obvious. LOL)

i sprung for a month of HBO just to watch Dune (despite obvious ways to… acquire… it.). Late to the movie-review party but i loved it. my only gripe is the Duncan Idaho stunt-casting. I don’t not like that guy but it just doesn’t fit; he’s too comicbook fun. Imagine his Ghola.🤔

playing with Vue.js for the 1st time. Looked at it a couple of years ago & it seemed too foreign, all those odd bits stuck into HTML elements. I’m building a simple app that just needs a smidge of “reactivity”, (🤮) without all of React or whatever, and Vue fits the bill, I think

experimenting with youtube music in lieu of spotify (since i’m paying for it as part of my YT Premium account). the algo gave me a playlist that included (in order) “The Captain of Her Heart,” “The Ghost in You,” and “Only Shallow.”

the best of the 70s, 80s, and 90s?! 😶