Apartment hunting in NYC
apartment hunting in NYC is like:mental health: broken, destroyed, burned outphysical health: over the past 3 days I've walked 10, 10 and 7 miles respectively. An entire marathon!!
Updates about my Life
SJ Spotlight sues over private email use
"San José Spotlight is suing San Jose, Mayor Liccardo over private email use"Really great to see this, it's absurd how flagrantly SJ and Liccardo have been continuing to skirt California's public records law after losing in the CA Supreme Court a few years ago.https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-spotlight-is-suing-san-jose-mayor-liccardo-over-private-email-use/
Run the Burbs
Run the Burbs is the real spin-off we needed from Kim's Convenience. Fantastic show so far, highly recommend it.https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2022/01/03/canada-were-your-new-family-andrew-phungs-run-the-burbs-picks-up-the-baton-from-kims-convenience.html
2022 goals
New year, new job, new goals. In no specific order: Move out of my parents' house. Contribute something meaningful to SecureDrop. Contribute something meaningful to MediaWiki. Not get COVID. Continue contributing to Mailman. Continue working on mwbot-rs, while having fun and learning more Rust. Get more stickers (lack of in-person…
Change in email address
My @member.fsf.org email address has expired and unfortunately I don't intend to renew it in the near future.https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=Contact has my current email addresses and other methods of contact.
My first typewriter
The first typewriter I've ever used (and built)!
Generational differences
Generational differences:My mom gets PG&E notifications via a phone call and I get them via text message.
Claims to the name Meta
Things that have a better claim to the name "Meta": Meta-Wiki an IRC channel I'm in me (misspelled) The other MetaWiki
RIP Gary Paulsen
https://comicbook.com/irl/news/gary-paulsen-writer-of-ya-hatchet-novels-dies-at-82/ :(Hatchet and Winterdance are two of my favorite books, and my very worn copies still sit atop my bookshelf.
LEGO Masters (Australia)
LEGO Masters (Australia) is waaaay better than the US version, it's not even close. You get to see the builds in progress more often and for longer, less host interruptions and showboating and better feedback from the judge.
Jeopardy! drama
Mike Richards was a bad selection for host even before The Ringer story. Everyone should buy Claire McNear's Jeopardy! book, it's fantastic and she's a great journalist. Disappointed over how toxic various J! online communities have gotten over this. Above all else, the stars of the show are CONTESTANTS, not…
2021 Free Comic Book Day
Our 2021 #FCBD haul! The first two rows are the free comics, the rest were all on sale.Not pictured: a fantastic Doctor Strange poster my sister found, still needs flattening
LEGO Discovery Space Shuttle
Took a little over 5 hours to build the LEGO Discovery Space Shuttle set plus Hubble Telescope, with help from family members. Largest set (by piece count) that we've ever done before, was a blast.Timelapse was captured using gphoto2 and stitched with Kdenlive. Lighting is wack sorry, I probably shouldn't…
Wiki henna
Got some henna for my cousin's wedding, drawn by my sister. It's tradition to hide the initials of your SO in it, so she added a "W" (you can guess where the puzzle piece comes from) and a Debian swirl. :)
Sunrise over Iowa
Sunrise somewhere over Iowa