Like an earworm that had been through a torturous science experiment, I woke up with an odd and unexpected medley of Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell, Bobby Helms’ Jingle Bell Rock, and Wings’ Silly Love Songs in my brain.

Tomorrow, I’ll be celebrating Stanislav Petrov Day.

Zoinkees! I’ve lost 14lbs in the last month, nearly 12 of that in the last week.

This is a heck of an illness. At least I’m finally on the upswing. It will be interesting to see how my weight trends from here as I slowly return to normal eating.

So far, since dinner on Friday, I’ve had a grand total of about 250 calories of food (consisting of plain toast and Pedialyte).

So, I’ve come to realize that a bright side of being sick is its benefit to the grocery budget. 😏

“Heartbreaker”. 🎸

Whose song of this title is “better” in your opinion: Led Zeppelin or Pat Benatar?

TFW your 7-day average (or, I think more accurately, 7-fast rolling average) for fasting duration is more than 25 hours — because you’ve been ill.

If in the 1980s you had told me that Stryper would have the #1 album in the Metal category on iTunes in the year 2020 (putting aside that I wouldn’t have known what iTunes was in the 80s), I would have really wondered about the future.

I might have thought, “Is 2020 kinda awesome, or do things get weird?”

I may not post here consistently, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have streaks going on elsewhere! 🤓😎

This is from Duolingo.

Listening to an album that is 36 years old today. 🎶🤘

TFW your 15-minute stand up meeting takes 1hr 15min.

I’ve been studying a little bit of Morse Code for the heck of it, and while I’m getting better, the difference between “X” and “=“ keeps tripping me up.

Fun bonus episode from one of the (growing number of) podcasts I support.

An old memory is currently playing in my brain: the chorus of my friend’s band’s eponymous song from high school, Don’t Shake the Box, the Nuts are at the Bottom. (And, yes, that whole thing was the band name.)

Even though our trip to Iceland had to be canceled, I’m continuing to learn a little bit of Icelandic (we’ll get there someday!). The Drops app recently added a new section for pandemic-related terms, which is pretty great.

I just watched a little highlight video of some of Stipe Miocic’s UFC fights. I think my heart rate probably rose by 15BPM while sitting still on the couch.

I get so nervous watching him! It’s bad enough live, but even on replay I feel an excited stress. He fights again soon (August 15), and I am going to lose my mind watching it.

For me, he’s just so connected to Cleveland sports and the breaking of the city’s long losing streak. He’s an archetypal Clevelandar in many ways. A little awkward at times, very real, hard-working, and a champion.

I like DC (his opponent), but I’ll be rooting, hooting, and hollering for Stipe.

I was reminded today of the “Robocaster” that an artist I met back at SecondConf in 2013 designed, so in searching for a video of it to show to a friend, I found this fairly comprehensive article about him and the musical genre he co-coined(?). If you ever get a chance to talk to Moldover, he’s a really nice guy.

Achievement unlocked: persistently-stuck oven drawer unstuck!!

Life is too short to shave more than once per week.

Did I just force my daughter to listen to Weird Al Yankovic’s The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota?

Yes, yes I did.

And she is not a fan. 😂

TFW you realize you might be almost as comfortable in vscode as you are in Xcode.

I keep learnin’.

Every day.

Trying to improve.

Sometimes I take a step (or three) back.

But I try to keep moving forward.

It’s halfway through the year, and according to Apple Books and Amazon Kindle (so, not counting audio or print books, of which I’ve finished far fewer), I’ve read 31 books so far in 2020.

I think I might prefer a pages or words metric, as some of these books were not terribly long.

Still, I’m pleased with my progress. ☺️

I have wanted to get back to Hong Kong so badly, for so long. The last time I was there was in early 2001.

Now, I fear for HK. Pandemic aside, I’m sadly less sure I’d actually want to return now.

Heck, I’d probably get arrested for being loudly pro-democracy — honestly, if I do eventually go back, there’s a good chance I’ll make some kind of racket. 👀

Yeah, I think I’m done with Firefox. Years ago, I was able to AppleScript it enough for my purposes, but now it’s simply a disaster.

Anybody know if Keyboard Maestro, SikuliX, or similar can be used to control Firefox?

I happened upon this unexpected video today.

I’m glad it exists.