Uncertain about the truth of climate change?

Ask the insurance actuaries.

My résumé/CV gets longer with each contract I complete, but I think it is saying less as a result.

I need to revamp it. Not sure how best to structure it.

Maybe having two versions: “the career story” and “the details” (the latter of which is closer to what I have now)?

I’ll probably start down this route, at least for the web version — unless someone has a better suggestion for a software developer with more than 20 years of experience.

It looks as though I joined App●net seven years ago today. 🗓

Is that right? 🤔

Either way, I miss some of the apps, like Riposte and Felix. I still interact with a subset of the people on Pnut●io (among other platforms). 😄

My current (and recently modified) iPhone dock contents: Drafts, Micro.blog, OmniFocus, Marvis Pro.

STIPE!!

The kids go back to school tomorrow.

Between a lengthy bathroom demo+remodel and then summer break, my only-child self has not had the alone time I crave for really cranking code.

I used to make up for this by regularly working in the wee hours, but I’m really trying to get more sleep (at night, even!) for once in my life.

I’m not sure I’ll stick with it.

I am definitely a curmudgeon in terms of my old school preference for purchasing music (and find myself buying more from Bandcamp than iTunes these days to better support the artists), but I also know I’ll switch to streaming someday (and likely save tons of money as a result).

Will I continue past the trial? I dunno. Will my purchases transition to being exclusively for artists on Bandcamp? Will I start purchasing more vinyl?? Or will I cancel and push off “the inevitable” a while longer?

Time will tell.

In the meantime, I’ve still got a bunch of pre-orders I’ll let ride. :)

It’s surprising how often I wish I had a second camera handy to capture when iOS goes crazy on my phone. Screenshots never work until the insanity has resolved, of course.

Just had an app screen contents appear as the app icon in Springboard.

I enjoy seeing Tool dominate the music charts since adding their back catalog to digital services — and now they have the #1 spot in all of iTunes for their new track. 🎵

I’m missing The Aristocrats concert tonight. Just too much else to do right now. :(

Consoled myself with getting another of their albums (and also one from opener, Travis Larson Band).

Any other week and I would have been there.

A while back, I set up notifications for some specific, individual accounts in IG and Tw, and only ever open those apps for that. It’s been nice.

I’d prefer to subscribe to those particular feeds with RSS/atom, though. I should look into setting that up somehow.

I’m already feeling like a grumpy old man tonight (tonight was fun), but what does it mean to have 26k followers with only 11 posts on IG?

🎵 I’ve also been on a kick listening to more Triumph lately.

I never saw them live, though I was lucky enough to attend a guitar clinic + concert with solo Rik Emmett once in the early 90s.

Had nearly forgotten how much I enjoy Suicidal Tendencies.

In particular —for me— Join the Army and How Will I Laugh Tomorrow… When I Can’t Even Smile Today are still so fun. 🎵

Addendum: A friend and I bought concert tickets today. The lineup = Ministry, Primus, Slayer. 🤘

Does the fact that there is –in my lifetime– now a 3rd generation of Charlie’s Angels mean that I’m getting old?

This year, for the first time, I walked in the Independence Day parade with my street’s float. It was a good time! My wife and kids participate every year, but I usually don’t. This year’s float was a Saturn V rocket. Happy 4th! 🇺🇸

Biked 7 miles 🚴‍♂️ and now having a beer 🍺 at one of my traditional stops here: The Big Bamboo Café.

They no longer offer “The War Dog”, but I had it once: a cheese-injected, bacon-wrapped, deep-fried hot dog with chili and more cheese on top. It was good, but once was enough. 🌭

Eating dinner. Outdoor seating. Hoping for the advent of nano drones AI-trained to keep flies away from the table.

I often use MarsEdit to —among other things— fix typos in my posts. I just realized I need to figure out how to do it without MarsEdit this week since I don’t have my computer with me (nor an iOS version ;)

Just had one of the servers bring me a water un-prompted. I thanked him, and he replied with a big grin, “no problem, Scott Ian.”

He knew I was not actually Mr. Ian of Anthrax —despite the notable chin-beard style we share (along with other rockers, like Jordan Rudess)— but he took the chance I’d know who that was. :) A brief conversation about metal followed.

On vacation. Perhaps I should take this opportunity to post more often. :)

It might help if the cellular and WiFi at the rental house wasn’t essentially non-existent.

I don’t have the money for one of these, but I’d still like one. :) MIDI Sprout

Heard about it here.

There has never been a good “field guide” app on iOS for North American trees. I wish there was, though I suspect the demand is low enough that there probably never will be.

When I was a kid, nuclear war was the big doomsday worry. “It could happen.”

Watching the Ice on Fire documentary now, and my kids have climate change as an analogous worry — with a difference that it is happening.

I have a road trip coming up. Made a new playlist for it with these artists: The Dear Hunter (ht: @theWeeklyListen), Translatlantic, Flying Colors, Porcupine Tree, Spock’s Beard, Riverside (ht: @jacob ), Haken, Big Big Train (ht: @joec ), Steven Wilson, Storm Corrosion, and Opeth