Sigh. XCode is back to taking half an hour “Copying shared cache symbols” on every launch. It didn’t do that for a while. #xcode #failure

I guess I’m allowed to eat.

Not a productive day, by any definition, so far. Ugh.

Happy National Serpent Day

It’s 15ºF this morning. This is for all you who wanted winter and like the cold. You’re welcome. ;)

Weird. XCode mysteriously started defaulting to building for my iPhone at launch, rather than remembering the last platform. #xcode

Hi. Welcome to February, the short-sheeted month. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

A partial government shutdown is like being partially pregnant.

Well, that’s weird. The local grocery store chain doesn’t carry baking yeast. #failure

The latest “scam” “spam” email I’ve been getting is a “Follow-up” on a previous AI-generated scam/spam email. Easy to spot, for me. #spam #mail #scam #failure

Design question: Do most-recent items get sorted first or last? #design #ui #ux #programming #philosophy

Any organization will fight to surivve. That is the primary goal or any organization, trumping any other human goal. The older the organization, the more it “feels” it deserves to survive, even if it has to drastically change in order to do so. #life #organization #business #government

We alls share problems, inferiorities, and deficiencies. Some of us just try to overcome them. #life

It’s cold out. It’s cold enough to freeze any simile or metaphor. Not that it’s the coldest it’s ever been. But cold enough to freeze any grammatical phrase. #wriing #life

Stating your position/opinion doesn’t mean you have a logical reason, only an opinion or belief. #life #failure

Arguing involves emotion. Debating involves logic. Too bad, most have never taken a logic course. #life #failure #logic

“No, son. Timeric doesn’t mean I have cancer.” #writing

You’ll know when AI takes over, when all the dev/programming/design/art conferences and conventions are gone, especially when run by AI. #A #onference #convention #failure #programming

If the tasks you perform day-in and day-out never change, you are in a rut. That’s ok, if you’re dull and boring or you can never change. #life #failure #gamedev

What if a game loop kept changing and kept you thinking? Predictability in games is like being cozy in your life, even if the game isn’t cozy. #game #gamedev #failure #lif

“When you are out of money, it only means you can’t buy things with money, not that you are denied happiness.” #writing

Many look to the past as an ideal, because that is when they were happy, not realizing happiness is relative and they deny the future for the past. #life #failure

You don’t need to be perfect to make an improvement. #life

If you can’t’ have fun (at your expense), you aren’t. #life

I’m doing something weird. If you come up to me at C3 and say “I want a free book.” No alterations.) I’ll give you a book. if you say, “I want to get drunk,” I’ll buy you a drink (your choice–one.). Assuming you aren’t already or near being drunk–my call. #writing #reading #books #mdc3con