• Frieren 2: Yes.

(anything else, I’d first have to watch a previous season that I skipped, and I don’t know if the hot adorableness of Torture Tortura is enough to compensate for Shouty Princess Shouting)

Dear PILs,

Whoever thought it was a good idea for Pillow to silently strip metadata should be pixelated with extreme prejudice.

Also, could ya maybe flesh out the documentation a bit? I would not know that you could add exif=somedict or pnginfo=somedict arguments to Image.save() if I hadn’t googled examples. Just knowing about the existence of those arguments would have helped explain why one of the two save paths I was using was metadata-free.

“I don’t see you in our system…”

Called the home-security company to have them come out and install new sensors on the replacement doors. After suffering through a really annoying hold system, the woman who answered had no record of my account. Until I mentioned the name of the company, at which point it turned out they’d been acquired, and their phone number was transferred over to a new central dispatch system on Friday. After she logged into the correct system, she… copied down all my information by hand, because that didn’t work either. I’m supposed to get a callback, eventually.

Really doesn’t make me optimistic about their responsiveness to alarm calls.

“I don’t see you in our system…” 2

Due to a recent acquisition that should be all over the news for the business we’re in, my team is being added to their legacy IT systems; email, VPN, Jira/Confluence, etc. The Belfast team got all their invites Monday, but I got nothing. I figured they were going by region, and I pretty much am my region, so I didn’t worry about it.

The good news is that I finally got my first notification about access.

The bad news is that it was for Teams.

“so much glitter”

(classical reference)

My Mac suddenly decided that I couldn’t open certain images and PDF files, claiming a permission problem. The well-written error message even told me how to fix it, which of course didn’t work, because it had misdiagnosed the problem. I could open the files, just not with Preview.app.

It would open 90+% of files just fine, but consistently fail on others. TL/DR: Preview.app leaks resources over time, and I’d been keeping it open because otherwise it loses my place in the PDF file I’ve been reading.

It’s not supposed to do that, either.

(in fairness, I’ve opened and closed thousands of images over the past week, often a few hundred at a time; why they wrote Preview to open all of them simultaneously, I can’t imagine, but they did. This is one of the reasons I “vibe coded” deathmatch)

Unrelated,

I am convinced that every air-fryer manufacturer staffs their cooking-guide team with people who have never seen a pizza roll. One of my Black Cyber Fortnight purchases was a Ninja Crispi Pro, and the recommended time and temperature for a bag of pizza rolls is 10-15 minutes at 450°F.

I have never seen a pizza roll survive more than 8 minutes at 375°F without bursting open and spilling out its precious lava. 10-15 at 450 is crispy-critter territory.

(okay, this was not the direction I expected Z to go with this, but I find myself unable to complain)

(discussing the previous pic on the Discord eventually led to a non-serious idea about an in-person gathering to make late-night drunk snacks)

Finally!

The key to unlocking proper pizza rolls in Z was to avoid any word that could be mistaken for Asian cuisine. “roll” means egg roll, “dumpling” means gyoza or shumai, etc; “deep-fried pillow-shaped miniature pastry” dodged the over-training bullet.

(yes, “chicken and dumpling soup” produces a thin broth with gyoza and sliced chicken floating in it; harrumph)

Feel the Uravity

(not only does she defy gravity, but also Internet Wisdom about the plausibility of the boobs-and-butt pose)

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