"Deeply amused by those telling me I’ve lost their admiration due to the disrespect I show violent, duplicitous rapists. I shall file your lost admiration carefully in the box where I keep my missing fucks."
— J.K. Rowling smacks down cisphobic trollsVotin’ versus Vaccin’...
- You have to show ID.
- You have to show up in person.
- You can only do it once.
- They don’t count boxes of vaccines that are stored under tables and pulled out after everyone is sent home for the night.
Just sayin’.
Anime update
Best of the season!
Endro! Okay, it’s not from this season, but I did binge-watch it again over the weekend, and it remains charming and fresh.
Slime Diaries, episode 2
It delivered more cute monster girls. This is all I really needed it to do.
300 Slimy Years, episode 1
If it were any fluffier, it would float away. I’m okay with that for now.
Zombieland Saga: Revenge, episode 2
Don’t ask me why Crunchyroll rolled over to season 1 after I watched last week’s episode. This was briefly confusing, since I thought we’d already had the recap…
This episode continues the trend of being less wacky, more character-driven. Not at all what I was expecting based on the first season, but well-done.
If You Meet The Spider In The Forest Kill Her, episode 14
Yeah, Crunchyroll did the same rollover with this series, but I caught it before wasting any time rewatching the first episode. In German.
Given how much time was spent on the B Ark this time, though, that might have been preferable.
(arachne is unrelated)
The Socially-Awkward Demon Lord and His Ever-Growing Slave Harem, episodes 2.1 & 2.2
Episode 1: “Holy tentakoo wape!”
Episode 2: Good news: more sources of eye candy. Bad news: rapper in the OP and ED. At least with the ED, the dancing chibis take some of the sting out.
The story? Boobs.
I’m already looking forward to…
…next season. The end of it, anyway, because Fall is when we’re supposed to get another season of The Grooming Of The Raccoon Child Bride. Also a series about girls playing ice hockey, which would only be worthwhile if the games devolve into real hockey fights and they MCSA each other. Probably not going to happen, so that’s out.
Unrelated,
After I hit up the vaccine rodeo on Saturday, I should have time to finish cleaning up the current state of Virginia’s story and start working on more. This has become more urgent due to Jack drifting back into my brain and getting a first start at an opening scene.
And when I say “rodeo”, I mean that the only place I could get a vaccine appointment scheduled was the mass drive-in event at the Salinas Sports Complex, home of the California Rodeo.
Biodegradable, Dishwasher-safe
Why do I suspect that one of these claims is not true?
Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that Amazon had it as a front-page lightning deal, and yet clicking through shows it as: “This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location.”
Today I learned…
…that if you use the on-disk queueing feature in
rsyslog to robustly deliver logs to a
central server after a network outage, and the contents of any of
those queues is corrupted by a bad server crash, rsyslogd will
segfault at startup without even a tiny hint about what’s wrong, even
if you turn on debug output or run it under strace.
Also, your monitoring system really ought to check that rsyslogd is
not segfaulting at startup.
Continuous Exfiltration
Codecov compromised. In January, and they didn’t find out until April 1st.
Dear Sony,
You really should proofread your Amazon listings:
Unrelated, if you like K-cups…
…Costco will have the Keurig K-Supreme Plus C on sale for $99 on Wednesday the 14th (online and probably in most warehouses). It looks like a solid upgrade from my Elite, with a better reservoir design and a possibly-better grounds-watering system, but I’ll likely pass, simply because I really only use it for my once-a-day liquid pie, and have mostly been drinking the output of the Nespresso in between cans of Diet Pepsi. The Elite should last me at least another five years at that rate.
On that note, a strong espresso pod plus 90 grams of crushed ice plus a healthy dose of sweetener (in my case, concentrated Splenda syrup), poured into the Barista Recipe Maker foam-as-a-service device and set to the “Iced Frappé” mode produces a 12-ounce glass entirely filled with delicious and quite stable coffee foam, with the remaining ice chunks at the bottom.
The FAAS has a setting for “Iced Nitro” that produces almost as much foam, but it’s not as stable, and quickly turns back into liquid. No other milk frothing device I’ve seen appears to be capable of handling ice at all, while this one will handle full cubes (which my fridge-door crusher sometimes lets through).
Related to unrelated…
…Costco also has a Nespresso Vertuo Next bundle for $169 that has at least $100 worth of extra goodies in it. Downside: the Next has been widely panned online due to quality-control issues, but oddly enough, it’s the same thing that people complain about in pretty much every Keurig review I’ve seen, even my original Elite, namely water going everywhere except into the coffee cup.
So, take that with a crystal of Folgers.
Spider Dragons from across the room
The Spidershot Channel and the B Ark That Couldn’t
Kumoko: “Let me show you its features!”
B Ark: Oh, look, a new character whose only personality trait is that she’s the victim of racial discrimination. Why was she added to an already-uninteresting plotline?
(elf maid is unrelated)
Dragon Maid filler
The second season doesn’t start until July, but Crunchyroll has started running some new short-shorts.
The death of remote control
Logitech’s Harmony series were pretty much the last remotes standing, but now they’re gone. They’re apparently promising to keep the servers running indefinitely (because while the products remain functional, you need the servers to change your configuration), and keep supporting new components, but yeah, they’re just going to stop working one day. Pity, really, since there doesn’t seem to be an adequate replacement; Amazon’s FireTV will try to control connected components, but I’ve found it so limited and unreliable that I turned it off completely. If the Harmony stops working, I’ll have to go back to having three or four remotes sitting out on the coffee table, like our primitive ancestors did.
(delivery girl is unrelated)
WaifuSpider
Miku who?
I’ve noticed that when I like a picture of Hatsune Miku, it tends to be one of the ones where I have to read the caption or tags to realize it’s her.
Avenue Q
Are the characters in Avenue Q horrible people because they’re New Yorkers, or because they’re Liberals?
Also, has the show been destroyed by cancel culture yet? It’s chock full of -isms that are officially verboten in Our Modern Era.
Combatants Will Be Loud And Boring
I did not expect anything from the KonoSuba author’s first attempt at an isekai story, and I did not get anything. Except a lot of shouting, which the creators seem to think makes terrible dialogue funnier. Kind of like Archer, in that way.
Coma For Slime
Episode 1 of the 4-koma-based spinoff of The Adventures of SuperSlime delivered the one thing I required of it: a better look at the upgraded goblin girls of RimuruVille. Other than that, the attempt to paper over the seams between the vignettes made it nearly incoherent.
(technically not a trap!)
Revenge!
Cute dead girls doing cute dead things to rebuild their cute dead career. Surprisingly sober way to start things off, given the previous wackiness.
Tomorrow: The Return of SpiderSpider and The B Ark
They took a week off between cours. I almost didn’t notice.
(spider is unrelated)
3D cheesecake: white
For busy times, simple themes. First up, girls wearing something white. Where “wearing” is loosely interpreted in the NSFW section…
Urakata: 2.6
Mission accomplished and new mysteries unlocked, we parted from the delightful company of Miss Jemima “Jem” Bobo, loaded up the trunk with our loot, and planned our next move.
Sally’s thoughts were completely compatible with mine. “Why don’t you come home with us for supper, Kit? You could even spend the night.”
“Oh, I’d love to, Miss Sanders, but I think I should go straight home now. She… my stepmother will be quite concerned if I’m out after dark.” Sally didn’t need to feel the sudden squeeze of Kit’s hand to notice her distress.
“Well, then, let’s take you home and introduce ourselves, to assure your mother that you’ve been in good hands, and see how she feels about that sleepover!” Clever Sally cheerfully swept us into the back seat and asked Kit where she lived.
“By Oak and Ash.”
Sally and I both twitched at that, although it must have been for different reasons. Maybe it wasn’t as nice a neighborhood as ours.
If someone had accused me of being self-centered and egotistical, I’d have congratulated them on their ability to recognize basic laws of the universe. Mockingly, of course. I’d naturally assumed that the Powers had assigned me a friend, and it had never crossed my mind that Kit had her own reasons to seek me out, or her own agency, for that matter.
The mix of reluctance and fear on her face made me oddly homesick. For there, I mean, which wasn’t a very nice place, although admittedly some of that was just me. In any case, I could tell that there was at least one Mean Girl waiting at home for Kit, and I was itching for a fight. Not out of any mortal concern for a friend, of course; I was pretty sure I hadn’t gone native yet. No, this clearly fell under “hands off my stuff” rules. 99% sure. 95%-ish.
I whispered my question, though I was sure Sally was listening in. “Why don’t you want to go home, Kit? What are you afraid of?”
Her hand trembled in mine, and she looked down and away. “My wicked stepmother.”
Much revision coming up…
Worlds' End
Isekai right back at ya
“Reborn in another world that was uninspired and derivative, I got tired of winning every battle and used my OP ability to destroy it, and now I’ve been reborn in my original world as my grandfather, so to prevent a paradox that will destroy every universe everywhere, I’ve got to sleep with my own grandma, ewwww!”
DS9 would have been more fun…
…if Odo had used his hammy Chef Louis voice from The Little Mermaid.
Nice try, Twitter…
