Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. — Rhett Butler

You can’t sleep, there are monsters nearby.

After about 9 years, my Sony MDR-ZX770BN broke, of course, not because they were bad, but because I was a moron and pulled them the wrong way. I’m actually sad about this, because they were solid headphones, with great range and still a great battery life, even after all this time, giving me more than 15 hours of playback with ANC on a single charge. So I had to get some replacements as soon as possible.

Alex Sirac is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Cycles and fluctuations”. Thank you, Alex, for hosting! The day/night cycle, the turn of seasons over the year, getting excited about something new and tossing that thing into the rubbish bin. We’re surrounded by cycles and we’re operating on a cyclical demeanour, until we realize we’re running around the same behavioural patterns of the humanity itself. It’s easy to be philosophical about this, I think every one of us just took a moment at some point in life and started to ponder on why we make the same mistakes over and again.

Yesterday was a really nice and warm autumn day, so I went out with my nieces to take some photos. Enjoy!

Bix is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Ego”. Thank you, Bix, for hosting! Me. Me. Me me me, mememememe. ME. My site, my rules. I don’t usually like to talk about myself. I consider myself to be fairly common (not pretty common even!), and I don’t always think that I have anything in particular to say. I am sometimes funny, I am sometimes reliable, I try to do my best in all situations, both at the keyboard and away from it, and sometimes I get inspired by things, other times I just rant about some shit that really grinds my gear.

…and then my father says, “It’s the right goat, but it’s the wrong end!““ — Hunwald

Sizeof.cat hosted this weekend The Quake 2 Thunderdome!, where a group of dorks gathered into a nice death match of Quake 2. Of course, I got splattered over and over, but it was pretty fun, although Quake 2 is not on the top of my shooters list, this being the first time I play it for more than 10 minutes, as the match descended into mayhem, with over 20 people concurrent players!

!!! NEVER PASTE IN THE BROWSER’S CONSOLE CODE THAT YOU DON’T READ OR DON’T UNDERSTAND !!! Go to your subscriptions page, scroll to the end of the page, so it loads everything, open the Inspector, go to the Console tab and paste the code below. It should load for a while, then download a file called youtube_subs.opml PS: I don’t remember where I stole the code from, but it works, and that’s what matters.

The older devices get, the harder is to find original parts. While with old hardware, it’s not a problem, devices that are fairly newer have all kinds of checks and throttles made “for the user’s protection”. Nah, it’s so that Apple can charge you 300 smackaroos for a battery worth 60. I changed the battery on my second Late 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro, and of course, it started to have issues.

For a while I’ve been wanting to reuse the imagemap shortcode I implemented a couple of years ago, in the MacBook Stickers article, so I decided to rip open a 90 grams bag of M&Ms (that’s almost 3 ounces for those who don’t speak metric), and separate them by colour and count them.

Caliber: 2609.HA (19 jewels) Model: 613335 Year: 1970s Notes: Petrodvorets Watch Factory This watch is very dear to me, because it is identical to the one my grandmother used to wear. I recall how she used to wind it up every morning when she put it on, and holding it now in my hand is another testimony that things seem way bigger when you’re a kid, as it now looks so small.