satchmoz @satchmoz@mastodon.sdf.org

Pretty good 4th. mom, my fiance and myself grilled burgers and hotdogs ( veggie and dead-animal kinds ) and watched the black panther movie together while we pigged out on deserts. Good stuff.

“Dad, I’m Never Going to See You Again” — Two Brazilian Boys Describe Living Through Family Separation https://theintercept.com/2018/07/03/family-separation-ice-brazilian-boys-fathers-lawsuit/

"What to the Slave Is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/4/what_to_the_slave_is_4th

Does anyone else remember that this real life news article's business plan was actually a bit in the 1985 movie Brewster's Millions starring Richard Pryor?

https://theoutline.com/post/5202/this-company-wants-to-tow-icebergs-to-the-water-scarce-desert

But where the hell was his fears of too much corporate influence during the W3C DRM shenanigans the other year?

Am I the only one who finds him a bit fair-weather? While tech journalism coverage of him is universally positive?

Provoked by: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets

Stop making your systray icons multicolored orbs. Triply so if your working on Cisco products. Trying to figure out on my work machine which blue green orb I need in my system tray is a hot mess.

Suse just got sold to a private Swedish equity firm. (After having been bought out by another firm four years ago.)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SUSE-Linux-Now-Swedish

Im kind of glad im not a Suse user. I mean maybe Micro Focus International and EQT Partners are good guys. But shit like this makes me nervous.

Not so much great progress on my todo list this past week.

In part because my car was broken for almost the whole week. I was pretty moody for a few days and I got a new videogame toy.

Time to update my todo.txt and try better this upcoming week.

Amusing Intel 8088 benchmarks https://retro.moe/2018/03/04/performance-of-the-8088-on-pc-pcjr-and-tandy-1000/

Feeling more like a human being today.

Im feeling out of sorts in a lot of ways right now.

Laundry and meditation is on the docket this afternoon.

Fiance was talking about believing in the basic dignity and humanity of all human beings and how we just have to believe everything will turn out ok in the end.

And im over here trying not to make that Tina Belcher whine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XaIuw6K6Q

My fiance has some childhood friends he still tries to be fond of, despite their ecstatic love of the orange-fuck-muppet-we-call-president.

If marriage equality gets overturned in this country, im going to have to sit him down and explain to him, that he can only invite them to our faux-wedding if im allowed to punch them.