Matt Cramp @Merus@octodon.social

In just 72 hours, can I transform my living room into a presentable entertaining space? (No)

eat shit, Lyle!

@kirinn it's a cantilevered mirror array to scatter light into the space between the two towers. At night, it lights up with rainbow LEDs

@starbreaker served as a cautionary tale

@MissSnarkerson it's planned. The building's surrounded by planter boxes on each floor, and there's large panels of greenwall that have plants growing all up it. (There's a five-story panel of greenwall on the right side of the right-most building.)

The buildings are blooming in Sydney right now. (Central Park One in Ultimo)

https://octodon.social/media/9H7ZewCsblmGvCIUibU

Well, it looks like I'm back on my bullshit, "bullshit" here defined as "Guild Wars 2". It looks like they got the content kinks worked out and are actually shipping big chunks of game, which handily avoids the big problem I had with it: after you run out of new content it's deathly boring.

My boss won the how many holes in a straw game: she said 0 holes. A straw is a complete unbroken object. The bits at the end where there is no straw are not part of the straw.

This is why you don't step to my boss.

@hollyjahangiri okay, so if I poke a hole halfway down through one wall of the straw, what then? Other than a useless straw and liquid all over the floor

@kirinn ah but the fun is that it's as much a linguistic question as it is a topological one. The definition of "hole" is dependent on context - topologically, a vase has no holes.

Okay, whoever came up with the headline DIRTY DEEDS: DON BURKE CREEP deserves a raise.

Ask a follow-up question: if they say 1, ask how many holes it'd have if you poked a hole in the straw. If they say 2, ask them how many a vase has, how many a plate has, and how many a clay plate that you've stretched into a vase has.

I've discovered a new office game: ask your co-workers "how many holes are in a straw?" and letting them fight it out.

Not as clever as it thinks it is, and the slow pacing only sometimes works. Its plot revolves around pregnancy as life-affirming (?) so they had to address institutional misogyny, especially in a setting where most people are Things. It mostly ended up being distractingly gross.

The prospect of the Unnecessary Jumanji Sequel being actually good is hard to believe.

After my crummy weekend, things are looking pretty good again. Spent some time concentrating on something good at work, got to play with some new toys, and no-one found any new bugs in my website.

@reibeatall I had a lousy weekend and got a few sympathetic replies from complete strangers. That's something I've *never* had on the Internet

@reibeatall I think this is what Mastodon's for, honestly; big social networks are too big to find interesting people, things like forums don't have serendipitous contact with strangers