Kaye @kaye@octodon.social

So I finally got my first scientific paper published! In a scholarly outlet and everything! There was peer review and they asked for revisions and stuff. It's not in a top-tier journal and it's not world-changing and... ah, who am I kidding, I'm currently 60% happiness by volume. 🎉💦👌👏✅✨

My favourite thing is websites with adblocker-blocking scripts because that means I have to spend two minutes fiddling with adblocker-blocker-blocking scripts

So my old college had some guidelines for computer use, yeah? Among other things, they specified that each student had to be provided with a floppy disk each semester (those guidelines haven't been updates in decades.)
I'm still mad I never asked for mine. (I graduated in 2015.) That's on the to-do list for when I go back to college.

Back in 2004, I picked a cause and decided that it would be the hill I would die on. That cause was "never use a specific brand name when talking about a class of products or services."

At this point, people will think I'm making a statement if I stop doing it, so I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, I guess. It's not so bad, except I can never tell someone to Google something.

This is... frustrating.

Was thinking about going to re: publica, since it seems super cool, but they don't sell single-day tickets and there's no way in hell I'm paying €220 for a day trip.

Sigh. Maybe next year.

*walks up to a random couple* So which one of you is the 3 AM and which one is the obsessively questioning all of my life choices

Automated station announcements here have a very characteristic rhythm. It doesn't sound natural at all but by now everyone's used to it. I wonder if they could change it without complaints. ("Now arriving on platform eight ICE 27 from Munich Hauptbahnhof to Berlin Ostbahnhof departure nine fifteen delayed today by about five minutes.")

Guess who overslept today and had to cram breakfast + shower + packing into twenty minutes

This just in: Local sharkboy a complete dork

(I do know that those who would describe that time as 'carefree' are clearly pod people who were never younger than 34)

Been thinking about the past lately. My Nth high school graduation anniversary is coming up (with N being smallish but no longer trivial).

I do *not* miss the intense social stress or the busywork, but some parts of high school were quite nice. I wonder how my feelings will change over the years.

I'm preeeeetty sure that by "verify" they meant "look at it in Excel"

Them: "Hey Kaye could we have the raw data? We'd like to verify the analysis"
Me: "Alrighty, it's about 1.6 TB"
Them: [radio silence]

So I am once again stuck at a tram station in Little Buttbum (East) and there's like... a free-standing stone staircase here which goes up to a bridge, but it's blocked off and visibly falling apart, to the point where trees are growing on it.

My thoughts in order:
* That can't be structurally sound
* Ooh, if I can figure out what kind of tree that is and estimate its height, I can tell when this was blocked off

YouTube keeps shitting garbage content by VERIFIEDS ✔ into my recommendations. Is there like... an alternative platform for video content? An open platform would be best, but at this point I'll settle for anything that isn't run by Google, Facebook or Amazon.

*testifying before Congress voice* Okay so mistakes were made

*Silicon Valley voice* Our startup is like credit scoring but for social media

I love it when card names get so long they have to break out the microtext. "Der Urzeitdrachen glorreiche Wiedergeburt" is one of the longest card names, alongside works of art such as "Marcheur des chaînes de la Halle aux viscères." Arvad included for scale.