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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Just tell him respectfully, sometime.

    As a parent, myself:

    • I totally don’t mind if my kids tell me they can hear me. I appreciate knowing our communication lines are open.
    • I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate’s share of the costs to run the home, they’re still kids, not roommates.
    • I’ll probably buy the kid some nice noise suppressing audio headset as a shopping surprise, sometime soon.







  • Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

    • BAEN sells eBooks directly.
    • Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
    • Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.

    When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.

    Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.

    As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.





  • I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.

    That’s me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don’t have the time to get through that.

    So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.

    I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.








  • “The Mandalorian” is fantastic space western, and worth watching for what it is, if you can ignore the Star Wars connection.

    It might tempt you to also watch “Boba Fett”, which does not stand in it’s own at all, but does weirdly contain a couple of good enough bonus episode of “The Mandalorian” for marketing reasons.