Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

Shaking my head at folks being broke and out of work because of coronavirus, but spending $80 on video game cosmetic item bundles.

How to get dog-piled on Nextdoor: Ask where you can get a hair cut.

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Funniest thing I've run across this week... a serious article, on a respectable cooking site, about pepitas, where they spend quite a lot of space insisting that pepitas are not pumpkin seeds, but that they are the seeds of a hull-less variety of... pumpkin.

It's kind of ironic that modern grassroots aid organizations can't get a new project off the ground if they can't find a web designer with time to build the website for it. "People are starving and we want to help them, but first we need someone to build the website."

Of all the lines from Babylon 5, Londo Mollari's has stuck with me the clearest... "My shoes are too tight, and I've forgotten how to dance."

I want to have words with any UI designer who has decided scroll bars need to be only 5 pixels wide. Tired of having to have 360 no-scope accuracy to grab a scroll bar with the mouse.

Commit message of the day:

> this really fixes it. i know. i tested in in prod.

Day 18 of quarantine. The apocalypse is truly upon us. My only breakfast cereal choices are Cheerios and Frosted Mini Wheats. I am reserving the strawberry Pop-Tarts for my last meal.

I could be so much more awesome at work if I were just more motivated. 🤔

Okay, I've intellectually understood that there are introverts (me) and extroverts. But this isolation is driving home for me just how much some people need human contact... I've not left the house in two weeks. This is not a big deal. Extroverts? They've been isolated for less than half that time and they're using video calls to meet up for drinks, go on double-dates, trying to maintain some kind of video face-to-face social life. I'm like, "Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting out eventually."

Believe me, customer... nobody wants your service back up as badly as I do. The only thing I want more is to go back to bed. Again.

Wondering... how many people just don't answer the phone for numbers they don't recognize (aren't in their contacts)?

So I recently bought a pair of "cordless" earbuds, having been frustrated with how the cord of my last wireless corded pair kept pulling them out of my ears, and I gotta ask... does _anybody_ find cordless to be more convenient? I gotta carry around a case for them, when they fall out of my ears they end up on the ground, I can't just drape them around my neck when someone wants to talk. All of my fears turned out to be true... who actually thinks these are a good idea for general use?

It rather disturbs me that I can buy a product on Amazon and the seller gets my email address. I leave a negative review and the seller is emailing me directly to "make things right". I suppose they feel they're doing the right thing, but it feels really creepy.