Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

I realized many of my favorite games are basically about managing technical debt:

- Tetris
- Lumines
- Splatoon 2: Salmon Run
- CSS

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All this talk about two inner wolves battling over good and evil here on Mastodon reminds me that Germans have an "innerer Schweinehund" (inner pig-dog).

It's just one animal, but it's a chimera made from a domesticated wolf and a domesticated boar.

As it's also a "shoulder devil" concept, what then would the German angel animal be?

This past week, I heard a radio station play a pre-song stinger, immediately followed by a song:

📻 "We _only_ play today's BEST hits!"

🎼 someBODY once told me the world is gonna roll me … 🎵

I've never-ever seen a company try to _downsell_ (opposite of upsell, right?) before... but... my phone company is trying to get me to pay them less! Whaaaaaat?

But it's for less data too, but I don't use so much. (It's still a little less than what I need though.)

Still: Odd.

It's not like I can escape the construction to go work in a cafe thanks to my painfully sprained ankle. 😖

Has it been over a month of very loud drilling and hammering already? Ugh.

When can they finally be done renovating the adjacent apartment? 😱

they're doing construction on the neighbor's apartment again...

it's so loud that I get a free foot massage (as the whole apartment vibrates that much)

Sometimes people treat you better with "invisible" issues than with visible ones, believe it or not. 😒

(You never know what someone else is going through. Try to treat *everyone* courteously and with respect.)

You'd think people would get out of the way to let someone with crutches out of a train.

Nope, everyone cut in front and wouldn't let me out. Even shouting "Excuse me!" (in German) didn't work.

People didn't get out of the way until a train conductor forced them to do so. 😖

Currently breaking the law in Austria* so I won't die.

The face mask law is bad for several reasons, including those who need one to avoid severe allergies in public.

(BTW: People who wear perfume/cologne are either awful and/or ignorant of the health threat they pose toward others.)

* More about the face cover ban: https://www.voanews.com/a/austria-face-cover-ban/4051951.html

The cash registers at this market in Linz (Spar) keep making beeps that sound like my laptop when I adjust volume (in GNOME). 🔊