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brian.enchanter.net
Software engineer, writer, secular humanist, Wikipedia editor & admin, alumnus of Princeton University and the Princeton Triangle and Quadrangle Clubs, formerly with Netscape Communications Corporation and Apple Computer, now with The Walt Disney Company.
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Yesterday I felt like a fish being graded on tree-climbing. Today I am trying to be a capybara.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I needn't have worried. This is an early photo, but eventually about 300 of us lined the street, holding signs, getting lots of friendly honks from traffic (and one mean pickup burning rubber so smoke would hit us). Everyone was peaceful and kind. This is what love of country looks like. #NoKings

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to a protest. I’m a bit afraid of what could happen, but I cannot NOT go. I need to be present for the people who can’t be.

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This evening my local library had Book Bingo. This was the first time I’ve ever actually played bingo! … and, the last time. My competitive nature doesn’t like losing repeatedly for an hour while people around me win multiple times. I’m not very good at bingo.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Rabbit rabbit rabbit!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I took two days off around the holiday and treated myself to a five-day weekend. It was wonderful to get my mind off work for a while, knock some items off my to-do list, and enjoy the things that I feel like I never have enough time, energy, or motivation to do.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Quotes I want to remember. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.”—Zig Ziglar (but, is this toxic?) "You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."—Stephen King "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."—Arthur Ashe

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Our black #cat, nicknamed "Snackface," trying to hypnotize you into giving him snacks.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I just heard the term "music video nights." I think a music video night is something I would like to have. Queue up a few hours of MTV from back when they actually had videos. Invite some friends over. Offer snacks.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I just wrote a letter to someone. Actually wrote it out! Okay, so I composed it in a text file first and then just copied it, and I wrote in pencil because I didn't trust myself not to make mistakes. But still, this is the most I've actually handwritten in years. (Well, printed. I don't do cursive.)

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This resonates with me. I want these. (Source unknown, though I tried.)

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

And this is the video that explained Black Lives Matter protests to me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The folks who say that affirmative action is "reverse racism" often say that if we'd just stop talking about racism, it would disappear and everybody would be equal. This is the cartoon that, long ago, convinced me they're wrong. source: leftycartoons.com/2008/07/10/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

"This email was sent to you because you have requested to receive promotional emails from us." No, I can assure you, I did not.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Argh. With the speed I go between 'I'm stuck and frustrated and no good what I do and I am never going to figure this out' to 'oh wait, I got it, this makes sense and is easier than I thought it was going to be' - then back to 'hopelessly stuck' - one of these days I'm going to give myself whiplash.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

For future reference, if you ever need to speak with an actual FedEx representative: Dial 800-463-3339 for customer service. After you hear the automated voice, say "main menu," then say "technical assistance," then say "more options," then say "something else." www.reddit.com/r/FedEx/comm...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Me: "my package was delivered to the wrong address, I am at 987 xxx street" FedEx: "it was sent to a different address, we can't tell you that address, we can only confirm an address you tell us, but it only differs in the first number" Me: "was it sent to 887 xxx street?" FedEx: "yes it was!"

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

One of the #anime series I’m watching this season is “Anne Shirley,” as I’ve never read Anne of Green Gables and I figure this is an easy way to get the gist of it. The main character is overly dramatic about everything. Apparently she’s true to the book, but she’s exhausting!

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I recommend following @apnews.com, @altnps.bsky.social, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and @nytpitchbot.bsky.social if you want to keep up on news about the United States’ wild sprint into facism. (Which I no longer have the mental/emotional capacity for. Linking them here for future reference.)

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Some days I feel like I'm just treading water, and some days my mind decides to play a 'greatest hits' reel of all the faux pas I've made since kindergarten. But every now and then I fix something that's broken or I figure out a sticky problem and I can remind myself that I'm a right fine engineer.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

We get our local television over-the-air. 'MeTV Toons' shows weird cartoons I've never heard of before like 'Histeria!' and 'Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!' I am amused, though, that all of that network's commercials are for term life insurance or reverse mortgages or pre-paid burial expenses.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Today has been a good day.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment