A few days ago my Pixel 4a phone, running Android 13, started exhibiting a problem where I can play music in VLC, pause it with my Bluetooth headset, wait a few minutes, and when I unpause with the same headset, I get no response. Crickets. No music plays. So I wake up the screen, see …
Author Archives: Shawn
Federation
So this weekend has seen some shakeup. I joined Mastodon and started learning about how it works and how that it relies on an open standard called ActivityPub, which allows separate sites to share activity such as posts, comments, etc. This is the nervous system between Mastodon sites, enabling them to federate (just like how …
Fractional Distillation
“History is a vagina,” my drunk brain thinks. “Damn, what a random and juvenile thing to say, but I should tweet that.” I didn’t tweet that because I knew it would not be good in the long run. Two beats later, another cluster in my drunk brain responds, “yeah, because we all come from it.” …
Unsatisfactory
Out in the world reopening, falling in love every 15 minutes. Pretty girls and beautiful women all over. I love ’em. But in the core of my soul, they fill me with sadness and pain. I will never be the man they want. I don’t deserve love. When I go to Hell, you’ll find me …
In the Valley In the Fold
How do we know god exists? We cannot see god, but we can see the evidence of god. Is cleavage boobs? No, cleavage is not boobs. We cannot see boobs. But we know boobs exist because cleavage exists. “Ah!” you say, “what about butt? Butt has cleavage!” That is true and good. We cannot see …