Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
First round of geotagging and general meta tagging on the vacation photos done.
Sure didn't want to be doing this while sick, but we caught a bug on the last part of the time away and oh boy. Doesn't feel like covid but on top of jet lag it's ick.
Plan is to merge in iPhone captures tomorrow, then ranking and winnowing down to candidates for processing into a trip album. Parents visiting in a couple weeks gives some urgency to finishing this off sooner rather than later.
Current Status: Jetlagged at home in Canada, sending backups of photos I took in EU, to offsite cloud backup site in EU. As one does. #sysadmin#OldHabitsDieHard
Watched a couple of quality movies on the plane today. CHiPS and Hot Fuzz. Both first time watches and enjoyable whilst trapped in a sauna at 38,000 feet. Not sure why Air Canada runs their cabins so hot.
Deleted my Reddit account, again, maybe the sixth one I’ve had. Sticky site but the dead internet of bots posting engagement bait and replying with same to everything else, ugh.
I remain puzzled and disgusted by the amount of smoking in Europe. Just one person at an outdoor cafe table half a block upwind produces enough noxious fumes to be very noticeable.
Bathroom law makers would be clutching their pearls if they visit Europe. Coffee shop I was in earlier today had sinks then three full height unmarked stalls with no gaps anywhere, and urinals around the corner past that.
Civilized.
Except for inaccessibility due to steep flight of stairs down.
Traveling, picked up a cough which I hope is just related to all the pollen at Keukenhof gardens.
Popped into a drug store and navigated the Dutch-only packaging and self serve point of sale to get some cough syrup. Built in translate on iPhone camera mostly works.
Still, even something as straight forward as that has some WTF moments. According to the translation, this cough syrup will improve my driving.
