Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Sci-fi robot uprising movies made us afraid that computers would turn against us in order to kill us with violent force.

It happened in reality, in the form of the "Internet of Things," but they turned against us in order to kill us with monopolized advertisements instead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/business/media/fever-advertisements-medicine-clorox.html

I also discovered the hard way that textile has very different ideas from markdown about paragraph folding & what hard word-wrapping means.

I've settled on making a static website generator. Debugging the single file workflow was many times quicker than debugging the design, which I think is a good sign. With the design, I aimed to make it look just right in modern browsers, look acceptable in old browsers, & be fully conformant with HTML 5, CSS 3, & WCAG 2. That was work, but I didn't get hacky or make compromises.

I am very positively impressed with how gracefully the HTML 5 pages with semantic tags I'm making degrade in ancient Web browsers. Both content and structure look more usable than the tag soup in layout tables I was using 15 years ago.

If you want to be a girl but could definitely use some help, check this out: http://turn-me-into-a-girl.com/

MorningStar Farms, the company that makes frozen vegetarian meat-substitute foods? They make microwaveable meat-candy substitutes, too (Veggie Bacon Strips), & I'm hooked. The only problems are the window between underdone & burned is consistent but tiny, & if they're not transferred from one plate to another within 15 seconds of the microwave beeping done, they stick & won't come off except in tiny flakes.

Oh, hey, the store has a better selection of new breakfasts!

It's time for another "Good Idea, Bad Idea"

Good idea:
Being excited at 9pm because you won a ticket for a good & delicious free coffee.

Bad idea:
Being excited at 3am because you cashed it in right away & drank the free coffee.