Unsupervised Design

Category: Life 🎉

  • It’s nice to see the western world on the same page, but this also feels profoundly unsettling at the same time.

  • An Afternoon of Snake-charming

    This past week marked two months of working from home full time so I made the choice to improve my workspace by replacing the desk I have been using since grad school.
    A decade ago I felt like a black metal desk with a glass surface was super cool and the sort of thing that a computer programmer definitely should have.
    Glass desk with cables everywhere
    Unfortunately, the side effect of a glass desk is that no amount of effort put into running cables will actually hide the mess. You see it every time you look down.
    A rat's nest of wires
    Today I assembled my new desk from IKEA, just something small but with a lot of storage and cable management potential.
    White IKEA desk with many fewer wires.
    No more mess of wires visible all the time and as an added bonus all the hardware that used to be visible all the time is now neatly sorted into some storage.
    Open door showing neatly sorted shelves.
    Spending more than an hour running cables can seem silly, but it felt good to organize my long term work space.

  • For today’s adventure I donated blood wearing my TNG mask (compliments of @grantisagrant)
    I had no idea how many nurses were that invested in Star Trek, almost all the employees asked what I thought of Picard.

  • Hugo and Luna are both enjoying the improved weather in the back half of this week.

  • What a change a day can make!

  • This isn’t the kind of view I like to discover when I look up from my work.

  • Having one of those off by one days
    Good thing I just recently had gone through and checked all my Base Station settings. Today is a good reminder of the value of backups!

  • I did the weekly grocery pickup today and this week we got all but one thing on the list.
    I am unreasonably disappointed that the one thing we didn’t get was the quarantine package of Pizza Pockets I put in the order 🍕

  • I got an Apple Watch shortly after it was released in 2015, to replace my FitBit.
    Inspired by _DavidSmith (And thanks to his shared source code) I set out to see how much I have worn my watch.
    Turns out I have worn my Apple Watch 80.5% of the time.

  • Lazy Saturday vibes.

  • I cannot adequately describe how excited I am for this new episode

  • The last 36 hours have been dark here in Nova Scotia but it is hard to feel too down when Luna lays her head in your lap like this.

  • Sunday morning routines. ☕️

  • Took delivery of several litres of beer from a local brewer today. Looking forward to digging into my growler of “Tom Waits for No One” stout. 🍻

  • More baking tonight. Another round of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies ready for the cookie jar!

  • It’s only been a fortnight since she joined us, but according to her paperwork today is Luna’s second birthday! 🎂🐕

  • Ten years ago I deemed it crucial to have a crib board and a deck of cards in my car at all times.
    Tonight Raquel asked me to teach her cribbage and I discovered that we don’t have any cards so I had to raid the dash of my car.

  • Thanks to @grantisagrant for taking this photo of Luna while she guarded the parcel I delivered to his doorstep today.

  • Today Luna didn’t come to help with work. She just wanted me to know she misses me and wanted some cuddles.

  • Tried something new tonight and made some hamburgers from scratch. Turned out pretty well!