A few weeks ago (I think over a month) I posted this pumpkin here. A Lemming (idk what we're calling ourselves) told me that "it should be a lot bigger before it gets it's first flower." I was already nervous that it and all my other plants weren't growing well. After some discussion some fish fertilizer was recommended. I suppose any would've worked but regardless, it's getting really big now.

The results were pretty dramatic. Nearly overnight it felt like. Every day I've seen visible growth. I'm even seeing the female flower buds so we're getting close to the pumpkin growing stage! The pictured ones are male. The seed pack says scientists hypothesize that the male flowers show up first to get the bees in the area by the time the female ones arrive.

I've been sending pictures of it nearly everyday to my gardening friend who dreams of becoming a squash farmer when she retires.

I've been very impressed with this plant. You may even see a small snap in the vine. When it reached the edge of the bed it broke after a big storm. I propped it up a bit with a card board box and it's been fine. No wilting. It was at a 90 degree angle, too.

(This song has nothing to do with the Oppenheimer movie.)

US, Georgia if it matters.

I just got laid off. Oof. Am I missing anything? I've never been laid off or fired before so it's all new to me. Just sanity checking myself.

1. Tomorrow I'm going to write down all my job responsibilities before I forget them. For updating my resume.
2. Figure out how to file for unemployment.
3. Figure out what I need for COBRA benefits.
4. Print and sign my separation agreement.
5. Ensure I have access to my paystubs.

The obvious thing being to start applying for new jobs lol.

Note that I mean the open version VSCodium and not VSCode. Even after manually installing the Python and Pylance vsix files into Codium I wasn't getting the Pylance hints in the editor. I find them super useful for ersatz static typing and just general problems.

First, I strongly encourage you go to go through the demo. It is about ten minutes long. Beware that it does auto play sounds. "Spoilers" are below.

My wife and I are like a broken record player. Whenever we are in some setting to give people advice (generally a wedding where you write notes for the newlyweds) we give the same advice. "Communicate early and often. It sounds cliche but is very important. Better to risk a small fight now than a big fight later. Don't let frustration fester into resentment." This advice was not directly inspired by this demo but having just replayed through it now I see a lot of the similarities.

I remember when I first did this demo. I was on the train going to work. At the time I naively suspected that the Always Cooperate strategy would win. Once I was able to look at it more critically and less emotionally I thought something like the Detective might be better to figure out who you can exploit. It was interesting that something as simple as the Copycat wins out.

And once they introduced miscommunications and your little dude trips on the way to the machine!? I was devastated! Watching those two little dudes cheat each other back and forth forever over something so petty. It gets me emotional. I know it's that sad guitar doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that regard though lol. But seriously, so many times in life it feels like people just get stuck in these cycles of revenge over utterly petty bullshit. Escalation over escalation over escalation.

So yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say. It's just interesting looking back on this thing that had this big effect on me at the time and seeing how it indirectly influenced very specific advice I give folks today.

What are your thoughts? This creator has many other cool demos like this but this is the one that I remember the most.

I'm intimidated by the UI but the allure of cross platform UI draws me in. How does one get started?

A video on the recreation of this ancient piece of art. https://youtu.be/i4EFkspO5p4

This is my phone background. It is so fun, I love it.

A video on the recreation of this ancient piece of art. https://youtu.be/i4EFkspO5p4

This is my phone background. It is so fun, I love it.

I had been wanting to try it for a while and saw it at a local game store. I picked it and some fudge dice up and want to try it soon. It seems like it will provide the sort of flexibility and less specific focus on combat that I want out of D&D. It also is simple enough that I read the entirety of the rules in one day (and I'm a slow reader).

I'm curious what your experience is with this system.

Everyone is posting about beans!