If we switch to the old Palm/Mac epoch, we could buy another 2 years to solve the year 2038 problem:

PDB Datetimes

Many PDB format files used times counting in seconds from 1904-01-01T00:00:00. This is the base time used by the original Macintosh (up to Mac OS 9). It may be noted that there were close links between Palm OS and Mac OS during early development. Using an unsigned 32-bit integer and the 1904 epoch, integer overflow will overflow will occur sometime in 2040. 

Others may be observed to be counting from 1970-01-01T00:00:00 (the Unix epoch base time), and uses a signed 32-bit integer which will overflow sometime in 2038.

Good tracks on this album all around, but especially track 4, which has some sort of Epic Pinball thing going on with it.

Once again my thoughts turn to buckwheat pancakes, which I regard with great fondness.

Periodically I will catch an episode of Great Chefs on Twitch's Hungry channel and it consistently has the worst audio of any cooking show I've ever seen; unavoidably so given the show concept (showcasing actual chefs who work in restaurants.) Commercial kitchens are loud and not optimized for sound. It really makes me appreciate the massive amount of work that must go into recording and audio mixing cooking shows so that you can hear anything that's going on at all.

Do we even still have Multimedia Experiences these days, or has it all been subsumed into games and online video?

Hypothesis: The ridges on a peanut butter cup or pie tart serve the same purpose as similar adaptations found in nature; namely, increasing the surface to volume ratio while otherwise maintaining the same overall shape and layout.

A few weeks ago I read the ActivityPub specification and found out, to my surprise, that it was entirely push-based -- unlike RSS, a publishing server has to keep track of all the subscribers (or at the very least each subscribing instance) and notify each one of them individually every time there's a new post. I'm still reeling, but my immediate takeaway from this was:

1. WTF, no wonder instances have so much trouble scaling. Up until this point I'd assumed it was just due to media attachments.

2. This almost completely eliminated any interest I had in writing my own experimental ActivityPub implementation to play around with. There's a much higher barrier to entry if your toy project has to do stuff like keep a subscriber list in a database somewhere.

The natural and intended comparison for FFXVI is Game of Thrones, but since I’ve never seen it nor read any GRRM books, to me, FFXVI is a slightly strange Dune adaptation.

Alternate timeline where instead of Google taking over email, ISPs started offering federated search.

Me: I know I enjoy introducing a bunch of characters and then giving them all symbolic names but I worry I do it too much in my writing. Surely this will alienate the non-Homestucks in the audience.

Square Enix: Here are three different UIs for looking up our cast of dozens, and by the way we're naming the Phoenix character Joshua.