The full "Be Water" quite by Bruce Lee.

Kind of surprised I haven't seen that on a T-shirt until today, after an effective 11 years of living in Hong Kong.

#TShirtSpotting

The equinox is almost upon us, the outdoor temperature is slowly falling from unbearable to somewhat reasonable, and for me that means two weeks of some very particular balance of humidity that causes my eyes to go into self-assault. The same thing happens for two weeks in April, a bit after the other equinox.

I get a lot of eye gravel, my eyes treat that as foreign objects and make gunk to defend itself, then treat the gunk as foreign objects in an evil feedback loop.

Ironically enough, inserting actual foreign objects, contact lenses, protects the eye against itself and breaks the cycle.

@announcements I'm not personally affected, but I'm curious if you've found an alternative solution for this.

I know that several fedi servers were funded via the OCF, so I wonder if a new go-to fiscal host has emerged on OC, or what other solutions people have come up with.

@rauschen No worries, just thought you'd like to know in case it's not intentional.

My quick guess without knowing anything about your setup is that somehow two instances of the bot might be running? And the slight differences might just be the OCR not being deterministic.

It is very satisfying to be watching GTLive on youtube, and both MatPat and Ash are able to say FNAF without the crutch of calling it Fuhnaf.

So it *is* possible to be a native English speaker and say a run of "fn" in the beginning of a word!

@hippiegunnut @thomasfuchs What's that?

And in the nine months since, is it there yet?

The correct pedantry correcting the incorrect pedantry will often teach me something new too!

And the more there is of the incorrect pedantry, the more there will be of the correct pedantry, especially when someone starts doubling down on the incorrection.

One of the firm rules of humanity is that a social media group making fun of incorrect pedantry will add even more incorrect pedantry, if not already in the post, then for sure in the comments.

I unironically love it and enjoy it, all levels of it.

Typhoon warning lowered from T8 to T3, meaning wind speeds at 42–62 km/h.

#HongKong #TyphoonYagi

Me, 2014-09-05:

Why cache the downloaded XML files, when you could be caching the parsed object tree pickled?

Kid always orders 8 plates of corn rolls every time we go to a sushi restaurant, several times per year in the last seven years. What happens next is so standardized that we assigned color codes:

- Code yellow: Staff comes to the table: "Excuse me, the system says you ordered 8 plates of corn sushi, is that accurate?"
- Code blue: No corn arrives, it's simply ignored.
- Code green: Corn just arrives, no trouble.

The other week we had an entirely new one: "Excuse me, it says here that ... ah, it's you guys. Ok then."