Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

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that special hell when SOMETHING in your house is emitting a notification sound but nothing shows up when you check the notification history on the computer, the phone, OR all the tablets

#firstworldproblems to be sure but ARGH WHAT KEEPS GOING PLOOK-PLOK AT ME

Nick: We should name the space station in Parallax at some point.
Me, instantly: BDO-479.
Nick: (stares)
Nick: We should come up with the Mixolyne name for the space station at some point.

Random thought: would anyone want to watch a stream of me working on my comics, with pretty much no attention paid to the chat for quite a while?

Sequel thought: would I actually wanna spend my precious battery life on that

Favorite movie: Orphée. A dreamlike magical-realist take on the Greek myth of a poet failing to rescue his lover from Death.

I sure do not like the Cannonbalrog from Gungeon. He is a poopstuck.

There is a woman behind me in the cafe bitching about someone she used to follow on Instagram who gets a lot of commissions to trace poses straight out of Final Fantasy. "I just want people to stop paying her. I'm so mad about it!"

And I just can't stop snickering. Welcome to the Internet, darling.

You know what I miss about the Old Web?

Background colors that were not PURE SCREAMING WHITE. Every single commercially-owned site is white, white, white. White social media background blends into white news site background, nothing ever feels like it has a fundamental sense of *place* beyond a banner and a "please turn off your adblocker" popup.

hey if you have looked at Parallax and hated that some text is too small then please take a look at it now http://egypt.urnash.com/parallax/

oh THAT'S why my changes aren't working

I now seem to be loading TWO copies of the fucking CSS, one of which STILL has Wordpress' fucking version number added to it

WHYYYY

okay I've figured out that it's definitely WP doing this, now to figure out how to make it STOP doing this when the guides I find for doing this don't apply to the tangled mess that is my particular site

If I had money to burn I would just hire someone to rebuild my site from scratch, but I don't, and I'm sure not doing that either.

why the hell does wordpress think it is a good idea to append ?ver=[WP_VERSION_NUMBER] to every fucking resource query

thanks for interacting horribly with my cache plugin to make all my css fucking immutable forever

really this is absolutely fabulous, fuck me forever

(this is why I never want to be paid to do web development, I turn into a hateful sweary mess)

goddamnit why does it take so much futzing around to get a stylesheet tweak to apply to my site

I really really like these little histograms PadMapper has on its searches now. Makes it very easy to quickly grasp where an area's rents are.

https://dragon.style/media/XdUNQxzH3EHypUUkUxk https://dragon.style/media/fgCxRGJfaeenf29ICRs https://dragon.style/media/nK9zAbDvDeyiBcPIrrg

googling up lists for Best Places For Artists To Live In The US

and oh hey look NOLA sure shows up on these lists

there are Issues but there are definite Temptations

I really need to figure out where I want to move that’s a compromise between “affordable” and “not a red state nightmare” and start things moving.

Ah wait apparently going out on the water can kinda suck because you get the sun bouncing off the water and making you even hotter. I’ve never been on a boat more than maybe three times in my life and made an assumption!

* wear white or light colors (dark stuff absorbs heat)
* get a hat - something well-ventilated
* an umbrella can act as your own personal cloud to shield you from the evil sky-fire
* suntan lotion is good, especially if you are a direct descendent of the Æsir and/or Jötunn who has no capacity to produce melanin
* all-covering very pale clothes, or near-nudity and lots of suntan lotion - your choice
* WATER IS LIFE, carry a bottle, drink from it regularly, refill it, you will be sweating it out a lot, maybe even out a few ice cubes in it before you go out
* SODA IS NOT WATER especially caffeinated soda. Caffeine makes you wanna pee more, and you want the water going out as sweat, not pee. Go get a reusable bottle and fill it with water.
* recreational opportunities involving water are great too - rafting? boating? skiing? canoeing? water slides?
* go outside and sit in a nice breeze under a tree in one of this city's many many lovely parks
* be aware that heatstroke is a thing, if you start feeling dizzy or disoriented get the hell into shade immediately and cool down
* a scarf/towel wrapped around your neck and moistened with cool water can cool you down a LOT, there's a lot of blood vessels close to the surface there.
* WATER IS LIFE, seriously y'all are used to being surrounded by a fine mist most of the year and NOW IT IS GONE, drink water drink water drink water.
* Hail to the sun god/He is the fun god/Ra! Ra! Ra!

Once again I have reminded my computer that it is supposed to start running a program that puts a little pixel kitty on my desktop when I log in. I would swear that I have told it this before.
https://dragon.style/media/0JLnNh8AFwtMLFrP5jQ

Every time iTunes serves up Björk's "Medúla" or "Utopia" albums, I seem to very quickly decide that I've had enough of overdubbed solo Icelandic elf vocals and skip to another album. I think it's time I took those out of rotation since I clearly am not into them.

(I am an Old who still doesn't stream her music and keeps iTunes in random-by-album mode. Curation is fun.)