Miscellanea for 2025-06-11
- Hello world!
- Why is a celebrity podcast starting a mobile phone provider?
- Finally watching Front 242's final live show and... dang.
- Blogging has slowed here, but I'm hoping to pick it back up.
- It was probably a shiny-new-toy phase for the first few weeks.
- But also, I just changed projects at work and got suddenly a lot busier. So, my time for idle rumination has vanished for now.
- I did post a relatively big thing on AI coding last weekend, so that's pretty good though?
- My brain suddenly demands I play Terraria.
- This happens every few years. And when it does, I get a sudden hyperfocus rabbit hole thing that lasts a week or so and evaporates abruptly.
- I've only ever made it past the first few bosses in the game despite playing it since release back in 2011. 💀
- I think that's my general M.O. with games: I get to a point where I'm like "ooh novelty" and then "ah, okay, I get how it goes from here" and wander off.
- I very rarely want grinding or more of the same thing, once I see the pattern. Until, I guess, the anti-novelty wears off and it feels novel again? (Thus the repeat visits to Terraria)
- Sometimes I'm really jealous of folks who can just lock into a Special Interest like Terraria and just milk endless reliable dopamine from the thing.
- Meanwhile I'm like BORED NOW and have to go hunting again.