I hope you can take some solace in the fact that you gave her a good life and made her feel loved. May you one day meet again.

I’m a big proponent of buying local whenever possible. This plus something similar for physical products is really useful no matter where you live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq6b_n4lnkU

Vimium. Allows you to use your keyboard to navigate instead of needing to always reach for the mouse.

Switch to Firefox

These are great, learned 2 new words I never heard before. Slightly related, but in fine fettle can also be used to refer to someone in good shape (mentally or physically).

Ah, you’re back

Cool, hadn’t heard this was happening. May try to catch a showing

Same, the physical camera button and 3.5mm headphone jack on the Xperia are awesome

Haven’t had this particular brand, but I’ve made vegan musubi before with another. Turned out great and tbh I couldn’t tell the difference. The only downside was the price difference.

Stoked. I missed playing MGS3 when it first came out and am glad to hear this remake is exactly like the original because I hear it was arguably the best in the series.

That’s refreshing to see in a world of ever increasing enshittification. Wish more companies move in this direction.

Somewhat related PSA. I used to have an unscreened window in my home office and started noticing birds would fly into it on occasion. Found out it’s actually pretty common and can be fatal to the unwitting bird, so I put some post-it notes on the window to help them see/avoid it. There are ready-made products for this exact purpose as well. Both seem to do the job and cut down on collisions.

That’s tough, wish him luck. I remember reading David Foster Wallace’s essay in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again about Lynch filming Lost Highway and that he was an avid smoker of American Spirit.

As a bonus, King’s Canyon is also adjacent to Sequoia National Park, which is equally stunning and home to the largest single stem tree, the General Sherman giant Sequoia.

Always uneasy about PE owners since their values tend to be opposed to creating well-liked, sustainable businesses. Hope they don’t start gutting budgets, loading up the balance sheet with debt, and siphoning off profits. RIP Toys R’ Us.

Medium roast (full city) beans from the Philippines either via Chemex, AeroPress, or if it’s warm out I’ll brew some ice coffee overnight.

All the video games magazines would do an E3 issue and I remember binging on all the game announcements and event photos. Good times

Use libro.fm instead and part of your subscription goes to an independent bookstore of your choosing

Looks very relaxing and peaceful. Some of my favorite camping trips have been in the eastern Sierras.