ischade @ischade@mastodon.technology

mmm, brownies. (vegan, and gluten free, b/c this household can't do anything the easy way w/respect to food.)

well, yesterday was a little more exciting than it needed to be towards the end. thank goodness for benadryl, and it's ability to stop mild but unpleasant allergic reactions.

really not sure how I survived before someone introduced me to chickpeas.

nom!
https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4326/2

e.g., from 2015, "New metamaterial enables refractive index of zero"

https://optics.org/news/6/10/17

searching for 'left-handed glass' doesn't yield the proper results. searching for 'left-handed optical' leads to 'negative-index metamaterial', which in turn leads to interesting articles.

right to repair is laws really should be passed.

maybe not all vendors go into it thinking that having a monopoly on repairing their product(s) is going to end up with the repair dept in an abusive relationship with the customer, but yeah. it can so easily go there.

I'm glad to see that progress is being made on this front. it can't happen soon enough.

baby western fence lizard! around 6 weeks old. easily 2x longer than it was a month ago.

I said in all seriousness, "It looks like the shells are doing their job."
then I had to make the obligatory Demolition Man joke, "He doesn't know how to use the shells!"

now I want to watch the movie tonight.

help.

in happier news, water is falling from the sky again. ah, I love it.