"Why is google so bad a digitising old issues of The Architect? A thesis presented in fourteen ill scanned volumes with more attention paid to the colophon than the maps"

#grump

Easter in Nashville, 1977. I wasn't always a Curmudgeonly Old Hermit. #hermit #hermitting #curmudgeon #hermits #curmudgeons #grump #grumps #coot #geezer #nashville #tennessee #southern #southernstates #travel #vacation #holiday #vacations #usatravel #unitedstates #1970s #visit

Another UK celebrity jumping into the children's book market and sucking up all the atmosphere, news coverage (and PR money) because there OBVIOUSLY are no actual authors writing books for young readers these days #grump

With four of the past six days occupied by a headache (bad word for what it feels like, shoulders, neck, eyes, 'teeth' and gums hurt...) I am going to bed to attempt to read this book I'm really enjoying but it's near the end and I'm sad about that

I hate winter
#grump

The grind continues. Just got a reminder my car insurance is due next month, and I'm still not out of my overdraft, let alone have any money put away for the dental work.

Not much work is coming in either.

My teeth will just have to wait, the car insurance renewal can always be cancelled... I've got two social events planned that are already paid for by friends but other than that... yeah.

My health precludes me just getting a part time job, and I'm still waiting on the PIP appeal.

#grump

Grumpily registering to attend the InternetNZ AGM because apparently there is some stupid shit to vote against. #Grump

I’m not sure quite why the RAF saw fit to fly circuits around Cardiff in a Chinook at midnight, but I’m reasonably sure I’m not alone in rather preferring that they hadn’t… #soLoud #grump

If the best hope we have in the field of #UIDesign is copying Apple copying themselves, just put me in a bunker with some rations, a raspberry pi, a vt320, and leave me the hell alone.

#Grump #scrogneugneurd

For absolutely no reason whatsoever I've just plummeted into a massive grump. A really irritable, tetchy fucking grump.

#grump #mood

Every day I get one step closer to deciding to switch from Linux to OpenBSD on my desktop machine.

I think Wine (for gaming) is the the major reason I haven't. Oh, and my Bluetooth mouse.

#grump #microrant #Linux #OpenBSD

Phone is insisting on a "UI Upgrade", so I looked at the list of changes. Bundled in with security fixes (no details, understandably) is a depressing number of new ra-ra functions. You can now scribble on your phone's wallpaper! Oh wow!!

This leads to a thought: are the main customers for smartphones 10-15 year olds? Wouldn't their numbers be surpassed by adults?

If one wants the probably important security updates, one has to accept one's phone filling up with intrusive tinsel. #grump

YouTube: Customize your feed!

Me: What's the point? You'll let the algorithm override it anyway. For the umpteenth time.

#grump #YouTube

Komm bloß keiner und versucht mir meine schlechte Laune zu verderben 😠. #trump #grump

"Ah, yes. I'm so thankful for the little bit of sunlight when I go to work in the mornings. It's totally worth my entire evening being shrouded in darkness," SAID NO SANE PERSON, EVER.

#DST #grump

It's November the first so all the Christmas adverts have started.

I have a new resolution. I shall not buy anything I see advertised with a Christmas advert before the beginning of Advent.

#Grinch #Grump

Today #Grump turns on Liz #Cheney and his supporters are happy, because it is not them. But what they fail to realize, is that the arbitrary ruler Grump wants to become with his #Project2025 puts anyone in peril of getting on his enemy list. Also devoted supporters.