“Set up a VPN home” has been sitting in my to-do list for a long time.

It occurred to me to migrate the posts from https://p.disfinder.com over to GitHub and Markdown.

Today I managed to get things sorted at the DMV in a single visit for the first time — I came prepared, read all the fine print, noticed that the application form needed to be signed by the insurance company — and got that handled over the phone in about 20 minutes (ha, an unheard-of speed). I arrived at the DMV 45 minutes before closing without an appointment, waited in a short line, got a ticket for the electronic queue, waited my turn, and handed over a stack of documents (and a fair amount of tax money) — and instead of the usual “you’re still missing the left pinky nail of a chaste dragon” — I actually received the documents. Wonders never cease.

An era has passed

SONOS is shit.

You have a discount here, but we didn’t apply it because you recently switched to a new address.

Back in school, when I was trying to come up with a name for my “outfit” that wrote super-duper programs in Pascal, for some reason the option “Laboratory ‘Anomaly’” popped into my head. I wanted something with “laboratory” in it — I no longer remember why.

new iphone#

In 2024 the last bastion fell — I finally switched from Android to iPhone.

Some phone spammers unexpectedly mangled my name.

An idiot’s dream has come true!