What would a world with robots catering to our every need be like? Lately, my fascination with ancient aliens and reports about the engineering of the human species has got me thinking. Electrical impulses that running through the brain allow our bodies to do what our brain tells it to do: breathe, walk, eat and sleep. Like robots, which I’m sure will someday be made to run on electricity, humans seemingly inherit the robotic task of feeding and caring for the well being of our pets. Will robots someday refer to their humans as pets?

Some of the machines that can be viewed like robots are cars. I just subscribed to DoorDash and having my food delivered (these days) is very financially feasible with today’s gasoline prices. Of course, it isn’t like asking a robot to prepare a sandwich, which it would then pull out of its robotic torso. This is the direction we’re headed. Waymo proves my point.

Here in the city, one of the most aggravating things about travel is the traffic. Nobody likes how other people drive when they’re too slow, too obnoxious, too inexperienced. Traffic is a growing problem, not to mention pollution. Why citizens are allowing empty cars to function as taxi cabs in our streets is a slap in the face.

I feel like I've paid double now for my laptop. I picked this one up to replace the one the cats peed on which completely destroyed it. Fuckers. They know what they did and they know the reason I only feed them twice a day now is not only because they have to learn not to poop on my Indian rug, but money is tight. 

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The laptop was at the repair shop for 3 weeks. The first week was because the computer wizards already had a line of computers to fix before getting to mine. The second week was because the password I gave them wasn't accurate enough to successfully log themselves in, and I had to make a special trip to reset my password. Then, after writing the password down for them (in plain English,) they still couldn't log in so I had to make another visit to reset the password. After that it was smooth sailing. They took the remainder of the second week to back–up my computer and started working on it on week 3. 

Somewhere around this time the fire at Lineage broke out in Boyle Heights. I didn't smell the chemicals on day one. The wind direction was blowing all the smoke in a north-east direction, avoiding my house, but I did see all the black smoke when I drove out to the computer repair shop. It wasn't until the second or third day of the fire that I began to smell it. It was a burning rubber scent. Of course, I closed all my windows and avoided any outdoor activities.

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Every time something happens that escalates the war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as how the U.S. fits into the picture, I check the doomsday clock to see if we're any closer to midnight. I doubt I'm the only one who's heard witness accounts of UFOs flying around missile silos and disabling nuclear bombs. These unexplainable stories must have credence, just as the pyramids and granite stone carvings are inexplicably the center of scientific theory, if not the core of the earth. 

Seeing that the U.S. is in a bad way, what with marijuana on the verge of being legalized short of having the commander in chief ousted — it's doubtful that the potheads of the country will triumph before the current administration's term is up — a photo of a UFO amidst explosions is concerning. Yes, we can agree that the UFO is an oil tanker lid. How else do we explain to the people that a UFO was forced to disable its ability to cloak itself invisible because more urgent matters were at hand? Mainly, disabling a nuclear warhead amidst the bombardment.

Over time, I have accumulated numerous spices and sauces for my kitchen. The fridge is beginning to smell. Gotta find a way to make myself a reminder to CLEAN THE FUCKING REFRIGERATOR!!! 

I like this quick and easy, overnight marinade mainly because I already have all the ingredients in the fridge. And it reminds me to stock up on a few bottles of red wine. Online recipes are a clusterfuck. First, you gotta make sure the recipe is authentically proven not to poison. Remember when the Internet first started and peeps would ask computer questions in forums focused on learning stuff like the command line/terminal? Back then, lurkers got a kick out of helping naive computer enthusiasts by giving them commands that would erase their hard drive. 

Then, printing the thing is a bitch. The recipe may look nice and legible on the computer display, but sending it to the black and white printer will reduce the font size and enlarge the advertisement banners. Normally, I would bring out the manual typewriter because copying and pasting to a word processor doesn't work like the good ol' days anymore. You may think it looks alright, but the gremlins will bite you on the ass with special characters becoming erased, or missing spaces. The possibilities are endless.

I guess typing the thing would be quicker to do even for the manual typewriter, but seeing that my laser printer is rarely used, it is not reliable. I have a wireless printer that constantly loses it's connection, resulting in hours of re-configuring the connection. Fuck that.

What's draining my battery?

These women are only a few of the social media video short comics that attract my interest. I'm sure everybody has their own preference. What I've noticed about my favorites here is the ease of using crass language. I love a dirty mouth. Not all of these ladies speak my language. For instance, Piper only has to utter m–hm (uh–huh) after a sentence and I am transfixed. Something else I notice is the submissive/masochistic qualities in their sex appeal. I love a beautiful red-head, but if she isn't going to be as funny as these girls, she just isn't putting enough time into her skits.

From left to right starting from the top: 

1. @piper.unplugged (Canadian?)
2. @kylielagringa (bilingual dirty mouth)
3. @daleseafoam (maso submissive)
4. @chargates (lazy eye weirdo cutie)
5. @andydarling (russian idealist)
6. @ksenia (debbie harry clone)
7. @vanee (spanish only comic)
8. @julietepearson (audio processing disorder)
9. @dollface.stewardess

Ridiculously engaging. Finds this line between operating as a straight deep-state intelligence thriller and as something on the difficulties of commitment. Carries the deep discomfort and paranoia that characterised much of Spielberg's post-9/11 work. the way it builds up to the final 30 minutes is unbelievable, my eyes were full of tears as the end credits began to roll. Found myself really moved by the palpable humanity of it all - a collective cut through government secrecy. Don’t think Emily Blunt has ever been better. Some of the compositions are truly spell-binding - full of haunting mirrored expressions, tracking shots, and some of the best blocking you’ll likely see this decade. And those chase sequences! So much fun. Looks like a real real movie. Actually very weird at times tonally, M. Night-like in ways as others have said (very much complimentary). Not only in terms of humour but also in the way it employs faith as a shield. Really really loved this, can see others not doing. Probably not entirely what you expect.

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Was feeling a little distant for large stretches of the movie and then the third act got me in the “lean forward in seat position” and I didn’t move the rest of the movie

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Wouldn't you like to know, weather girl @starstruck dot letterboxd

This is the kind of movie the guy from Bugonia would have loved.

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@itzRocha dot letterboxd

Possibly undercooked as a meditation on empathy and finding our sense of meaning, fucking phenomenal as a spiritual successor to Minority Report. Even takes time out of its day to rationalize and redeem much of what Crystal Skull was trying to do. Steve, you shouldn't have! Weirdly enough the best performance in the movie is from a character who only shows up in the final 10 minutes, not sure I've ever seen that happen before!

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Disclosure Day was atrociously bad. I mean, potentially one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Multiple people got up and left the theaters, people were on their phones, fidgeting and completely uninterested. Uninteresting, corny beyond belief, premise sucked. Acting was just bad. Music cringed me out. This felt like a boomer blockbuster, and Steven Spielberg tarnished himself with this one. Rough watch, if you can stay awake. Save your money.

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I was really excited for Disclosure Day. This movie had me hooked from the trailer, and i could not wait until it released. So anyway...yeah, i fell asleep 30 minutes in...the movie was boring and didn't even have the courtesy to tell us what was whispered at the end.

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A simple table I hashed out before bedtime.

This table contains dense code, but JotterPad reduces the complexity

Using JotterPad is similar to what PhotoShop was like back when I had the software running locally on a PowerBook G3. I still have that laptop too. Unfortunately, my aspirations to create my VuePress on that old clunker machine is not compatible (Node.js v.20.9.0 required), but if I ever manage to learn to use Vue.js, I'm sure I'll be able to understand PHP and MySQL a little more. Then, perhaps, I could utilize those languages to build something on it. If I could even build something with Rebol, it would be a huge accomplishment.

Lying in bed, I don't get drowsy until my eyes start to burn from watching TikTok bloggers acting stupid. The funny ones tend to get old and repetitive. When I reach a point when I'm all caught up on my social media fix, this table of miscellaneous pix I ganked from Unsplash gets me drowsy. After spending the whole day discovering new stuff I can do in Terminal and stuff I just comprehend with OpenID (PGP), brainstorming future posts relaxes me. I really like the way livjournal organizes my photos in a blog entry when I email it. It's not complicated, the way lj-cuts are mixes in with the table code. Thinks began to go bonkers when I tried experimenting with image hosting defaults. I wanted to see how attachment photos were displayed, with the lj-cuts, if the image layout was vertical. Then the multiple posts began to happen (and multiple photos too.)

I guess the multiple entries glitch is resolved because I don't see that occurring with my test posts from yesterday. It's going to be awhile until I finish the roll of film in the pinhole camera to post more pix, so last night I brainstormed how I might go about creating a table with images.

I never bothered to format images intended for the web before. The book on Vue.js has prompted me to scrutinize my images more carefully. Downsizing them for size and proportion is a task in itself. JotterPad can be tricky as I struggled to follow tutorials on making tables with markdown code using pipe symbols (|) and underscores (_), etc. When exporting my tables afterward, they just wouldn't formate into html properly. Then I discovered JotterPad has a tool button (+) that drops down a menu where I can select tables, the amount of rows and columns, etc. When I use that technique, the output to html is perfect.

So the plan is to use that when I have a roll of film scanned into my computer. I think uploading the photos into lj's photo album cloud might be the route I take, only because I won't be uploading photos in the same size that I scan them anymore. It will take longer, of course. A task I wouldn't mind adding as a skill to my resume. And that's what the gears in my head are thinking when I came up with this table in bed last night. Unsplash makes it so easy to grab a photo and post it, and if I like the way they look in this entry, my goal will be to duplicate that myself. Manually.

TROUBLESHOOTING

If it still doesn't post, paste the first 3 lines of message.asc (BEGIN line and the Hash line) and the output of

gpg --verify message.asc

Took the whole day troubleshooting. i imagine posting email updates this way, using a public key, works fine on a PC. Maybe it's a Mac thing. So I just changed the PIN on my Mobile settings. I'm watching carefully for duplicate posts as a result of sending so many tests. Another cool feature I didn't know about is I can attach a txt file as my entry (if i use the bundled Mail app that comes with OSX, I guess). I love that because I don't have to worry about accidently pressing the wrong button on my screen and stressing about not having save what I had composed. So, maybe this is cause for a shot. Cheers!

The new editor is wonderful, but with it's limitations of creating image map coordinate hotspots on an image, I guess the old classic editor is the only solution. So, I began to restore the 'verified' email accounts allowable to send blog emails to post.livejournal.com but this time I was determined to utilize the PHP feature.

I already know the the previous Mobile set-up I had, with the PIN number, was generating multiple posts.

Taking a headache break, set the TV for Bugonia. It is doubtful I will ever get tired of watching this movie. Something about the camera angles and close-ups of Emma Stone that makes the movie pleasing to the eye. Then there Jesse Plemons AND his supporting actor Aiden Delbis. Half the time, just couldn't believe the AS character wasn't for real, but as far as Plemons' role in the film, the special effects is what really impressed me; high point being the rollerball scene.

Then there's the dedication of having one's head shaved for the role. We already knew Stone's professionalism in doing nude scenes. Now this? Well, I guess for actors it's all about doing it while you can, because when the golden years come around, it's doubtful anybody is going to care about a nude scene or a shaved head.

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A walk thru the park. I wore my hiking boots. Cheap waterproof trackers with the sole coming apart after already gluing it back together once. It's not the reason I prefer to tread on the grass at the park. Treading on the grass helps avoid oncoming traffic (joggers mostly).

Does Red-eye occur during daylight? It's almost impossible to walk thru the grass in Echo Park without awakening a goose. Getting really close to the gander to make eye contact as I pass. Keeping fingers crossed that they don't make a scene and try to run me off their turf. Like, 'Get over there on the gravel where you belong, Hoomin.'

…and if it is a thing, how can you tell?

How to depict in (film)script the angle of eye contact wherein daylight red-eye occurs. Like staring down a gander just to see when it makes its move. Fight or flee. These Echo Park geese are too lazy to 'flight'. Some of them, I guess if one approaches carefully enough, will only grunt. It's quite something to hear a grunting goose in the middle of traffic noise. Grunt grunt grunnt grunnnt grnt.

I guess it's the angle, and the longer it lasts might involve the directional movement one heads, as the longer the axis point of eye-contact is maintained, without the goose changing focal point, without pedestrian's POV breaking focal point, that is when 'daylight red-eye' occurs.

I must've been tripping when I decided I should go back to my old editor. I have mutliple browsers on my computer and I use them all, though not for the same reasons. My work website prefers that I use Chrome because the other browsers don't work for their website.

After getting back on the programming development project, I like to relax by updating my lj blog, mainly because it doesn't involve the same brain boggling coding that I've been learning with Vue.js. 

When I log out of my lj account and refresh my blog, Chrome only shows recent entries as far back as December 2025.

Who wouldn't think that was odd? So I started logging off of lj on all my different browsers to check what was going on and they all seem to work normally. Firefox, Safari, Opera. It's only Chrome, on my iMac, that fails to display my entries. Even if I go to the archive, the calendar plainly shows that I have posted entries in 2026. But if I click the link to any particular entry between January and present, the browser returns the message "No entries were made". 

So I submitted a support ticket to livejournal. I don't expect I'll hear from them because the browser seems to work fine on my iPhone. It's only on my desktop computer that Chrome malfunctions.

As depression sets in for the repair charges coming my way soon, for the replacement retna display on a MacBook Air, it behooves me to orchestrate a convincing scenario to convince myself 'these things happen.' Maybe closing a laptop and cracking the screen happens more often than people are willing to admit. I can see somebody leaving a pen or pencil on the keyboard and slamming their laptop shut, when wham! the crackling sound of glass startles them into regret. I dunno. What gets me so upset is the cause for my little accident, resulting from a magnetic charging port designed to prevent a laptop from becoming tangled in one’s feet from the charging cord. In other words, this happened to me when it should’ve been prevented.

Previous to this, the one disappointment that had me down was a revelation I heard online by a writer’s perspective about job postings in LinkedIn being a baldfaced sham. It isn’t just my lack of talent and experience or the competition that discourages, but what today’s administration says about journalism? Fake news. untalented reporters shameful media companies, etc. As depressing as it is, I lock myself in my bedroom for privacy with my laptop teaching myself programming in Vue.js., the VuePress platform enticing me for it’s press association.

Computer wizards make it look easy. I have aspirations to repurpose my old, broken down computers as web servers. And with that, I tell myself this little set-back (breaking my own retna display) is the equivalent of paying college tuition for programming classes. It’s the bullshit I deal with keeping my own miserable company. I know the comparison is a stretch. No curriculum, no foreseeable concrete goal, only reading chapter to chapter in discombobulation of all RegEx and JavaScript code structure. Just before the accident to my laptop, I had finally managed to scrutinize the password obstacle WordPress imposes for synching JotterPad app’s publishing feature. One day I will figure out why gmail lj updates create multiple duplicate entries.

I vaguely recall seeing on livejournal a list of previous entries listed as “email” posts. I felt I might find clues to the problem if I could access the list of entries posted via email. I believe Telegram is the cause BTW. I have so many bots in that app, after trying to develop alternate ways to update blog entries, that I feel I must’ve broken something. However, if that were the case, it doesn’t seem likely the same problem would occur if I used a dedicated email server like Outlook. Unfortunately, multiple/duplication occurs even when I use a different email server/client.

I know this is the easy part, memorizing the dynamic combination of script, template, style. I think it's crazy to try to think this stuff up from scratch. I don't even type this stuff onto the computer anymore (verbatim from the textbook.) Now I'm just going online to the packt github repository and copying the code from that file and pasting it to my computer file. I back up the original "exercise1.10," then create a blank one. I guess I'm learning about those plugins that require fixing for each exercise in the workspace.

My eyeballs tend to wander when I start getting tired reading this stuff. It's like the letters start running all over the place and I have to keep my eye on them, but before I know it, my focus is searching for the point where I left off. Between this text book and the CodeMonkeys tutorial, I'm starting to check the respective tutorial code to get the index to encapsulate entries in cards AND include Navigation bar/head at the top of the page.

I'm glad I found this book. I was getting frustrated trying to come up with stuff on my own that I could use YAML with, to improve my whatever–coding–language–is–combined–with–YAML skill. It's a real treat getting my mind blown when I discover that I can do this or that with YAML. As of now, I wouldn't mind understanding all this stuff just enough to start using markdown for blog entries. The goal I've set myself is to figure out how to use my markdown app JotterPad to hash out .ftn files, then write something into the YAML that would allow Vue.js to convert the file into html. Then, of course, I would need to focus on such things as pagination, where each page would consist of no more than 54 lines of text, all the proper margins for a move script manuscript, etc. Plan B is to continue to hack out my movie script scenes on the typewriter, scanning them into a .png file, and adding the images to a "public" file for my blog entries. A.K.A. the lazy-set goal.

BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES, SPANNING 3 MONTHS

Photo from Feb. 2026

A nice tall tree would be nice in this city-owned plot of earth. Maybe I should write a letter to my councilman about climbing this street during summer. It doesn't have an outrageous incline like some of the neighboring street, but my peach pits aren't going to sprout if nobody adds water after I impale them into the ground with my shoe.

Photo from May. 2026

I'm still on chapter one of this web app programming book I'm drooling over. The exercises are meant to expose the reader to the details of code that Vue (vite?) uses, but this goes in one ear and out the other as I have zero javascript ability. I guess it would be easier if I had some hands-on experience using if/else conditions, but why kid myself? This book is 500+ pages and the rate I'm going, it'll be Christmas 2028 before anything sticks.

Yesterday I spent some time reviewing the already complete CodeMonkeys VuePress tutorial blog. I wanted to tweak it because the tutorial course ended rather prematurely, leaving the index without a header or a navigation bar. I crack myself up thinking I could solve the problem. Soon I'll become so frustrated, I'll abandon the book to spend some time doodling cartoons on a sketch pad. It's the undisputed pattern my brain takes.