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In 2005, back in its 1.5 days, WordPress stood for experimentation, open design, and endless possibilities against the mighty Movable Type. Now it’s just an establishment WYSIWYG engine and just a few knots away from being equated with linkfarms.

testing the new p2 responsive theme

A pressing question to address when, in the grand picture, discussing steering government towards greater social programs, may be: “how much of the European social democratic welfare system is financed by its 18-20th century (and beyond?) imperialist exploits?”

I have no idea, and kind of curious.

I dreamt that CGP Grey had published a paper book about.. how to work using computers, or something like that. I half woke up from that dream 1) trying to recall details from the book and 2) slowly realizing that CGP Grey in the dream is not me, and realized: “ok this is kinda funny, need to record this”. By the time I started typing this, I had forgotten a lot of details.

I had the dream in a semi first-person view and over-the-head view, but the voices coming from this person was definitely CGP Grey. A hand was turning the pages of the book and reading some sections aloud. Here are some lines from the book:

Foreword:
At first I wanted to call this book “The authority on computers” but my publisher changed it. Oh well.

(pages in between)

(chart)
The old powers (duh):
(icons of illustrator, indesign, photoshop with icon name underneath) Illustrator. InDesign. Photoshop.
(plus sign)
The new powers
(icons of two other adobe applications.. can’t recall them now. with icon name underneath)

Unfortunately there were no sights of a smartphone with Hello Internet being held, so I guess I missed my chance for the Hall of Fame.

Yongho: *cancels Audible membership*
Audible: Are you sure?!?!?! You will lose all 5 of your credits!
Yongho: Oh, okay. *Buys 5 books, using up all remaining credits*
Yongho: *cancels Audible membership*
Audible: We are sorry to see you go, whenever you change your mind, you can come back and use your remaining credits!

Hey retention team, you can’t have it both ways and due to your intentionally vague language with short term gains in mind, you just lost another potential customer. Well done.

Mobile Facebook feed today:

• Legitimate post from former colleague about travel plans
• Ad from Microsoft as “Sponsored post”
• Legitimate one line update from former colleague
• A fucking GIF/vid and I’m pretty sure the person listed as sharer didn’t actually mean to share that in their friends’ timeline. Followed by 2 comments posted by ppl in my network
• Another fucking vid (AFV)
• AFV
• AFV
• A little comment and link from high school friend
• Legitimate post from former colleague

Facebook. The Post-Monetization Discovery Channel.

Seriously, Washington Post? If you use a CC BY-SA photo in your article, the entire article itself needs to be licensed with CC BY-SA. Your writer didn’t even bother reading the human-friendly license text did they.

Seriously Facebook suggests I follow Zuckerberg now? It’d be hilarious if this was hard coded.

Trying out standing desks – these things are way bigger than what’s in pictures. And I forgot to account for the speakers. And standing up for two hours straight is hard.

For the past 7 years, I have been keeping track of my expenses in a spreadsheet, as a lightweight data analysis project. (Although I have yet to run a single data analysis of the data yet… need more data points! jk) For the past year, I haven’t been able to enter the data from my receipts, and the pile of receipts on my desk eventually moved to boxes, and now I had three boxes worth of receipts, documents, and other paper stuff I would look into later.

Today I finally decided to just throw out the receipts and give up on entering these dumb receipts which are going into my credit card report anyway. While I slowly moved over the first box because some of the documents are important, I already found three treasure chests:

1. A paycheck from January 2015
2. A sealed envelope with my paystub with a handwritten note notifying me that my salary was increased in March 2015.
3. A package of H Mart gift certificates I got as a end of year bonus at some year in time. (2013??)

Omg this trash jumping thing is profitable!! Here’s to finding more paychecks in the remaining boxes.