First Of All. That Is EXCELLENT!

First of all. That is EXCELLENT!

Second! Even cooler! One of the best colors to wear to hide in the dark is... Red.

Bright colorful red!

Why? Because red is the lowest energy color humans can see! It is the wavelength with slowest frequency!

It is... the color that disappears first when the light fades and dark takes over.

I'm a little more than halfway through reading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch (yes I know, it's taken me a while, hush) and my dad, who introduced me to them when I was in high school, told me this was the first Discworld book he'd ever read. That made me feel all sentimental anyway, but this evening I realized this book has been part of my life far longer than I'd realized.

Young Havelock Vetinari, student at the Assassin's Guild school, has been researching different forms of camouflage found in the animal world, and thus is breaking Assassin tradition of wearing all black. It's stylish, but it's pointed out several times in this book that black silhouettes still stand out in the shadows. So he's taken to wearing grey and dark green, muddy colours. And reading that, I was overtaken by the memory of my dad, years ago, when I was just little, explaining to me that if you want to blend into the night, don't wear black, because the night isn't black, it's dark blues and greens and greys, and black will still stand out. I don't remember why he was giving me this Assassin instruction, but it stuck with me forever. And now, here I am, finding the man who taught my dad all those years ago. I love these books so much, they're such an intrinsic part of my heart, sometimes in ways I don't even realize yet!

my toxic xennial trait is that i believe something should either be software (in which case after i download it i shouldn't need to be connected to use it) or a web page (which shouldn't require me to download anything to use it, however badly, in a browser). fuck your mandatory single function constant connection apps

I sometimes feel very tired and alone...

I am right now requesting copies of the permits for a concert I do vulenteer work for because they had us working with polluted dirt ( lead, mercury and cyanid... yum ) and gave the wrong equipment and info to the workers...

I am also pushing my workplace to have a checklist for setting up test hardware installations that can KILL YOU instead of relying on random people around sorta remembering how to do it safely hopefully

And I keep thinking "why me. Why is it always me who have to kick and push for basic kindergarten safety while surrounded by people who have just been accepting this shit for years"

And then I quote Tiffany Aching from the Terry Pratchett books and get on with it

"All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

I sometimes help people out by mentoring them on topics of programming and the surrounding fields. This both makes me and them better at programming and I very much enjoy doing it :) Some feel better about asking for that kind of help if they can pay, so I set up an account at buy-me-a-coffee. Feel free to donate, if this helps you help me help you.

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Moose

I like coding and teaching about coding!

I said the same thing about companies wanting my gender when I applied to a job.

To my case worker in the unemployment benefit part of the municipality before I found my current job.

She then told me that it was to allow firms gender discriminate, which she thought was perfectly fine...

I... have rarely been that gobsmacket...

It is VERY upsetting!