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Man, I really need to implement control of image rotation.

Hey, the guy and I played Talisman: The Magical Quest Game tonight! We played with no spells, and we waived restrictions about going from the Outer to Middle Region.

He can definitely:

- Roll dice
- Read dice
- Count spaces with 60% accuracy
- Draw cards
- Read numbers on cards
- Add combat score totals, if you hold up fingers to count

Playing with someone that's illiterate is a lot of work, but it's a nice change of pace from setting up the marble run or pushing around trains.

Every so often, the dramatization of Eazy-E dancing (from the Dre Day video) pops into my head for reasons unknown. Though the entire conflict that motivated that video is shameful, and the rest of the song is marred by homophobia, I still find the images of Eazy-E and the various wack rappers he meets dancing incredibly hilarious. I'm kind of a simple person.

Watching the rest of the video, though, I've noticed that the wack dancing is not really that different from the dancing the cool people are doing. (The arm-out gangsta bounce that I never knew the name of.) That part is also funny now!

Report about the guy's day:

He ate most of his tacos and he saw trains while on the playground.

If that's not a good day, I don't know what is!

The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. This article is about how it's policy, not technology that has created the horrific gig economy we have.

I didn't know this:

Consider the Industrial Revolution. Well before it took place, in the 19th century, another revolution in work occurred in the 18th century, which historians call the “industrious revolution.” Before this revolution, people worked where they lived, perhaps at a farm or a shop. The manufacturing of textiles, for example, relied on networks of independent farmers who spun fibers and wove cloth. They worked on their own; they were not employees.

In the industrious revolution, however, manufacturers gathered workers under one roof, where the labor could be divided and supervised. For the first time on a large scale, home life and work life were separated. People no longer controlled how they worked, and they received a wage instead of sharing directly in the profits of their efforts.

Of course, I think the factory owners are still to blame for exploiting workers, even if it's not the factories themselves that are to blame.

Also, assuming this is true, I didn't know this start of a way of thinking started in the seventies:

What changed this? The emergence in the 1970s of a new, strictly financial view of corporations, a philosophy that favored stock and bond prices over production, of short-term gains over long-term investment. Theories of “lean” corporate organization became popular, especially those sold by management consultants and business gurus.

A thing that's helped me feel better this workday is just finishing things, even if it's trivial or doesn't have to do with scheduled work. I read a bunch of open tabs. I made a bunch of comments on a tech recommendation doc I said I'd comment on. Less things are hanging over my head in aggregate, and that's more effective than doing things in a particular order re: getting all the things done.

Chrome is now deciding that some subdomains are "trivial" and hiding them.

Chrome was going to (and now is going to again) disable web audio for web sites – except for "popular" sites.

Like most Google products, Chrome was amazing at first. Now, it looks as if it may be stepping into taking power out of users' hands.

I finally got a little run in. Overcast weather, I thank thee. Pull-ups 9-4-4-4-4. At the end of the first set, I was like dag, my left thumb is off the bar how long has it been that way?

On one hand, I have not failed to hit 10 on the first set in quite a while. On the other, this might be a total reps all-time high. A fitting odd outcome for an irregular week.

I like to think that I've survived the summer, but who knows if it'll just pop up again in a couple weeks?

All right, I really need to take steps to get my art out somewhere besides social media. I don't know where, but I need to start looking.

Hey, went out and worked on a project with a friend again. We have something working. I needed that after a lot of workday existentialism!