JF.org BlogJason Fleshmanhttp://www.jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts2024-03-05T12:09:01Z3/5/2024 - To those who are gonetag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2024-03-05:bf2024-03-05T05:00:00Z2024-03-05T12:09:01Z<p>Happy 70th, Mom.</p>2/19/2024 - When did Mötley Crüe become classic rock?tag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2024-02-19:bf2024-02-19T05:00:00Z2024-02-19T00:00:00Z<p>Bowling for Soup's song "1985" is now farther in our past than any point of the year 1985 was in "1985"'s past.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2024/02/19">Continue...</a></p>2/16/2024 - Slow progress is still progresstag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2024-02-16:bf2024-02-16T05:00:00Z2024-02-16T05:00:00Z<p>I had to buy a new pair of jeans recently. And for once they're a smaller size than the old ones.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2024/02/16">Continue...</a></p>1/15/2024 - Baby steps into the 21st centurytag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2024-01-15:bf2024-01-15T05:00:00Z2024-01-15T05:00:00Z<p>The legacy site I've been maintaining since before it was a legacy site is finally starting to ride off into the sunset. Which means it's time for me to write code in something other than ASP Classic and vanilla Javascript.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2024/01/15">Continue...</a></p>7/24/2023 - Wouldn't it be nicetag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-07-24:bf2023-07-24T04:00:00Z2023-07-24T04:00:00Z<p>I'm sure I have memories rattling around in my head that would cause emotions other than embarrassment. So why aren't they ever the ones that bubble up at random?</p>6/5/2023 - Tweaking the alphabettag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-06-05:bf2023-06-05T04:00:00Z2023-06-05T04:00:00Z<p>I watched a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyGtuBCXlwU">RobWords</a> video today about reinventing the English alphabet. Now, we all know nothing like that will ever happen but let's play along.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2023/06/05">Continue...</a></p>5/15/2023 - Supergeniustag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-05-15:bf2023-05-15T04:00:00Z2023-05-15T04:00:00Z<p>A few weeks ago I decided I should cut some of the starch out of my diet. Not go full Atkins, just remove the easy and unnecessary stuff. About three hours <em>after</em> I went to the store and bought pretzels and Doritos.</p>4/3/2023 - Silly things for dumb reasonstag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-04-03:bf2023-04-03T04:00:00Z2023-04-03T04:00:00Z<p>I'd been having trouble getting my web site "verified" on Mastodon. When you save a URL in your profile on a Mastodon site, it'll go to that site and look for a link with the <tt>rel="me"</tt> attribute that points to your Mastodon profile. But for some reason this site, http://jasonfleshman.org, never worked.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2023/04/03">Continue...</a></p>3/20/2023 - DST 2023tag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-03-20:bf2023-03-20T04:00:00Z2023-03-20T04:00:00Z<p>Sure, I spent all week being tired in the morning and drank more than double my usual amount of coffee because of it. But the clock in the guest room is correct again, at least.</p>2/13/2023 - Losing the plottag:www.jasonfleshman.org,2023-02-13:bf2023-02-13T05:00:00Z2023-02-13T05:00:00Z<p>I stopped reading comics in the spring of 2019. I didn't stop <em>buying</em> comics until early 2020. Right before the pandemic hit. And since the pandemic didn't change much for me, they sat on a table in the kitchen, piling up for a year, then spending three years as part of the background clutter.</p><p><a href="http://jasonfleshman.org/brain_farts/archive/2023/02/13">Continue...</a></p>