iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

I'm going to allow myself some unsober thoughts. Have a good Tuesday.

290

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

"get used to it man or join that statistic." Hmm. There are times I wish I weren't as staunchly pacifistic.

1140

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

It's been a while since I've done a `dump -0u $volume` by hand against ext4.

130

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Oh, huh. The Laconia plot in the Expanse is kind of speed-running Kerensky's exodus and the return of the Clans, just with a lot less iron womb eugenics.

130

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 30/06/2026

Oh, good, we've crossed over into the "Reichsadler" stage of where we're at.

130

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Current catus Laureline has been TALKING to me all day today, and all she wants to do is either laze on me or laze next to me. What the hell happened?

060

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Oh, hey, it actually installed the 25H2 update. I broke that installation of Windows pretty badly, so it's kind of a miracle that it succeeded at all.

040

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is curled up in the eepy baby box. Laureline, who is the one most guilty of sock crimes in this house, has knocked the "sock crimes" cushion off the armchair and curled up in its place.

1100

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 29/06/2026

Hey, psst, the 1987 Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs" is free to watch on YouTube. Sadly, his 1981 film "History of the World, Part I" is not, nor are his 1974 films "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." I'm sure there are others that are missing, but those are what come to mind.

3256

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is cawing at the crows outside.

060

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 28/06/2026

"Why does he obsess so much over making sure the ship stays in tip-top shape?" "He broke it once. This is his way to atone for it." "Ah, is that what the 'She takes care of you; you take care of her' is all about?" "You could very well call it apologizing instead of atoning, I suppose."

030

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 27/06/2026

I went out past Shoreline yesterday to go harass the coots, and something occurred to me. I don't mind that things have become orders of magnitude less useful over the past 20 years. I mind that they haven't, in turn, become orders of magnitude more hilarious.

050

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 27/06/2026

Ah, good, yes, somnolence on stimulants is finally considered incredibly diagnostically significant.

280

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 25/06/2026

Spectral theory is a neat niche in mathematics. Eigenvalue problems seem insignificant until you learn that solving linear ODEs is (more or less) an exercise in finding a linear differential operator's eigenspace. Then, spectral radii have implications for the convergence of numerical methods.

141

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 25/06/2026

Current catus Back when Valérian was a kitten, he had problems staying on things without falling off. He's since dramatically improved. Laureline, meanwhile, whenever she's lost in the sauce and being an utter purrbucket, will happily fall out of my lap like it's nothing. Welcome to cats.

190

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 25/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is very funny. I just spent the last couple of hours, give or take, on a video call, and he chose to curl up on the chair next to me. I pestered him for a good chunk of that time. Surely, he'd want little to do with me. Alas! He wants nothing more than to bunt my hand.

0120

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 24/06/2026

Current catus Crepuscular dipshit hours have resulted in a discovery: the wheel is a good outlet for zoomies. I can't tell who's running in it, and I don't want to change my observation of the system lest I impede the progress being made, but… I'll take it.

1180

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 24/06/2026

The best way to clean up a song for the radio is to replace the percussion with a washing machine.

010

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 24/06/2026

"In its most recent sixth edition, 'Proofs from THE BOOK' contains 45 chapters …" This sounds way more metal than it actually is. Each chapter is a presentation of another proof, more or less. The fact that we've only managed to catalog 45 of the Supreme Fascist's proofs is, frankly, underwhelming.

000

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 23/06/2026

Current catus Laureline is a very organized girl. She keeps her paws all in one place while she sleeps.

070

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 23/06/2026

I'm honestly getting a little tired of information recall hitting a wall and seizing when I need it most. I might need to restart amphetamines.

4110

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 22/06/2026

This in particular might actually be a trauma response after having seen what Steven Spielberg did to Brian Aldiss' "Supertoys" series of short stories.

020

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 22/06/2026

I will however comment on the fact that I'm honestly kind of over books being made into films and TV shows except under specific circumstances. Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" prima facie feels not especially great to see a trailer for, but we'll see, I suppose.

060

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 22/06/2026

I will not comment on computer hardware shit today.

190

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 22/06/2026

Oh, the actual assigned problems for Frobenius' method (that I just got last night, ha) don't go that hard at all. Find the regular singular points. Check that the roots of the indicial quadratic are real and that their difference isn't integral. Crank through the power series. Done.

100

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

🎶 🎵 I'm cat dad Wa-oh-oh-oh I've got the power to be their friend 🎵 🎶

062

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

One of the nice things about having whatever a Tablet PC is called these days is that I can still do math when I'm trapped supine by cats. OneNote on the left for scribbling, Drawboard on the right for reading and annotating whatever book I'm working through. It's rather comfortable!

070

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

I wouldn't mind having a family of opossums in my panniers. They're the absolute chillest of the North American starter trash mammals.

080

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

Of course Meowth's habitat would be some cardboard boxes and a straw bed. Of course.

080

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

It's looking like all I have to do now is drill Laplace transforms (especially for discontinuous functions and periodic functions) and coefficient recurrence relations for power series solutions.

110

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 21/06/2026

One of the advantages of the quarter system is that there aren't (usually) that many topics to review.

040

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 20/06/2026

Current catus Valérian is still in the box I put him in a couple of hours ago when he was demanding attention by being naughty. I fell asleep with him like that in my lap, and I guess he's decided that's a perfectly fine place. Laureline is now curled up opposite him. I'll take it.

2120

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 20/06/2026

Tom Scott is climbing a telescope. Why is he climbing a telescope?

271

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 20/06/2026

Sometimes, the compendium approach (or, more appropriately, the Get Good approach) is just necessary, as annoying as that is.

040

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 19/06/2026

As much as I rail on the ants (and sometimes wasps) that like coming into the house, I do nevertheless think members of the order Hymenoptera are pretty cool.

0100

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 19/06/2026

Bobby Prince defined the sound of PC games for a generation. A thread of his songs that I find notable (that aren't from Doom or Duke Nukem) follows.

12310

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 19/06/2026

Huh. People have been getting _really_ ballsy with me lately when merging into my lane. I haven't had anyone edge themselves in enough to sideswipe me yet, but there've been very close calls by some folks with much nicer cars than my beat-up Civic. I mean, alright.

150

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

I've decided that I'm really annoyed with the popular way of teaching the method of undetermined coefficients. Teach the Laplace transform early! Good lord. It does away with all of the cookbook "look for overlaps" and "memorize these seemingly arbitrary forms."

050

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

Current catus Laureline squeaks at me to ask for treats. I oblige. Valérian—who hasn't been terribly food motivated in the past (modulo Churu, but that's, well, Churu)—shows an interest and fights her for them, so I must oblige him as well.

1120

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

A neighbor of mine has a fussy infant, and while I'm generally glad to hear that we have children here, what I'm even more glad to hear is the grandparents singing to it.

0130

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

I will absolutely mishear "tactleneck" (portmanteau of "tactical turtleneck") as "tactileneck," and with the context of neither Archer nor James Bond, I will probably wind up thinking of Archer (or, well, Cheryl and Krieger) anyway.

1152

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

I wonder what Trump's Oder-Neisse line will be given that he signed the thing in Versailles.

050

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 18/06/2026

"Abraham Lincoln, Commander in Chief of the Union Air Force"

080

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 17/06/2026

A core dump for which the stack trace has the appearance of having been shredded and subsequently fried to a crisp on a plancha is known as crashbrowns.

1185

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 16/06/2026

The World Cup coming to the US has sort of affirmed a foreign policy position I've been holding for a while. Namely, exporting Waffle House and their logistics network worldwide would be abundantly popular.

2182

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 16/06/2026

Current catus I'm always in awe that two entire creatures trust me enough to let me be furniture for them. Well, sometimes. Right now, it's only Valérian snoozing on me.

2150

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 15/06/2026

The fact that Elon doesn't seem to understand that Max Rockatansky is the way he is because he was robbed of his life of being a devoted wife guy legitimately confuses me. How do you miss this? How is his media literacy this bad?

280

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year @nrr.corvidae.org · 15/06/2026

"I don't know if we'll ever call Germany 'Deutschland.'" Boy howdy. Given how I hear folks pronounce "Hofbräuhaus*," I'm unsure if I want to hear anglophones try to pronounce the German name for Austria "Österreich." Then, there's the question of Switzerland.

370