Angela Brett

For those of you who just came here from my mastodon/mathstodon on the promise of ephemeral stuff such as food and pants: I just had breakfast (cereal, yogurt, and a banana, all mixed together, and a cup of tea) and I’m wearing a skirt.

I tend to avoid subscriptions. I don't have TV or music subs (unless you count TheFuMP and musician patreons), or many software/services subs. But those domain names I've had for decades, for the websites I rarely update? Well of *course* I keep paying for them. You can't just *drop* a domain name!

One weird thing about the buses in Seattle is that there are no buttons to open the doors either from the inside or the outside, so people have to yell at the driver to open the doors if someone doesn’t manage to get in or out while they’re open.

In case you’re wondering what to name your ferret, last night I dreamed the name Ferret Streep. It was a play on Feryl Streep. I only realised after I woke up that that could be spelled Feral Streep, which would also be a good name for an animal.

The zipper on my jeans is breaking, and I’ve just realised that since the jeans aren’t really worth donating, they are literally on their last legs.

It would be fun to put a grey and white checkerboard pattern in a frame and hang it on the wall, and tell graphics people it’s a window.

I keep forgetting to mention something I liked about the latest Apple keynote: They showed Siri dictation using the Oxford comma. 😀

Here to promote Mur Lafferty's "Lonesome October Club". Write a chapter of a novel each day in October, just like Zelazny did in "A Night in the Lonesome October". Maybe. To sign up, go to Mur's Patreon page (you don't have to be a patron of hers to participate): www.patreon.com/mightymur/po...

I upgraded to an iPad that has FaceID (instead of Touch ID) late last year and the only issue is FaceID needs the device to be farther away from my face than my eyes do. This is fine for a phone; I’m holding it with one hand so I just move it farther away for a second. But it’s a pain with an iPad.

Really cute robots should be called computie pies.

Richard Ayoade on Taskmaster has real “no and” energy.

Even though mornings technically have nothing to do with lunar rovers, it’s somehow a useful mnemonic for me that the kanji for morning 朝 is a combination of the ones for car 車 and moon/month. 月

Arrr. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

In the spirit of Apple Watch vs Macintosh Classic startup race youtu.be/Ug3Rv8zep30 I hope someone compares the startup times or other specs of the iPhone Duo and PowerBook Duo.

A chonki kererū snarfing down some kōwhai flowers in our front garden today. #spring

Live Translation on the new foldable iPhone: Duo lingo

Apple event in 4 minutes! 😁

Every mathematician right now

A clip of me commenting on @jococruise.bsky.social about being banned in a school library went up and I thought I'd share. The first 90 seconds are on me, but it's the rest I think is important, where I talk about the real harms book bans inflict on authors who are not like me. youtu.be/ya1ylFb9E_k

You didn't know you needed to see me perform a karaoke version of "Take On Me" (with critical audience participation on a particular note) on the @jococruise.bsky.social, but you do and here it is: youtu.be/BLY7_vVhbxo

I just finished reading one friend’s book series and then read a book by a different friend. Also, depending on the weather, sometimes I wear a hoodie with one friend’s art on it and sometimes I wear a thinner outer top with a different friend’s art on it. I have such cool friends!

Not to brag, but Duolingo thinks my phrasing of the statement that there were no slippers in the restroom was beautifully written.

I don’t know a whole lot about Dolly Parton but I know she was on an episode of The Orville, so if you didn’t know that and wish you could see more of her, that’s an option.

Oooh, take advantage of this deal and read something great!

“I think this is pretty mid. I’d give it a five,” said Tom, often.

“I don’t know what groceries to buy,” said Tom, listlessly.

It would be kind of fun for a small group to start singing The Wheels on the Bus on a regular city bus to see who joins in.

Tonight will be my fourth time seeing James Dempsey live since I moved to the US! Before that I only saw him once in 2004. Come join, if you like fun songs about code! xcoders.org/2026/08/14/j...

I woke up from a dream about a cool etymological dictionary to realise that etymonline is called that because of the word ‘etymon’.

yeah of course the goats are taking the bus. they can't take the max because there's predators