Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

I am vehemently opposed to lockdowns and mask mandates. I cannot believe that our lives were forcibly taken away from us for something so minor, for such a long period of time. Lockdowns destroy mental health. I will never, ever support them, and you cannot change my mind about this. Lockdowns destroyed the quiet, happy little world I had created for myself, and you do not get to take that world away from me. If you try, I will fight you.  And sure, I think it is a good idea to wear a mask when you’re symptomatic. It just shouldn’t be forced. But if everyone is wearing one even if they’re feeling fine, then it encourages a culture of irrational fear and paranoia. Ergo, this is BAD. Most viruses can be transmitted asymptomatically, and no I’m not going to wear a mask outside of a directly medical context UNLESS I am feeling symptoms of something. Otherwise, we will be doing this forever. Masks make me hyperventilate, and I get a headache if I wear one for too long.  However, I do not un

 I’ve only seen 2 movies in theaters this year so far, Wonder Woman 2 and A Quiet Place Part 2. I want to do it a lot more. I also want to find a nearby theater that has an arcade attached.  Wonder Woman was great — a few logic holes, but I loved the message. A Quiet Place 2 was a lot of fun, despite never having seen the first one (I will watch it at some point, definitely before the third one comes out). However, it was also a very stressful movie with little time to breathe. As a result, I think 90 minutes was the perfect runtime for it. 

So enneagram theory IS pseudoscience, and has an uncomfortably large overlap with people who think that astrology is actually legitimate. However, reading the 4w5 descriptions as a high school senior / college freshman lent itself to such painful accuracy for me that I realized that there was probably much more to this theory than what was on the surface. As Owl City says, "life is quite surreal", and I wouldn't believe in God or soulmates or life on other planets if I took everything at face value. So, I study enneagram theory anyway, woo and all. Honestly, if it helps you (and it will), who cares.  So, 4w5 and 5w4.  People act like these two types are totally different, and as such, conducting a Google search on their differences gives you overtly simplistic explanations (4w5s are more EMOTIONAL and 5w4s are more INTELLECTUAL, no freaking shiz, Sherlock), or random crap like "if you identify with both, you're probably a 6 or a 9", which makes absolutely no

One I solved today had to do with yet another UI fix in Vue...It was a header that was persistently sticky, and I was instructed by the UX designer to make it nonsticky. It took me down a lot of weird paths, including getting lost in the weeds of a bunch of ERB files that I don't think are actually used anywhere in our codebase.  But then I finally found it. Inside of the v-app-bar attribute, there were a few attributes: color="primary", app, and flat.  After stumbling upon  this link , I found that I simply had to remove the app attribute, and the header stopped being affixed to the top of the page. While further testing will be required to see if this doesn't break anything else, ultimately I was surprised at how simply the fix was! And how simple it can be to just add it right back...

Carnivile  is my current novel project, which I started in January 2019. It is the story of a girl who gets lost in a demonic carnival. It is a story of lost childhood, of escapism, of romance, of rescue, of remembering who you truly are.  It was loosely inspired by the horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse and their Dark Carnival, Tom Wood's fantasy and horror art, various gothic, nu, and extreme metal songs (Bloodbath, Gnaw Their Tongues, Avatar, Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, Chelsea Grin, Evanescence, Nightwish, Korn, WitchcrafT, The Lust, Eluveitie, Moonspell, Amberian Dawn...), other horrorcore artists (Twiztid, Geto Boys, Gravediggaz, Eminem), my childhood games of "Spooky Island", the song "Carnival of Rust" by Poets of the Fall, my lifelong passion for theme parks and carnivals, various nightmares that I have had (including one I call "The Choir"...more on that later) and the general cultural trope of a wicked carnival.  Stylistically, I have been in

Another one of those things that I'm saving for future reference.  The main page on Vuetify buttons pretty clearly shows that their buttons have a slight rounding by default. But, there aren't any instructions on how to sharpen the corners. And internet searches seem to be full of people who want to know how to make their buttons even more rounded, even though that's already explained on the page.  So here are the steps!  1) Apply a CSS class to your v-btn 2) Add the following attribute to the CSS class:  border-radius : 0 !important ; You don't need any other border-based attributes. With that, it should work. 

TEA meaning the Themed Entertainment Association, or the main website for those in the theme park industry and related industries. It has nothing to do with the Tea Party, which I know virtually nothing about.  The theme park industry is notoriously bad in their web design and software management -- many websites aren't using HTTPS, forums are riddled with spambots, passwords are stored in plaintext, and the like. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you have bad pay and work-life balance (in most cases -- I hope to find a theme park design company that prioritizes good pay and WLB) for a career path, software engineering, that is normally lucrative, secure, and balanced. Your talent floods elsewhere, as I have currently done. So, I guess I should have expected something like this.  I forgot to pay my membership fee last year, and I was tired of hearing about COVID 24/7 (not that there was much else to talk about), so I let my membership expire. But I wanted to reinstate this y

AKA the hardest I've ever worked for a steak and cheese brisket with a side of fries and an Orange Crush soda.  And yes, it was harder than Mt. Whitney.  All the guides say not to do this. "Do not attempt to hike to the river and then back up in one day!" But, because we are not pansies, we of course ignore this advice, and do it anyway.  I wasn't sure whether to post this at A&A or here. I think I'm going to do it here, then crosspost to A&A after I finish a few other trip reports -- before Memorial Day Weekend if possible.  GRAND CANYON 2021 Hiking the Grand Canyon rim to rim had been a bucket list item for me for a long time. Doing it in one day was the only option, because me + my OCD + backpacking do NOT mix. Plus, it was more of an endurance challenge that way, and it meant I'd have to carry less gear.  My dad has hiked R2R many times, and I was always inspired by him. I always knew that I wanted to make the trip myself, and considered doing so m

In kindergarten, or first grade, or whenever the heck we learned this (I don't remember), I think most of us were just taught to blindly "carry the one". There was no explanation as to what that actually meant; you were simply supposed to accept it as fact and go with it . Those who know me know that I hate black boxes, and the absolute bane of my existence is to be told that something is objective and indisputable fact, to be taken at face value without an explanation as to why. It irritates me to the point where it actually inhibits my overall understanding. When in the process of examining my own mathematical education, I believe that the gaps in my conceptual understanding started as early as this one. You end up memorizing steps, without actually understanding what's happening, and this inhibits you when you are expected to make your own original connections and insights (i.e. on an exam). And it sucks, because you feel like you're failing, when in reality yo

This took me way too long to figure out, so it's going here.  You do not  use v-if, because that only applies to tags, not attributes.  Instead, you use a ternary operator: :style =" [index === 2 ? { 'margin-bottom' : '40px' } : {}] " This is telling us: If the index  variable is 2, then change the bottom margin to 40 pixels. Otherwise, keep the bottom margin at the default (hence the empty curly braces). In this case, the default bottom margin is 32 pixels. However, I'm not actually sure where that default margin attribute is coming from. It could be a built-in Vue styling, but more than likely it's trickling down from a higher-level stylesheet. That said, it's irrelevant for the purposes of this post.  So yay, ternaries finally have a practical use other than showing off for people who try too hard to look smart! This is excellent. 

 I have finally figured out the reason why I'm always late, aside from the obvious ADD time-blindness.  The reason why I am always late is because I am obsessed with my personal projects and self-improvement, but I never get enough time for either, so I push the boundaries (i.e. it's 8 AM so I should probably drive home and get breakfast, oh, but I have time for one more mile! I'll just shower faster!). And the reason why I never get enough time for them is because I cannot stick to a schedule's start times or end times  -- the middle is fairly easy to stick to.  For me, starting work by 9 AM is a herculean effort. But, I can usually stick to a schedule once I've started . I can work for 8 hours and take lunch at noon, do a walk at 3:00 PM, and work in 50-minute focused chunks with 10-minute breaks pretty easily. And, since my brain is normally pretty fried, I can usually clock off after 8 hours without too much difficulty. And, why can't I start work by 9 AM in

  Here we go! Such a peaceful poem. The warmth and sunshine of spring really do dry up all the tears of my soul. And even the cloudy days have their own whimsy, especially as they become less and less common as we head towards those idyllic days of summer.  The pool at my apartment complex opened early this year. I couldn’t go, because there were a ton of people in it when I tried to go after work. But...soon, I will find a good less crowded time to go, and I will feel that beautiful springtime warmth. 

This is kind of lame. This evening, I went on an internet rampage like it was 2011 again, visiting all my old forums as well as newer ones, and my social media sites. Now, all I have to do is reply to my large backlog of Facebook messages, catch up on 1 more webcomic, go through my Discord messages, and catch up on my Serebii fanfiction. Then, I'll be caught up on all my websites for a little while. Hopefully, I can do that tomorrow. I was going to go to Lagoon, but honestly, I think I might just need a weekend to pull back and rest. These past few have been intense.  But anyway, I found that Feral Front was nixed, nuked, black-holed out of existence as of last October.  The last time I was ever truly active on the site was in 2012, up until the day I left on my mission. After I returned home, they had lost a lot of the cool features, the few RPs I used were long gone, and most of my friends moved to other websites. I don't even know who this forum poster is, so that shows you

(This is a really good funeral doom metal song with beautiful female vocals) Dear Google, Why are you like this? Why do you do this to us poor, innocent users? Why did your engineers push this horrible code change, which only occurs on my Mac (Safari, Chrome) and not on Windows? What did I do to you, eh? Is it because I use AdGuard for Safari, and Adblock Plus on Chrome? Is that why, Google?  I'd like to announce that I absolutely hate this with every fiber of my being, and that every time I see it, I wish for death. 

 PersonalityDB, I mean. Lots of good stuff there, but I disagree with a lot of typings (i.e. Cal Newport and Amy Lee) and therefore I want to add my input.  But then I see this crap. Like...seriously? Why do I have to wait a day before voting on personality types? I've been lurking here forever (okay, like a week, but still). If you're that worried about spambots, use a captcha. It is not that difficult, people. 

I will be iterating a lot on this. Jung and MBTI enthusiasts, get ready for a trip fueled by inferior Te.  This  is a great article that has given me some good tips for balancing everything.  - schedule: So far Trello is working out pretty well for me as an organizational tool. I don’t think I’m going to change it at this point. I am trying to follow an autopilot schedule with weekly planning on Sundays and do stable mucking for mosquito tasks — this is difficult, but I do see at least some degree of forward momentum. I want to start working by 8:30, not 9:30, so I will need to work on that. I’d like to get up at 5 every morning but I keep falling asleep during work. The key, I think, is to cut off at bedtime no matter what, and stop reading Reddit and Facebook while getting ready for the day. It freaks me out when people tell me about having children because that will put a major wedge into my goals, but, well, I’m not there yet. Sucks to be a hopeless romantic sometimes but I know ex