RatCreature's Journal

Is there a way to tell the Google calendar it should repeat something weekly, except if it coincides with a local public holiday? Surely that is a common use case?

I once again ended up adding a repeated event, and then had to manually delete a bunch, that I ought to be able to exclude automatically, because Google already knows the dates of Christmas etc. It is really aggravating. (As you can probably tell I don't use Google calendar a lot, but I do like it for getting alarm reminders for appointments and such.)

...is that I sometimes do not understand what is said, no matter how often I replay a section. It doesn't matter so much with news or other non-fiction, where mostly context fills in the gap, but it really annoys me in narrative podcasts. And unlike with tv, there is no subtitle option.

(BTW if anyone has listened to the latest Rusty Quill Gaming podcast, 191, and understood the last sentence Gragg is saying about quiche, that apparently was amusing, could you tell me? I replayed that bit four times and it just never resolves into meaning.)

After seeing several posts on my reading page about access list editing, I went to the DW "Manage Circle" page myself to see how many inactive journals are in my circle (kind of depressing to see), and I noticed the second column in that table, that either has an asterisk or not, and I have no idea what that signifies. I don't remember whether I knew at some point and forgot, or just never noticed before, but now I'm wondering about this. What is that column?

Currently I jot down the expiration dates for foods I buy in a notebook every time I put away new groceries, because I figured it would be easier to notice foods that are close to expiration date by looking through a notebook every now and then rather than going through my pantry shelves. But this method isn't very convenient either.

I don't use a spreadsheet, because I want to do the entry in my kitchen as I put away groceries. So I don't want to do tedious data entry afterwards. But it occurred to me that doing this with a phone app could possibly work with scanning codes, and not take that much longer for the entry, and get me to a sortable inventory with expiration alerts.

However I do not want an app that collects and monetizes my grocery shopping data with their company and then shows me personalized grocery shopping ads, or tracks my shopping habits and then sells data about pantries or such (even in aggregate or "anonymized"). I want an app that keeps a database of my food strictly on my phone and doesn't use it for anything. I don't intend to manually do the work of a surveillance "smart" fridge for anybody.

Are there such apps? The popular ones like "Out of Milk" seem to be the convenience in exchange for consent to surveillance type...

Has anyone watched it? Is it fun? A couple of mainstream media reviews I've seen were all positive, one I've seen on a comic book site mostly disgruntled, but I haven't come across any fandom buzz in my circles.

I haven't really followed any of the DC TV series, but this series setting seems different and like you could watch it without having seen Gotham or anything. I'm not watching much TV these days, but this looks interesting.

...is there some tool that let's you download all the Tumblr posts you liked? I've been good about downloading fanfic as I go along, but fanart much less so. I don't reblog with my Tumblr, but my likes are visible.

I've noticed several times references in fiction about people airing out their house once it got warmer that made it sound as if Americans don't open their windows in winter to let fresh air in. Like as if they don't air their house if it's freezing outside.

Is that true? Is it a central air conditioning thing where you don't really need windows to get fresh air, and shouldn't disrupt climate control or something like that? Because otherwise I can't imagine not to open my windows at least twice a day for a little while. Admittedly it's rarely extremely cold here, but this winter we had days when the daytime high was below -10°C and I still aired out my place briefly.

Here you are even required to do so in rental agreements because otherwise you get problems with moisture buildup and such.

For some reason I can't see my default icon fully any more, but just see a top stripe of it. At first I thought it was a cache problem of my browser but neither reloading nor even looking at it with another device fixes the problem. Is this just a weird glitch for me or is it mangled for everyone and I should bring it to support? Do you see my whole icon with this post?

I bought myself an Instant Pot, because I've seen quite a lot of slowcooker recipes around, and many people who are enthusiastic about that method. And also I eat a lot of grains and pulses which thus far I've just cooked the old fashioned way, but figure this device ought to make more convenient.

Anyway, because for years I did not own such thing I of course failed to bookmark all the applicable recipes I've seen around. Do you have favorite recipes?

Recently I often fail to add fanfic I've read to my Pinboard bookmarks, but still manage to click the bookmark button on AO3.

I feel like there ought to be some (semi-)automated way to get my AO3 bookmarks into a format that Pinboard could import. Ideal would be if canonical tags became Pinboard tags but not the Tumblr-style tags and it could recognize duplicate bookmarks already in my Pinboard.

Does anyone know of an AO3 add-on script or such that would harvest and reformat your bookmarks there into a bookmark file that then could be used by Pinboard? I can't be the only fan who'd find that useful.