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I worked the 2019 Hearthstone Masters Tour in Bucharest, Romania. It's become a running gag in that group that I can never remember off-hand if I went to Bucharest or Budapest.

I have a friend named Erica, who I know more by her online name, which starts with "em". My mind _always_ defaults to "Emily" because the abstraction logic just trips up because of that.

I just spent 15 minutes trying to find Lutron Caseta switches by searching for Konica Minolta.

There's a few videos going around right now about a Chinese EV that has a _ton_ of features and interesting tech.

There's good ideas interspersed, but I keep seeing it and going "that's a _lot_ of things on a car that can just break and become an expensive bill, or just brick the car outright".

I travel for work and am functionally all over to USB-C. I bought a bunch of ~$40 USB-C and TB cables to bring exclusively, just to never have a cable compatibility issue.

Around me, people try to connect portable monitors, or hubs, and they can't easily tell they have an insufficient cable.

I am aware of the underlying-technological issues here (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-m_...) but I'm also very-accustomed to the system these days. But I remember my first international flight and it all being a big black box. It feels like it could be better, but I don't know a simple answer.

Landing in the US, I knew that I'd need to stop by a desk and pick up a ticket for the final leg, because apparently KLM can't print that specific pass. I also knew that basically entire digital system can break on me, but I need to trust that everything is fine.

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My originating flight had a minor delay on a tight-ish international connection, which was bringing my stress levels up slightly, I couldn't imagine how stressed my friend would have been in the same situation.