I've never been so excited to get patted down by the TSA. They do the extra touch on me every time. Some day they're going to pull me into a cramped room and I'll say something reasonable and they'll beat the hell out of me, but I'm going to the UK this time so I don't give a rat's ass today.

Some of Raymond Carver's short stories really check a great box for me: Fighting with people because you think you're mad and right but you're really just embarrassed or frustrated and you can't figure out why because you're not self aware enough for your internal dialogue to help.

I think now is probably a great time to invest in (probably in-browser) user-friendly tooling to automatically inspect and subvert WASM apps in the browser. As WASM takes off, we will need better tools to unfuck user-hostile websites. I mean, we could use more now for minified-js-laden bullshit.

In the process of learning things I didn't because I was homeschooled or dumb or whatever, I've been using www.geoguessr.com/quiz/seterra to learn geography in general. Any other recommendations for general world fact-learning?

I heard there are a lot of pickpockets in the UK, but I know just what to do. I'll put a pocket protector full of pens where my phone should be. They reach in for my personal electronics, and before they know it, they're a total nerd loser.