What I Didn't Know About Jury Duty

As of this year I’ve had my first experience serving on a jury, in a criminal case in a California court. Years of TV and a few school electives told me what to expect, while still knowing an actual trial probably wouldn’t be like that at all. And…it was and it wasn’t! Hence this post.

Majora's Mask in the 2020s

I was reminded recently how Majora’s Mask, a game from 2000, is my favorite Zelda story, if not necessarily my favorite Zelda game. Part of this is certainly nostalgia: I have memories trading off at a friend’s house on the road to Snowhead before my parents let us have console games. But there’s more to it than that.

(Content warnings for discussion of Recent Events as well as minor spoilers for Majora’s Mask).

Keyboard Pants

A year and a half ago, I left Apple, which among other things gave me a lot more time for personal projects. In particular, last March I put a tremendous amount of effort into getting Swift running on Mac OS 9. Which made me happy and proud, but which also had an extremely deleterious effect on my body. And I didn’t really get the message, but continued stressing myself into April and May, and as a consequence, I now have chronic RSI: repetitive strain injury.

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  2. 2019-11-01 Leaving Apple
  3. 2019-07-09 Contra Dancing
  4. 2018-08-26 "Gauntlets and Greaves" / Re: Re: Fanfiction
  5. 2018-04-07 Celebrity Encounters
  6. 2018-03-10 Identity
  7. 2018-01-12 Thoughts on Sketches
  8. 2017-01-27 "Will I hide you?"
  9. 2016-09-02 Dream Setting
  10. 2015-11-11 "Hey, Allison"
  11. 2015-03-24 What's in a Name?
  12. 2015-03-17 Emotional Proprioception
  13. 2015-02-01 In-groups and Out-groups
  14. 2014-08-31 Ten Books That Have Stayed With Me
  15. 2014-06-14 Re: The Traced Portrait Project
  16. 2013-06-22 "Asian"
  17. 2013-06-09 The Traced Portrait Project
  18. 2013-03-20 On Creation
  19. 2012-06-15 Cocoa Geek
  20. 2011-08-31 Apology
  21. 2011-08-13 Slow Mental Clock
  22. 2011-02-15 "What's Wrong?"
  23. 2011-01-07 Puerile Parenthood
  24. 2011-01-01 Phones and Photographs
  25. 2010-12-29 Thinking in Color
  26. 2010-12-27 Relationships vs. Probability
  27. 2010-12-20 Movie Review: The Social Network
  28. 2010-07-29 Symmetry
  29. 2008-01-19 Science as Religion
  30. 2007-12-02 Movie Review: August Rush
  31. 2007-09-23 Sincerity
  32. 2007-09-11 More Song Associations
  33. 2007-09-03 Spontaneity
  34. 2007-01-27 Weird Song Associations
  35. 2007-01-17 A Poem
  36. 2007-01-14 Prologue: On Blogs
  37. 2007-01-11 I Am

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