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Can't wait when Nintendo decides to rename the Master Sword.

Jokes aside, the superficialness of these changes again makes me feel uneasy, that no more serious effort would/could be carried out after these low hanging fruits are gone. On the other hand, what may be seen as low hanging fruits for large coporations can still put a toll on smaller projects. Gee naming things is hard.

First run in a very long time! The weather is great, but the respirator mask is really taking a toll on me after the first mile. I got some other types of filters that are less clunky and maybe that will alleviate this. Also got a bike yesterday -- hopefully I will get a chance to put it to good use.

Egh, the new Github repo page they are testing has a very M$ feel to it.

I wonder how long it would take for GitHub to become Office 365 Code or MS Visual Hub.

Second recovery run - I've largely adapted to wearing respirator masks while running - the only annoying thing is as I sweat, the mask tend to slip and put a lot of weight on my nose, essentially blocking it. It's almost comical seeing how the please wear a mask signs are even less effective than the no alcohol beyond this point ones.

Spend good part of today organizing all my expenses this year in Beancount - a text based accounting system that I first read about in BYVOID's blog. With Emacs integration, multiple interfaces, and an error checker, Beancounting has been a breeze to use, and is quite addicting.

Healin' Good PreCure is on Crunchyroll now!