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title: "Miscellanea for 2025-06-11"
date: 2025-06-11T23:59:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/11/miscellanea/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [miscellanea]
---

# Miscellanea for 2025-06-11

- Hello world!
- Why is [a celebrity podcast starting a mobile phone provider](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/smartless-mobile-jason-bateman-will-arnett-mobile-business-1236261243/)?
- Finally watching [Front 242's final live show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vbwSXVRwKUo) and... dang.
- Blogging has slowed here, but I'm hoping to pick it back up.
	- It was probably a shiny-new-toy phase for the first few weeks.
	- But also, I just changed projects at work and got suddenly a lot busier. So, my time for idle rumination has vanished for now.
	- I did post [a relatively big thing on AI coding](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/07/semi-automatic-coding/) last weekend, so that's pretty good though?
- My brain suddenly demands I play [Terraria](https://www.terraria.org/).
	- This happens every few years. And when it does, I get a sudden hyperfocus rabbit hole thing that lasts a week or so and evaporates abruptly.
	- I've only ever made it past the first few bosses in the game despite playing it since release back in 2011. 💀
	- I think that's my general M.O. with games: I get to a point where I'm like "ooh novelty" and then "ah, okay, I get how it goes from here" and wander off.
	- I very rarely want grinding or more of the same thing, once I see the pattern. Until, I guess, the anti-novelty wears off and it feels novel again? (Thus the repeat visits to Terraria)
	- Sometimes I'm really jealous of folks who can just lock into a Special Interest like Terraria and just milk endless reliable dopamine from the thing.
	- Meanwhile I'm like BORED NOW and have to go hunting again.