Mandaris

I’m going through some safety training and they mentioned something called a “BOODA Loop” to help with deescalating situations.

B - Breathe
O - Observe
O - Orient
D - Decide
A - Act

I’ll try to keep that in mind.

Currently reading: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald J. Robertson 📚

I’m at 33% and it’s more of a history of Stoicism at this point.

Lillie says good morning!

A dog with a shiny coat is lying on a fluffy white blanket, gazing forward with its head resting down.

This isn’t great.

The UI not the shirt.

The Liquid Glass interface does not work well with smaller phones.

I don’t feel like I’m being a hater or a curmudgeon when I post criticism about Liquid Glass. I feel the detriments outweigh the benefits and stating that it will get better ignores the reality of its current state.

Part of me is wondering … | Leon Mika

My friend Leon was writing about separating the content he makes into different blogs because of amount of certain topics.

And I feel like they’re overwealming this blog in a way.
Part of me is wondering … | Leon Mika

I’ve been thinking about doing something similar with my Crucial Track entries. In some ways, it makes a lot of sense because those are generated on a music focused site and then Micro.blog puts it on the blog and distributes it to mastodon and bluesky.

But, I’ve decided not to for two main reasons.

I don’t want to introduce more complexity. Having another blog would mean that I would more places to maintain and make decisions on.
I want place for all things Mandaris. The site has 80-90% of all the things that I create in one location. I don’t know who or what follows me or what they like. I do have different categories of posts and I might add something to the theme to make it easier to follow those specifically.

For now, I think I’ll keep everything here.

Kudos to those who are able to have multiple blogs!

Sinners, 2025 - ★★★★★

I have this down as my movie of the year. I like it because of how it makes us feel about these characters as they move into a night that none of them will be able to forget.

I think I’m going through caffine withdrawal but it’s 4:42pm and I want to go to bed tonight.

Remember when we were talking about the Gulf of Mexico? Now we’re talking about Tylenol. It hasn’t been a year…

Ok. Really quickly. Take less than 2 seconds.

Tell me if a song is playing and what is the song.