Bill Mason 🖖 🎶 📖 🥅

@billmason.accessibleinter.net

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 Work: #WebDeveloper / #WebAccessibility
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A Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (wings mostly yellow but with some black stripes) was hard at work among plants in my backyard. At least, my phone is telling me it's a Western Tiger Swallowtail, anyway.
The Believe 3.8% shirt features a Bernie Parent style goalie mask (or Jason from Friday the 13th), captioned underneath with the word "Believe" and a "3.8%" on the left sleeve.
"That's a stupid question" is the caption of this screenshot/meme from an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. As utterly by Patrick, a civilian, while dressed as a Starfleet Admiral.
Top 100 Listener of the band October Project.
Back to back Apple News app notifications. From Apple News Sports: "Snubs, surprises, and expectations for Canada's 2026 Olympic men's hockey roster." From The Athletic: Canada unveiled its Olympic men's hockey roster. There were both snubs and surprises."
A drunk Deanna Troi pokes Will Riker in the chest repeatedly in "Star Trek: First Contact".
Rendition of a Monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Audio clip from the Sabres-Flyers game on December 18 2025 where Flyers play-by-play announcer Tim Saunders makes an inappropriate sexual reference not knowing his microphone was still hot.
Flyers Nipple Guy celebrates a win.
A mostly silver car painted with "USS Enterprise" on the driver's door and "Galileo" above the front left tire.
This screenshot of a notification from the Paramount+ iOS app reads "Find your next adventure! If you liked Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, check out Star Trek: Section 31, NCIS: Tony & Ziva and Survivor. Explore now!"
A supplement for sale on Amazon comes in bottles of 90, 120, or 130. All three are priced exactly the same.
The butterfly was busy on a milkweed plant doing whatever butterflies do.
Screenshot from a Star Trek episode showing the two bridge stations under discussion in this thread that are immediately port of the main viewscreen manned by crew members.
The neighbor is flying the US flag from their lawn flagpole upside down, which is typically symbolic of distress or protest.
A newly born baby sheep (sex unknown) standing between light-colored mom Miranda on the left and brown-colored dad Zebedee on the right. The baby is a mix of their colors, light colored coat with brown spots.
Tasha Yar from the TNG episode "The Naked Now", wearing a blue belly and underboob exposing blue outfit.
Spam I received from "Mr Pibb" with the subject line "your app" and the body "is ok, ok?"
The Amazon listing for the Lower Decks Complete Series Blu-Ray is "temporarily out of stock".
Back to back items in my RSS reader queue: "What should the Flyers do to fix their goaltending problem? Exploring the options" by Kevin Kurz of The Athletic, and "Why Flyers shouldn't address goaltending right now" by Jason MacNeil of Broad Street Hockey.
The DuckDuckGo DuckAssist answer when I checked what the new version of Apple tvOS that just came out was: "The latest version of tvOS is 18.1, which was released on October 28, 2024. This update includes performance and stability improvements." The answer links to Wikipedia and Apple, and both linked pages correctly show 18.2 as the new version released on December 11th.
Two 'Rumble in the Rink!' notifications from the Max app. In the first, the notification says Vincent Trocheck and Vincent Trocheck were in a fight. In the second, the notification says it's Nicolas Aube-Kubel vs Nicholas Aube-Kubel.
For whatever reason, Apple Mail thought at one point I had 9,223,372,036,854,775,805 unread messages. (Toggling the unread filter off and on again fixed it.)
Top Artist: Dido (3,118 minutes played)
"That fact is not in dispute," said Data to Keiko (Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4, episode 11, "Data's Day".
In this sequence Flyers goalie Ivan Fedotov dives to this left to cover that side of the net, then has to dive again across the goalmouth to the other side to defend another shot attempt.
Coworker's comment in a Jira bug: 'I asked to be left off the ticket with the customer, but zendesk decided to reopen to ask my opinion on what I think about it. I have words, but not for the work environment. So reclosing ticket and moving on with life.'
Book excerpt set shortly after Geneviève Bujold quit VOY; Nana Visitor speaking : 'The excitement surrounding a female captain was such that it overcame me as well, and I remember catching Rick Berman on the street in front of Stage 4 and passionately telling him I could do the role. He was kind. He said the obvious: We need you on DS9. I said that I could do both. It shows you what a big deal this character was; for the length of our conversation, I had complerely lost my mind. Kate Mulgrew literally came to the rescue, returning from a vacation in Ireland, and giving an audition that left the producers knowing that they had found their captain.'
Live Activities on my iPhone has activated with a live running count of electoral votes for present, and number of Democrats/Republicans in the House and Senate.
App update notes for the Hulu app: 'In this version, we concentrated on fixing bugs that were producing an undesirable streaming experience, as well as improving app performance. No new features in this release, but we constantly keep our viewers in mind when working behind the scenes. When you're ready, update the Hulu app, relax, and enjoy the summer.'
Paramount+ phone app notification: 'Your CBS favorites are back! It's CBS Premiere Week! New seasons of Tracker, Ghosts, The Neighborhood and more are now streaming on Paramount+.'
Celebrating 10 million users, I was number 201,775 which is "elder certified" (in the first 10 percent).
Grazing in the backyard are Zebedee in the foreground with Miranda right next to him. Because blackberries and bamboo want to take over the yard, there's plenty to graze on.
Screenshot of post on X from @TrekCulture that reports 'Netflix: all 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 will be available from July 1st. It will not be available in Canada, Nordics, CEE, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belarus, and Mainland China.'
Top view of the shipped box before I opened it, with the shipping label at the bottom right while printed on the box's top left is a large rectangular empty space labeled 'Shipping Label'.
The Apple News notification reads 'WIRED: Twitter is finally dead. Like a venomous puss moth emerging from its cocoon, the company has fully met...'
Screenshot from Star Trek: The Motion Picture showing Spock kneeling at his Kolinahr ceremony. One of the Vulcans Spock is kneeling in front of is bald.
Under the front yard tree, the lawn is almost completely covered in pink petals the tree is dropping. Other than a few green patches, it's now a pink lawn.
Screenshot of an NBC News story. Headline: "'Star Track' USS enterprise model found on eBay after nearly 50 years". Lede: "The original USS enterprise model used in the introduction of the show "Star Treck" was found after being missing for nearly 50 years."
The clue reads "Month when the NFL, MLB, NBA, and MLB are all in season (Abbr.)", repeating MLB.
Sitting in the bedroom window, Aman the cat intently watches a white bellied, red under the wings bird staring back at him while perched atop a fence.
In the front garden a cat has taken up residence/shelter under a bush.
NBC News notification: 'A growing chorus of top advisers is urging Trump to fixate less on personal grievances and instead focus on attacking Biden'.
Moopsy, the cute bone-sucking predator from Star Trek: Lower Decks, stares innocently into the camera with the caption 'the look I give before sucking out his bones'.
A silhouette of a tall evergreen tree has one star visible over it, while off to the right is a crescent moon.
In the first moment of the episode in Klingon makeup, the character Dan Fielding says "Something about this feels familiar."
The view out into the backyard now features an overhang lined with icicles.
The driveway has just a light dusting of snow tonight, as does the street and surrounding foliage.
I made it to Rae Morris's top 100 listeners.
My top artists of 2023 were: Amy Grant (4274 minutes), Dido (1918 minutes), Sara Bareilles (1607 minutes), Stevie Nicks (1559 minutes), and Imogen Heap (1487 minutes).
The lyrics for 'O Come All Ye Faithful' by Amy Grant read 'Come and behold Him / Born the King of angles'
Sporting droopy-sad ears, Scotty-Cat sits in the Classic Trek Enterprise command chair, cradling a bottle of whisky.
ESPN's upcoming schedule entry for tomorrow's Flyers game is correctly captioned 'vs. New York Islanders' but has the Pittsburgh Penguins logo instead of the Islanders one.
The waxing gibbous moon illuminates assorted cloud around it.
The front lawn is completely covered in yellow fallen leaves, covering the green grass almost completely.
In this screenshot from Facebook, I'm being offered the option to subscribe to their ad-free experience, or keeping using it for free with ads.
Still green going into the weekend, the tree is now almost entirely yellow-orange leaves. Only a few have fallen onto the green grass below so far.
During the Philadelphia Flyers game, the ESPN chyron reported offensive zone time for the 'Philadelphia Phillies'.
Tiffie the cat parked in front of the TV watching Philadelphia Flyers vs Vegas Golden Knights
The sun looks more like a full moon in the sky, hovering around a line of trees.