Watts Martin

@coyotetracks.org

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Writer, of both technical and sf/fantasy persuasion. Cocktail aficionado. Social justice coyote. (he/they)

“Challenge Question 5” from one of those web forms that makes you add security questions: “What is your favorite security question?”
An operating (although closed for the day) Tandy Leather store in Casselberry, Florida
A still-open FYE, once a huge mall CD/movie store chain
“Business Plan” chart reading: Phase 1: Spend more money on OpenAI/Claude tokens than employees Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit
An outline showing a cocktail menu divided into “classic tiki drinks”, “originals/modern tiki”, “boat drinks”, “martinis”, “bowls”, and “zero-proof”
A reddish-brown coffee mug sitting on a small, round mug warming plate, which has a black top and wooden sides. It’s sitting on a wooden desk in front of a speaker.
Nathan Fillion (from an episode of “Castle”) making a speechless “uhm” gesture.
A dark calico cat who has perched herself on top of a closed MacBook Pro
Mercury Weather showing a 20F (-6.7C) current temperature, with a predicted high of 43F (6C).
A 10-day forecast showing lows ranging from 23-30 F from tomorrow on for a week.
A screen capture of the Photo Picker Shortcut
Clips from store pages on Amazon and Apple showing the same product, a CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 laptop dock. Amazon is selling it for $379.99, pointing out that’s 16% under the list price of $449.95; Apple is selling it for $329.95.
A tangerine iBook
A poster reading “Apple TV+ is now Max”, in a vaguely Apple typography style.
An icon of a white tornado in a blue circle, now set on a generic gray roundrect by macOS Tahoe.
The start of a recruiter’s email, advising “If you are interested in this position, please revert me back with your resume.”
A plastic cup with an orange-cream colored drink in it, garnished with an orange wheel. The cup has a logo reading “‘The World Famous’ Tiki Docks.”
A clarified milk punch based on the Boulevardier cocktail (bourbon, Campari and sweet vermouth) garnished with half a Samoa cookie
Emacs editing a Markdown file.
A black and white sign in a slightly distressed, narrow sans serif font reading, in all caps, I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE.
Release notes for a new version of Soulver 3, the calculating app, with the bullet point "a slightly more accurate definition for the density of corn" highlighted under the list of "miscellaneous improvements".
Two tables showing rent trends for 1BR and 2BR apartments, in five cities: Sacramento, Portland, and Tacoma on the west coast, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. For 1BR apartments, Portland is the cheapest at $1649/mo, then Tacoma, Orlando, Sacramento, and Tampa at $1956/mo; for 2BR, Tacoma is cheapest at $1958/mo, then Sacramento, Portland, Orlando, and Tampa at $2323/mo.
SCREEN TIME Daily Average 3,496h 14m
QuarkXPress 2025’s headline feature from their web page, “AI-Powered Text Editing with Quarky AI Assistant,” a googly-eyed version of Quark’s color wheel logo
A clip from Panic Inc.’s jobs page on Inclusion and Diversity, showing a photo of their gender-inclusive bathroom with a badge in the lower right corner reading “YES!! We still believe in DEI.” The page in part reads, “Today our team (and often our industry) is missing the voices of a lot of people who could make our wonderful apps even better. We want that to change.”
The Padme and Anakin 4-panel meme. Panel 1: “What if we put Smalltalk and C together?” Panel 2: “So a new language, not just literally smashing the syntaxes together, right?” Panel 3: [Anakin looks at Padme] Panel 4: “Right?”
Mail from IKEA reading “Your IKEA refund of $77751902 has been processed.”
The first run dialog for “Plottr,” asking to choose between a free trial and a purchase. The two buttons are blue square outlines with huge serif text that isn’t centered with respect to the containing boxes.