Scott Kovatch

@skovatch.bsky.social

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Software Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D NA and maintainer of Get iPlayer Automator. Also a father, fan of euro-style board games, very amateur chef, and, apparently, #NYTXW addict. https://ascoware.github.io/get-iplayer-automator/

A container garden with a tomato, thyme, basil, rosemary, and 6 edamame plants. Covered with a greenhouse fabric just in case.
A screen shot of a transcript with Claude.ai, that badly misinterpreted the image uploaded to the chat.
Title card from the animated special "The Year Without A Santa Claus", (c)1974, Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.
A dog stands next to a bed of succulents, not looking at a yucca plant.
Peanuts comic strip. Frame 1: Snoopy dancing. Frame 2: Lucy yells at Snoopy "You wouldn't be so happy if you knew what was going to happen!" Frame 3: Snoopy thinks about it. Frame 4: "Maybe it's already happened!"
A Google query for "how long has kenan been on snl" returned an AI-generated overview of "Kenan Thompson has been on Saturday Night Live (SNL) for many years." It did not answer the question.
Apple Intelligence summary of podcasts that says "Trump's vow of mass deportation impacts CA communities; Trump, TikTok & NDAs discussed; Marketplace apologizes for economic noise."
Screen shot of broadcast message: "Good morning. FYl, that many buildings around campus have backed up toilets due to what seems to be a TikTok prank circulating amongst college campuses where students stuff as much toilet paper as possible into toilets. Some toilet pipes are really clogged and it's not an easy fix. So CSO and RSO events around campus may be in spaces where the restrooms could be out of order while plumbers fix the problems."