Andrew Watts

@awatts

Basically, “just zis guy, you know?”. For money I work as a programmer / data analyst at URMC. Degrees in Linguistics. For fun I play too much Zelda and fumble around on bass. Film lover. Urbanist / YIMBY. Kind to cats.

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Andrew Watts@awatts· 16d

Now it's doing Japanese transliteration on "The Golden Age"! Reverse transliterated: "Letto za desāto uindo". Seems to be keeping going with this for "Sea Change" as a whole.

Lyrics from Apple Music from the Beck song "The Golden Age" with Japanese transliteration.

Andrew Watts@awatts· 16d

I don't know why, but seemingly randomly, the Beck song "Think I'm in Love" has Korean transliteration in Apple Music. Under the English it says (transliterating the Korean) "Ai ssinkeu aim in reopeu". The whole song was like that, but so far nothing else has been.

Lyrics from Apple Music from the Beck song "Think I'm in Love" with Korean transliteration.

Andrew Watts@awatts· 29d

From one of our local meteorologists on Facebook.

Map of wildfire smoke showing Ontario and New York heavily affected.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Apr 1

and going from the one to the other was the owl drawing meme with "draw two circles, then draw the rest of the fucking owl". Any hopes of learning it will involve woodshedding bar by bar.

Owl drawing meme. First draw some circles, second draw the rest of the fucking owl.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Jan 14

Good to have a focused habit to help live through all of this. It feels good to play an instrument no matter how bad I am. I can just focus on trying to better than before and having fun.

Top text: "Me playing guitar or drums every night"
over a picture of Mr Rogers drawing a simplistic house saying, "I'm not very good at it. But it doesn't matter"

Andrew Watts@awatts· Dec 27

I saw everything. It was her.

Pocus, a tuxedo cat sits at the kitchen counter.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Dec 27

Dad, I’m innocent!

Focus, a brown tabby cat who definitely didn’t knock the bowl of flour off the counter.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Nov 7

They're not being long here, but very cute and snuggly.

Focus, Hocus, and Pocus (two tabbies and a tuxedo respectively) doze in an Ikea Poang chair.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Nov 7

Have a selection of remote controls for your wee one. Sorry, no dogs, just cats, but they are fairly long if they'd be of interest.

A bunch of remote controls laying on a counter

Andrew Watts@awatts· Nov 4

I early voted on Sunday. I understand some people in NYC got special stickers if they early voted on Halloween, but I just got the one they always do. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/n...

Andrew Watts@awatts· Mar 13

The elegant beauty of the tuxedo cat

Pocus the tuxedo cat making a bizarre face with her mouth half open part way through a yawn.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Feb 11

It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Feb 9

Update: I got up. He’s unbothered.

Hocus the cat takes a bath on the comfy wool blanket.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Feb 9

I need to be in the kitchen chopping veggies for our soup tonight but this is my view right now:

Hocus, a large brown tabby, laying on a green wool blanket between human legs on a couch.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Jan 28

People who don't care about instrument practice have put up with a lot in January (haha no one is reading my bullshit), so here's some snuggly cats as recompense:

Focus (female brown tabby), Hocus (male brown tabby), and Pocus (female tuxedo) snuggle in a pile on an Ikea Poang chair.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Jan 16

My practice posts have been boringly lacking in pictures, so here’s my shitty drum space in the basement.

A Roland TD27-KV2 electronic drum kit in a bleak basement room. Drumsticks and in ear monitors are laid on the snare drum. A laptop is on a stand behind the kit.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Dec 2

🎶 In the court of the Crimson King🎶

Andrew Watts@awatts· Feb 8

I’ve been on here long enough. Let’s do a top level post with proof of cat:

Two tabby kittens, Hocus and Focus snuggled together on a cat tree.

Pocus, a tuxedo kitten, napping in a rocking chair.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Feb 8

And here’s just Hocus (left in the original picture) filling the whole platform himself at ~7 months (today).

Hocus, a 7 month old kitten, resting on a cat tree.

Andrew Watts@awatts· Sep 23

Last weekend we adopted three kittens from the same litter. Here’s Hocus, Pocus, and Focus.