My commute T-Th is 3-4 hours round trip.

VEGAS SWEEPS COLORADO 🧹 The Golden Knights move on to the Stanley Cup Final.

NEW OCTOPUS DROPPED

Waiting in line for an EV charger in Bakersfield, California. About four more hours of driving and probably one hour of charging left to get me home.

The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

All I have left to do is unplug my PC and load it into the car and I’ll be all ready to drive back to the Bay Area tomorrow.

I left the house with $1200 and returned with $1700. I’ll take it.

I spent today doing lots of packing and chores. Spending my night playing a tournament at the Venetian. Tomorrow afternoon is just loading up the car and I leave for Mountain View on Monday morning.

Good night, world.

If you are going to be in Santa Monica this next weekend and want to play poker against me to benefit families who have children with cerebral palsy, do I have some good news for you: 1scf.org/events/

Andrews Sisters adaptations tend to rock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Hr...

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

It feels good to be back in Vegas for a couple of days. Driving to Mountain View on Monday. Driving to Valencia on Friday afternoon. Going to Six Flags Magic Mountain on Saturday. Playing in a charity poker tournament on Sunday. Driving back to Mountain View on 6/1.

“AI will save our developers enough time that they can do QE, so we don’t need QE.” (AI ends up costing more than the engineers they eliminated.)

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Giant

Here’s to a four day weekend.

All the furniture I have in Mountain View is finally put together. Tomorrow morning will be me taking the trash out before returning to Vegas for the weekend.

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Dinner at the airport before my flight to San Francisco.

It took me years of season tickets to get into the golden circle at the Smith Center. Now for my final ballet performance here. @thesmithcenter.com

I’ve been unemployed for 20 hours. I will be unemployed for another 28 hours, then I start my new job.

A dying industry

There are days when I feel very fortunate. Today is not one of those days.

Took possession of my new apartment, got the bedroom furnished, got Internet squared away, and cooked dinner. I will consider that a successful day.

Including charge time, it took twelve hours and ten minutes to drive 550 miles today.

final destination-coded way to die

The sky has fallen and it can’t get up.

“Clean” by Taylor Swift.

I’m taking a moment to relax and enjoy life, especially since the next 6-8 weeks are going to be absolutely insane.

I’ve been listening to “The Siren’s Call” by @chrislhayes.bsky.social on my drive home. Fascinating insights about our attention economy.

I’ve got a busy four weeks ahead of me. San Jose->Vegas->Mountain View->Vegas->San Francisco->Vegas->Mountain View->Santa Monica.

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough. What a man, what a life, what an inspiration We are lucky to have him still with us. www.reuters.com/world/uk/dav...

About a third of the way through an 1,100 mile road trip in my Kia Niro EV. Total cost is going to be around $90, and that’s about 20% higher due to higher charging costs in California. Still cheaper than a gas vehicle right now.

Drove down to my local casino to get some frozen custard. Why does every locals casino smell like a corpse screwed an ashtray on a Saturday?

Did you know that every authorized console game from the NES onwards required the inclusion of the platform holder’s name (and later image) because in some markets, trademark law was a more effective enforcement mechanism against piracy than copyright law?

There are days when I feel very fortunate. So far, today is one of those days.

Sam Neill has announced he is cancer free after 5 years of battling blood cancer. “It’s time I did another movie.”

Going to play some poker up in the Pacific Northwest for a couple hours. Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tomorrow night.

I will be in Santa Monica on 5/31 for the One Step Closer Foundation tournament. 1scf.org/events/

I would be like Fuckmetafuckmetafuckmetafuckmetafuckmeta....

I’ve been donating platelets for a decade now and I never get tired of messages like this.

Pay negotiations always suck.

Starting a new job 5/18.

To succeed in poker, as well as life, you need three things to coincide: skill, luck, and timing.

UPDATE: The Trump administration is deporting "nonviolent medically impaired grandparents" to Laos over a 33-year-old drug conviction, a decision Judge Tana Lin says is "inhumane" and "cruel" — but says she is powerless to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Platelet donation time. Had a fifth place finish in a tournament last night, and now I get to give a little back.

I worked for Reed for 7.5 years. I never saw him do anything except act with honor.

Iron Galaxy Studios: "A number of teammates and friends are losing their jobs as we adjust to a new company structure" www.gamedeveloper.com/business/iro...

I’ve been out of game dev for nearly two decades, but because of an upcoming remaster from @nightdivestudios.bsky.social, a lot of my old stuff from Ritual is resurfacing.