She told me she loves me. 😍

My final Master's degree paper was over 200 pages...

Ooo... I have a meeting in Paris in 2027. I love free trips. Love them.

Oooo... next year's ISO Plenary is in Paris. LOVE IT!

yesterday at the industry event, I got 2 baseball style caps from an exhibitor. They offered me more but two was fine. I showed them off via text to my GF and she asked "is one of them for me?" So I gave her first choice. I need to remember that I am SWAGing for two now. 🤣

Industry events are panels pushing data driven decisions. Yet, decisions are inherently emotional. If you remove the emotional center of the brain, we become incapable of making decisions. Data is important though. Baking it into our emotional decisions makes us all look smart in PowerPoint.

This is a common Dumbold Trump strategy. When he just learned something that he has gone 80 years without knowing, even when it’s a vocabulary word on a third grade spelling test, he’ll preface it by saying “most people don’t know this, but…” The USA has a functionally illiterate president

The Economist: "Could Donald Trump save Cuba’s economy?" Everyone else: "Did you stop learning from history?"

In May I walked an average of 15,229 steps per day. That was about 7.95 miles per day. This is according to Apple fitness, which I suspect is trying to make me feel better about myself.

Just saw a video of a text conversation turned into a gospel style song and while I am not interested in using AI for crap like that, I am also a little jealous that none of my text messages are cool enough to make it tempting.

Living alone and being miserly has had quite the impact on my gas and electric bill. 😂

Me - not having the access (and probably not the skills) to help but giving the programmers moral support:

Driving off to my GF's for the weekend tonight. I bought the ingredients to make Arayes. Whenever I visit, I always cook a meal of something different. Saturday night will be Arayes, some wine, and a nice wood fire in her back yard. It feels like the dog and I live at her house half time anymore.

Ok. I am not a Newsom fan, but this is a brilliant idea.

I just got back from vacation and being mostly unconnected. So far, I missed fascist ICE agents tear gassing a US Senator who was actually doing his job and an incompetent administration wasting munitions to decimate a military they claimed to have already decimated. Do I dare keep reading?

Performative small town values by multimillionaire owned companies will likely turn me off. Instead of telling me how you honor their sacrifices - and in light if so many of them losing their homes because of the “beautiful” MAGA budgets - help them directly.

Reading my email. Nice to know the HVAC company down the road remembers “their sacrifices.” Great! Please don’t bombard my inbox about it.

Working from my girlfriend’s kitchen this afternoon. :)

That muffled sound you hear is Ronald Reagan in hell screaming “what the fuck?”

Shit can be both literal and metaphorical. For example, dogs can leave actual shit on the sidewalk. Meanwhile, a dog’s human who doesn’t pick up after their dog is also shit - not literally, but metaphorically.

Perhaps he just needs adjustments to his diet

I have no choice but to take this as a compliment

bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! *cough* *cough* bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! mashable.com/tech/tesla-c...

An 18-year-old high school student just built a water filter that removes 96% of microplastics from drinking water. Not in a billion-dollar lab. In her garage. Meet Mia Heller from Virginia. Her secret? A magnetic liquid called ferrofluid that grabs microplastic 1/3

Every now and then, for whatever reason, Bluesky thinks I need to see pictures of owls. Instead of harmful content like that, I present you all with this handsome little fellow from this morning’s walk.

If I had wanted to wait this long in a waiting room I would have gone back to the Rez and used IHS?

It took them less than six years to provide reparations for justifiably jailing a confederate mob but we are less than a month away from the 161st anniversary of Juneteenth and reparations for 250 years of chattel slavery is still politically impossible…

Barnes & Noble is owned by Elliott Investment Management, who has also invested billions in Synopsys - one of two primary companies that provides design tools required to build advanced semiconductor chips - central to the global AI hardware supply chain. I’m sure this is a coincidence though.

After 4 Christmas holidays, I’ve taken the tree down. I can pretend that it was because I am lazy but I liked how it reminded of how much my wife loved Christmas. I am moving on with life and can keep her in my heart without a tree to constantly dust without knocking ornaments onto the floor.

The dog is like a furry weighted blanket that complains a lot.

To MAGA: I do not care what your opinion is of how NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani successfully eliminated a $12B deficit left to him by the previous administration. Why do I not care? Because you worship a rapist President who is responsible for 25% of all debt in American history. Your Opinion Is Void.

Many thanks to @wolfproofpress.com for this amazing poster that is soon to be framed and on my office's wall.

When I was a kid, we did a lot of stuff in our cars, away from adult supervision, that would probably be illegal for these car companies to be monitoring and recording. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I’ve been a bit cautious about causing him worry about his place in my life. I suppose now that his semester is over, I should build up the courage to tell my stepson that I am in a relationship.

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

What happens when the young fash grow tired of butthole sunning….

Im making bbq pork flatbreads. I just seal baked them. Once they cool down i will freeze them and the vacuum pack them because i have a theory that I can make better frozen pizzas than a factory can. Right now it’s just a theory.

Some of you were there when I really needed you. I hope you know that I love you for that.

Another day, another set of reasons why Donald Trump should not be allowed near children…

I made brownies to take to work tomorrow from the buttermilk that derived from making butter and i am not so sure I can wait to eat them and perhaps they aren’t fit for sharing so maybe I should eat them & perhaps i am to skinny like everyone says and i should maybe eat them all.

Gas is as high as $7/gallon States are enacting work requirements to kick poor people off Medicaid Trillion dollar corps are laying off tens of thousands of workers while paying $0 in federal tax And today Trump regime fast tracked $8.6B in arms to Israel & UAE to commit genocide in Gaza & Sudan😐

When i was young, it took a lot to get me inebriated. As an older man, I am on my second cocktail and I’m not so sure standing up is a good idea.

We woke up and decided to make ice cream.

She’s amazing. Aside from the way she cares for her cast iron pan, almost perfect.

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

David Allan Coe passed away. I cannot say that I was a huge fan, but he wrote "Take This Job and Shove It" which is probably wired deeply into the brains of my generation. Rather than posting a link to the original, here is a cover by The Dead Kennedys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlx...

Grape Wisdom Tooth Extraction

Kid Rock? Well, he couldn’t be any worse than Hegseth.

Im thinking i have a lot of buttermilk left. Perhaps I tomorrow after work i will bake a bread with it.