Quite an excellent commentary on human relations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B402...

Misspelled Classic: Mars, Cringer of War

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only retail…

"Disaster Area" is a plutonium rock band fronted by Hotblack Desiato from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, and this ensemble is generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but also the loudest noise of any kind at all. --Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

Labels make terrible explanations, people don't agree on what the label means. Pronouns are labels. Labels never simply mean the basic concept. They also mean every idea you have about those who use the label, including those who never asked for the label in question.

May the fnord be with you.

Of course the package archive goes down right when I need to use it. All hail sys-admins, some of which are tearing their hair out right now. I feel your pain, fam.

Oops: youtube.com/shorts/DnrjL...

If someone can destroy your connection to reality, they control your reality.

BlueSky seems to be having a rough day. I just got an ISE (Internal Server Error). As a former Sys-Admin, I feel your pain BlueSky Techs.

I have read "the law" for perhaps 100 hours, in the form of reading the City regulations of various places I have lived, viral funny Court opinions, various postings about the law on Twitter and Bluesky by actually practicing lawyers, and various spicy passages from Title 17 of the Federal Code.

Dear Politicians: Sending me texts when I have never said you could sending me texts is a losing proposition: I send stop, and delete the messages unread. If you think it's the best way to reach me, understand that I regard it as antagonistic.

The amazing technology of smart phones and the Internet allows us to have multiple small talk conversations at the same time, thus insuring that our attention is optimally wasted.

Letting AI be the only way you can get things done is allowing whoever actually controls the AI to have control of you.

Dear Trivago: Your ads where two guys make fun of another guy for not checking Trivago do not make me want to look into Trivago.

What I have listened to about 5 times in the past couple days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7OI...

Ask your mathematician if the Axiom of Choice is right for you.

Never thought I'd like microtonal music, but here we are: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Math libraries have a function exp(), which is described as the "exponential function", meaning b^n. Except for whoever started calling this particular function exponential, because it computes e^n, not a base of your choice. It ought to be called the "_e_ to the _x_ _p_ower" function.

Oh yes, #advertising #algorithm, the perfect time to tell me about a concert is half an hour after I bought tickets for it. You are so clever and helpful.

Early categorization is as bad as early optimization. #business #issuetracking

Something I didn't know, since it's been a few decades since I worked on cars professionally: youtube.com/shorts/lCvLZ...

Reality is not a trick question.

Want a crazily customizable #guitar? This is wild: sharkguitars.com

It's funny when real life pops up with confirmation for your memories. I was just wondering about old family friends, and looked up the dad. I found his obit (2022 at 91), which has a picture of him exactly fitting my memory: a golf shirt, and a drink in his hand. Nice guy.

As someone who has written software for a long time, and also trained people in code review, the thing I keep seeing in the complaints about #AI written #code is the assumption that said code will be shipped without review. If you ship *any* code without some sort of review, you are foolish.

If you've spent a significant chunk of your career helping to develop the Instagram UI, consider that you might be better served saying that you spent that time in your life trying to develop the best grilled cheese sandwich, or perhaps shopping for cat toys for a persnickety torti.

Worcestershire rice: fry rice with a bit of olive oil, then 7 or 8 times add a few shakes of the sauce, and fold over the rice to coat it, and reduce the sauce. Very tasty.

I'm a little irrationally gleeful to find a vide of Bill Bruford playing a level snare drum with brushes in matched grip. Naturally, since he's a crazily skilled player, it sounds great. This closes an argument I had on USENET in the mid 90's. A tiny win for the day. #music #drumming

I keep seeing Newton's cradles (The thing with five shiny balls hanging in a line) and they're all really poorly made. The first one I saw was at home, my brother had gotten it as a gift. The balls were exactly touching each other, which is extremely important to the beauty of the movement.

Herdez Salsa is some of the best I have ever had. This is not a paid endorsement.

Hank Rant, FTW: www.youtube.com/shorts/8WHNW...

When did guilt tripping become the go -to marketing tactic for indie bands?

Tell me it was a dark and stormy night without saying it was dark and stormy. #Writing #prompt

I wonder if Douglas Adams would be amused or dismayed by the popularity of digital watches now.

Me: OH search engine, in the very narrow context of this field, find me mentions of x. Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.

When a lawyer submits a filing that is full of false citations and errors, one wonders how much they cheated in law school. I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.

Huh. Apparently Rush is gonna do a tour.

Reading a Jenny Lawson book in bed next to my sleeping sweetie might kill me from trying to suppress laughter. #letspretend...

"I'm swabbing some of what looks like mascara which was running down the face of the deceased, so we can check... it's crawling onto my swab..." #twoSentenceHorror

Gotta love a story where the utterance "You literally used to be a grain combine" is the straight man line. #questonableContent

Watching a youtube vid with lots of section markers. Someone went to a lot of trouble to annotate the natural breaks in this video. Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.

New experiences come at all ages. For instance, here in my 60th I finally got to experience being stung by a number of yellow jackets. Three or four reached flesh, I brushed off a number of others. Yay? I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.

If you can’t be bothered to read the whole bug report, do not offer fixes. #techsupport

Gosh, linked-in, you think I ought to read this post of a friend so much that you sent me a suggestion several days after I read it the first time? Was that really a good use of that energy?

Why would anyone consider Sirius/XM to be comparable to Alphabet and Meta. “They deliver media” is very tenuous. Maybe I’m missing some part of the picture. #investing

Bittersweet: thinking of a joke a dead friend would have loved.

Dear advertisers: Using the popular songs from my youth, with your product pitch instead of the original lyrics, is not the marketing vehicle you think it is.

Happy Orbit Day, @amberying.com