I retired last year after nearly 30 years in Hotel & Hospitality IT. As of 2025, bots accounted for well over 90% of all requests for hotel room rates and availability.

Doctor asked me if I would be ok trying lithium and I am so Gen X, I just started humming it.

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

I’m glad he was here with us, here at the end of all things [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...

OK let's do this the other way. Introduce yourself with ten bands you wish you'd seen but never did: The Spiders From Mars Pretenders Stiff Little Fingers Buzzcocks The Jam Front 242 Ultravox Prince & The Revolution Pet Shop Boys Bauhaus

Doers suck.com count as niche? I don't care. The answer is suck.com.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Runaways Ramones Gang of Four Replacements Love & Rockets Laurie Anderson Talking Heads Ministry Jesus & Mary Chain Clan of Xymox Mostly in bars.

I sold Mitch Kapor an inkjet once. think about THAT. thing was a piece of shit.

Never heard someone preach on the one and the three before.

Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song. Mailer was to say the least _deeply_ problematic, but this is a masterpiece of American writing. Chinwa Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. And if you mention Infinite Jest, I will cut you off and never speak to you ever again.

Washing one pair of pants while wearing another pair of pants, that’s better productivity gains than AI

i genuinely, truly hate them for what they’ve done and any plan for getting us out of this that requires millions of people to pretend they don’t hate the people who put us here is masturbatory make-believe

Oh, look. It’s electronic surveillance budget time again.

In what way is the United States not currently in a civil war?

a vanilla soy latte is a variety of three bean soup

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

It's very painful to me to see so many people speaking ill of Rudy Giuliani. Don't they know they're jinxing it?

This. This right here is why we have relationships.

“This was difficult to fap to, but…”

This is a cold civil war. There is no more territory to expand as a release valve, there’s no Kansas-Nebraska Acts and more Indians to force onto reservations; the only frontiers are inward and slave power is forcing its hand to tilt the scales while it still can.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

I… I don’t understand the problem here.

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

I once spent an afternoon learning how to use pivot tables for some urgent purpose that suddenly seemed less urgent after a couple of hours fucking around with pivot tables.

Say what you will about Henry Kissinger, but the man did, in fact, know what a marathon negotiation was. This fuckin lightweight. Jesus.

"Complex carbohydrate" what's that a french fry with feelings

Reminder that these people think that automatic voter registration is a socialist plot to take over the country.

Mitch McConnell is a world-historic coward and villain comfortable in his belief that neither the world nor history will remember who he was

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.

Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German

rare to find a sentence containing two true sins of contemporary usage—“You could gift a pair, and it would feel impactful.”

No contest.

once you read Hegel u see abstraction everywhere

There are more people in Los Angeles County than there are in Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, and West Virginia _combined_.

3/We are the very logical end of the Reagan Revolution, but it is the part of the Revolution were everyone is being guillotined.

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

Something something destroy the village to save it.

I heard a Kubernetes joke and would have shared it with Ian, but I looked it up and Ian wrote it.

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

"What's the tradeoff between time and eye-candy here?"

I worked in IT for 40 years. I've been retired for a year and 13 days, and I have not written a single line of code- or even remotely wanted to- since that last day. It was a job, i loved doing it, and it turned out to be lucrative. But it wasn't my life and now it's over and done.

Conover has been quite good in office; we’ve been much happier since we moved to Pima county and she’s no small part of that. We’d definitely support her for higher office if she were to go that way.

There is no amount of love or money that would convince me to spend the time to read Infinite Jest. Life is short and we only have so many waking hours.

My parents used to tell the story of the night before I was born. They went out for dinner and a movie: garlic chicken and Psycho. The rest is history.

I was on fucking *PLATO* I have usernames older than your mom.

Before I retired last year I had co-workers who drew sincere, utterly *blank* stares when I used 867-5309 as an example phone number. That's the moment I really knew that I'd overstayed my welcome in the workforce.

Heaven or Las Vegas, Hunkpapa, Star, Goo, All of This and Nothing, Document, Nothing's Shocking, and for God's sake why is The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste not here?

When my company was bought by a large Indian firm, I expressed concern to a US-based EVP about the CEO's chummy relations with Modi. He said: if you're friends, your business is left alone. If you're hostile to Modi, the full weight of the Indian bureaucracy will crash down on you every day.