season's greetings

wyoming wind is no joke. we used to live near here and people didn't believe me that we would see semis blown over by the wind. also love the way it manages to make both the heat and the cold more extreme, in a state already plenty hot and cold.

really hard to be in the position where the data support retweeting a matt bruenig article but here we are

It isn't smart to try to hire above average skilled people and then encourage them to communicate through any medium that munges what they wrote into what software guesses an average person would have been likely to write.

today is our annual big Soviet zakuski feast day pelmeni are made; pirog dough is resting; herring is about to put on its fur coat

what's a short story you find yourself repeatedly thinking about? for me: The Use of Force by Wm Carlos Williams Puppy by George Saunders Annie, the Loaves and the Fishes by Jane Webster (www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/216...)

i have read too many 500+ page books this year (at least one of which was 800 pages) and it's starting to induce some kind of book anxiety that i am unaccustomed to

fascinating

a lot of truth here. hard as a parent when the things you participate in aren't things you are interested in but rather things your kids are interested in, but you care about your kids so congratulations now you are becoming an expert on the requirements for junior archery competitions

we should never have deviated from the days when software programming was thought of as akin to knitting and women were recruited for the jobs on that basis i do think there are difficult aspects to working as a programmer, but mostly the basic job is not hard.

in january, we will have been in this house 7 years in my 51 years of life so far, that is the longest i have ever lived in a single place -- the longest i've lived in one town, let alone one house, i believe.

yes but you will be expected to eat

i have heard many good things about Libby, and i wanted to quit Audible and so on, so i started trying to use Libby. i understand that i have unconventional needs in this type of service but this is one of the worst mismatches in services needed vs services provided i have ever seen.

still using a piece of this rudimentary pottery as a candle holder, so

today is "leftover processing day" - can the turkey broth; feed the scraps and bones from making turkey stock to the hens - leftovers that we're tired of eating: layer into a freezer-safe casserole, and freeze for a night when we need easy dinner - make bread crumbs from leftover bread

we found we have to kill a couple more roosters, one of whom has an excellent head crest, and i jokingly said, "we should taxidermy him" and my son's gf said, "oh i can do that for you, i've done birds before" and now we're going to have a taxidermy rooster. she's a real keeper.

"of course you'll say you're not ok with slavery, but you live your life like you could care less"

social media is this cool device that can make smart people say extremely stupid things

i worked for a while at a vietnamese restaurant. one year the owner/cook decided to have a family thanksgiving, her way, and invited me. she brined the turkey with ginger, lemongrass, etc, and it was one of the best turkeys i've ever had. it was 30 years ago, and i still think about that turkey.

Major brands, including Perdue, Butterball, and Costco, have been in violation of salmonella standards for years, according to a new report. Industry reps say contaminated chicken is not a public health threat, since properly cooking poultry kills the bacteria.

this year is going to be the first halloween IN 20 YEARS that i haven't had a pumpkin carved by my elder son on my front porch and i'm having an unexpectedly hard time with this seemingly insignificant rite of passage, a milestone no one tells you about

this is praxis

i think things got a little broken around the pandemic, and then humans bifurcated into extremely online people who never recovered socially from the pandemic and the rest of us who gradually returned to regular life. it hasn't always been easy to rebuild, but it's happening, slowly.

my favorite thing is when i do something to a computer and it doesn't work, and then chris comes over and does the exact same thing and it does work. it has happened enough times that i'm going to embroider "bring your dick over here, honey, the computer isn't working" on a throw pillow.

yeah, this is the dream!

once again: BEANS

there are a lot of humans who will kill you if the mood strikes them, but i am not sure that makes it ok to eat them

it's still sort of crazy to me that you can come right out and tell people exactly what is happening and nothing will change. you don't need a grand secret conspiracy. bannon can be right out in the open about his "flood the zone with shit" strategy, and people still react to every turd.

it's true

i just brought in like ten pounds of vegetables from the garden, then realized i was very hungry and thought, huh i wonder if there's anything to eat

The deficiency of traditional software is failing to ever take *any* cues from knowledge of what is statistically likely to be wanted.

"If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favo(u)rable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." -- Churchill

"in 1929, the Presidential Committee on Recent Economic Changes published its gleeful conclusion: 'The survey has proved conclusively what has long been held theoretically to be true, that wants are almost insatiable, that one want satisfied makes way for another.'"

@gradguard.bsky.social hey we have been trying to get you to stop charging us for this ever since my son moved out of the dorm (end of May) and it never seems to stop. it's a hell of a scam you have going.

the tribal health authority where we live is putting vending machines with things like emergency contraception, narcan, and lice treatment kits in them so people don't have to go to the store and can get these things more rapidly and with less stigma in emergencies www.kpax.com/indiancountr...

actually "yank" is a pejorative, the correct term is "unwafflehoused"

Programming language evolution was halted the minute a high-level language was shipped in browsers as a runtime

this is so cool

great little town. we go here almost every year on our anniversary .... which .... is tomorrow, i just realized. i guess we're not going this year lmao

censorship is bad, and also jimmy kimmel is a misogynist fuck sometimes there aren't any heroes in a story

i am becoming a galette truther. do not be fooled by the fancy french name. galettes are not really easier than pie, and they nearly always leak the juice everywhere so you lose a substantial portion of the flavor of the fruit just make pie and keep that juice in!

> To understand its function, they introduced the human version of the gene into mice. The result was a surprising change in the animals' vocalizations. Baby mice called to their mothers differently, and adult males altered their mating calls.

it's decorative gourd season motherfuckers

my son's girlfriend found out i had never tasted a pawpaw (but really badly wanted to) so she made a trip back to Ohio (where she's from) just to get me some, so i am promoting her to future daughter-in-law. what an extraordinary fruit.

You want a programming language that is "expressive" but do you know what is it within you that you're wanting to express?

beans share if you agree

today i walked to the park with my son for a homeschool "meet and greet" (moms chatted while kids played or chatted) then walked to the liquor store to get some rum to make rumtopf for christmas, then stopped in at the library and checked out a book. love this little walkable town sometimes.

The app does not care if you forget to call your friends, neglect your hobbies, or lose sight of your goals. It is not self limiting. The time is zero sum, and it always wants more.

a correct take