Just gonna put the slightly scary thought out in the world of “what do the think is the percentage of titans of industry and politics getting long COVID and losing their ability to think clearly and logically for the world to teeter into madness?” And how would we course correct if we hit that %?

The world of tech desperately needs to drop the toxic role models it has adopted and double down on being like Woz

Oh dang it… now I’M 12…

Trump prefers winners, period. And Mamdani won by an astounding margin. That is the beginning and the end of the complexities at play in why he changed his tune. He would start talking about how great Ivana was if she somehow burst out of the ground and cleaned up on the back 9

Berserker Piglets postulate: the cuteness of a dog is directly in proportion to its ability to do a side-eye (Image unrelated, Lucky wouldn’t let me take a picture of him side eyeing)

In 1989 Shadowrun postulated a stark future where massive megacorps ruled the world and a sprawling internet stand-in would allow people to jack into cyberspace. In it runners would skirt the shadows to try to sometimes do their part to bring down these systems through techno warfare, fighting with…

Kid was screwing around and accidentally did the five point palm exploding heart technique and from now on he’s basically gotta bring the remote to ME, whether he’s playing Roblox or not! I’M the one that’s “doing something” now!

Dancing on repeat while I make teriyaki chicken stir fry for the fam

“Are we allowed to reflect that frankness back to you and the president?”

in order to have this work, it either means someone typed this out straight or it means that someone sat down to figure out a filter pattern to remove all the mean things about Elon to end up with this. That must have been the best job in the world. “Not including uhh…dickbiscuit? Is that a thing?”

You know Clock? the art piece that is a 24 hour movie stitched together from movie scenes containing scenes with clocks at the right corresponding time? I want that level of dedication in stitching together all the classroom science lecture movies.

You know you’ve become a dad of a daughter when you realize you have a favorite type of hair tie

Discovered I can do a passable Stitch

My only complaint is that this video is 4 hours long

Staring through my neighbors window at his Christmas tree like I’m Ebenezer Scrooge Not because I hate Christmas but because I really want to have the time to put mine up “You there, neighbors boy… what day is it? November 19th? Saints preserve me, there’s still time!”

Kid had his first swear word today when he couldn’t get his lunch bag into his book bag. Given that he’s almost double digits and is a creature inhabiting the world at large I feel fairly proud that it took this long. Also it was suitably colorful for his age so I’m secretly proud of that too

The one thing that the 2020s have taught me is that not only can money not buy happiness, it doesn’t appear able to buy confidence either

Today I learned that everyone’s drama is unique. Mine centers around exhaustion; a feeling of bone deep weariness from constant fear for my kids, my wife, my parents, my job, my country, my planet… Others’ drama apparently involves a lot more screwing really old guys

I’ve long had a sense memory of being at my grandparents farm in this little section of the house that was like a greenhouse where they had their old tiny TV set and it was dark out and storming and on the TV was the most terrifying, incomprehensible thing I had ever seen as a kid. I think it was…

Someone should revamp Nester from Nintendo power with an updated anime style

Casually slipping the romancing the stone theme into the kids going to school mix and hoping I don’t seem to eager that they fall in love with it

That sneaking suspicion as I round near the end of the weekend having spent the whole time doing dishes, making lunches, cleaning clothes, making up work work from the week… all while just wanting to sit and read in peace… Looking at the world as it is I may be in a remaster of Time Enough at Last…

So I get that Bluesky might be a bit reclusive, and I get that my social mores might be decades old… But it’s truly bizarre to see some people be like “why are all my replies like this??” And it’s just someone supplying their own view or opinion on a topic OP put out into the public square

Putting up a sign well in front of my house saying that I’m not a monster made up of composite parts of various human beings, a creature to be frightened of, a mad perversion of science and God so that should the villagers come they can be prepared when they see me that I just let myself go a bit…

Do you think the beware of Doug guy is friends with the midvale school for the gifted kid?

Got a larger collar for my dog today because he’s grown bigger. I wonder if doms put in as much thought to comfort and color alignment with fur. I suspect the nicer ones do.

Buying bonsai trees and letting them grow how they want, whispering to them “you’re free now!”

Rewatching the Firm… I remember watching all these legal dramas with my mom growing up. Do we still make those kinds of movies? I love watching dumb stuff (and don’t get me wrong it’s not high brow but…) but it makes me nostalgic for that era of film where thrillers ruled the day

Son of Sam may have been just one guy who had a dog who told him to do stuff. Imagine the number of crazy people who can do stuff when the Son of God is talking to them!

This is an amazing game you should play even if rhythm games aren’t your thing. The sheer personality packed into it is amazing. So it’s good news that it warranted someone acquiring it. But if the AI first statements are true though it might be a monkeys paw

I don’t really care about basketball. Tell me about… the souls. Have you collected enough souls yet to get me out of here?!

I’m guessing at the end of the day it’ll be fine but there is one thing that they very obviously didn’t get right about Metroid. If the ask was to get Samus into Mario Kart she would be driving a souped up muscle car with a hydraulic system that could eventually be made to jump or ride low.

Going to an elementary school cheer thing is always weird because everyone’s super supportive… and then one of them invariably falls from the one level tall pyramid and the parents don’t know what to do… and then we cheer anyway as the fallen girl cries on the sidelines. America!

“There’s a difference between a 15 and a 5 year old” is such a BONKERS terrible take. I want to add it to my getting to know you Rolodex. “What’s your favorite color and um… btw… where do you fall on the Megyn Kelly spectrum before I let you know I have children?”

One of my reports made my day today. He said he noticed that in our all hands whenever I discuss the teams accomplishments I say the name of the person that did the work specifically rather than generalizing the work. I make sure, when I can, everyone gets a callout. I dunno if I can always be…

Had a 30 min conversation with the receptionist on language as I was leaving the office. She was teaching me the various nuances of different Spanish dialects, I was geeking on Platt vs Hoch Deutsch. It was wonderful. Sometimes I can forget all the nonsense and love human beings.

To give you an idea of the kind of sicko I am; I woke up after getting kids to sleep last night, worked until 1:30 to do some additional tasks that’d be assigned to me for the week… and then decided the best use of my time till 2:30 in the morning was to beat 2003s Castlevania Lament of innocence

Work with me here, the folks behind the twisted metal show… On a more faithful tv adaption of Maniac Mansion

I will die on the hill that Shadowrun is a gold mine of movie ideas, particularly for anyone brave enough to do practical effects. Any studio could probably have it for cheap and make bank with a decent enough script

You may be having a bad day But at least you aren’t having a “trying to convince people to catch the blame so you don’t come out as a sex pest” bad day

Goon a movie Dr Strangelove or how I learned to stop gooning and love the bomb

Part of me finds this whole thing so GD odious. The other part finds it absolutely hilarious that Bannon had to be hand walked into an underhanded takes about meds that give you false memories. Like, dude… that’s supposed to be your thing “Oh I get it now”

“It was just, as the French say, le petit mort, Moneypenny… you know how it goes. What’s the next mission?”

It is unbelievably frustrating that Google’s advanced search no longer seems to let you make a date range. Are there better free news related search engines? I vaguely recall there is one FOR folks in journalism but I don’t know if you need a membership

He made a wish and the monkey’s paw uncurled a single, striking solitary finger

Till All Are Having It Their Way

For anyone thinking everyone working in tech is super intelligent I present to you the puddle of pee in the middle of the bathroom floor at my office today

Just saw someone explaining to the cashier at a food court restaurant how sometimes the flex days on RTO can be hard, particularly on Tuesdays and I wanted to be like, “oh no…the person you’re talking to has to come in when they’re told to, babysitter difficulty or not, bail out of this discussion!”

Do people still call shit cars “hoopty wagons”?

It’s weird that Coke decided to air Zootopia’s version of the Christmas ad