It’s almost two thousand mother fucking twenty six. If you can afford a tablet or phone, you can fucking well afford headphones. Use them when you’re anywhere but home and there are other people around that don’t give a flying fuck what you’re watching.

I wonder how the person of the other end of this call would like it if they knew the gentleman on the other end was in the bathroom, using a urinal, and had gas that might have registered on a seismometer? Is it that difficult to wait to make or take a phone call?!?

What in the cornbread hell is this?

Advanced Networking kicks off the 2025 TechEx conference.

I managed to acquire a bunch of followers for a well-timed comment in an Angry Staffer post. Welcome all! I want to warn you in advance that I'm pretty boring, but I hope you enjoy my sporadic and usually odd posts. :)

Just finished book 5 of the stormlight archive. Five books and two novellas for about 6400 pages total. Oy. But it is done. And we can forget it ever happened. :) It's not that I truly want to forget but that could have used some judicious editing. 1/2

Uber has to be one of the most frustrating companies to deal with. They have a phone number on their cc charges -- that's out of service...and you can only ever talk to what appears to be a chatbot.

Still a banger (and better than the original): www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxSc...

File under "Things I want to say sometimes to colleagues." Them: You're being very quiet. Me: Yes, you should try it.

There. I cooked.

This made me snort. This song's oft misrepresented (or outright ignored) lyrics provide irony almost to the level of when Paul Ryan found out about his beloved Rage Against the Machine.

INFORMER! You no say Daddy me Snow me, I'll go blame A licky boom-boom down

This was a Pizza Hut Now it’s all covered with daisies (You got it. You got it.)

Seriously hoping SC never comes to this city again.

Hey @forbiddenunix.com my feet hurt.

Every day I wake up hoping this is the day. When will then be now?

Originator unknown. But awesome.

Nothing like a Kari Byron Consumer Cellular commercial with special AARP offer to make you feel old. Er, older. Sigh.

So I decided to walk away from TotK. I had beaten it and was going for 💯 on all but koroks. I tried Skyrim and Fire Emblem 3. A little disappointed in both. :( Going to try again but not optimistic. Any other Switch/Switch2 suggestions?

Man Still Trying To Find Right Work-Anxiety–Life-Anxiety Balance https://theonion.com/man-still-trying-to-find-right-work-anxiety-life-anxiet-1819575766/

I don’t see much productivity happening today but that’s ok.

I wonder if these are related ? Hrmmmm.

Guardian helmets are like big head mode in Goldeneye.

"As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him; in my experience this remains true even if you divide his age by two." -- Bob Howard, The Delirium Brief (Charles Stross)

From 15 years ago...the year glasses happened and the beard first made its appearance...when depression reached its pinnacle...but much music was made and that part was fun. I finally set that guitar free earlier this year. Bought it in 2000. Wish I was as fat now as I thought I was then.

I asked GPT to create funny farewall letters of varying absurdism for my group. Here are three versions. They're actually pretty funny. Despite how I kind of hate the AI boom, sometimes I need a reminder to find joy in things. bit.ly/46ol8bH bit.ly/4mBzNoL bit.ly/4nJ1fSy

Dear lord why was I a member of so many Slacks?!? Deactivated accounts on a dozen. Changed emails on eight and kept them. Left one with current email as it will disappear on my official last day. Work inbox down to 11 messages. Motivation down to 0.

A side effect of the upcoming job change is closing browser tabs for things I'll leave behind and I think I'm up to almost 100 closed tabs and one entire browser window. I expect to close out at least 2 Vivaldi workspaces, too. I'm sure the new gig will have much but hopefully different much. :)

I probably shouldn't be enjoying this Bears game as much as I am...but I totally am.

This is entirely for @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Or about every wrong choice, bad conversation, or even something that you just thought about that might have been wrong.

This IU game is almost mean. Only almost because usually we’re on the zero side of things.

There was one person on my inbound flight. One. Apparently it was 6+ hours late and everyone else got other flights.

Blue dot on the right is me at gate 23. Plane is on the left barely moving. Sigh. Three hours delayed and the last 20 minutes have been a stone’s throw from the terminal. Double sigh. Don’t think we’re making 7:20p departure.

I feel no remorse. Also not responsible for any earworms.

Scenes from today...

This is my reward to myself for a new job (that I haven't actually started yet). Ironically, this is now the least expensive guitar I own...but I had a similar Fender Tele HH neckthrough years ago and missed it. The top on this one and the added Lollars made it a no-brainer.

Man, UPS has really got high speed travel down...

I've got a keyboard shortcut to fix this...still funny, though.

Quitting vim is easy...it's quitting everything else that sucks. I can't tell you the number of docs that have :wq somewhere in them. @cyberciti.biz

The skateboards were hung nowhere near the chimney with care, in hopes that the Bones Brigade soon would be there. That turned out ok. Mostly level despite appearances. And a bonus shot of the the relocated clock (that needs a new battery).

Hopefully today’s project - getting these hung up. I owned versions of all of these decks as a kid and utterly loved the skateboarding resurgence that the Bones Brigade seemed at the front of.

Email just received: We are saddened that after decades of serving you, our loyal American customers, the updated tariffs have forced us to cease shipping to you at this time. This is incredibly unfortunate but we are exploring many solutions and hope to resume as soon as possible. 1/2

“Crosseyed and Painless” from Homunculus followed by “Memories Can’t Wait” from @livingcolour.com - well played iTunes random. Well played.

The coffee I buy/like -- Price in Sept 2024 - $22/package Price in January $25/package Price in April $27/package Price in July $31/package Price in August $36/package Thanks, Obama.

Video sent to me (GenX) by my sister (slightly older GenX) -- kinda true. www.instagram.com/reel/DNLeEUB... "boomers kept jobs that in other generations passed along much faster. We were the first generation forced to pivot and reinvent ourselves, hence the resiliency" --> This comment 100%

Too soon! Too soon! :)