“I came across this C-Drama about two people who meet in China. They meet, have a one night stand and get married in the first 30 minutes. The next 2.5 hours is the guy being super nice to the lady. They never share a bedroom.” Me: “that sounds terrible” “Of course you’d think that.”

You know,much like with Howard Stern, Alex Cooper is shockingly good at interviewing people. Her Halsey interview was great.

Friend of a work friend has a daughter missing at Camp Mystic. I thought as I got older, stuff like this would get easier. Not at all.

Texas Floods from just north of Liberty Hill: www.devharryc.com/2025/07/the-...

Church is a wake today. As it should be. So much pain among so many.

Earnest question on my local FB board trying to recover: “Does FEMA provide funds to rebuild impassible roads to homes”? Thinks: Would’ve been real convenient right about now if they hadn’t defunded FEMA.

Tight rope is a really fun daily trivia game I found thanks to #pretendproblems podcast www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

Genuine course of the past 48 hours Thursday: “it’s raining! That makes me so happy!” Friday: “it’s still raining! How amazing!” Today: “I think we’re flooded in.” We’ve gotten 11” of rain in ~40 hours and exceeded our usual annual rainfall for the year. #texas #texasflood

Overwrought AbstractHammerFactory code is making me miss C++.

"The Aggies and Longhorns are the biggest rivals in all of Texas, maybe all of the country." I mean, Ohio and Michigan fought a legit war in the 1800s and The Ohio State University ("O-H!") has fired coaches that went undefeated except for Michigan. But "You do you", Texans.

@thosedaysshow.bsky.social *really* enjoyed the show on commercials. I knew the Juicy Fruit commercial was going to be there...it's so famous Family Guy did a spoof with Peter Griffin as the skier. I really think you guys could branch out and do more general nostalgia topics.

When you've officially been in Corporate too long: You type "Sweet Alias" into a group chat and the 26 years of HR training kicks in and you question what you meant by that.

"Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people." #Hell is getting pretty icy, people. Because today I actually agree with #Musk.

This one hit me in the feels today

This place is completely off the beaten path on US25 between Georgetown and Lexington, KY (near the KY Horse Park). It’s just incredibly good. Like “better than most Texas BBQ” good. www.facebook.com/reel/5809132...

Goodnight, Chicago

“When was the last time you were up here?” “Awhile back” “…?” “Okay. Christmas Y2K. 25 years or so.” “That’s a long time.” Yeah. Too long.

“Eventually executive power will become completely uncontainable”. Long slide we’ve been on since the Patriot Act. We got scared, then we gave our rights away. Now we have a King.

1. Get the presidency 2. Pack SCOTUS with ideologues. 3. Get back presidency 4. Rule with imperator power by fiat. Well. We almost made it to 250. This period will be analogous to England in the late Cromwell era of the Commonwealth www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

10 years ago in my mind: 1997 10 years ago in reality: 2015 Sheesh.

It really is some experience to be in a Beatles/elvis like crowd where (mostly) women are absolutely losing their minds. I may have heard some vocal cords shatter tonight.

On god, I’m walking behind a dad on Grand Avenue in Chicago and he’s like “…so I have a software change order alright? But what I really need is better acceptance criteria” Remember when people were farmers and welders?

Beautiful cumulonimbus over DFW area. We’re at 32k feet. It’s a mite higher.

“Let me tell you about the safety features of this 737 Max 8…” Well. Our earlier flight was alon an A319. Could u get that for us please?

Flight SNAFU has us spending an extra 5 hours in AUS airport. It’s a really chill place to be, actually.

Holy crap.

So. My task for the next four days is to not look at Email or Slack. #Vacation #Chicago

This is dark

“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.” Finally "getting" the morass he's involved us in, I guess.

“The Intern”: okay the last scene with #AnneHathaway is ridiculous. But still, NYC looks gorgeous and it’s the kind of movie with heart that doesn’t get made anymore, except by Hallmark

Sometimes you see pictures of your kids from 10-15 years ago and you think maybe you didn't waste your life after all.

I’m visiting a church today where every woman is a tradwife and every guy looks like he just got off seal BUDS training last week. I’m just going to give up and be Catholic at some point.

An Israeli official has just told KAN that the entire Iranian operation was in coordination with the US. Everything was a sham.

When I tried to discuss this with the women in my life, I was shut down. Completely.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Signs you got a "Wednesday" car  👀 "Dodge challenger two owner car everyday driver 200,000+ miles and will go up . nothing wrong with it just looking for something bigger"

@linkedin.com irk of the day: If there are more letters after your name than in your actual name, consider leaving some of the less important ones off.

Wonder if anyone’s done a psych study on if people can solve puzzles more easily right after waking up? Feels like my conscious and subconscious are still both online so things like Wordle or crossword are easier a few minutes after waking.

Signs I'm #overcaffeinated See car on Facebook. Immediate thought: "Chris Bangle really liked his designs Kardashian-shaped" #BMW #Z7 #BangleButt #CannotLie

Perfect encapsulation of my “little” town: “Traffic is terrible here. A Costco would be perfect!”

To the man in that bathroom with Flo-Rida’s “Low” as your ringtone:

Software Bug priorities are like personality tests. IMO, there are only 3 levels 1 - Something crashes or doesn't load 2 - The feature doesn't work as intended 3 - I don't agree with the way the feature works My team will be dealing with 1 & 2. Subdivisions of (3) are often worthless

If your corporate nonsense acronym is also a common English linking verb, rethink your naming. Please.

“I think in the back 9, I’m gonna be a little more agreeable” Same, basically. youtube.com/shorts/6O61g...

I would like to raise a virtual middle finger to the purple row of today’s @nytimes.com Connections puzzle.

Just had a flashback to the recurring dream I have that every cool car I ever owned is in a storage facility somewhere in Eastern Kentucky waiting for me. Whole dreams that are me searching through mountains and hollers for this garage. It’s my version of heaven. Or Valhalla.

Someone please taking this game “Planet Earth” out of the NES, blow into the cartridge, and turn it back on again.

Fort Cavazos is going back to being Fort Hood. John Bell Hood was incredibly brave, losing the use of his left arm in Devil’s Den at Gettysburg, and his right leg at Chickamauga. Two things: - he wasn’t a native Texan - the above battles were fought AGAINST the United States of America.

“It’s like a little girl playing Barbie President” Out of the mouths of babes.

PUMPED! Sandman S1 was incredibly well done.