The barber shop I went to on Friday is emailing me today asking if I need another haircut. Seems to indicate a lack of confidence in their work.

Imagine that the Founding Fathers come back to check on America every 250 years on July 4, and during their briefing they're told that the King of England has been attempting in vain to convince the President to recommit America to democracy.

Slightly increase a band Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young (that's Bing, Bob, and David, respectively.)

What I want back is ~2006 Facebook. A way to coordinate doing stuff with people and share photos of it.

Sherb didn't manage to make it to the Kentucky Derby costume contest today, but he'd love to find his forever home anyway. #adoptme #Chicagoland

*More than six times*? I don't know if there's a movie that I've seen more than twice as an adult. If I want to hit numbers like that, I've got to go back to early childhood.

Six restaurants, all within walking distance of me: * Frybread tacos * Authentic tex-mex * English pub * Cuisine classique * The exact style of gyro I like * Braum's

Can some in the Bhutan area please help this cow that's wandered onto a winding mountain highway? #geoguessr

Got in a round of geoguessr while waiting for a longer compile to finish, and it decided to start me out looking at the dictionary definition of "this guy is cooler than you will ever be."

Should I be concerned that the lab drawing my blood apparently typed "molecular biology poster" into ChatGPT and hung the result on the wall?

Just realized that when you pick up a prescription at Walgreen's they print a QR code on the lid that identifies both you and your prescription. I guess that means I need to... shred these before disposing of them or something?

Absolutely wild Wordle today. Got all but the last letter by guess 3 and then couldn't make a single word from the remaining letters. Had to guess the letter that sounded least wrong. Then had to Google the word after I got it to find out what it was.

Happened to see Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole" with Kirk Douglas, a movie I'd never heard of before. This should be a film everyone has heard of, and I think maybe the only reason it isn't is that they made a really dumb mistake and failed to stick the landing.

"Citation needed"?

Actual thing I, a professional software engineer, wrote a year ago and found today: void gotApple() { ++bananas; } void gotBanana() { ++apples; } int howMuchFruit() const { return apples + bananas; } This has been running in production. Fortunately all access goes through these 3 functions.

The #MusicChallenge today is to post something by a transgender artist. Well, that's easy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLi...

Someone advocating cursive education in schools claimed there was a "wide body of research" showing it was a good thing. So I asked to see some. He didn't have any. When I said it was bad to make up claims like that, he blocked me.

Content of the article aside, is that even him? Like, look at his face. That's got to be a double, right?

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

White to move

I think I did a good job here because I had to stop and think about what a couple of these were, despite them being my own descriptions

One thing I'm noticing spreadsheets lack is a lightweight way to insert and reorder rows. Yes, you can use ALT+I, R and CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE, CTRL+X, ALT+I, R, CTRL+V respectively, but that's a lot more work than it would be to do the same thing in a text processor.

TR-49 is a fantastic game: a vaccuum-punk take on contemporary issues surrounding LLMs, written by someone who's clearly spent some of his life digging through dusty library stacks.

I mean, this is quite literally (one aspect of) one of the things the movie is about.

Why does imdb default to showing producer credits about acting and directing credits? Many times I've tried to look up a movie that I remember someone acted in or maybe directed. Zero times have I said, "hey, what was that movie? I remember that Ben Stiller PRODUCED IT."

So, umm, Replika is a Russian intelligence operation, huh?

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...

we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later. we will do nothing with this information as a society

Black to move #chess

I dunno of this is real or something invented for a plot point, but if I'm ever murdered nobody had better cut my murderer a deal for revealing the location of my body. It's a dead body. You don't need it for anything.

I think people often do "describe X poorly" wrong. Here's my attempts to do it right: * Man leaves government job over handling of pandemic * Bartender doesn't show up for work after playing video game all night * Drunk cleans up neighborhood after turning over new leaf

Black to move #chess

So do we think things work out for Eloise (of The Plaza), or does she end up in more of a John Cheever story by the 1970s?

Black to move #chess

I feel like we need something that's the exact opposite of an HOA. Like a constitutionally-protected list of freedoms in one's home that municipalities, covenants, HOAs, and contracts are forbidden from restricting in any way.

Did not realize how weak of a constraint it is for words to fit into a grid like ZYMES YOUTH MUSHY ETHYL SHYLY There is just one constraint on each word in the list, coming from the words before it. By my count, using a dictionary with 8,636 five-letter words, there are 5.5 million such grids!

Usually when I've misheard a lyric, reading the correct one causes me to hear it correctly in the future. But I am 100% sure that Sweidsh House Mafia is singing Don't you worry / Don't you worry, child / T. Hammer's got a plan for you. Who is T. Hammer? You tell me.

Reminder that the stock market should always be (and basically *is* always) at an all-time high. If it's not, that basically means that almost 200 million of us went to work every day and collectively produced less than nothing. That's not the work of the White House. That's the work of us.

How can black avoid white's fork in this #chess position?

Post a banger that's not in English "The Gereg" by The HU I randomly happened to walk past a live performance by this group and it was insane. Unfortunately most of their online videos start with extremely long cinematic intros and the mixing doesn't convey the experience of seeing them live.

Post a banger that's not in English "wasurerarenaino" by sakanaction A tribute to 1980's Japanese city pop

Post a banger that's not in English: "Aguas de Março" by Antonio Carlos Jobim (Original in Portuguese here. He also wrote a companion version in English, which is NOT a translation of the Portuguese, for two reasons -- see thread.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1tO...

Post a banger that's not in English: Micaela by Pete Rodriguez (intro in English, actual song in Spanish) www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr_...

Business idea: LaCroix, but just make the 3 good flavors instead of the 58 others nobody wants that just sit on the shelves forever.

For #PuzzleDay I contribute SATOR, a single-player word-making game inspired by crossword puzzles, acrostics, and related board games. danielmclaury.github.io/sator/ Free to play in browser on desktop or mobile.

Cannot believe I figured this out. Black to move. #chess

My first perfect #chess game.

"If a gadget has a part that is frequently broken by users fidgeting with it, provide a harmless part that is a more attractive option to fidget with." Is this a known design principle?