I don't know what it is about Hawkeye saying "You and I remember Budapest *very* differently" in _Avengers_ that always cracks me up a little, but it does, every time.

Movie you’ve rewatched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.

Remember when the universally-accepted answer to "but what about credit card fraud in e-commerce?" was "we'll all have card readers attached to our computers over this new 'USB' thing"?

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity. (My Fantastic Four of positive male role models are Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross, @levarburton.bsky.social, and Gordon from Sesame Street.)

Data nerds, let's start a fight: what medium of written data storage do you think has historically pulled off the best combination of data density and durability? Say, from the beginning of humanity up to computer punched cards.

Anniversary of halifax explosion so obligatory "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." - Vincent Coleman saved like 300 people on a train, and started the emergency response. Died for it

This is close to something @iwriteok.bsky.social talked about in his BtB episode about the Zizians -- once you close yourself off from interacting with anyone whose thoughts aren't a near-copy of yours, you lose that moderating influence of someone normal saying "hey, that idea is crazy actually!"

Oh, I think I need to read this.

There was a CSI Miami episode where one of the victims of the week was locked in a tanning bed with the vents covered and the openings duct-taped. No way am I getting in a $200 tiny sauna.

"Hey. Critical deficiency of scritches over here, buddy. You should do something about it." She is rarely as subtle as she believes she is, but never less so than when she wants pets.

Engaging in a little post-Thanksgiving-indulgence indulgence. If you like chocolate with some fire under it, but are tired of that fire always just being cayenne pepper, then have I got the treat for you:

We thought my paternal grandmother's oatmeal cookie recipe was lost when she died. There was a recipe card in the card box but it didn't make the cookies we all remembered.

Spin Doctors (1994) Phish (1996) They Might Be Giants (1996 and later) Smashing Pumpkins (1997) Weird Al Yankovic (2016 and later)

Look I didn't come here to be attacked like this. In my head it is always the summer of 1995 and I'm getting around Charlottesville on my mountain bike, working at the campus computer shop selling Power Mac x100s and 486 PCs (the Pentium models are too expensive for most incoming first-years).

Seen on LinkedIn. I'll just be over here crumbling into dust with my fellow "older workers".

Maybe this is just me, but I love running across a Wikipedia page that you think is going to basically be a stub, like definition, maybe some kind of origin of whatever, and if you're lucky, an illustrative photo -- but it turns out to have way more depth and detail than you would have guessed.

Last time I smiled in response to a request, the reaction was "Not... not like that. Please don't do that again. OK, we'll just go ahead and use the photo we took before you... before that." (Yes, I know. But although I exaggerate slightly, smiling and I do have a very specific history.)

Today's (well, yesterday's, at this point) @askamanager.org column is perfect fodder for @davidgerard.co.uk's blog. www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

"...it's impossible to find a photo of a datacenter that looks this shitty without IBM Softlayer logos all over it." -- @quinnypig.com on using an LLM-generated datacenter pic on one of his #kubecon presentation slides

Went to the #kubecon session with the Kusari co-founder talking about the balance between open source and actually making money selling to the enterprise.

It's 40 degrees here in Atlanta. Georgians are wandering the city in distress, searching for kettles of fresh hot boiled peanuts or barbecue smokers to warm themselves.

My annual "so you've decided to attend #KubeCon" thread:

"Invented YAML in 2001... apologies..." -- @ingydotnet.bsky.social self-intros at @rejekts.io

What's up with those little handheld mics that look like a shaving brush, that I'm suddenly seeing lots of podcasters use?

Things are already starting to stack up at Dulles. We're third in line (I think) for this runway, waiting on a park-and-ride pad for airliners.

"Now arriving at the B Gates. Please watch your step as you agxit." IYKYK #kubecon #iad

LinkedIn really is turning into a cesspool. Just saw a post by somebody asking why one tool is so much more popular than another one in a particular cloud, arguing that the second tool is purpose-built for that cloud so should naturally work better and be more popular there.

6,7bytes.

My recollection is that it was a major hard drive maker (WD? Seagate? Memory fails there) who started advertising drive sizes in short megabytes, to make their drives seem slightly larger than the competition. (This was after it became common to advertise unformatted vs. formatted capacity.)

Just a quick thread on quality of work with some airy assertions backed up by nothing at all substantive but that I'm pretty sure are correct:

Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Oz, Great mighty king, barely knew what hardship was, Then one day he was old with achin' bones, And down he went into a dark place alone. Dead, that is. Entombed. Mummified.

Gotta say, I was disappointed to see CNCF has chosen to take KubeCon back to SLC in 2026 because the venue in LA is not available. It was *just in* SLC last year, and some of our longest-tenured and most-contributing Kubernetes community members didn't attend because they didn't feel safe doing so.

I supposed I should have realized long before now that like my own native Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay is a flooded estuary. (In the former case, the Susquehanna River, and in the latter, the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Napa.)

Oh yeah, I forgot about the _House_ episode where Hugh Laurie clearly just wanted to hang out playing piano with Dave Matthews.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

"You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke."

The only character to successfully resist the pull of the Ring in the books is Sam, and it's basically stated that it's in part because unlike the other characters who aspire to grandiose heights of power, Sam "knows his place" (as a good mid-20th-century English laborer should).

Helm 4 Beta 1 is out! This is your chance to test it, break it, and help shape the path to GA. 🧭 Try it now and share your feedback 👉 github.com/helm/helm/re... #helm4 #Kubernetes #CloudNative

Unsolicited Glick pic

What's that thing about knowing you're on the right side by who counts you as an enemy?

lol. lmao.

Just got my ticket! If you'll be in Atlanta on November 8, don't wait -- get yours!

Please stop posting that bullshit thing about Melania Trump plagiarizing from C J Cherryh. It’s AI-generated and not true.

Watch this (well, "that") space! Rejekts is always worth the time.

Hey @rejekts.io, looking at my schedule for the next couple of months and wondering when will tickets for Atlanta be available?

Very tempted to send them money based on this alone.

OK, I know my daily routine is maybe not as exciting as say a NASCAR driver or a fighter pilot, but there's no need for this kind of judgment from a package delivery service.

I think for my next KubeCon talk I'm going to visually indicate the age of some of the things I'm talking about: Kubernetes logo: the last decade or so VM icon: 10-20 years old Linux penguin: 20-30 years old Mainframe with tape reels: 30+ years

In case you were wondering, we are at the "weird finance vehicles are being mass-marketed to the public to extract value from them" stage of getting ready for the next big financial crash: www.consumerfinance.gov/data-researc...