Tie breaker question on the office superb owl pool is the total score. I answered 42. For everything else I chose the second answer. I think I’m in contention. Hopefully some reward for watching this thing. #super Bowl

Taco Bell #mediocremeals #hashtaggames

i'm doing science. my hypothesis: if a ups with no load is plugged is into itself then it will go to 0% faster than if it is just left unplugged.

jon steward on the daily show once again nails it. two tiered justice and sanctuary cities. https://youtu.be/cwXIq81eE24

"people screaming fuck-you eight hours a day is basically every customer service job in this country." -- jon stewart obviously not the key take away in the video but god-damn is it true. https://youtu.be/I-eNduwugmY?t=656

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets." https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

Sitting near the san diego harbor getting ready for sailing class trying to remember different horn patterns when this guy blasts out five quick horns, which, because i've done my homework, tells me there is an unsafe situation unfolding because this ship […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

the problem with starting the day with six espressos is that then the rest of your day your coffees taste like water.

hahaha - ai is stupid. it has no idea where i put the clicker.

i spent a lot of my youth on the UC Riverside campus. just looked up the school newspaper archives and the very first edition has a story about a giant "C" that was made on the nearby mountain. when i was little i never understood why it wasn't R, and still a little confused. anyways, it was fun […]

i feel like i need to open a store just so i can refuse service to DHS employees.

dang, i rented one of these for a week last year. generimobile. Cardle 4/5 Streak 3🔥 Total Score 12 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 https://www.playcardle.com

today (january 23) is national pie day. you'd think for national pie day you'd have a pie chart but no, "they" went with this chart. and not only did they NOT go with a pie chart, the number one answer doesn't even fit the question. you don't MAKE a pie by […] [Original post on discuss.systems]

me: do this thing. chatgpt: here's your gniht. me: that's all backwards. do the "thing." chatgpt: you are right! here's your gniht. me: no. i want a thing, not a gniht. a gniht is useless ai slop. chatgpt: you are right! that is slop. what you have to do is ask for a thing in the exact way […]

Sitting in traffic outside snapdragon i glanced at the screen to see what was happening inside. We really need realtime satellite views. Cloudfree of course.

I asked for 42 sesame seeds on my bun. My daughter delivered.

TDS (trump derangement syndrome) is when you choose not to admit trump is deranged.

"you have been signed out automatically to enhance security. click here to login again." clicking the button logs me in again, no credentials required. i guess i have to go to security school to understand how clicking that button made me more secure.

how come colleges have quads, short for quadrangles, and never trirangles, pentrangles, hexrangles, or other higher-order n-rangles? "hey, let's meet in the heptakaidecarangle to go over the lab notes?" "sure, see you in the heptakaideca at noon."

"i'm about to blow your mind here but compilers used to cost money." https://youtu.be/Gv4sDL9Ljww?t=469

now i am become greybeard.

hey, when did nunavut arive on the scene? dinosaurs and canada making all my grade school knowledge obsolete.

issa can't get run out of california fast enough.

ffs, trump you idiot. congress, you simps.

we adore our tesla 3 and would have loved to replaced one of our ICE cars with a new one, but... last week we got a new chevy ev. total self-own by the tesla ceo and board. fuck 'em.

books newly in the public domain: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

good lord - they let sav go? she freakin' OWNED that midfield. 😱

Learned that Sheridan leaving was not something she wanted. wtf?

the bits you are now reading travelled through a sun branded ethernet cable, so you know they are of the highest-quality.

vivaldi lost my "back" button and i miss it. it's missing in one profile but not others. any hints on where to find it?

things i use my phone for: 0) getting sign in codes 1) wallet 2) key for my wife's car 3) camera 4) flashlight 5) remote control this list is not to scale. the distance between 0 and 1 is vast. using it as a phone is far down the list as to be negligible.

a couple of years ago we went to an elvis costello concert. i was a big fan of starting around 1980 and have listened to each of his records when they've come out. his style changed drastically over years. at the concert, as most artists do, he leaned heavily into his more recent stuff. so much […]

i just got a text from the mechanic saying my car was due for service. the last time i drove it was to get it serviced.

ho, ho, ho!

tasked with upgrading my company's intranet. the goal is to get us 100% to ipv6 but right now i've got us stuck at ipv5 with no rollback plan and no clear path forward. what a mess.

me to my wife and daughter, repeatedly: these dad jokes are not going to laugh at themselves.

this morning i made a proprietary dairy product breakthrough and have already filed all the appropriate paperwork with the US patent office. it's a new mix i hope to see in stores soon that will revolutionize mornings. i took equal amounts of milk, cream, and half-and-half, gently mix, and […]

nwsl losing one great player after another. can't figure out how salary caps are supposed to help the league. let's put a salary cap on owners and front office. 😩

the last step of my glasses cleaning regimen is a banger: test cleanliness by placing thumb and forefinger on both sides of a lens. you'll know how well you cleaned them by how much the fingerprints stand out.

Another day in paradise. Mission Bay, San Diego

Temporarily blinded myself pushing all the buttons on the boat store display. The lights for under the boat are exceptionally bright.

i wish i knew what caused. none of the other many servers/services i monitor did this.

My retirement account is doing great this month, thank you very much.

hey look at that - the pacific ocean's pretty big.

Mel b saying “this may be the last time we all play together…” 😱

the world sevens format works well with the style eidevall's been having the wave play.

my top 10 2025 search history just tells me which cities i've been: 0. best corn dog in san diego 1. best corn dog in san mateo 2. best corn dog in tucumcari 3. best corn dog in fresno 4. best corn dog recipe 5. best corn dog in washington dc 6. best corn dog within 500 miles of four corners 7 […]

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i don't know why my boss thinks i'm half-assing everything. most of the time i'm not even quarter-assing it. eighth-assing it if i've had my coffee.