Pablo Baxter

Dude didn't know there would be a scheduled blackout in his neighborhood, and it was too late to prepare for anything. He was desperate to save his fish. Made sure he knew basic generator safety and usage before we parted ways.

He sent me videos of his fish afterwards.

I got the money I asked for, kept all my organs, and got to see the really cool salt water fish tank this person wanted to save.

I just tried sell my inverter generator at 11:30pm, under the dim lights of an empty Target parking lot, with no else around.

Wanna know what happened?

You can still turn it on, FYI: issuetracker.google.com/issues/29932...

Friends: What did you celebrate this weekend?

Me: Just the Ides of March

Today is my last day at Google. I joined as an intern almost 18 years ago, and it still feels like it was yesterday. I'm incredibly grateful that I got to work with so many amazing and talented folks, but I'm also excited to try something new. First step: a few months of travel and photography :)

"So it started off because a game was mistranslated to English, and someone made a techno song of it..."

Tired of opening Android Studio and then immediately stopping the Gradle sync that auto started? If so, I built an IDE plugin just for you!

plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26522...

I'm just a horrible librarian with no organizational skills.

YouTube video by Psychostick NSFW by Psychostick w/lyrics

Theme song for 2025?

youtu.be/G1Qmctlj2Vk?...

Lead: Hope everyone had a great weekend! Who wants to start us off for the weekly meeting?

Team:

As a child, I remember being homeless and miserable, sleeping in a van at a park across the street from my elementary school.

As a parent, I tried to subject my children to the same misery, making them sleep outside or in an RV. They call it "camping" and are excited for it. Spoiled turds.

Looking at my bills after the holidays

a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food

Testing the Google Store a bit now, it seems to be due to adding a protective plan on a phone. Without one, financing option shows up.

So Google has a great deal with Synchrony where you apply for their financing and get 0% interest on a Pixel phone for 36 months.

Well, surprise! I have credit for an account that isn't even usable in their checkout flow. Doesn't even show up as an option.

Fair warning for you other folks.

It's never "fairly easy"

I love that when I login to see what's happening on Bluesky, I get a full feed of @marawilson.bsky.social reposting of some quality random stuff. I love the spontaneity!

This is how planning meetings normally start.

Sometimes, we just need that extra bit of support.

Can you people in San Francisco stop having once in a lifetime disaster warnings? I mean a tornado warning?!

Military customs made me unaware that people outside the military weren't accustomed to being called sir/ma'am.

About to spice things up with some NSFW images.

Gonna start a Friday check on all the folks.

Followup

This national weather service warning is so vague as to almost be unhelpful

a WHAT now?

How I work on a daily.

When you order your favorite combo at your local fast-food joint, but they get it wrong and you're hungry so you eat it anyway.