Not Even Nothing

By all means! I thought that all those mentions of worms were just run-of-the-mill self-deprecation on behalf of the protagonist of those songs, but if there is an entire theology behind it, all the better!

(It would be funny if some of the shape note people I interact with on Tumblr would be the same ones I interact with here, without knowing it.)

Yes, someone on Tumblr yesterday made a meme for it, inspired by my post. Screenshot attached.

Having read your articles, I'm not surprised that you know this much about Watts.

Yes! I'm not sure why that was unexpected, but it was unexpected.

At this singing for the first time I stopped and laughed in the middle of a song. The culprit was the words "fellow worms".

It's not that I'm not used to occurrences of "worm" in shape note lyrics. But for some reason "fellow worms" was especially funny.

I also like how, if you zoom in on the painting on the wall, it shows Jesus partying so hard that there is a person passed out in his lap.

At the Baylor University Sacred Harp singing today. With many Baylor students here, it is definitely the youngest skewing singing I've been to. Starting out with a lecture.

I hope things will improve for you in the foreseeable future...

Heard a non-native English speaker on the radio today pronounce "infrastructure" like "infrastruggle".

Thinking about the endless, ongoing AWS permissions problems I'm facing at work: yes, that's what I will call cloud infrastructure from now on.

Story Kit - Lightspeed Magazine The pain of losing something so precious that you did not think you could live without it. Oxygen. The ice breaks beneath your feet: Your coat and boots fill with water and pull you down. An airlock b...

“Story Kit” by @kijjohnson.bsky.social is a metafictional piece processing feelings of anger and betrayal through a series of writing snippets. Gives me Day Ten Thousand vibes (high compliment). www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/stor...

A cat that crackles with static when you pet her can be said to have cat-ions.

Daniel Wilson "The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever"
Kij Johnson "Spar"
Jeffrey Ford "The Empire of Icecream"
Many stories by Ted Chiang, but most are too long to be considered short stories.

Look what pulled into Tacoma It's at pct with the green cranes now. For Renee Good. 2K少 D86 RaccoonWillich • 6h ago What's remarkable about this? Does it say something? Edit: Ah I figured this was a colorblindness test. I did not pass. Thanks everyone! • 0 349 ₴ • IncognitoMeanie • 6h ago Oh no! You're colorblind : ( 3 more replies v Handyandy58 • 6h ago The red containers spell "rEnEE" which is a reference to Renee Good, the woman who was murdered by an ICE officer in Minneapolis on January 7 2026. 42 153 a

Renee good containers

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good).

www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

This is from a Texas convention! It warms my bitter dark heart.
Also, an oft-quoted song for these times.

Then I tried Claude. On the first try it wrote a Terraform module for me using a different approach than Gemini. It turned out mostly correct, requiring only one small tweak on my part!

At first I asked Gemini for help. Some of its recommendations enabled me to make incremental progress, but the more I got into the weeds, the more its advice became internally inconsistent and plain wrong.

As a Terraform newbie, I was struggling with a task of writing Terraform modules to create an EC2 instance and deploy a very simple Python web application on it. What was giving me the greatest trouble was that no matter what I tried, Terraform was not preserving the indentations in the Python file.

Yes, I was told that it already existed in Shenandoah Harmony. But there are no Shenandoah Harmony singings in Texas, alas.

Yes, I saw it just now, thanks!

"The 1991 edition had another Neely Bruce song in the same spot. They took it out and replaced with this one. And now we have sung his new song more times than the old one."

Keep in mind, this group has existed for 40 years. 2/2

Today was our local Sacred Harp group first singing of the year, and the first singing from the 2025 edition - due to the holiday break. I got to lead the awesome 484t Millbrook before anyone else snatched it up. At the end our organizer said: 1/2

I've no idea what your note means, but... you are writing about my blorbo, huh? That got my attention.

Texas solar power surpassed coal in 2025 for the first year ever. Here's why. In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants.

This is a watershed moment for Texas - for the first time ever, solar supplied more electricity than coal in 2025.

I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA.

TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.

Finally, success! After many wrong turns.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Trying to use Terraform to launch an EC2 instance with a Streamlit app on it, as a learning exercise. It's taking me for a wild ride.

But if I am ever to take an AWS Certified Developer exam, this is the way I want to learn it - hands on, as opposed to cramming exam questions.

Find a usable paradox, and work with that. Radical acceptance is one: "This is unbearable, and yet I am somehow bearing it."

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Spouse, trying to separate the two sides of a pre-sliced bagel and ruining the whole thing in the process:

"These bagels aren't pre-sliced. They are pre-suggested."