DJP

What are your recommendations of things to do in Houston for a conference attendee with a possible night or two free?

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Oh hell yes, a contemporary PWEI jam that I dig

tfw something you’ve written gets flagged by an automatic legal review because the algorithm isn’t sure you should be using the word “black” in the context of the term “black box”

This made my day

I finished it. Parts of it felt like a documentary.

The total budget was $2.5 million so likely not as much as we might think

I’m watching Idiocracy for the first time, AMA

Yeah it was very much a “we should maybe have some words about what is appropriate for being a decent human being, let alone a music camp for kids” moment

I discovered that Teams lets you put chats and channels into user-defined sections so now I am 100% obsessed with organizing my Teams chats

Follow up on this:

One of my kids asked to put a sticker on the front desk on their last day of camp and the staff said “Sure!” My kid asked “Where can I put it?” I said “How about on top of the Burzum sticker?”

The staff laughed uncomfortably. The sticker ended up elsewhere.

Oh ffs, Saturday was nomination day for the next People’s Pop poll wasn’t it

I’m in Dunkin waiting for a black coffee and the playlist just subjected me to “Shake It Off” and “Before He Cheats”

I will never set foot in this establishment again

Who invented the concept of hotel cubicles, because I have some feedback I would like to deliver

I did not know this existed, thank you both

I think my rule for October is I’m going to mute anything reposted from Twitter

My copy of Force of Habit by The Leather Nun doesn’t have “F.F.A.” on it so it always catches me by surprise when I play the album on a streaming service

I’m sensing story time

Spending some time reacquainting myself with A.R.E. Weapons; am I wrong to be parsing them as a prototype for Fontaines D.C.?

y’all

Here’s the money quote: “Workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being.”

I really can’t overstate how much I liked The Long Walk and how much I think people should see it

Beau Is Afraid is a deeply strange movie

Insomnia is the worst

The Long Walk exceeded my expectations on virtually every axis I can think of

Rewriting The Metamorphosis, only this time Gregor Samsa transforms into Morrissey

I am very much looking forward to seeing The Long Walk this weekend. I’ve been hoping for a movie adaptation of it since I first read it in the mid 80s.

“not the crab rangussy” broke me

I just watched Ice Road: Vengeance and I have to say there was a disturbing lack of both ice roads and vengeance in it

When you are typing and you try to spell “line” as “lign”, is that a sign of not enough coffee or too much coffee

I wonder what the vibes were like at post-“I’m Free” Soup Dragons gigs; like, did they ever finish up that song and then go “here’s one for the heads” and then launch into about 45 seconds of “Kingdom Chairs” before going “j/k here’s I’m Free again”