Patrick

got to see some incredible and varied parts of the U.S. over the last two weeks. headed home now, but already looking forward to the next discoveries

Clipped screenshot from the above Jon Bois skeet, reading "just went to @stathead.con again. shohei tonight is the only guy ever"

gonna be eatin my hamburger helper without the ground beef with these prices

PSG Miku

"There's something different about the subtitles this season. Namely, they're all ass now."

Isn't the problem that they're not .ass now?

The new Digimon game is an absolute delight

went on a bike ride today

sometimes it's nice to go on a group ride and get absolutely humbled. I've pretty much only been on solo rides this year but popped onto a huge one out to a local apple farm/cidery today and got my ass kicked for 60 miles

Just passed the final for my last class 💪 I'm awaiting the evaluation of the final part of my capstone project but all of my coursework is DONE

I earned a Bachelor's in 46 days, AMA

one class to go...

needed a short break from studying today so I rewatched first slam dunk

what a good movie

scored an 820, passing is 720

I really had no idea if I passed or not, I should have a little more faith in myself

two classes to go..

Really dislike how AWS certification exams make you wait for results

I've been on vacation the last 5 days and still managed to pass two classes just in the mornings before my wife woke up and in the evenings when we were winding down 💪

damn dude this muffin was like 1200 calories nvm the price was fine

I love being in big cities so much but then I get a cold brew and a muffin and it costs $16 and do I really want to trade my suburban McDonald's breakfast price for that?

actually yeah probably, I'd just learn to make cold brew at home

I just passed 3 classes in 18 hours

I'm sleepy

next up for my degree course is databases

joins got hands

I learned some of this for sec+ 6 years ago and some of it for CISSP last year but it still royally sucks

my next class is "intro to cryptography" and sucks ass

I got all of the concept based questions right (how PKI, hashing, etc works) but half of the questions are memorizing which algo uses how many bits for the keys and blocks

literally just rote memorization for useless numbers :(

Doomscrolling is a lot more fun when you're rooting for the doom

🚴‍♂️💨💨💨💨 #LaVuelta25

I was really rooting for Toronto

my favorite study music is hitting play on the koyaanisqatsi soundtrack then letting spotify take the wheel from there

philip glass always undefeated

someone baked my bunny into a loaf

YouTube video by Nicola Bartolucci Jewelpet Garnet What a feeling

I miss jewelpet sunshine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o12E...

Cloud+ passed.. just one more CompTIA cert and I'm free for a while

when you make fun of me this is who you're making fun of

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like