Pete Ehlke

I spent _years_ working with devs and PMs who were irritated by users’ use cases. They would always end up with “they’re using it wrong” and my point always was “the way the user wants to work is the right way, _by definition_.”

Chicago, Cork, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Queenstown, and Snohomish.

I’m not one for the big cities, really, but Chicago is the Platonic Ideal.

Repost with a tweet you still think about.

The single greatest tweet of all time:

Has it been remodeled? Back when I was going through there on the semi-regular, that one weird checkpoint was hell on earth.

Hands down: Tucson does not suck at all. We _regularly_ go from parking the car to sitting at the gate- including checking a bag- in under 20 minutes.

I have a degree in sociology from uiuc. My small groups professor- the insanely brilliant Norm Denzin- refused to use textbooks or academic papers, and instead assigned a bunch of Faulkner novels.

It was the most productive class I ever took.

See you in jail. Last night I used kitchen tongs without making the clack-clack noise first.

People thinking that _Idiocracy_ is the future history of our time have clearly not paid attention to _The Death of Stalin_

100% guaranteed that’s what it will look like when he goes.

There should be no speed limits. Instead we should have inertia limits.

“Congratulations on the purchase of your new Canyonero 4500 Super Duty Extreme He-Man Edition. Your overall maximum speed has been automatically set to 12 MPH.”

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

And they’re doing this because there is absolutely no reason for them to believe that they might suffer any consequences when the mad king passes on.

At the time, I was deeply, deeply sad that USDS declined my 2020 offer to come spend the last five years of my career with them.

When DOGE took them over like Agent Smith I realized that I had dodged the biggest bullet of my entire life.

My ex wife once got a student review that said “it’s not fair that you have to be smart _and_ work hard to get an A in this class”

If those cheese platters don’t get you a named chair there’s no justice in this world.

When I was in high school my parents’ next door neighbor retired on Friday, golfed on Saturday, went to church and mowed the lawn on Sunday, and had a stroke & died at the breakfast table on Monday 🤷‍♂️

LinkedIn could have been great. Instead, they ended up nourishing, in the business world, precisely the same narcissistic navel gazing that instagram did among their audience.

There was also: Station to Station, The Ramones' 1st album, Blondie's 1st album, Horses, Modern Lovers' 1st album, Rastaman Vibration, and countless early punk EPs.

There are entire books written about the trinity of '56 (rock & roll), '66 (rock), and '76 (punk). It wasn't all Hotel California 😂

Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life

I mean...

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?

Opening night is Halloween and we’re showing Gothic (1986) and Lair of the White Worm (1988).

There will be shrooms at the concession stand and the audience will never be the same again. Never.

Green River Phosphate or nothing at all.

I was in Urbana-Champaign at the same time Andreesen was and I’m here to tell you: especially if you were at a place like NCSA, you could, if you wanted to, go *weeks* without so much as seeing Black people.

Almost certainly, this is Southern Baptist for "Divorce is always a moral failure. Except for mine."

Linda Yaccarino suddenly losing her limp as she walks away from X

💯 my goto tires for 25+ years are “either gatorskins or anything at all made by vittoria”

@anamariecox.bsky.social is a national treasure and people should say so more often.

YouTube video by The Midnight Special Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac | The Midnight Special

15 year old me saw this, first run, on a 10” b&w vacuum tube TV and was never the same again. Stevie is raw and feral before the cocaine really took hold. If she’d quit singing the next morning she’d have got in to the hall of fame based on this one performance. Devastating.
youtu.be/goKM7jsOwrg?...

Man it’s been 25 years and I still miss living up there.