William H. Devereaux

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Charlie Brown stands in the snow next to a blue doghouse, upon which his beagle Snoopy sits reading a newspaper while eating bones. There is a dog bowl next to the doghouse piled several feet high with long bones of some sort. caption: it’s not Christmas until I see Snoopy eating 37 human femurs.

bruh

This would have had so many awesome DVD covers. They'd start cheap and then get more elaborate as the cult purchases resulted in fancier releases.

A redacted text message from CVS. The visible text reads: "___, Rx MOM is ready for pickup at CVS Pharmacy:"

This AI business has gone too damned far.

Let me introduce you to Mrs. D and her community theater productions

A black and white photo of composer Alexander Courage seated at a music desk studying a sheet of music.

A still frame showing the starship USS Enterprise from the 1965 pilot "The Cage"

When Jerry Goldsmith turned down the offer to write the music for the "Star Trek" TV pilot in 1964, he recommended his friend and colleague Alexander Courage, BOTD in 1919 (d. 2008)
Courage would go on to write one of the most iconic themes in TV and film history.
#filmsky #moviesky

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

TBH I am still annoyed that we have choices other than Courier and Elite. But I try to be self-aware enough to understand when I am performing "old man yells at cloud."

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One of the most highly cited academic articles on the safety of glyphosate has been retracted, eight years after court documents revealed it was ghostwritten by Monsanto retractionwatch.com/2025/12/04/g...

I love my serifs and I generally tend to dislike sans serif fonts, but FFS people come on.

What a concept! ::makes a shopping list::

Hat tip (literally) to @eileen4ever.bsky.social for the spiffy hat.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

We were very excited a few yrs back when a new bookstore was opening near us, and it turned out to never be open past 4PM, and the owner did not actually talk to any customers who walked in.

Fabulous choice, though I love the Stravinsky as well.

I snuck a letter from the school psychologist about mine.

I'm trying to read about brain fog, but I can't concentrate long enough to finish the article.

I regularly write sentences like that in my draft emails and memos. Cleaning them up occupies a substantial amount of my writing time.

These kids are doing ridiculous things that I don't understand.

This is unprecedented; no kids in human history have ever done things that puzzled middle-aged dudes.

Hello!!

he's making a list
he's checking it twice
he's setting a reminder on his phone
he's seeing a new email notification
he's checking social media
he's forgetting to set the reminder
he's waking up in the middle of the night realizing he completely spaced it

I've got a pint jar. It'll be fine.

is usually causing more of the problems than the software itself. It's very rare for one of these migrations to produce enough benefit to justify the costs (direct cash outlay and indirect costs such as you describe).

My take (from within IT) is that all of these products suck, but in different ways, and by moving from one product to another you're simply trading the devil you know for the devil you don't. And few institutions have the stomach to do the business process redesign that's really needed and

"You can't take away people's right to be assholes!"

the actual first episode I saw. I'm going to go with "The Ultimate Computer," which blew my mind because it showed other ship besides the Enterprise.

Star Trek played in syndication the afternoons. Nobody else in my family was interested so I was relegated to watching it on a spare 12" black & white set we had. (At this point, the main TV set was B&W too. It was just bigger. A Zenith 19", IIRC.)

Reception was extremely variable. I don't remember

The first installment in the Star Trek film series, "STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE" directed by Robert Wise and starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols was released #OnThisDay in 1979 in the U.S. and Canada

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