Optional Allusion

One day will be the last day you see a penny, and you will probably not notice.

My son's Fire tablet had a lockscreen advertisement for 10lbs of shredded paper packing material.
This kind of untargeted/mistargeted advertising gives me a little dopamine hit from successfully avoiding the gaze of capitalist Sauron.

I keep reading these breathless articles about how programming is "solved", and software development won't be a job in 5,2, or 0 years.

Today I refactored a method to be asynchronous, then asked Gemini to update the tests.
"Gemini was unable to provide a useful result". No further explanation.

Out of all of us with grievances against *gestures vaguely at everything*, I think Mr. Cool Ice has legitimate standing.

My wife looked something up on Apple Maps, and it reminded me of something.

I have "back working at Google" dreams like I used to have "back at University for another degree" dreams.
They are not nightmares, but they are not pleasant.

Cinderella's fairy godmother feeling generous at Happy Lemon when her friend Robert Thompson walks in as she's ordering:

"Boba-tea Bobby T., too"

I hope he takes my comment in the spirit of humor I intended it.
I will never understand why people watch youtube or tiktok. It must speak to some part of the human experience that I lack.
I do not miss it, though.

Your marketing sucks because it's video. Your books are good.

I mean this in the best possible way: I never want to see your face again. Please keep writing really weird shit.

At the goth grocery store parking lot club.

Made a salmon dinner for my family, then spent the entire dinner defending it from the cats.

Mostly successfully.

Of course, a used copy of The Stand would go for $75, but it comes with the entire Dark Tower series!

If bookstores were like fireworks stands we'd have not only Half-price Books, but also Buy One Get X Free Books, where X is any somewhat plausible number.

School bus driver contemplates his life choices, laying in the front window of his bus

Tandem recumbent bike, saturated colors, vivid textures. Shitty bladerunner vibes.

Sunbeams shining through fog on a forest trail

Haggen store sign barely shines through thick fog above creepy natural greyscale parking lot.

Saw another account post their favorite photos taken in 2025, so here are 4 of my favorite photos I took this year.

Playing Guess Who with my kid, but only asking non-appearance based questions.
"Is your character a cat-person more than a dog-person?"
"Does your character speak French?"

Trick question. When your wife said she wanted the omelette with pancakes, she actually meant the omelette with hashbrowns and toast and an additional order of pancakes. You should know this by now.

The menu says omelettes come with your choice of "pancakes OR hashbrowns & toast". You order with pancakes. Do you expect toast?

My kid is making me play Blox Fruits with him. I haven't played FPS games since Quake 3 in the early 2000s. Somehow games have gotten both worse looking and have worse controls now?

Why does every product package now use glue with more structural integrity than the cardboard it's gluing together?

I am inordinately proud of the ramen I just made with miso ginger broth, shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, and gochujang fried tofu.

Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 (XIAO BLE) Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 by Nordic is carrying wireless capability for the first time and it supports Bluetooth 5.0, also able to operate with low power consumption. It will be your best microcontro...

Please don't inspire any more projects, I have too many already.

But someone else could build a personalized gesture recognition system using a microcontroller like www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO-B... and a Dynamic Time Warping implementation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic...

NanoBanana generated image of a My Little Pony named Blackberry Moonshine

Okay, generative Ai is bad, blah blah blah. BUT...

"BlackBerry Moonshine" sounds like a My Little Pony, but was actually in my Ole Smoky 12 days of moonshine advent calendar.

waiting outside the pharmacy for it to open to get my wife's sinus infection meds like it's Mervyn's Black Friday 1992.
"Open, Open, Open..."

My 7 year old kid uses "bro" like a private in the army uses "sir".

"Bro, yes, bro!"

Constant talking/noise is disrespectful because it's a constant interruption forcing me to decode the message which inevitably turns out to be even less meaningful than "Drink your Ovaltine!"

It's a Denial of Service attack on my ability to think.

At some point in the process of adding build flavors to my Flutter app, the IOS configuration conveniently deleted the sign-in-with-apple and applinks entitlements, utterly breaking that functionality on IOS. Good job everyone!

The fact that cat paws work on touchscreens is just delightful

I think what we're seeing is the revealed preference that most people just generally do NOT want to interact with others/strangers that much. It was previously unavoidable, now it isn't.

As usual, the extroverts are the loud ones trying to force everyone else to cater to their needs.

At Thanksgiving, wanted to know how old one of the kids was. I tried to figure out how to right-click her to get a context menu.