Mild Plaid

Love me some 4 Hands. One of the places I miss most about no longer being in easy driving distance to St Louis.

Heck yes! Well done kIDdo.

Black cats are best cats.

Think I’ll make red beans and rice (but not Red Beans and Rice) for dinner this week.

If you’ve got time, One Flew South is the best food option by far.

Excellent time with great people and a good reminder to go back to HC again soon.

Excellent choice. I’ll head on over.

Heck yes

Sorry I missed this, but it looks like everyone else got you covered. I should be around post-race time tomorrow if you're still interested in a beverage.

Selfishly, I’d like the orange line extended up to Kennesaw, but otherwise pretty great.

In that case, yeah, I'm in. I've got some suggestions for beer locations (most even with food) if required.

I'm not always great at "shenanigans," but would likely be open for a beer or something Saturday afternoon/evening.

Somebody has to be the first to arrive, and it will probably be the Plaids. This is just my role in life.

Yes, correct.

I would argue Minnesota has the four best trophies in college football.

Yeah, there’re reasons for the past tense.

(If you can’t outperform Ctrl-f, you’re going to have a bad day.)

I worked for a company trying to pivot into AI solutions. They created a AI chatbot to answer employee handbook questions as a POC/sales tool. When I left the company six months after the bot was first released, it was still incapable of telling me the US holiday schedule.

Happy anniversary!

(October is objectively the best month to get married, excellent choice.)

The human voice just cannot do a good approximation of the mellow, rich tones of a trombone.

I'm assuming it's because they took the Marilyn Monrobot from Futurama, TerrorNexus-like, as inspiration and not warning.

I used to reread it annually; now it's once every couple of years. Very interesting to revisit these days.

John le Carre? Some of the early Neal Stephenson? Glen Cook? I'd be happy to chat about any number of books.

If my bonus depends on overall profitability of the company and you’re bringing a half-baked plan to me to execute, you best believe I’ll poke at it until you justify it, fix it, or cancel it.

Hook’s 5 Year is the truth.

This, all of it. Keep the broadcasts limited, and don't be pushed into a schedule if there isn't enough valuable info to support that schedule.

"Useful" in this case meaning "things I need to do to stay employed or do my job." Don't do a wide broadcast of personal interest-type stories alone; feel free to embed them in a general interest broadcast.

1. Mostly emails; I think they're posted somewhere but I have no idea where.
2. I read them all, in case there's something important, but I spend a lot of time mentally complaining that the vast majority are pretty useless.
3. I wish they'd only do wide broadcast messages for useful things. 1/2

Aw jeez, I’m sorry.

Everyone calling for Frames to be fired is actually a Cincinnati plant looking to create an opening elsewhere for Scott Satterfield.

Good enough to get hired at the next place, which is all* that matters.

*: per his agent