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I wonder if Douglas Adams would be amused or dismayed by the popularity of digital watches now.

My dad was a chemist. One day in the late 70’s, he was walking down the hall, and heard a strange voice croaking out the star spangled banner. He went into where it was coming from to discover it was the very expensive mini mainframe they bought to run the Mass Spectrometer.

Me: OH search engine, in the very narrow context of this field, find me mentions of x.

Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.

A friend of mine, who I called small gay Bob, was in a casual fantasy league with a bunch of guys. He chose his team one year based of how cute the players were. He won the league that year, the other guys were so mad.

Mmm, carmelized onions and potatoes... with cabbage. Time for some colcannon. I'm astonished it never occurred to me to add carmelized onions to it.

Warlord their .sig!

They are so good. Nature’s pudding.

When a lawyer submits a filing that is full of false citations and errors, one wonders how much they cheated in law school.

I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.

Drummer: Anika Nilles. The little taste I’ve had says she’s world class, and has the right kind of chops.

Huh. Apparently Rush is gonna do a tour.

Finite State Machine? Federated States of Micronesia? Field Strength Meter?

Having lived in Somerville for decades, I can say this hasn’t changed too much.

Reading a Jenny Lawson book in bed next to my sleeping sweetie might kill me from trying to suppress laughter.

#letspretend...

Rockin'! Hope it transfers.

Exactly.

@hankgreen.bsky.social needs to know about this.

"I'm swabbing some of what looks like mascara which was running down the face of the deceased, so we can check... it's crawling onto my swab..."
#twoSentenceHorror

Gotta love a story where the utterance "You literally used to be a grain combine" is the straight man line. #questonableContent

If I were hiring software engineers, a YouTube position wouldn't count for much.

Watching a youtube vid with lots of section markers. Someone went to a lot of trouble to annotate the natural breaks in this video.

Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.

The distance between NYC and LA, is pretty close to the distance between London U.K. and Damascus, Syria.

That’d be nice.

New experiences come at all ages. For instance, here in my 60th I finally got to experience being stung by a number of yellow jackets. Three or four reached flesh, I brushed off a number of others.

Yay?

I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.

I have this scene in my head:

"Hey Krissy, why are the wires going to the ceiling fan so huge?"

"It takes a lot of power to keep the tornadoes out..."

"... what tornadoes?"

"I haven't made them yet."

"Uuuuuh..."

"Oh, I got you more tortillas..."

<Thankful for the topic change> "Oooooooo!"

If you can’t be bothered to read the whole bug report, do not offer fixes. #techsupport

Oooo, what a great target for a discussion of algorithms and corner cases.

Gosh, linked-in, you think I ought to read this post of a friend so much that you sent me a suggestion several days after I read it the first time?

Was that really a good use of that energy?

Why would anyone consider Sirius/XM to be comparable to Alphabet and Meta. “They deliver media” is very tenuous. Maybe I’m missing some part of the picture. #investing

Bittersweet: thinking of a joke a dead friend would have loved.