Matt G

6 overflowing recycling dumpsters

Some tweaks perhaps should be made.

"the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we "grow" our lives - we believe that we "make" them."

My to-do list today is:
1) *some actual work task*
2) Try not to have a nervous breakdown
3) *Retake a work survey so I can complain about something I forgot to complain about*
4) Figure out how to take that wellness day PTO I supposedly have.
Things are not well over in Mattland.

Umm, is the outro vamp on Titanic's Lágrima del sol a Dave Matthews reference??

I get filled with existential angst every time I have to chose "No end date" on any recurring calendar item at work. Yuck.

Love it when you have a git problem and the best resource you found is a Stack Overflow thread from 2018 saying "Something is definitely odd here..."

sudo rm -r stupid-repo

Tell me the president doesn’t understand the economy without telling me the president doesn’t understand the economy.

Definitely not me yelling at the universe right now, "I don't need more shit to be depressed about! They keep coming up with NEW SHIT." That would absolutely not be what I just yelled at the universe, no.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

A photo of me and my cat Biscuit in front of a giant old school MS Paint themed mirror (the window is called Untitled, and it has a menu bar and buttons for tools). The canvas area is the mirror part. Biscuit looks up at me as if to ask "really?". I'm smiling, and making a peace sign

Did I buy a giant MS paint themed mirror?

Yes. Yes I did

Update: people here at the Alamo loved Hackers.

As they should.

It turns out, I should have taken a mental health day today. No joke, just like... Not functioning today.

I am once again reminding you that dates should be stored with some kind of date-like datatype in your database.

Conrad - The Shortest Distance Between Two Points View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CDr release of "The Shortest Distance Between Two Points" on Discogs.

Holy Shit I have a discogs page: www.discogs.com/release/6115...
And the data is mostly correct. Some rando out there seems to have found a CD??

Charlie Peacock interview in the latest @tapeopmagazine.bsky.social issue. My ex-CCM heart will be reading that one...

And now I'm listening to the Alan Sparhawk/Trampled by Turtles album, and tearing up at Not Broken.

Again, I reiterate that Sorry is an INCREDIBLE band. Just listened to Waxwing again and about lost my mind. I mean... Real fall-in-love-with-weird-music music for me.

Now if only there were some sort of Ministry for the Future...

Happy birthday, Bell Labs.

And sobbing.

I can't right now, I'm listening to On the Nature of Daylight.

Ahh yes, the point in the Kim Stanley Robinson book where we go on for tens of pages about bureaucratic minutiae... I know thee well. eventually it will make sense, trust the process.

Code not working as expected. Inspect metadata results. 2 files failed, details can be written to a log sink. Attempt to specify log sink. Crash boom bang nothing work just 500 errors and cryptic messages. How is this an API by one of the most valuable companies on earth?

Before: Mark J. Bennett, Eric D. Miller, and Jennifer Sung, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: In 10 U.S.C. § 12406, Congress authorized the President of the United States to "call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State" whenever one or more of three conditions are satisfied. In response to disturbances

NEW: The Ninth Circuit reverses Judge Breyer's order, finding that President Trump "likely ... lawfully exercised his statutory authority" when he federalized the California National Guard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"...in order not to die you must pretend you are quite calm..."
From a KSR shirt y story about Everest.

People may differ on optimal protest tactics, but I think a good rule of thumb is you should behave in a manner that is clearly distinguishable from the way that paid plants from your adversaries would act in an effort to discredit you

Absolutely DID NOT hike a trail that was closed against the advice of my tour group leader and have a good time anyway. That would be bad. I don't have that sort of adventures, as be anyone who knows me will tell you.

Wowza this Intrepid tour group is not as cool as our last Intrepid tour group. It's like they don't even... Like stuff? I really want to put these in my Instagram notes but probably somebody here will want to see that eventually, so sorry to you lot for just getting me venting into the universe.

Took a public ferry across contents from Europe to Asia using my metro card for like $5 for two people. Don't think I'll be able to top that for a while.