Ted Scarlett

At this point, every app that asks me for a rating by interrupting my use of the app…gets one star.

And yet...I watch.

And cobbling a whole bunch of dead parts together for new life, as this series is doing: Frankenstein!!

Romance Author gets thrown into inadvertent adventure: Romancing the Stone

Shared hive mind: Unity of Rick & Morty (and Borg from TNG, and so many other used this trope)

Space-signal discovered at radio scope array: Contact, almost verbatim.

Space-born invasion replaces people: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Aliens sent back a virus: Species

Space-based virus escapes lab: The Andromeda Strain

Pluribus is so damn derivative.

Everyday Americans get nickel and dimed while the rich dodge taxes.

They struggle to get by while the wealth of the 1% skyrockets.

They see their voices drowned out while the well-connected avoid accountability.

There are two sets of rules in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.

Support log with vendor:

Agent: Thank you, please bare with me for one moment while I pull up that case and review

Me: I will bear with you. I will not bare with you. We hardly know each other.

Me: At least buy me dinner first.

Agent: My apologies, fingers were moving faster than my brain there

YouTube video by StarTalk Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot," as read by Neil deGrasse Tyson

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7n...

@newsweek.com will there be a headline about it if it turns out to be wrong? Otherwise, this really isn’t news is it? It’s just entertainment.

The adjective "tactical" is every bit as "nonsensical" as the "BÆRSkin" name. It's a men's garment with pockets. As a member of the cargo shorts skate generation, I can attest, that's just called "clothing."
(For some reason they have ad-targeted me with their weirdly-insecure wanna-be militarism.)

@theauthorguy.bsky.social Thanks so much for "A Dirty Job." It made yesterday's roadtrip from Utah to Seattle a lot easier. Over a decade since my last listen, and renewed total love for the (audio)book.

In addition to using me to train autonomous vehicles, am I not also training machines how to answer correctly the very "Are you human?" question being posed here?

Don't put "Oops" in a user interface.

Just don't.

Spend time to make your error messages meaningful.

In an ideal world, users never see error messages.

In reality, the tone of your software's error messages is probably the most important indicator of your respect for your customers.

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake - Wikipedia

15 seconds of terror, 26 years ago today
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Lo...

There was Asian street food served by Algerian proprietors in Athens, Greece.

Could that sound off in the distance maybe be my promised ship, dropping anchor down on karma bay?

The ubiquitous marketing of @libertymutual.com demonstrates that their whole focus is on adding customers.
LiMu is aggressively cutting California homeowners out. This indicates that LiMu is not taking care of customers.
Conclusion? LiMu doesn't just torture animals (Emu) in their adverts.

hey, @microsoft.com ... do you know why this image matters?

@microsoft.com - Would be nice if these pop-ups for updates on Mac OS did not steal focus from an active window. It's super disruptive.

I see baseload is just a fact. Neither a curse nor an aspiration. But that’s just a quibble. What future tech are you referring to?

Ameripolitan - Saving Country Music Tag archive page for Ameripolitan.

Yesterday, I learned the term "Ameripolitan" for a type of music. Coined by Dale Watson. Rejection of the "country" music that is essentially factory-produced pop with twang, stance for the likes of Cash & Haggard. savingcountrymusic.com/tag/ameripol...

Why carbon capture and storage is not a real climate solution CCS is often pointed to as a climate solution by Big Oil and Gas. Here are the main reasons why it isn't a climate solution.

This page from David Suzuki foundation asserts strongly against the mythology of carbon capture. They cite that it's a ploy by the carbon energy industry. (Suzuki do not agree with my stance on nuclear.) davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can...

Did you mean "Fusion cannot come fast enough"? That seems more consistent with your intent so far.

I refuse to wear "nuclear pants."