Mithradates

Some days I think this whole platform needs to log off and touch grass.

If a take as anodyne as “incentives to do good things is good policy” drives you into a frothy rage, it’s not the guy who said it who is being unreasonable.

I just realized I forgot my high school ID number. I used it as my pin and luggage code for years after high school because it was something I thought I’d never forget, but nope.

I know somewhere a forest is burning down, but I am not going back to a world without remote start car A/C. It is 103 blasted degrees out there, my car is a damn oven right now.

Like, what the hell is this app, Pizza Hut?? I go to checkout and it won’t even let me choose a payment method. It’s just a blank box with no inputs. This is some crap app design, and you should feel bad and give me free pizza.

I need Bluesky to attract more corporate accounts. Not because that is healthy for the ecosystem, but because I want to yell at them.

The cowboy walking ahead of me into the building has on heavy boots and a large ring of keys. He is literally making a perfect “boots and pants” techno beat as he walks. I thought for a minute he was listening to music as he passed me.

Reading over the fine print of the revised Chase Sapphire Reserve benefits to try to maximize our holiday spend is practically date night material in this household.

This is what I get for paying for her to get an MBA.

I’m going back to the dark side. But boy, does the dark side pay.

Last* straw. Autocorrect is a cop.

Higher ed in Texas is cooked.

Welp, I did it. I pulled the ripcord on academia and told the dean I was out as full-time faculty.

Not seeing a raise in more than four years while also dealing with 24% inflation was untenable. The increasing disrespect of the admins for clinical faculty was the law straw.

Because being an illiterate guy who only watches TV is what made him successful, and not the inheriting a billion dollars.

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I cannot wait for my child to grow up among a cohort of Conor Sen types. Employers are saying finding strong reading and reasoning skills are like striking gold already. When Little Bit hits the job market in 20 years it’s going to be like hitting the motherlode.

To all the lawyers using ChatGPT on the sly, maybe time to alert your insurance carrier.

Ukraine is this generation’s Vietnam. Gaza is this generation’s Cambodia.

I carry a Swiss Army knife on my keychain. It was a marketing freebie. Basic 2” knife, corkscrew, flathead and Phillips head screwdriver combo.

I’ve looked at fancier knives, but it’s hard to beat the utility of the small form factor and keeping to just things I use regularly.

Pocketknife discourse? Hell yeah, pocketknife discourse!

Am I crazy, or does it seem like cell data is getting worse? For a while, it seemed like we were being promised near-Wi-Fi level speeds in the near future. Now my phone can barely connect in a lot of places.

Sometimes Apple is baffling to me. They are more than a decade in on having a reading app, and yet it does not offer basic organizing tools like nested folders.

And they are only just this fall bringing their journaling app to ipads and macs, where it should have lived all along.

We love hibiscus, generally. @macaronbaker.bsky.social regularly makes sorrel (the ginger and hibiscus drink), but we've never used ground hibiscus before.

An article on Serious Eats talked me into trying a high-end online spice retailer. I had some old jars that needed refreshing anyway, so not a total splurge.

They had a mystery bottle option, and we couldn't help ourselves. Now we've got a bottle of ground hibiscus and no recipes for it. Ideas?

Hello, I'm an attorney in a film. I have a pure and perfect knowledge of every area of practice in every jurisdiction. Nevertheless, I will be corrected by a plucky law school grad who just passed the bar. After some stubborn resistance, I will silently nod and take her under my wing.

The Bluey video game got added to PS+, so I picked it up for Little Bit.

Seeing the Heeler house laid out all together has made me realize that it is easily a 5000 sq ft home. Bandit is doing VERY well for himself as an archeologist.

Mind like a steel trap, but it’s one of those ones used to trap raccoons.

@macaronbaker.bsky.social’s favorite genre of game is “smashing things.” I think mine would be too if I had to deal with the frustrations of being married to me.

The new Donkey Kong game was made for her. She calls it “monkey mama smash” like she’s the Hulk, and declared herself a “punchy monkey.

The summer sweet corn hitting the farmers market 🤩

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” “The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

WOOF, right in the guts

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Finding the source of the mystery fruit fly infestation

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They made the classic mistake of going for the "bulldog" instead of the specialist on their particular problem.