I am 10000% sure my mom envisioned her retirement filled with moments of me explaining who Master P is in excessive detail.
When we went through this morning from 250W to 240 (fka a left turn) I was pretty sure the car coming from Cville on 250E wasn't going to stop for me, already in the circle, but he did screech to a halt at the last moment!
Not sure there are enough cones at the new roundabout. I could see some of the painted road lines.
I'm just putting this out in the world:
If the lady who has been feeding Ugo were to do a pop-up restaurant type thing in CVille, I would be alllllllll over that. Take our money before you go off to your undoubtedly fabulous business career.
Welp, the snow has almost all melted, except for a bit on the windshields.
At least once a week, my mom clicks on something in facebook (like an X to close a fake pop-up window that is just a hyperlinked image in a post that the Facebook algorithm presents to her), and a weak-ass spammy ad website designed to invoke fear pops up in full-screen mode.
Snow is just sticking to cars, bushes, and some grass here in Crozet. Driveway is just wet.
Excuse me, I did not order snow. Please take this back to the kitchen and bring me something more pleasing.
Nothing about this is surprising: the dumb decision, the lack of corporate foresight, the lack of ethical thought, that they did this in such a sue-able way, that they didn't understand that their initial fix would make people madder, & a lack of understanding what they did wrong. All predictable.
Another commercial promoting AI that might have been made by AI. It's hard to imagine a human saying "Yes, let's have these runners - who need support from AI to keep going - run down a steep street partially covered in ice, but have them running on the ice, not on the cleared pavement parts."
I can't help but notice that the dude's ACC tournament design is a) once again better than the women's tournament design package, and b) Duke Blue.
This is bad if you care about real useful data that can actually improve a user experience and solve actual problems, and thus have products that help, not hinder.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
If I hadn’t seen it yesterday, I wouldn’t have spotted the brush fire residue this morning as I drove by
If I were a local reporter, I'd drive up 64 to Afton, get off, & go down to Rte 6, get out of my car in that large gravelled area, and do some on-the-scene reporting, but you do you & keep showing us the Highway Camera view.
There are press releases that need to be turned into stories, after all!
Tried to use new camera app on my phone to take a picture. Despite the so-called simplied UI, it would not take a picture. It did change the click icon, though.
Thus, the internet is bereft of the ridiculously great shamrock soda I got. Also, no picture of the many smoke plumes and roadside fire.
When we drove up 250 at 11:10 we spotted multiple fire smoke plumes on the mountain. Just before Lang's, there was fire crackling on the side of the road. A fire truck was parked about 50 feet up the road. (We also spotted fire trucks at the old motel - owned by the same folks as the cracklin' lot)
And here I thought the Water Street garage had reached peak creepiness already, but I underestimated the inherent creepiness in AI. I can’t wait for it to catalog the way dudes linger and follow single women in that garage as normal, maybe aspirational, behavior
If I were to put up a sign designed to look like an official prohibition, I’d have the courtesy to not block another official road sign by placing it 3 feet in front of said road sign. Makes me a little less sympathetic to your cause.
It boggles the mind they didn't test the glass surface for playability, too. Honestly, I'm kinda surprised the Big 12 got hoist by this petard, not the ACC.
This is your annual complaint about the design of the ACC Women's general graphic design (court, logo, artifacts). It's not the worst they've ever rolled out, but it does hit that sweet spot between boring and ick. This is still not the 1980s.
(Props to Coach McGraw's necklace yesterday, tho!)
Even the FedEx guy who throws packages into the garden in front of the <--Deliveries sign drives me less nuts.
IF I saw a sign that said "<-- Deliveries", I wouldn't consistently go --> of that sign & leave the package at a side door that doesn't look like it's been opened ever, & then when I left by driving my vehicle "<--" around the loop by the EASY PLACES to leave a package, I'd remember it next time.
Big fat flakes from Waynesboro to Crozet - sticking a little at the top of the mountain
And don't get me started on mops! I bought her an O-Cedar spray mop. Took me a day (not in instructions) to figure out that the sprayer has a screw tightly screwed in & the only screwdriver that fits is an eyeglasses screwdriver which is not wide enough to turn the screw & make it able to spray.
As my mother's technology czar, I have done a lot of shopping for things to make her life easier, and I am constantly frustrated at the lack of insight and bad assumptions these manufacturers make. We have the technology to give me what she wants, but they keep missing.
I really really really hate my congressjerk.
This bag of mixed beans is 65% carrots.
This aggression shall not stand, man.
Accurate.
and they are so nice, too! delicious+nice is a delightful combo.
