Wes George

A pine tree laying on and completely blocking the road, lit by headlights and the moon

Majority of the pine tree cut away, some debris remaining on the road

Last night, the wind took out a rather large pine tree shortly before I got to this section of road. There were ~8 people w/3 chainsaws, a leaf blower all working to get this cleared, had it passable in 15 min. Not sure if it was neighbors or a tree service, but impressive either way.

Was at the drugstore and noticed they make Tylenol PM now.

I hear it’s popular, but I don’t understand why anyone would buy this.

I want my headache fixed NOW, not in 3 quarters when it can get me on the roadmap.

Y'all, I know two hours is a big time commitment, but this panel I arranged and hosted last month is one of the most important things I've ever done for video game history. The launch of the NES is a crazier story than most people realize, and my guests were extremely generous with their memories.

Just got an ad for some random VPN provider. "Don't let anyone spy on you"

... except us, and whomever we sell your data to.

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

Similarly, I am disappointed in the lack of "Winsome Losesome" headlines about the VA gov race.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I didn't want to jinx it before but now that AP has called it, I expect there to be a number of "Winsome Losesome" headlines in the VA governor race.

Also, I'm not sure why they thought this was better than calling them mushroom root steaks. More appetizing than Fungus Steak maybe but still very "we grew this in a lab and we're *pretty* sure it's not sentient, but it definitely doesn't come from people"

A yellow box of Meati frozen Mycelium Steaks, southwestern style!

meati, the official food product sponsor for Star Trek Discovery. Also be sure to try our Fun Shapes cellular peptide cake!

The time zone part is there so they can get the correct offset from the UTC they're getting from either GPS or the cellular network, they just didn't install the tzdata package (or its equivalent on the off chance that the RTOS they're using isn't ultimately Linux under the hood)

While I'm ranting about time change, you don't notice how good your brain is at unconsciously knowing the approximate time based on daylight & routine, even accounting for the seasonal difference in hours of sunlight, until The Switch basically makes that internal clock flash 12:00 for several weeks

Only a minority of my clocks have to be manually changed 2x a year now. It annoys me more than it should that one of them is my 2 year old, GPS and Internet connected electric car, which sets the time automatically but still requires a manual ticky box to toggle DST

A pumpkin carved with the face of the animated character Brak

BRAK O LANTERN

A jack o lantern with a black cat on top of it, with glowing eyes, sitting on a concrete step with some dried leaves

A cloudy sky with the clouds backlit by the half moon

A plastic alien head containing candy, and a plastic truck with a skeleton driving, that says Boo on the door, with 3 stacked jack o lanterns in the truck bed

A beer glass with a very dark beer, next to a beer can of New Realm Doomsday Hound Russian imperial stout. A dog with glowing red eyes on the can.

Happy Halloween!

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

Oh man, I totally forgot to post about this when they presented it as an option last time i was ordering (for my kid). Simultaneously cool that Zenni is doing this and seriously dytopian panopticon shit that this is a real thing that normal glasses-havers would be willing to pay for.

And to be clear, I'm not complaining about people posting about something I don't follow/understand, simply being amused by it.

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow”
“Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”

I don’t even follow baseball I’m just a huge fan of absurdity

This is what computery discussions sound like to non computer people. In other words, "I know what those letters mean individually, but not when assembled in that particular order."

Context: I had to build a home assistant automation because the car repeatedly failed to start charging on the schedule I set to take advantage of my off peak rates. Said automation checks that the car is plugged in before starting charge. I really don't understand how Hyundai is so bad at this.

Me: *plugs in car*
Car: "charging scheduled"
11pm, Car: ...
1140pm, Home Assistant failsafe scheduled charging automation runs
Hyundai app: remote charge start request failed, vehicle not plugged in.
1240pm, HA automation fires again
Hyundai app: your vehicle is now charging. 🙃

Japan's sushi legend in 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' documentary turns 100 | AP News Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so.

Chef Jiro, of "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" fame, just turned 100! apnews.com/article/japa...

Kid: no literally bc why are they so f'ing difficult to plug in? Me: For every one time that I have plugged it in correctly on the first try, there have been 5 more where I plugged it in wrong, turned it, plugged it in wrong, turned it and plugged it in correctly, which shouldn't. even. be. possible.

Kid: That's what I'm saying. It's like they literally transform in the middle of the flip just to f with you. Me: I mean, computers are sand that we tricked into thinking by electrocuting it, so we should expect some minor cursed behavior as a side effect

Kid: that is the worst way someone has ever described computers to me and it made it sound much more cursed. I need you to know that.

I sent my Matrix fan kid this Reel (the feeling when you plug in USB on the first try = am I The One?!) and it resulted in this conversation that amused me greatly. (screenshots). www.instagram.com/reel/DNLu3BT...

...I'd like to state for the record that this is 100% *not* AI. There's no fucking vibe coding here. We personally hand-hammered every line of this code into submission. This is artisanally crafted code. I'd say it was made with love, but we all know programmers survive on caffeine and spite."

Had a dream that @archangelzeriel.bsky.social was demonstrating a new virtual environment, and it included the following quote (which is mostly in the next message because bsky is too short): "Impressive right? ...

[S] Hoo doggie, the future Department of Unfucking Things sure has its work cut out for it.