Chris Gale

The Shire branch of Dunder Mifflin.

There were like five years in my 20's when all my friends were getting married I had a suit but now that I'm in the funeral era I don't bother. I'm being flown up to MA to testify in court next month for my dad's trial and I'm 50/50 whether I'm even going to wear a dress shirt.

I'll bring one of our famous Potomac river perch to the reading!

Only food from home I genuinely miss is a Steak and Cheese from D'angelos and that's just because the worst D'angelos is better than the best sandwich place here in DC (that's not an invitation for people to pipe up with DC places; I've been here for 20 years and I've had every goddamned one.)

I am so pop culture blind I only know who two of the four pictured couples are.

I'm watching a Canadian stream and all the commercials are just for regular Canadian shit and it's great.

It's finally close enough to kickoff that I don't think I can jinx it, but I think it's going to be a Pats blowout just because that's the one scenario everyone has said won't happen; 41-6

"We pulled up all these orphaned connectors and you're never going to believe how many of them are just web scraping."

Had I a single entrepreneurial bone in my body I would start a consultancy to spend the next few years parachuting in to companies and rip out their moribund agentic A.I. projects. Maybe don't even charge them but just film it like those lawn mowing social media guys.

I think even calling it Chess is being charitable; many days I think it's closer to the board game Concentration.

Just giving ICE terrible boring directions until they leave.

I've had a fitted cap in the shopping cart for a week but refused to check out before the game was over. It gets here next week and I'm going to be insufferable in public.

"Heaven or Las Vegas. Even the way it sounds; am I right or am I right. A bunch of low-IQ critics will say Head Over Heels is Cocteau Twins best album but they're disgusting little piggies."

Season 1 of Legion

The definitive pronunciation of Worcester is from this morning's Arabic language lesson:

8 year old me playing Ms. Pacman on the glass table in the front while my parents are on drink number six on the stools in back and CCR's version of Heard it Through the Grapevine starts on the jukebox.

I hope they gather them all in a big VR meeting room and they see each employee's avatar just keel over one by one like someone getting killed in the Matrix

"I'll have a coke"

Every day for the last ten years there's a "you mess with Spiderman you mess with all of us" moment, and instead every day, "It's terrible what he's doing to Spiderman".

Also, Azimov's 4th law should be that if you make a robot humanoid you have to be able to kick it in the balls no matter what.

Robot chiropractor is going to be one of the last remaining human jobs

One step closer to my dream of eating a meal made entirely of items retrieved from Wollaston beach!

At my first grownup job I had to troubleshoot a customer's non-working DSL home internet which was weird because I didn't work in support but it was a VIP named Donald Sutherland and when I called him it was the actual Donald Sutherland and he was super nice and chill on the phone.

I was so excited to queue up the video for the watch-along and absolutely lost it when things started to go off the rails immediately, I have genuinely not laughed that hard out loud in ages.

Whatever the opposite of from your lips to god's ears is.

Like good periods of history are never referred to as "winters"

Though sympathetic to pedants upset about conflating techbro dipshit LLM snake oil with AI as a field, that is why historically the useful AI shit got broken off into its own thing so that "AI" can remain the ephemeral goalpost-moving domain of sci-fi authors. The machine learning people knew this.

I'd say this is going to ruin the memory of the last show I saw there, but it was Louis CK so that memory is thankfully pre-polluted.

"So the carrots and potatoes you're adding to this bath are like a skin treatment? This is like one of those fancy spas."

I'm mostly in the same boat, although I think the movie I've seen the most is Necessary Roughness or Short Circuit.