I’m a Pringles fan. I know, they’re extruded product rather than slices of what were once potatoes, but I just like ‘em. They’re dependable, and that’s a big plus in a comfort food.

Re-reading The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley. I love how, when Aerin tries to work out the recipe for Kenet, she sciences it: writes out all her ingredients, and the relative proportions she tries.

I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

Lovely.

My mom (in her eighties) still has one of the dresses like that which her grandmother made her when she a little girl. She’d be told to make sure her dad used two feed bags with the same pattern so there would be enough fabric.

Huh. We’ve never had Tornado Test Siren day coincide with Election Day before. I hope that’s a good omen: “If this had been an actual facism event, you would have been instructed to stay in the lowest windowless room available…”

I swear vengeance upon the next Guppy who says, “Thank you so much, it’s perfect!” followed five minutes later by “could you fix X?” Extra points off for pretending the “It’s perfect!” never happened.

Reasons I love my home state: they message me to let me know my mail-in ballot is on its way, then to remind me to vote, then that they’ve received it, then that they’ve counted it. This is the kind of spam I like.

Most definitely you need another font.

It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift.

He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.

Nine! How did she get nine? (with nine years, of course)

Bernard Hill, Lord of the Rings' Théoden King, Has Died The beloved British actor, also know for his appearance in Titanic, was 79.

He goes now to his fathers, in whose mighty company he shall not be ashamed.

In the first panel a Jesus robed in flame says “nice hell you’ve got here. Shame if someone” In the second panel Jesus says “HARROWED IT,” and the background image is the icon of the resurrection.

I unabashedly love this Holy Saturday meme.

TFW your colleague forwards your email explanation to business leaders… after reformatting it, changing the punctuation and sentence breaks, and in the process making it half nonsense.

Not my circus. Not my monkeys. La-la-la-la….

I really like the acknowledgement email from my county saying they got my mail-in ballot and counted it. Mission accomplished.

Lois McMaster Bujold almost gave Miles Vorkosigan a sister named Nile. The plot worked out differently, but yeah. That would have been an audiobook headache.

Cats seems to me to be a collection of amusing poetry in search of a plot.

This is EXTRAORDINARY. I fucking love science.

Dear Guppies,

If you request a new report, and you expect it to tie out with an existing report, YOU BETTER F’ING TELL ME THAT at the outset. Don’t wait until I’ve done all the development, then say, “But I thought Report B would be a breakout of Report A”.

Seriously. Don’t do it.

Staggered. Because books, for all their stackability, will not be constrained in orderly lines. Books break free. Books spill their ideas in delightful abandon.

I have literally said the same thing: “Murderbot is my Sanctuary Moon”.
I’m careful not to wear the series out with rereads. But other than that, yeah. I reread it a lot.

Woman in her twenties and thirties: carefully bookends refusals or criticism with "I'm awfully sorry but" and "I hope that's OK!"
Woman in her forties: inserts softeners out of that habit, consciously starts removing them.
Woman turns fifty: YOU WILL FEAR MY EMAIL AS YOU FEAR DEATH ITSELF.

I love Shindig. I love Kaylie’s dress; the way she delights in it is so sweet. I love the way Inara dances around Atherton Wing’s proposition. I just plain love Firefly.

Noma Dumezweni Joins Alexander Skarsgård In Apple Sci-Fi Series ‘Murderbot’ Noma Dumezwani (The Little Mermaid) is set as a lead opposite Alexander Skarsgård, in Apple TV+'s sci-fi drama series Murderbot.

Dr. Mensah: deadline.com/2024/03/noma...

TFW you’re about to go back to the house to find out what the missed call from your spouse was about when you remember that he was calling you to help you locate the phone you’d set down and couldn’t find. #MysterySolved #BrainFart

Oh, that’s awesome! Kudos to your wife.

The irony that this bit of code finally met the conditions for Divide By Zero on Leap Day are not lost on me.🤨

Me: “So, Developer Guppy, I see that your code performs a divide operation at this point. Is there any chance that could ever result in Divide By Zero? “

DG: “No chance.”

Me: “You’re lying. Add a trap for Divide By Zero”.