My brain hurts! YouTube video by Things I Want to Say Sometimes

Friday feeling: “My brain hurts!”
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Been a month since I had to do a double header day in the (virtual) classroom. That’s a tough day in normal times but harder while in recovery. Made it through and… on we go.

<RANT> Sigh, sometimes I think students just think we don't read their submissions with the way they cut-and-paste from ChatGPT or Claude. They just don't realize how boilerplate that writing is, whether it's prose or code. </RANT>

What I find disturbing about the email issues on the Orion capsule? Apparently you can be an astronaut going to the moon and your boss still expects you to check your messages.

One of things I was told to do to speed up my recovery was to regularly walk for at least 15 minutes each day. After a month, as the path I’ve worn into back yard attests, I am now up nearly 0.5 miles every day.

From the cool but mildly creepy department: the security camera I have focused on my driveway caught this picture of a bumblebee flying in front of the camera.

OK, so don't do a workplace climate survey when you're torqued-off about something workplace related. Punted out of the survey before hitting commit when I realized just how much of a contrarian curmudgeon I was being.

Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI 2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…

Very interesting thoughts and opinions from one of the leading lights in the C++ community. herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/s...

A fair question: Why didn’t they call suspenders “comeuppants”?

Interesting cinema trivia: the actor who did the voice of Jane Jetson was the same person who portrayed Blondie Bumstead in the Dagwood films in the 1940s.

The worst part of it all? Again we see a bunch of politicians in power putting people in harm’s way without being able to answer the question “And now what do we do?”.

Thankful this day for family, fraternity, classmates, colleagues, and students current and former.

One of those days. Sigh. Spent 30 minutes, recording a lecture and realized that I forgot to turn microphone on. Sigh++.

Grading, which means I am having to serious restrain myself from engaging in the sin of sarcasm.

Cultural observation about Huntsville: visiting Trader Joe’s today proves nerds and geeks should not try to grow hipster beards.

The first seriously Spring-like day of the year means one leaves work early for chill time on the back porch.

The problem with applying occult practices to business is that I keep trying to manifest success but just end up summoning a nap instead.

Interesting neurological condition: a man seems to loose all ability to do arithmetic. Says 9+9=12. Then 8+8=10. Then he's asked what's 6*5. He answers 1E. Then it becomes very clear that someone put a hex on him.

Today’s lesson for educators: believe in karma and let it all work out.

We have this day rendered onto Caesar that which Caesar's minions believe to be his due.

Another day of having to serve as a Deacon of the Church of the Painful Truth.

It is my contention that I am now of an age where I can, without a smidge of irony or shame, wear socks with my sandals.

I decided that I'm going to start confusing the Generative AI systems by entering one or more nonsensical prompts every day.

The Computing Corollary to Murphy's Sock Theorem: You will find every possible charging cable in existence except for the one you urgently need.

One of the fascinating things about social media is seeing a mention of someone whom you’ve not thought about in ages. And then asking yourself why you haven’t thought about them.

Terrible just how totally uninterested I have been in the sport of football this season.

How about that… it started snowing the moment I put the plate of French toast at the table.

Well... got the opportunity today to break out the "I hate <IT_system_X> with the combined heat of every star within the Milky Way galaxy" status update. SMH.

I hate having to use personal cell phones for work related security stuff.

I am really starting to think this timeline is effectively the plot of a Kurt Vonnegut novel in one of the relatively near-by timelines in the multiverse.