I got a refurbished iPod a few months ago and am loving returning to offline listening

I was out at dinner last month and an economist at the next table claimed that economics used to “hold a monopoly on causal inference.” This almost caused me to stab her with a chopstick

I was initially intrigued that Dodge was reintroducing the Hornet! And then it turned out to be a very mid crossover… I’d drive the hell out of an electric Hollywood Hardtop

A tip that came from @faineg.bsky.social originally: fried jalapeños (think like fried onion topping, but better; probably in the condiment aisle). They’ve improved my meals in a mixed-spice-tolerance household immensely!

I’m really excited to read it!

P.S., RADNAR

A massive tome “Dark Science” sitting atop an equally massive copy of “The Tomorrow Girl”

It has arrived and nicely complements my newly retconned copy of The Tomorrow Girl!

tom clancy plot with elmore leonard characters

I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, chicken, and vegetable.
Someday, I hope I’ll be a bouillonaire.

Anyway. I have long argued that Eminem is Mario and Kid Rock is Wario (septic and libertarian), but by the same token Macklemore is Eminem's Luigi - the diminished, more dreamy, more cowardly, but more human version.

The Waluigi is Machine Gun Kelly

Every time I get a new computer I copy the link over from my bookmarks. Keep circulating the tapes!

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Well before these memes, I remember the existence of the “Mr. T Ate My Balls” web-ring, back in the day when both web-rings and “X ate my balls” jokes were considered cutting edge

Yeah, there’s a weird line between rough and sloppy that I’m sure there is a thesis on somewhere…

There are a variety of “wireframing” tools for UX research that allow you to mock up unpolished but interactive interfaces. Balsamiq is one example I’ve used a couple of times

With 60" of snow Boston is 24" ahead of normal for this time of year, 10" ahead of the seasonal average … and 40" behind where we were in 2015.

@universalhub.com @weatherishappening.com

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

I was so into that comic that I forced a bunch of puzzle hunters to use it for clues a few years back: puzzles.mit.edu/2015/puzzle/...

All breaking news is learned by seeing an out of context post at the top of the page and trying to make sense of it when you can only focus with one eye and can't decide whether you need to piss badly enough to have to get up yet.

I had a door-to-door home remodeling guy black out his ”build rapport” bingo card so quickly I was paranoid for days that it was the setup for a robbery

named my fists Strunk and White because they help me omit needless words

Hard same. If I actually wanted to watch video, I’d something more visually exciting than two people reading scripts into microphones!

Pantsuit girl boss ad exec, Work from home apparatchik,
Skittle haired, Soy faced, Abolitionist
Nasally voiced, Soros funded, Adderall dog mom consultants
Obese, Hipster trust fund socialist
We didn't start the fire

There was some regulatory stuff where we had to get our text messaging marketing campaign approved as if we were going to send out mass communications rather than directed individual messages. Took most of a week and not intuitive, but no problems once approved

Setting up texting on Grasshopper was a PITA, but works well once it's up and running. Not tried it in a shared setup, though

I really enjoy I Love Hue and, especially, I Love Hue Too. Color-based tile puzzles, no timers, no loot boxes, no tricky logic, just arranging color gradients. It's my go-to when I need to wind down and not get stuck in a just-one-more-round loop.

Literally every job I have held post-high-school has, at some point, had me crawling around the floor and/or up in the ceiling running ethernet cable. And only one of those even counts as an IT gig!

Just successfully got my COVID shot from a CVS in MA. Same-day appointment and, happily, there was a line!

I especially hate it when I’m trying to read a scientific paper, the details really matter and _there’s already a summary at the top_

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It looks like Wegmans might be offering them: www.wegmans.com/pharmacy/imm...

I generally have good luck getting a human on the phone quickly when I call, so worth checking (and they’re just generally way less overwhelmed than CVS)

We have an old player piano and we’re going through songs from the 1920s. We got to Carolina in the Morning and I just knew the chorus cold, 100% thanks to Daffy Duck