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Giving myself phantom of the Opera or captain nemo vibes these days.

Slacks threaded conversations are a disaster is retrospect. Discords replies are better. A more natural UI would be more fluid topics and allow a reply-chain to get promoted into a group-chat. One level of reply plus promote could be infinite and self organizing. No need for preordained channels.

Found the single character typo in the 10 table join SQL query. Please clap.

You might be the last of the weirdos.
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Off-Duty Pilot On Mushrooms Dodges Jail Time After Trying To Shut Off Engines During Flight Considering that he was initially charged with 83 counts of attempted murder and 83 counts of reckless endangerment, the outcome could have been far worse.

Mushrooms and flying don't mix. Sleeping every few days helps too.
Off-Duty Pilot On Mushrooms Dodges Jail Time After Trying To Shut Off Engines During Flight
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I'm not offended that you're offended.

Just got ding'd $99 for a discord subscription I didn't remember signing up for so many years ago. 2026 will def be the year of canceling all subscriptions. I should have used a one-time CC number.

My feed is full of folks surprised when the sun goes down earlier in the winter. Did y'all just move from Hawaii?

It's Thursday. Time to check my work emails for the week. I have six.

Anyone got any good Nog stories? I'm trying to put together a to ten list.

Apple upgrade Xmas for the fam. New USB-C iPads. Watches. Headphones.

Apple upgrade Xmas for the fam. New USB-C iPads. Watches. Headphones.

New SSMS had GitHub copilot integrated.

The population at valley forge spoke many languages. We are a nation of immigrants.

Calling America the "homeland" doesn't make any sense. Been watching Ken Burns American Revolution and you should too.

Setting up the shop computer with five year old eBay finds. Looks like a movie prop, works great in hazardous environments, tons of ports. Total cost around $420.

Life choices:
Check the box and silently get work done, or...
Don't check the box and start my career as a windows-sucks-for-dev social media influencer?

I want to learn a song on guitar for my daughters wedding. I'll start with basic music theory.

TIL I have a "bizarre laundry fetish" because I use the hotel laundry on vacation. Normal people pack enough clothes to make it thru the whole trip.

Air travel for the holidays. What's withy everyone wearing pajamas? Ok, so now you have landed in Hawaii and it's a furry convention?

These new events feel right

Scouts ‘surprised and deeply saddened’ by Hegseth’s proposal to cut ties Scouting America responded on Tuesday to a reported memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking to cut ties with the organization, saying it was “surprised and disappointed” by the potential policy change, as the military has given its support to the Scouts since 1937. “The Scouting movement has had a strong relationship with our nation’s…

Pete is trying to put the Boy back in Scouting. You can't make this stuff up.
Scouts ‘surprised and deeply saddened’ by Hegseth’s proposal to cut ties
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Without communicating with me, Wells Fargo sold my mortgage to a company called "Mr. Cooper". The notification letter from cooper looked like a scam so I tossed it in the bin. Now I'm behind on my mortgage.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/rfk-jr-public-health-science/684948/?gift=GqEEIJ7zCQV259KUcdImN5F0s2z_HchguvngRoXCAnc

It hits differently when you realize that the war on science is coming directly from Seven Mountains NAR Dominion cultists using MAGA to fight deamons. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Turned off disney, hulu, and netflix

It's about that time of year I turn off all my subscriptions.

I liked it better when the CDC lead the world health science.

My meeting recorder charges separately from my phone but is connected. Like an symbiotic attachment. But not a parasite.

My favorite decemberists song is "girlfriend in a coma"