That sounds like not my problem. You should write a text editor.

How dare you

Me: I love BBEdit but it seems to have terrible performance when editing large text files.

Also me: *writes a text editor for macOS in one evening*

An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read) What follows is a minor modern horror story.

THREAD.
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Back in Calgary

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

This is already available in SQL Server 2025 with ADR for tempdb.

"According to the Authors Guild’s most recent income survey, which queried 5,699 book authors in 2023, the median book-related income for traditionally published trade authors was between $15,000 and $18,000."

yep. when writers say we do not make very much, believe us.

This earned a “Randolph.” from my spouse.

A sign at the airport reads MEN, indicating the entrance to the buffet.

I found the buffet

I believe in a higher power right now

I can also strongly never recommend A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

Oh my … (I was going to say “god”, but…) that just unlocked a major memory for me.

Wasn’t that the pea soup movie?

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

The coast of Cabo by sunset, from the deck of a cruise ship.

Adios, Los Cabos

Kerry.

Virgin’s repositioning cruise, so lots of sea days. 16 days total, Miami to LA via Panama.

My turning point was when a bleach-blonde lesbian in combat boots checked my privilege in my own house in 2001. I can’t remember her name (Sue?), but I remember how I felt. I even remember where she was standing.

I grew up at a similar time and I can see where I would have turned out just like him and Thiel. It’s very easy to believe the straight white male supremacist ideology. Add in a US capitalist influence. You believe you’re the best, even if you’re mediocre. Now surround yourself with yes men.

If he’d asked anyone with design skills to look it over before scanning the back of the napkin, it could have been amazing. The Lotus roots are evident in the other models. But that would imply an ego that can take criticism.

Gotta love it

View of Cabo from deck of the cruise ship. Very light clouds, beautiful light blue sky, with beaches visible.

What up, Cabo?

Sunset on the Pacific Ocean

For real: zoom in as close as you can and focus on the moon. You’ll probably get a decent shot like I did last night. Definitely bright enough.

The Entertainer YouTube video by LMRMAX

So who’s Richard Smith?

youtu.be/RCGGG9piAGY

He brings Scott Joplin’s genius to a new audience and makes it look effortless. Shades of Chet Atkins.

Anyway, music is cool. Listen to real people playing and singing. Listen how they get better over time, how they challenge themselves. You could do an entire semester on Lindsey Buckingham’s Never Going Back Again, or Richard Smith’s arrangement of The Entertainer.

If you know Prince, you know that he was a guitar prodigy, but watching him play some of the more “ordinary” chords during his infamous Hall of Fame solo, you can see and hear it as he’s walking up the guitar neck. He knew music theory in a way you can only feel it. It’s harmonic *authority*.

Erik doing the Lady’s work with community scripts in our year of Mariah 2026

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