Sent my favourite kind of email: "Can you make this decision by email, or do I have to force you into a meeting? Because I'm totally happy to force you into a meeting, and you hate meetings". Usually gets results.
I work from home at a computer, and I think the single biggest improvement I've made in the past few years was getting a sit/stand desk. Standing for meetings (several meetings a day) has really improved my health.
a computer can never be held accountable therefore *all management decisions must be made with computers*
leaked software industry training manual (2026)
That was for all us Gen Xers, like him. Loved it.
The damaging events are on the right hand side of the graph. The right hand side of the graph is where we live now.
Here is a version for local use of the amount of officially declared States of Emergency for climate related reasons
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
I did indeed assume that solar would be protection from power cuts. Thank you. I guess now I do have to factor in a battery.
Ooh and also before you leave, check Waze or your route app of choice, to work out whether it'll be faster to go SH1 over the bridge or to hang a right over to the North Western. It'll depend on crashes on the day.
It’ll definitely be faster (and a lest frustrating drive) the longer you leave it before you depart Albany.
Keeping our injured cat inside until his stitches come out is proving quite a trial. Having all the doors and windows shut is making me feel claustrophobic, even with the heat pump on its fullest ventilation power. How do inside-cat people do it?
And (without reading the article, just guessing) having one adult or near-adult whose full time job is doing all the farming and food-gardening labour required.
Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art
Hmm. Waze reckons an hour at that time of day. Rush hour will be easing off by 5:30 in that direction. Add maybe 30 minutes if it’s raining hard and to account for a crash.
Caveat I’ve had it take over three hours for that route but that was a rainy Friday.
one milkshake to bring them all and in the yardness bind them
Chat aux chats, certainement?
Several score strawberries, precisely three bok choys, and as much mint, sage and oregano as you care to eat, that's all my garden is good for. There's a reason we don't try to feed ourselves on a fifth of an acre with no topsoil, folks.
New cat has moved in a few doors down. The balanced cat territorial peace agreements laboriously maintained by the neighbourhood cats is in fragments. One of our cats has sustained a $1k injury (ie a small scratch requiring three stitches). The neighbourhood is now at war.
We have four kids tonight rather than the usual two, and I think we will have a ridiculous amount of Indian food too.
When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"
I have been SO productive today with Bluesky down. That all goes in the trash now, of course.
I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
An employee at the eye doctor said his day was greatly improved because he overheard me say that there's a subreddit just for cats with airplane ears, so just in case you don't know: there's a subreddit just for cats with airplane ears. www.reddit.com/r/airplaneea...
Five books splayed out on a wooden table. They are small, spiral bound, plastic coated, old. The visible titles are “Butterflies and Moths” and “Common insects”.
These, right?
Accounting for small businesses. It's actually decent but increasingly AI-ified and overpriced. (I use it for my business). It had very little competition when it first started so it went huge. Also it employed lots of IT folks in Auckland, for quite a while, but less so now.
OMG I cackled out loud and then had to tell my kids I was laughing at something else.
Ain't nothing stabler than a line along the zero level....
Or maybe "Fuel stores have stopped dropping".
The tricky thing is, that very few organisations have the ability to stockpile fuel in any significant way. So we're much more dependent on government - we can't build our own resilience. And it very much looks like the government isn't going to impose any restrictions until it's a crisis.
They AI-ified it. I’m a Xero user and I swear I have to bat the AI thingy away from my data almost every time I log in. FFS, financial software should be deterministic!
Oh same! (Same generation probably). Because our parents believed that we’d be exposed anyway, and it was safer to have it as a child than as an adult (which may well be true). I’m so glad there’s a vaccine for it now.
I got both my kids vaxed for chickenpox (had to pay for Kid 1, but it was free on the schedule by the time Kid 2 rocked up). But the vax hasn’t been around all that long, so there are lots of people who haven’t had it and did get chickenpox.