SeanMike

@beerandashot.wtf

Food, cocktails, cigars, sci-fi, civil rights, UVA, sales engineer

If you require me to subscribe to your mailing list to read articles, and I click on a link from your mailing list to read an article, I shouldn't need to log in again.

Don't campaign signs have a set size they can be? Arnoldi, the libertarian, has an enormous sign near the corner of Pershing and Washington Blvd.

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 2y ago

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

The taxi we took back from Dulles misspelled the name of the company on the receipt. "Washington Flayers" is definitely a more badass name.

I've been mostly on "write only" mode on social media this week, choosing to enjoy my time in Europe and with Nam. On my way home now and think I might extend my time not staring at my phone...

At a good beer bar in Amsterdam. Just listened to a group from the UK unable to decide on what they want or completely understand they only carry Dutch beer here. Then despite the bartender asking them not to, they used AI to order, just to have it make up fake facts about the beers.