Apropos of absolutely nothing, but I prefer irises.

My sinuses taste bad.

I don’t appreciate the _manner_ in which I was informed (unsolicited app notification), but I’ve just learned that apparently KFC is now offering chicken fried steak on wednesdays? I assume it’s garbage, but I appreciate the effort.

“Orange,” he thought, and stomped off back to his bedroom to get dressed.

Just watched a video of a guy ranking different power tools’ ability to quickly and “stealthily” cut down a metal pole, for no particular reason, none whatsoever. I am enjoying this particular genre. Obviously, the portable band saw won.

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Hell, maybe I don't need to feel bad about how rarely I updated my newsletter, if [niche-famous person I subscribe to] can get away with it.

What kind of cookie is it, if you were to take a chocolate chip cookie, and remove the chocolate chips? That base, what is it called?

First I thought “What kind of algorithm-pilled nonsense is this? That’s not how the fediverse works!” and then I realized the person I was reading was bridged from bsky. Nevermind.

How much worse can my life get? Well, I need to go to Costco. Not today, obviously. Maybe Tuesday?

@tithonium You need a local girlfriend.

[sad lonely noises]

I habitually read mastodon with CWs autoexpanded. Sometimes I think this might be a mistake.

Oof. Just cancelled my 25-year-old Netflix membership.

I am 110% certain that Container Store CS's hold music is intended, by design, to get you to hang up.

Started a new Obsidian note titled 'Woes'. Just bullet points, trying to organize my thoughts about why I'm so miserable. It's already over a screen long.

Oops. Got Wendy's for dinner. Took _big_ shot to cover Frosty. Filled up on food, no room for frosty.

Gotta love the stock market. A company can beat earnings estimates by 7% and their stock price instantly falls 5%. Rational actors my ass.

Just discovered my boss is on vacation all next week. Makes quitting next week slightly inconvenient. I hadn’t actually decided whether I was going to or not, yet. But still, inconvenient.

Missing living in West Seattle.

A new Thomas Crown Affair, you say? With MBJ, you say? Iiinteresting.

RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117003261619855381 Are you doubting we are a fully fascist nation yet?

RE: https://clacks.link/@tithonium/117001030062027282 Upon reflection, it appears I have just confessed to being a parrot.

I will say, having sat thru two days of this, watching people use these tools, I can comprehend the attraction. After spending a day and a half specifying and building a backend service, it also threw together a test UI to integrate with it in a couple of minutes. I can see how that kind of […]

Someone asked a database question, I chimed in with the answer. Someone commented to the effect of “oh, he’s still here, I figured he’d given up on us”. I responded “You don’t want to know what Marty is saying when he’s on mute.”

If you claim to be a software engineer - particularly a senior - and don’t know how to find and kill a process on your local environment, I have Strong Negative Opinions.

Huh. Got up to 71F here, and it’s already down to 64.

My last employer, all meetings were online-first, even when most of us were in the same building. It meant everybody was on a level playing field. When ten people are in a conference room and three are on Zoom, everybody in the room tends to forget their manners and talk in small groups, so all […]

49 minutes in to day two and it’s already got me yelling. I’m muted, I checked.