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; Oh, no there ain't no rest for the wicked Until we close our eyes for good"
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Gonna watch this Colombian remake? copy? of Breaking Bad on the plane to brush up on my Spanish, which is kinda useless because I'll be in Catalonia. Viva Walter Blanco! www.imdb.com/title/tt3190...

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I'm flying to Barcelona and looking for podcast recommendations. Looking for sciency stuff to listen to.

Channeling alternate Ricky Bobby: Just because you're first, doesn't mean you'll last.

The algorithm knows all and is everywhere. This ad was served to me on Instagram where I mostly post food pics and watch chihuahua videos. I never post about work.

FitBit data on sleepless nights. The first three months of data were collected during the ramp-up period at AWS. The following period was spent working at AWS, then 14 months of job hunting, and the last three months were spent at my new job.

Me: Damn, I haven't seen my favorite 12 gauge bird shot shells at that price since before the pandemic. I should buy them. Also me: You haven't shot a 3-gun match in over 5 years. Everyone hates shotgun loading, and there are no local matches. Me: What if... Also me: NO.

back on my bullshit

My boss was retiring and he was a train buff. On a business trip, I stopped by the Whistle Stop store in Pasadena to buy a retirement gift. I stood there not knowing what to buy, when Gary Coleman walked in with friends. He struck up a conversation and gave me several suggestions. Nice guy.

The human brain uses only 12 watts of power. How to reach AGI and reduce power consumption

Apple containers are two words that I did not expect to be paired together. Nor did I expect the excitement around them.

Gonna make a game: autistic or German?

TIL: csv.DictReader terminates wildcards, like asterisks, in a space delimited csv, resulting in *" and breaking the script.

Sword carry in Texas is legal www.sacurrent.com/news/en-gard...

Love how AI is the new Emmanuel Goldstein and not the companies forcing it into every nook and cranny of our lives.

Ukraine just demonstrated the weakness of Golden Dome.

This 1970 240Z is so period correct it makes my heart skip a beat. bringatrailer.com/listing/1970...

Watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos and 3-2-1 Contact on PBS inspired me to have a career in science and engineering.

Went house hunting and found a neighborhood full of free roaming peacocks

Why do people not know how anything works anymore? I learned about this when I was 8 or 9 from a book I got at a Scholastic book fair in the basement of my elementary school.

the horror, the horror

Nothing like mucking around with git to humble you.

It's Friday afternoon, and I'm working on documentation, but I stopped to sing Lucinda Williams' "Are You All Right?" to my pup. youtu.be/CVMLDV9GdiM

I know how to dress but I hate to shop.

Why aren't parents naming their children 3.14159265359 or 2.71828 or 6.626 × 10-34 or 5.67x10^-8 ?

@fitbit.bsky.social updates always feel sketchy and have a 50/50 chance of bricking your device.

I hate @gitlab.com They make it impossible to recover your account if you lose your passkey. JFC, @github.com lets you use SMS for 2FA if you lose your passkey. Do better @gitlab.com

It is hot AF in Texas in the summer. I like to watch Nordic Noir shows with lots of shots of snowy vistas and fjords. Started watching Woman of the Dead on Netflix, and holy fuck the main character is unhinged.

I made a sandwich and the tax collectors showed up immediately

TIL: Filipino is standardized Tagalog. Note that over 180 languages/dialects are spoken in the Philippines.