apjanke.bsky.social
I FIGHT FOR THE USERS.
He/him.
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(inb4 "bankers don't day trade" - I know, I know. Just, you know the type.)
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Hell yeah. You're enjoying your Manhattan at the bar, and some banker bro sits down and starts talking your ear off about their day trades and golf scores, *ka-boosh*, outta there.
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Well, we know how it worked out for Drummer and the solar system in the end, right? :)
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Waitaminnit - forget about those badass looking asymmetrical belt loops. Do his pants just... not open all the way to the top?
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Long-form videos about manufacturing process still seem to be a good indicator of quality, and have worked for me. WaterField Designs, Crandall Office Furniture, some Etsy folks. AI deepfakes will probably kill that signal in a couple years, too.
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My thought? Pass. Probably bogus. Chinese bags and lies.
For me, shopping online for clothes, accessories, etc. has become basically useless, if it's not a brand you already know. So much noise and slop, so little signal. I have gone back to mostly only buying this stuff in person.
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Well I'm from south CA too, but I keep my background confidential.
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Omg, is this the “Deep water pelagic fish do not look the same at sea-surface level” thing? Because that is one hell of a blep for a terrestrial animal.
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Gosh dang, this thread was a good use of HDR technology.
(Or maybe it’s just always overcast in Seattle, so the flowers naturally pop like that?)
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TBF, if he were actually *using* that ass to dance, instead of casually stroll down the street, you might have recognized it more readily?
Like, I would absolutely recognize Florence Welch singing. But if I picked up the phone and she was like “hello IT, I forgot my password”, not so much.
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I’m old enough that I grew up on Usenet and the alt.* world.
I ran in to Elf Sternberg’s dick in the men’s room at a sci fi con once.
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Buffett-ass battery, sending you a message. “It’s five o’clock somewhere? It’s five o’clock *here*.”
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Easy to get the expense approved, too. :)
"$40/month per user? Seems a little steep."
"No, $40/month per company."
"Oh. Very well, then."
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Am I gonna get clocked as too Midwestern if I make a joke about "celebratory drinks at CCIE-CCIE's bar & grill tonight!"?
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I also bought a spatter guard, and it was great!
More recently, I admitted that I am old and my eyes ain't what they used to be, and bought some magnifying glasses. A+ purchase.
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Congratulations!
Also I'm loving the glasses/shirt/seatbelt coordination here. Flying like a boss.
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Oh rats. I thought you were about to announce your new pro wrestling gig.
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Oh yeah, forgot about those. I just got the pills because my case was mild.
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This is the best. This is what it looks like when two actual high agency males are pissed off at each other for personal, managerial, and geopolitical reasons, and they work it out.
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Winner.
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+1 to this. Also if you're just tired all the time. A year ago I learned I have anemia. I was like "what? but I like steak and burgers!" And yet. Treatment takes a long time, but it gets better. Get your shit checked.
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I'm impressed my your technical mojo. I can't even figure out how to configure my iPhone to predictably make a sound when a text or phone call comes in.
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+1 on this! I started doing this a few years ago and it really helps with the heat. Get a dozen of them and toss one in every bag and purse and you always have one.
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That chart is pretty cool, and something of a project in itself. :)
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Are you in the mood for some fantasy that's a little more grimdark? Joe Abercrombie's "First Law" trilogy is really good. Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice and sequels are also quite good, and kinda grimdark lite. Or for recent & fun, try This Is How You Lose the Time War.
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Same, but consciously. I refuse to get in a situation where there is no more Discworld for me to read.
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nothing weird or unusual about these police
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Long story short: they did not stay inside the wall.
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Did I tell you about the squirrels inside the wall at my place?
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This looks very much like the desk I had at my 1999 student job at the... well-funded IT department at my school. Better desk situation than I've had at any of my real jobs.
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Ugh, I forgot to put the scare quotes around "rewarded".
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Yeah. Have you rewatched Office Space lately, and it just doesn't hit as hard because you're like "dang, that office setup looks kind of luxurious".
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When Covid hit and WFH became a thing, I actually wrote out a spreadsheet to "rationally" estimate the value of WFH for me. And it came up with... $80,000 per year.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Also, fuck hot desks.
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If you're in to deep geeky background stuff, I recommend Raymond Chen and Steven Sinofsky's blogs, and anything Mark Russinovich does. The "Windows Internals" books gave me a better understanding of all OSes.
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Dang, I love me a "road atlas of the united states" the size of a newspaper.
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Soon as I saw this, this song went off in my head.
"All around the world today, the kilo is the measure!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1K3...
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If it makes you feel any better, in America, 2x4 boards are not actually 2"x4" in size.
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Big +1 for Greyhound. I really liked it. Well made and acted, and unusual in that the entire movie is basically one long fight scene. And it respects how exhausting that must be for everyone involved.
(Except the viewers. It's a "tight 90", and not a minute that drags.)
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Uhhh look what just popped up in my feed. I see a thing that America needs to import.
bsky.app/profile/witt...
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My 1st time in Japan, long ago, we saw this guy driving a tiny lil custom truck, singing a phrase through a loudspeaker. The melody was gentle, spiritual. We asked our translator “What’s he singing?” She said “He’s saying ‘baaaaked potaaatoooo.’ It is baked potato truck.” I think about that a lot.