littletomcat.bsky.social
A retired computer geek who stumbled on this wonderful, terrible, sad, happy place in '81 and settled here with my wonderful, Newfoundland wife.
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They're worried about what #TimbitTrump would say.
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Absolutely, especially when sales droids pitch to managers with little or very dated tech knowledge, as in "AI! WHOO-HOO!" To quote Cory Doctorow (yet again),
"AI CAN’T do your job, but an AI salesman CAN convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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The difference between the entrepreneurial and bureaucratic mind: When presented with a new idea, the former says, "Yes! Interesting. Let's see what we need to do to make it go!", while the latter says, "NO!! Because something, something, something."
I've met both in academia and in Fortune 500.
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Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark and hurt in the morning.
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"A gap is developing between what Health P.E.I. says and what the Medical Society of P.E.I. insists is the case ..."
"The draft guide clearly states that the targets were minimum standards."
Hmmmmm. Whom to believe? That's a tough one. 🤔😷
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Um, no.
On the upside, days are getting shorter. (I'll show myself out now, if that's ok. 😄😷)
It won't be too very much longer until my wife and I are standing at our seniors apartment living room window with a cuppa and watching the maintenance crew plowing the parking lot. Not that we have a car.
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Meanwhile, in NL...
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Dieppe is also where parcels ordered online from the mainland and destined for Newfoundland go to die. Here, it's called the Black Hole of Dieppe. 😄😷
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~43 years!!! ago, while I was working in Japan, New England fishers regulary were flying sea urchins to Tokyo's Narita airport and Tsukijii fish market in 55 gallon drums _ layers of saw dust and urchins _ from Boston's Logan airport. Well, better late than never, I s'pose.
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It was soothing to learn that Jack's is still a kids game. Try stepping on one of those critters.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle...
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It was only once or twice, but I turned on the light in the bathroom to shave, glanced in the mirror, and yelled, "DAD! I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE DEAD!"
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In my next life, I want to come back as a mushroom.
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I like sudoku.
🤷♂️
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Dang! The first one that came to mind was ...
That's how old **I** am. Whadyja get me fer me birt'day?
youtu.be/NIDX18Xl16s?...
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It knows where you sleep.
MMMWWWAHHHHA-HA-HA-HA.
Sleep well.
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Ohhhhh, child. Sit down, strap in and hold on: You ain't seen nuddin' yet. Oh! And get yourself one or two 55 gallon drums of A535, preferably the ultra strength. Good luck, kiddo!
ruba535.ca
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Oh, that's right! And by Sunday, the days will be getting shorter! Yay!
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Spot.
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In an ideal world, people who talked like that could be flogged. OK, just to tamp down the violent image a bit, they could be flogged with pool noodles, but done right those can really sting.
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Don't forget AI enabled toothbrushes! I kid you not; Google "AI toothbrush".
Why, my toothbrush has more computing power than the computers that directed the Apollo moon landings!
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
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Wellll...., she **did** do her own research, y'know, and it was confirmed by her cousin's sister-in-law's hairdresser's boyfriend, don'tcha know.