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Re-reading The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley. I love how, when Aerin tries to work out the recipe for Kenet, she sciences it: writes out all her ingredients, and the relative proportions she tries.

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I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.

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Huh. We’ve never had Tornado Test Siren day coincide with Election Day before. I hope that’s a good omen: “If this had been an actual facism event, you would have been instructed to stay in the lowest windowless room available…”

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I swear vengeance upon the next Guppy who says, “Thank you so much, it’s perfect!” followed five minutes later by “could you fix X?” Extra points off for pretending the “It’s perfect!” never happened.

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Reasons I love my home state: they message me to let me know my mail-in ballot is on its way, then to remind me to vote, then that they’ve received it, then that they’ve counted it. This is the kind of spam I like.

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It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift. He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.

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He goes now to his fathers, in whose mighty company he shall not be ashamed.

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I unabashedly love this Holy Saturday meme.

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TFW your colleague forwards your email explanation to business leaders… after reformatting it, changing the punctuation and sentence breaks, and in the process making it half nonsense. Not my circus. Not my monkeys. La-la-la-la….

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I really like the acknowledgement email from my county saying they got my mail-in ballot and counted it. Mission accomplished.

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This is EXTRAORDINARY. I fucking love science.

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Dear Guppies, If you request a new report, and you expect it to tie out with an existing report, YOU BETTER F’ING TELL ME THAT at the outset. Don’t wait until I’ve done all the development, then say, “But I thought Report B would be a breakout of Report A”. Seriously. Don’t do it.

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Woman in her twenties and thirties: carefully bookends refusals or criticism with "I'm awfully sorry but" and "I hope that's OK!" Woman in her forties: inserts softeners out of that habit, consciously starts removing them. Woman turns fifty: YOU WILL FEAR MY EMAIL AS YOU FEAR DEATH ITSELF.

submitted 358 days ago • 41 comments

I love Shindig. I love Kaylie’s dress; the way she delights in it is so sweet. I love the way Inara dances around Atherton Wing’s proposition. I just plain love Firefly.

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Dr. Mensah: deadline.com/2024/03/noma...

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TFW you’re about to go back to the house to find out what the missed call from your spouse was about when you remember that he was calling you to help you locate the phone you’d set down and couldn’t find. #MysterySolved #BrainFart

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Me: “So, Developer Guppy, I see that your code performs a divide operation at this point. Is there any chance that could ever result in Divide By Zero? “ DG: “No chance.” Me: “You’re lying. Add a trap for Divide By Zero”.

submitted 364 days ago • 2 comments

Ah, it’s time to play the “is this colleague just elaborately polite by nature? Or does he know my name from someone whom I’ve snarled at in the past?” Who knows?

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Can I also say how delightful I find it that autocorrect changes Murder to Murderbot? Slightly annoying, but delightful nonetheless. 😀

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Woo-hoo! Richard Osman talks about his new mystery series. He’s said separately that he will go back to the Thursday Murder Club series sometime, but for now I’m happy to try the new one too. www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a469...

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There comes a time when you need to give up saying, “This code SHOULD work, dammit!” and just admit that it doesn’t, and apply whatever kludgy fix gets it working. Even if the fix is awkward as hell. You just have to move on.

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Just for the record, I’ve got no more fucks left to give for guppies who want to play the, “We’ve asked for an insanely complicated report, but we want you to make it look clean and simple. Please guess what will look simple to us.” 1/2

submitted 372 days ago • 1 comment

It’s Name Your Favorite Typo Day! “Not” in place of “Now” C’mon Guppies. Most of the time I know what you meant to say, and it doesn’t really matter. But a typo that directly negates what you were trying to say? Really? REALLY??

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Thank you, Urban Dictionary, for helping me look not quite so ancient in front of my young colleagues. I would have got the OMG, but not the IKR without your help. 😆

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