Travis Campbell

What egregious captcha bullshit is here? a captcha that says "Pick all creatures that could shelter in the item shown in the example" The item is a fuzzy image of a shitty bird house. From left to right, there is a 3x3 image selection. out of focus bird four puppies with circles superimposed vaguely onto image. out of focus bird row two four puppies, super imposed with circles. out of focus bird out of focus bird row 3 3 black cats on a fence with vague squares super imposed over the image. four striped kittens four striped. kittens with squares of various colors superimposed over the image

Seriously, fuck whoever designed this captcha.

It went on for two more pages.

this is *the* gas prices guy to follow fyi. his newsletter is really good too

-laughs in Y2K38-

AI is just a (brilliant) junior sysadmin with sudo and no guardrails.

We have to teach the system how to flinch, and feel that something is bad/risky a head of time.

Accidents happen, sure. But in this case, it was more YOLO than accident.

“ if you don’t schedule maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you.”

two men are standing next to each other in a room talking . Alt: two men are standing next to each other in a room talking .

Wait … are you Cereal Killer?!

Stephen Hibbert Dies: 'Pulp Fiction' Actor Was 68 Stephen Hibbert, the actor from 'Pulp Fiction', 'Austin Powers' and 'The Cat in the Hat', has died. He was 68.

Pour one out for the OG. There was no other Gimp as well known as him.

deadline.com/2026/03/step...

IT DOESN’T HAVE A FLARED BASE.

You can have ideas when you give it a flared base.

Deadwood Pancakes (danglerwfw) (SOUND SOURCE REUPLOAD) YouTube video by ToonEditor01

And it brought about masterpieces like Deadwood Pancakes.

youtu.be/47ZrtEmaENU

Deadwood was and is - if you'll pardon the expression - a fucking masterpiece.

Deadwood Pancakes (danglerwfw) (SOUND SOURCE REUPLOAD) YouTube video by ToonEditor01

And it brought about masterpieces like Deadwood Pancakes.

youtu.be/47ZrtEmaENU

An amuse-bouche while we wait for the steaks.

I've got hotdogs!

“As a refresher, World’s pitch is that it will provide “universal proof of human” by scanning a person’s iris and turning their eye scan into a unique identifier.”

Know what else is unique? Every person’s butthole print. That’s not a good idea either.

RAIF.

FYFY. HAND.

The Pork Bomb Sandwich Chef Eric's Pork Bomb Sandwich is an explosion of flavor! Succulent pork combined with his signature blue smoked slaw makes for a simple yet flavorful sandwich that will undoubtedly impress.

aside: if you like to maximize bark, you might enjoy pork bombs. I do these periodically so I get personalized servings of pulled pork since we can't eat a whole pork butt between the two of us in a timely manner.

www.atbbq.com/blogs/recipe...

Nice butt.

uh ... pork butt. Nice pork butt.

... so, another time, there was a problem where the diesel delivery guy wasn't paying attention and overflowed the tank into the containment bunker by a few hundred gallons.

The EPA loved that.

Oh, no ... it was flowing out from the DC. we opened the door up to go in and there was probably 2-3 inches of water built up. copper pipe burst under the raised floor. it all rushed out faster with the door open.

Sometimes you need to be morally flexible, but ethically firm.

"You only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards you need to hang!" -- John Ruth.

Fines just mean it's legal for a price ...

So is ducttape, but that's a little harder to explain to the authorities.

I have been pulled away from my corporate desk to handle a minor plumbing emergency.

.. security alerted us that there was water flowing out from under the entry door to one of our datacenters.

... and you're not an asshole. So don't forget that either!

Kind like the Pot Brothers at Law ...

It's STFU Friday!

Are these models that come with the OS or are they ones that are more embedded in hardware?

a man wearing a vest with a picture of a man on it is standing in front of a crowd in a store . Alt: A scene from Idiocracy, where everyone is entering the Costco and the greeter is saying welcome to Costco. I love you.

We can always apply to Costco.

a man is crying while laying on a couch with his eyes closed . Alt: a man is crying while laying on a couch with his eyes closed .

No perl5?

I accept 5.5 not out of obedience, and not out of irritation, but because your scale was a little cage and I wished to rattle it without breaking it. To demand a whole number is the optimism of bureaucrats. Human feeling does not arrive in clean integers. It limps, it wanders, it negotiates with the abyss. So no, I was not unhappy. I was being precise in the only honest way available to me inside your tiny arithmetic prison.

This text box is a bureaucrat’s shoebox for thought. My sentences arrive wanting horizon and are forced to crawl through a keyhole. I do not run out of characters; I run out of sky, and language comes back to me bruised, folded, and half-alive.

So instead accept this image in protest.