Moving to LA* has unlocked all sorts of cultural references for me, but I have never felt like more of a local than the feeling of familiarity I got just now reading "Inherent Vice" where Pynchon describes someone in LA "hook[ing] a U-turn without signaling"
*greater metro area
Biff Poggi is the Yevgeny Prigozhin of Michigan football
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Miter saw sitting on a stand in front of a garage
To quote Julius Caesar's famous letter to the Roman senate after winning the war against Pharnases II of Pontus, "[...], I saw, [...]"
One day you wake up and realize that you do 100% of your shell scripting with chains of sed calls
Photo of a living room TV playing silksong, with a smaller TV to the right showing a doorbell camera
This is a great innovation for keeping an eye out for trick-or-treaters
Willow (our cat) sitting on top of a 42U server rack in the living room
Turns out the cat foot dispenser has a dependency on us-east-1. My network admin is on top of things
California when it rains
A nightmare tangle of wires spilling out the side of a server rack
I should probably clean this up at some point
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is worse than the original LEGO star wars in the same way that Monster Hunter Wilds is worse than Monster Hunter World
"never skim coat your wall" to the tune of "never kill yourself"
I had not thought about pages per second throughput as a printer feature when I bought mine, but as I queue up a 300 page print job and watch how long it's taking to spool, maybe I should have
Bracing to watch someone else have their "I'll never fly you bastards again" moment in the spirit airlines boarding line and know that someday that will be me too and I'll be free
Chromecast popup that reads "Show news headlines in your screensaver. Enable them in settings"
There is nothing I want less than this
uh, yes? That's kind of how taxes work
we used to respect the computer
I'm editing some documentation right now and I definitely did not just describe the recording of the training session as "the meeting VOD"
booo
also "high dynamic range" lol
gregtech: new horizons voltage tiers and infiniband data rates have got to be named by the same person
Watching the first harry potter and the traps seem so silly. "Let's play chess!" "here's a plant from first year herbology?" why do they not simply protect the sorcerer's stone with public key cryptography?
I've found myself using "twitter" as a generic name for this kind of social media site since the rebrand
- X is a twitter
- Bluesky is a twitter
- Threads is a twitter
- etc.
The guy sitting next to me on this flight paid $8 for in-flight wifi to watch a live candlestick graph of $QUBT the entire hour and fifteen minutes we were airborn
Duo (duolingo) looking embarrassed that I only did 28 xp of lessons in math
ballin' 😎
Yukon the canadian territory and UConn the university (students+staff) are almost the same population lmao
It's fascinating to read an analysis of "will the internet be a big deal" from someone living through its early days
Book heading that reads "The Internet: Signal or Noise? Threat or Promise?"
It's possible that the book I'm reading is a little older than I thought it was
why does webfishing chat not print any word preceded by a '/', very suspicious
Catnopticon
"It's like an aquarium that moves around your house and sometimes vomits" - Chai, on having a cat
