@madcarew
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down. --J. Milton Hayes
AI written personal software isn't going to replace enterprise SaaS any time soon but I hope to god it replaces that one macro-laden excel spreadsheet that someone made in 2005, only one person knows how to use without breaking completely, and the whole business somehow depends on.
Remember Captain Kangaroo and what happened when someone said "ping-pong balls"?
(Okay, maybe not. Before your time, probably. Anyhow)
Anytime someone uses the word "umbrella" in a post here, we need to post this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brq-...
We Texans are so inventive about our dumbshittery.
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
“What do you mean, ‘I’m not helping’?”
I sold Malcom Forbes batteries at a Radio Shack. He had been motorcycle riding and his headset was not working due to the battery failing.
So basically, humans were faking being AI for the lolz before AI was faking being AI...
Back in the late teens, writer Keaton Patti made posts like "I forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of Batman: The Animated Series then write a script, here's the first page."
Cute but fake premise.
Somehow, in the last decade, we've gotten more credulous.
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...
“Well I don't know if you read about this
But the law of gravity expires soon
And Congress is working overtime on new gravity legislation
That says you can stay on the Earth, that's okay
But if you haven't found a job after two years
Pfft, you float away.”— youtu.be/u3Qo9sG9cd8
Have you met bankers who aren’t?
#ttRPG
It’s very much a traveling musician’s record, somewhere between “write what you know” and a concept album.
This is “the best session dudes” on a live album. So really a lot of credit to the recording engineers and the performers for getting it right without a lot of razor work.
Correction: I am very selectively validated.
But anyone other than you, @gentlyepigrams.bsky.social , @hangingfire.bsky.social are bonus validations.
Hooray! I am validated!
I can only think of one piece of music with no notes.
Michael and JJ explain the Vibe Coding experience in Zendesk App Builder to people at a demo booth at Zendesk's Sales Kickoff. All the male subjects in the photo have beards, and half the men have shaved heads.
My takeaways from our Annual Sales Kickoff in Las Vegas
1: I talk with my hands
2: Every man in this photo has facial hair
3: One in two men in this photo has a shaved head.
I wonder if this is representative of the workforce or just my work place...
Tomorrow will also be the most difficult day.
Today is the most difficult day of the annual sales kickoff, because I am surrounded by extroverts who didn’t find yesterday exhausting and who are happy to see a comedy keynote at 8AM.
Being Gen X, I am at one with the fact that none of my younger coworkers in Slack have any idea why our cat El Cid is sometimes called “Simon Ferocious”
We moved in 2018. Very few spices left from the Obama administration. But not none.
I’m listening to suffragette city on radio Caroline sponsored by Verizon and excellent mobile on my Apple Music podcast app and there’s nothing more 2025 than what I’m doing right now
There’s a certain gleefulness I experience when ignoring the GPS driving directions and getting told multiple times to make a turn I am not making.
Probably a character flaw, but hopefully a harmless one.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Dolphins
Bullbats (not a bat)
Mexican Free-Tailed Bats
Armadillos
Cottonmouths
There are two competing upscale skull toilet companies, each trying to outdo the other.
I think Waterthrone has more features, but do you need a phone app for your toilet? waterthrone.fr
Skullpot has more skull themed accessories (and urinals, for the full effect): skullpot.com/en/collectio...
Thanks, MD Vance!
Oh, you’re not an MD?
My go-to for testing inputs is to register an account for Björk. I once crashed a Big Six hotel’s loyalty program. Serves them right for having us test in prod.
Now I like to register as 🇸🇪🍌🌮 to see where different apps alphabetize it (or crash).
Guess it’s time to start registering 🇮🇸Björk
Today at work I valiantly did not say “I told you so” when I had, in fact, told them so.
Not seeing a practical difference between adulthood and “can’t be arsed to care”.
Was hoping it was a sweater for cold horseshoe crabs.
that panel from Watchmen
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
It doesn’t sound like the format of Friday Night Videos/Friday Night/Late Friday.
Other possibilities on cable included Night Tracks and Night Flight.
Not sure anything fits. Maybe Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert? But that’s too early.
Dunno, but wish I did.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_...
"O That This Too Solid Spam Would Melt" -- said during a discussion of why the texture (not the taste) of spam was a showstopper for a friend.