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2023-10-27 What is my response when asked what I do for a living? 👉 Hint: I’m a technical writer. Extra …

2023-10-05 You know those kind of questions that are just so interesting to ponder that it is a bit …

2023-09-29 Frank: “Hey—what in the…name of—hey! (knocks out guy) Whaddya doin' kissin' this guy?” …

2023-09-26 Well, that was pleasantly uneventful.

2023-09-26 Here we go.

2023-09-25 flare A disastrously overworked image of flaring lights at a traffic accident. No injuries and no …

2023-09-25 It’s clear there are just two kinds of people, those who think up, produce, and/or eat dinosaur …

2023-09-24 belt One of my favorite designs, the slide and tip make any suitable strap a belt. 📷📸

2023-09-23 a day in the life It is just views like this on the regular, day… a night in the life …

2023-09-22 road Some road. You can buy a banner ad facing the wrong way for 30 bucks. 📷📸

2023-09-22 fall Gingerly making my way down this pyramid to my glider. Not really that great of a picture. The …

2023-09-21 I love saving precious microseconds everyday. (So far I’ve got about 15 minutes in reserve!) Imagine …

2023-09-21 The Replacements

2023-09-20 disruption The prompt disrupting the picture of the mural disrupted by the balconies of the building …

2023-09-19 edge Blade on board. 📷📸

2023-09-19 Y‘know what scene I love? I love that scene where the hero is on the balcony with the local ally …

2023-09-18 fabric Some shirts, including the blue version of that Royal Robbins I mentioned in orange. 📷📸

2023-09-17 intense Another in-bound flight snap, this one over Rainbow Mountain Wilderness outside of Las …

2023-09-16 oof! One of my favorite public art locations, this mural on the ENGLiSH Hotel stays fresh without …

2023-09-15 I am ready to make this admission. I do this on my own volition. An e-bike is really just half a …

2023-09-14 red Red, and a little blue. 📷📸

2023-09-14 It’s no wonder Ante Up wants to hang around, Kaju always looks like he‘s fresh out of the tub, …

2023-09-14 statue Yeah, we are just going to have this huge chrome sculpture in our front yard until we decide …

2023-09-14 You know you’re semi-good lookin‘.

2023-09-13 glowing I couldn’t yet locate information about the name of this piece or the artist, but it …

2023-09-12 panic Another architectural anomaly in Las Vegas. Go figure. The building‘s official name is, …

2023-09-12 “What happened to you during the riots?” “Oh nothing, I was fine. I had a customizable action button …

2023-09-11 Is anyone gonna tell Dominos that stuffed cheesy bread is just a lazy calzone?

2023-09-11 retrospect One of the most charming information presentations I’m aware of, this measuring …

2023-09-10 language If language is funny, then character recognition is hilarious. Okay, so it’s something …

2023-09-09 cycle There’s my lambda glider, ready to roll while I take a moment to check the skyline 📷📸

2023-09-08 yonder Taken on a flight in last year, one can see most of the great desert pinball machine. 📷📸

2023-09-07 panorama A view from the far east side of the valley looking west. Most of the Strip properties can …

2023-09-06 well The way Elizabeth Montgomery’s Samantha said “Well.” stuck with me since I first heard …

2023-09-05 forest A cell tower with a typical foliage camouflage to appear as a tree. It occurred to me that …

2023-09-04 orange Closeup of one of my favorite shirts, a hybrid material, beech something number from Royal …

2023-09-03 precious Dark clouds with sunshine lining and power lines criss-crossing. The question is which is …

2023-09-02 buildup Closeup of pyramid stud on metal sink rail with corrosion and grime. It looks a little like …

2023-09-01 abstract Closeup of the Beverly Theater building’s facade, rotated slightly and treated with …

2023-08-30 The glider is up and running again. Hurrah! 🚲 Slime to the rescue! Not the viscous green goo …

2023-08-29 Stand up. Take a look around. You see that? That’s the best we can do so far. Overall, not bad, huh? …

2023-08-29 Right Back At You 📷📸

2023-08-25 Standard brain: “Okay, they just said something. Right, not sure what they mean. Let me …

2023-08-25 On Wednesday’s ride the glider experienced an unplanned rapid depressurization event of the …

2023-08-24 There are two kinds of people: those who will, and those who will not, use their mouths to …

2023-08-21 OK, I get it now. It’s called “X” because it is the social service you used to be on, the one with …

2023-08-18 It’s just dawning on me that the Little League World Series is actually a world series, while the …

2023-08-13 Dinner Ride 📷📸

2023-08-12 Is it just me or is Siri having a crisis of confidence? She seems to be more scattered and worthless …

2023-08-07 Park MGM - Bliss Dance 📷📸

2023-08-05 I re-read this almost every year. I don’t know if it helps. Why Good Grammar?

2023-08-04 Graduated this year? Congrats! So, next obvious question: Is your muffin buttered?

2023-08-03 When the machine gets something right, like when my music service suggested this percussion parkour, …

2023-08-03 I’m having a great time…as far as I can tell.

2023-08-01 Well this is reassuring. Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots …

2023-07-29 Slanted Lamps 📷📸

2023-07-28 Lots of raw material in discussion threads here on micro.blog about this article’s subject. The Case …

2023-07-27 When folks tell me I’m argumentative I usually have to tell them they’re wrong. It isn’t an argument …

2023-07-26 Sport Signs 📷 📸

2023-07-18 Lion tastes good. Let’s get some more lion.

2023-07-13 Okay. It wasn’t band-aids, those were just more label parts. But it’s fine. They’re gone. It …

2023-07-13 “No, you can barely notice…why all the band-aids, though?”

2023-07-13 Ahhhh. AHHH. That’s all the dawn in the house. Ahhhh! AHHH!

2023-07-13 And now my battle weary thumbnail must again walk the killing fields, each attempt to remove the …

2023-07-13 There are two kinds of labels in this great land of ours: The ones you can peel off easily and say, …

2023-07-12 Thrilled to have wheels and appetite and time for tonight’s crank & grind ride!

2023-07-09 A private suspicion for quite a long time: Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on …

2023-06-05 Hey Reddit Fin Team, go ƒuck yourselves! It’s free.

2023-06-03 Just exactly how many action film franchises have the dead love interest underwater scene? It’s in …

2023-06-02 Surreal? Yessir!

2023-06-01 At my age you might have guessed Conklin, or Landy, but no, it really is Nicky. Treadstone Psych 101 …

2023-06-01 Sure, I wanna be a Jason, but I’m really much more a Nicky. That’s Treadstone Psych 101.

2023-05-31 Skybox 📷 📸

2023-05-25 An example from Wolfram to be found in this collection I mentioned in previous post. It gets hairy …

2023-05-25 I see many people here are interested in the topic of artificial intelligence. This collection of …

2023-05-22 What For 📷 📸

2023-05-22 Say that you’ll never, never, never, never need it. One headline, why believe it? Everybody …

2023-05-20 Don’t believe folks who tell you the only acceptable way to be your true self is to lie about it to …

2023-05-20 He looked me straight in the face. “People are either likable or intelligent.” I waited but he …

2023-05-19 A collection of books discussed during a discussion on first day of micro.camp 2023 here at …

2023-05-19 Great conversation to kick things off at micro.camp. Thanks to all the micro.blog team for creating …

2023-05-19 Really John? Is it video games and movies causing boys to try to murder the world? Really? Have you …

2023-05-17 Cucumber Beverage 📷 📸

2023-05-17 “Even if the only commonality they share is uniqueness do not classify as ’unclassifiable‘”. The …

2023-05-16 If you are thinking about pro monger as a career, consider the three main sub-industries have …

2023-05-16 Okay, replace the z signs w/ oh…whatever you like! A simple conversation — www.instagram.com

2023-05-13 In re: prev post, yes I’m referring to Guns, Germs & Steel.

2023-05-12 Trust the ground fact that white men tended toward societal power on this planet only as a result of …

2023-05-12 Folks understand identity (sense of authorization) is transactional by definition, right? And …

2023-05-12 “You think I would be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?” — …

2023-05-11 Why any continue to give ear to a blowhard going around firing people who do not work for him is …

2023-05-11 Perhaps more self-consciously self-revelatory self-documenting than anything else I’ve posted is …

2023-05-11 (aside) So, is this the guy?…okay (full throated) It’s the Wicker Man, right, it’s all those …

2023-05-11 And as I slowly walk up to some fly with my rolled up magazine, I find myself telling it, …

2023-05-11 On the positive, in a pinball machine town like this, well, interesting things pop up, in the lake, …

2023-05-11 “I know what’s going on. We got a bunch of fucking vampires out there, trying to get in …

2023-05-11 I was born smack dab in the middle of the temporal mid point of the cuban missile crises. So, you’re …

2023-05-11 Puty, to paraphrase Busta, you talk shit then abandon ship. When will the people of Russia do us the …

2023-05-11 That some would want to have intercourse with Trump’s skull, I get it. Mountain of cottage …

2023-05-11 I recognize last handful of posts can read as a flare, a spasm, ignorable emotional effluvia. To be …

2023-05-11 And by “better armed” I mean armed with love, rationality, and generosity. I do not mean …

2023-05-11 Thinking about it, those are going to be some very big balls, so we’re going to need more than one …

2023-05-11 So, if corporation are somehow legally people, I need to find a way to legally kick a media …

2023-05-11 Surfacing you bastards in com, edu, net, mil etc is non stop fun. Such easy markks. And remember you …

2023-05-11 You must shut these fux down IN THE MOMENT. Trump answered a question last night “Do you think …

2023-05-11 Speaking of which, I don’t know if anyone not in the discussion has followed the discussion, but …

2023-05-11 I thought my sadness and anger would diminish over time. But they haven’t. I also didn’t think the …

2023-05-11 Before the pandemic officially started all those years ago, I expressed my hope that most of us …

2023-05-10 Oh. They let you. Huh. So…what ever happens to them, or you, well, you let it, right? Cool.

2023-05-10 C. Hitchens was smoking behind the Schnitzer—did I talk to him? I didn’t want to bother him. Ha! His …

2023-05-10 Two In Three 📷 📸

2023-05-09 The carnival ride of coffee & donuts has let me off. My flippancies about labels and contentment …

2023-05-09 Suggestions for 3 attribution labels better than “content creator” Authorrex: authors …

2023-05-09 Riding the tilt-a-whirl, juggling machetes, rethinking the corn-dogs, so…pretty chill. What …

2023-05-09 Blind taste tests need not remain exclusively the province of ads for drinks. Conduct them yourself, …

2023-05-09 If I just press down the keys hard enough, then they will understand, right?

2023-05-09 Most debilitating is when I try to stop for a moment and attend to the actual obtaining …

2023-05-09 Sipping coffee, taking in the view. A few school age children waiting for a ride. “Nice …

2023-05-08 Don’t think of it as falling. Think of it as a forced advance on the ground, and you can’t miss! ♜

2023-05-08 Do you know what you ask kids? “What do you think you’re doing?” Do you know what you ask grown-ups? …

2023-05-08 12XU & Mr. Suit = Job Well Done

2023-05-08 “I’m the operator, with my pocket calculator.” — Kraftwerk, Computer World, 1981

2023-05-08 Hey, all you death cult fux, ghoul icons, and your buddies in com, gov & mil, it’s BK here— …

2023-05-08 Shimmy Shimmy 📷 📸

2023-05-08 So I guess that Read Write Data Services (RWDS) is no longer in contention for the new product name?

2023-05-07 If you think we’re gonna make it, you better hang on to yourself. — David Bowie, Hang On To …

2023-05-07 If white men were really superior they wouldn’t have lost every war they started. Relax.

2023-05-07 More Feudal Quotes Yes, we are happy for them to mistake power for strength, why do you ask?

2023-05-07 What was that lyric from Jello Biafra again? Oh, yeah! You ain’t the cops. It ain’t anarchy. Nazi …

2023-05-07 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Right now in fact: I am bored listening to millionaires …

2023-05-07 Star-bellies Unite!

2023-05-07 To be SOOOOOO concerned with race and not know what the fuck it is. What are we doing?

2023-05-07 Well, that may just be all I need of Mastodon.

2023-05-07 DON’T TELL ARTISTS WHAT TO DO.

2023-05-07 It really fucks me off when people pretend they know me, cuz’ cousin’, ya don’t.

2023-05-06 When you receive unemployment benefits, they should also include a little box of pilfered binder …

2023-05-06 I updated the update to the Anagram Puzzle. Maybe easier now? 🤔

2023-05-06 Who says America doesn’t care about its children? I just saw an ad and get this: both Cocoa Pebbles …

2023-05-06 Updated my anagram puzzle. Good luck!

2023-05-05 Anagram Puzzle Take these nine letters A B D E I I L R S and rearrange them into words of the given …

2023-05-05 Y’ever twist your arm trying to pat yourself on the back? Or taught someone a lesson by learning it …

2023-05-04 We see the same stupid, greed-head, get my boat this quarter thinking, repeated in variations. EARLY …

2023-05-04 Here is my business decision making process that is also the reason why I am not hired to make …

2023-05-04 Continuing this train of thought… Of course, I’m working from the luxury of believing I …

2023-05-04 Half the time I just want to tell Siri to go lie down for a minute.

2023-05-04 I’ve got this bug problem. — Upson Pratt, via E.G. Marshall, Creepshow, 1982

2023-05-04 ..and by this I do not mean to refer to UI elation. I’ve been osx’ing for years because it rings my …

2023-05-04 Didn’t anybody notice that isp “built-in” email spam protection, simple basic …

2023-05-04 I think the reason so many of us in the language business are rightly worried about fAI (fake AI, …

2023-05-04 PB & J Proud Boys and Justice. Delicious!

2023-05-03 I’ve got Fury Road on the box and King Crimson’s Discipline on the hifi, and, well, it’s everything …

2023-05-03 Fictional Album xenomorph spirograph freakout — seethe [ edit: congrats to all who grabbed the rare …

2023-05-03 If we really needed Ante-Up dealt out, we would deal him out. What we really need are his sats to …

2023-05-03 Ha! Ha hahahaha. Ready Putin One!

2023-05-02 Those last two are both from the brief, in fact non-existent, little tome How To Socialize For Those …

2023-05-02 If you must establish the contra-position, that you are in fact an invested sports buff, simply …

2023-05-02 If you want to establish that you really have no idea about sports, nor care, then whenever anything …

2023-05-02 Nothing says 70’s movie like a P.E. teacher smoking, except everything else in Carrie. I forgot the …

2023-05-02 Y’ever imagine our DNA, just sittin’ around after work, having a little refreshment, maybe chatting, …

2023-05-02 I hate that when one alt-clicks on a search result item to copy the link, but it copies a …

2023-05-01 Well…sure, you can take an umbrella into the shower with you, but…uh…maybe …

2023-05-01 Just Noticing

2023-05-01 What did Sebastian say? “They’re my friends. I make them.”

2023-05-01 Don’t shoot yourself in the foot just to prove them wrong about the gun being loaded.

2023-05-01 Hard Left 📷 📸

2023-04-30 Tottenham’s doing a great job watching Liverpool play. There’s a case of premature flippant …

2023-04-29 Oysters and champagne taste better than mac n’ cheese and flavor-aid, sure—unless one is actually …

2023-04-29 Here’s another questionable framework with a lot of cultural clout, although it does not yet …

2023-04-28 Reflecting…I sometimes would rather argue with you about how the thing that I want is the …

2023-04-27 Reject expectation and affectation, they exasperate in explanation, embrace instead reflection on …

2023-04-27 I guess a lot of us are I’m just looking for some help untangling the kite strings.

2023-04-26 Apple Music just decided no, I am not actually listening to what I was listening to on HomePod, but …

2023-04-23 It Is and You Are. 📷 📸

2023-04-21 Rep. Castor said some smart things just now about scope and sensitivity of data.

2023-04-21 Do these clock guys think we are just going to roll over?

2023-04-21 Puty, Puty, Puty…what did we say about just walking in and pushing buttons?

2023-04-20 Designated Hitter – Prof Music Should be right around 420 on the islands…

2023-04-20 Things can go right, too, AB!

2023-04-20 Red Light 📷 📸

2023-04-19 I’ll put it this way: If one is unhappy, not only is one entitled to do something about it, one is …

2023-04-19 Do people even know what ‘inalienable‘ means? Have we thought about it lately? It means My …

2023-04-19 < 72hrs, just enough to give the black market time to bulk up their supplies, eh? whats the cut i …

2023-04-19 Greed-head capitalist extremists are threatened by those not primarily motivated by the accumulation …

2023-04-19 Big drama at Talladega finish! Like a movie that actually happened.

2023-04-18 Desktop Cognitive Dissonance WhiteOut™ doesn’t. It does not get the white out. It adds white. …

2023-04-18 On Wings and a Pear The red pepper flakes in the coleslaw somehow hid before I took this. So imagine …

2023-04-17 Remember the last time you were just quietly smiling to yourself? That’s it. That’s the whole point. …

2023-04-17 Dude, you are full on fight-clubbin’, just…chill a momo.

2023-04-17 Then carefully replace that little paper seal. Yes, after putting the cards in the correct order. …

2023-04-17 Funny that safe easy to use personal cryptography for privacy never caught on, but AI will be on …

2023-04-17 If I Did Not Know Better

2023-04-17 Really tired of grown ups on TV surprised that an IT technician has access to IT resources, which …

2023-04-17 Maybe we need a moratorium on pin-head reporting rather than engineering efforts.

2023-04-16 Don’t get me wrong about celery either; like some in my BM thank you very much, and in the macaroni …

2023-04-16 Negative Information Calories Y’know how the calories you need to eat a stalk of raw celery …

2023-04-16 Whatz you need? Diamonds…hnuh…powdered milk? I get it for you. BRIDE? I get it. …

2023-04-15 Results of the Survey 62%  claim to be in the minority 19%  claim the survey does not in fact …

2023-04-15 The single biggest issue facing people today is urgent over-generalization! Wake up, man! The only …

2023-04-15 Six of One, Half Dozen of an Other Hitting me in the heart with your words is equal to me hitting …

2023-04-14 Twice — Once Again 📸📷

2023-04-13 Did a grown man, once active in our legal system, just say “If the facts are …

2023-04-13 Thomas. Small, certainly, but also one of these definition vampires… “‘Hospitality‘ …

2023-04-13 It’s clear, yes? You want the auditors asking themselves why the admiral prints two copies a lot, …

2023-04-13 There it is! lprintr4579hd3j48.dumpCache() Yes, I am implying that the Cyber-blah-bla Specialist …

2023-04-13 Typical journalists have such a kids-world view of intelligence. “Wouldn’t the big important …

2023-04-13 Obcure New Law § Any internet entity requiring an identity test to use their services must provide, …

2023-04-12 ServePro is the straight version of those heavy-set guys ambling into their bosses' crime scene with …

2023-04-12 Defending against AI Lobbyists - Schneier on Security This piece is by Nathan Sanders, guest …

2023-04-12 A lot of “White America” is really freaking the fuck out, huh? 😀

2023-04-12 This is somehow poetically apt, almost selbstsatire for Twitter’s impending implosion into …

2023-04-11 I am really glad I like crullers because it is so much fun to say ‘crullers’.

2023-04-11 What Makes Polly Tick?

2023-04-11 Jack Herren Band — Casino “I have a tiny head!” ⎚YouTube Music

2023-04-10 Disclosure re Mind: When I say the word “mind” out loud, in my head I am often saying …

2023-04-10 Tree — Air Dance 📷 📸

2023-04-07 Apparently, the longer they argue, the more difficult it becomes for them to entertain the …

2023-04-07 My knee-jerk re Web Fingerprinting Is Worse Than I Thought ❡ Tactic of filling the zone with shit …

2023-04-07 I deeply resent representations on news which purport to inform but are designed to persuade. …

2023-04-06 What are these retro-grade jack-boot pecker-head jack-offs in Tennessee thinking? Legislative piracy …

2023-04-06 Thomas? A small man, in that he fit easily into the pocket. Ahem.

2023-04-06 Here’s what ChatGPT thought I should know about Humanism

2023-04-06 Three posts in a row with fucking f-bombs? What are you trying to prove here, man?

2023-04-06 I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars… [reads, looks up] …but it’s a pretty good fucking …

2023-04-05 Sorry. Sorry we fucked your kids while you entrusted us with their souls. Sorry. — The Clergy, Way …

2023-04-04 Old School — New Angles 📷 📸

2023-04-04 Welcome Finland! 🇫🇮

2023-04-03 Time wobbles. Which means a “little bit ahead” and a “little bit behind” are …

2023-04-02 7-11, JESUS, UHAUL 📸📷

2023-04-02 “They told me to just type in whatever the person on the phone said—and then read back …

2023-03-31 Lately when I hear a car or fire alarm, I think, just for a moment, ‘Wait, am I on fire? Am I …

2023-03-30 Practice — Invented Corners Inverted There you are, likely in a pencil sketch, unless…that’s …

2023-03-29 Mirror — Light Orbital Return #mbmar #mirror 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-29 Disclosure: Like many Americans I suffer from a condition known as CAFNAP (Cockney Accent for No …

2023-03-29 Slice — Of Life, with Buttercream More like buttercream with a side of … cake? Could also be …

2023-03-28 Murderous Lunacy - Solace in Howling

2023-03-28 Murderous Lunacy? No, I’m okay, thanks.

2023-03-28 Prompt — Encouraging Timely Reminder Yes, it is the world command and control prompt. Cost about a …

2023-03-27 Support — Ready Rigid Rebar #mbmar #support 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-27 Are enemies worth the effort? Asking for a friend.

2023-03-26 Instrument — 1, 2, 3, 4 ! #mbmar #instrument 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-26 We may be at our best when screaming the correct answers at game show contestants on tv.

2023-03-26 Spice — Classic Salt & Traditional Pepper #mbmar #spice 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-24 Court — In This Case, Federal #mbmar #court 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-24 It might just be carrots, and carrots alone, that are delicious as either juice or cake. What an …

2023-03-23 Chance — Can’t Fold Edges #mbmar #chance 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-23 I’m faithful not because I know all the secrets, but because I know all my secrets.

2023-03-22 Insect — Half a Bee #mbmar #insect 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-22 If you are thinking about doing something a little gangsta this afternoon—or even if not—have a …

2023-03-21 More Songs About Buildings and Food

2023-03-21 Tiny — View From Gen #mbmar #tiny 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-21 Fictional Investor Brief Turing Tours - AI Training Company Name Turing Tours Industry AI …

2023-03-21 Ante-Up and Eleven good friends, both rub same paper, show world.

2023-03-21 Well howdeedoodaaday! A Potential Major Discovery: An Aperiodic Monotile

2023-03-21 Life Is Good In the Greenhouse A great little ditty from a great little combo from way back when… …

2023-03-21 Houseplant — Rather Than Your Mickey Mouse #mbmar #houseplant 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-21 Trusted Securities Advisor ChatGPT

2023-03-20 Quote from Finite and Infinite Games which struck as wisdom and stuck with me since: To be prepared …

2023-03-20 Guy in a hoodie on CNBC changing the course of history right now.

2023-03-19 Analog — Open Source Nutrition Download #mbmar #analog 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-18 Portico — Columns, Rows, and Diagonals #mbmar #portico 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-18 One of the better know images from one of my favorite artists. When I reflect on the question …

2023-03-17 The more trust a company accumulates, the less it costs to convert some of it into betrayal, when …

2023-03-17 Every wants be on net. Be on net still hard.

2023-03-17 Early — 318 AD #mbmar #early 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-17 He sat there like a trite metaphor, self-satisfied, a human speed-bump.

2023-03-16 Road — On, Off, and Down the #mbmar #road 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-16 What two-fold lesson have the markets taught us this week? Coincidence is hard to model You …

2023-03-15 Patience — They’re Kernels, Colonel #mbmar #patience 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-15 Who’s shorting who?

2023-03-15 Hey Texas, do you want to establish fertile ground for a black-market on abortion-pills? Because …

2023-03-14 Horizon — POV Required #mbmar #horizon 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-14 It was pilot “error”, right? He watched Maverick…got over excited.

2023-03-14 The Search is Over: Search is done—searching for strings, anyway. AI UI for “internet …

2023-03-13 Connection — Made & Unmade #mbmar #connection 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-13 It appears mastodon.online is down… …and we’re back after about 20 mins since I …

2023-03-12 Shiny — Wrap Around Photons #mbmar #shiny 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-12 According to BBC, US gov will come across for depositors caught in the SVB (near?) collapse. Cool.

2023-03-11 Gimcrack — Balloon Panel Offer #mbmar #gimcrack 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-10 Ritual — Shiny Dream Cushions #mbmar #ritual 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-10 It turned out we were just fine without online ice-cubes, or Quibi, and I imagine will be without a …

2023-03-10 Ad Placements As Discussed Los Angeles New York

2023-03-09 Fictional Album Heart Shaped Tub — Hey, Bubbles!

2023-03-09 Hey @circustiger, the images looked clunky in the timeline so I’ll just reference this page here.

2023-03-09 Together — People, Cars and Hats #mbmar #together 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-09 In case (ha!) it wasn’t clear: Putin is a testosterone terror clown, as are his entourage of …

2023-03-09 That previous post was written in what used to be easily detectable sarcasm. This post is written to …

2023-03-09 Pooty, Pooty…listen…you can’t just shoot off the entire shipment at …

2023-03-08 Hey Tennessee, do you want more drag shows, cuz, that’s how you get more drag shows. Can I draw your …

2023-03-08 Okay, that wasn’t so bad.

2023-03-08 I’m sick of getting messages from the front. Don’t we ever get messages from the side?

2023-03-08 I think they think we’re going to war.

2023-03-08 Get me headquarters. Not hindquarters—headquarters!

2023-03-08 Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?

2023-03-08 Okay, I’m going to apologize about this in advance: I’m watching Duck Soup and finding it …

2023-03-08 …and how long are we going to believe the bullshit story about “some bad actors”? …

2023-03-08 Icebergs in Kentucky? Huh.

2023-03-08 Racist behaviour isn’t just “against” the target, it’s against everyone.

2023-03-08 Walk — Glass Brick and Air Out for walkies and noticed interesting reflective properties. #mbmar …

2023-03-07 Whole — As In the Burrito Yeah, it is a picture of a burrito. #mbmar #whole 📷 March Photoblogging …

2023-03-07 Spent the day hanging with ChatGPT; what an amiable, well informed idiot.

2023-03-06 Engineering — Thread Wrapped Allen #mbmar #engineering 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-05 Tile — Neon Panel Grid #mbmar #tile 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-04 Harold and Kumar aren’t an improved version of Cheech & Chong, they are their own thing. They …

2023-03-04 Atomic Blonde 2049

2023-03-04 Gunners! #ARSBOU

2023-03-04 Zip — Slide Tooth Loop #mbmar #zip 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-03 Solitude — Peace No Handset #mbmar #solitude 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-03 Corporations are people, and therefore need to feel very bad things when they break the law, so they …

2023-03-03 What Do They Know I guess we really shouldn’t be too surprised that main stream journalism kinda got …

2023-03-03 Text Box “I enjoyed my chats with Racter way back when…"[ ENTER ]

2023-03-03 Oh, and the public bookkeeping (wait, three letter pairs? huh!) should demonstrate that the majority …

2023-03-03 Northern Suffolk❡ must take full responsibility for all expenses for anyone likely affected. This …

2023-03-02 At some point you have to admit either that pearls are not worth as much to you as you claimed they …

2023-03-02 Weather — Tower Mountain Skyline #mbmar #weather 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-03-01 Secure — Keys Left in Bolt #mbmar #secure 📷 March Photoblogging Challenge

2023-02-28 Imagined conversation from BIGPHARM Marketing Division: So what do you think we should call it? …

2023-02-24 I’m confident in my opinions because I didn’t pick them up at the lifestyle store—instead I crafted …

2023-02-23 And when I say I build software for myself, well, this intimates something more and something less …

2023-02-23 And all of those “anti-user” engineers? A product of my dark imagination. It couldn’t be …

2023-02-23 Okay. I don’t hate grep. It is simply that my intuitions about switches are not fortuitously 100% …

2023-02-23 This is of course because I build software for myself so my value vectors are always aligned.

2023-02-23 I’m convinced there are a class of engineers that hate users and design for themselves instead.

2023-02-23 I hate grep. I always have. I imagine it is in some way responsible for most of the misery in this …

2023-02-19

2023-02-18 It occurs to me how fascinating I find all of the language tidbits that accrue around the tools we …

2023-02-17 Especially satisfying is the passage starting at 3:48 or so. She holds a very long note over what I …

2023-02-17 Just like every new teenager thinks they invented sex, every new programmer thinks they can create a …

2023-02-17 Hey, #chatbot dummies, here’s some free historical training material. Check the record on Eliza, the …

2023-02-16 I love that. He stopped, listened, gently suggested not being asshats, stopped, listened again, …

2023-02-16 Picture This

2023-02-14 Stairs erase up and down whereas ropes and slides insist on them. Too many ropes and slides in …

2023-02-14 Do these stairs go up or down?

2023-02-10 So Why the Story

2023-02-10 So What's the Story

2023-02-10 Smack My Bitch Up

2023-02-09 Change My Pitch Up

2023-02-09 These folks just keep improving software that has already been quite good for some time. Yay for the …

2023-02-09 End of the World - Individual Servings

2023-02-02 End of the World – Individual Serving: Death.

2023-01-24 My on-body time navigation equipment, in the spirit of @jack ’s double-wristing. Note: the Jolly …

2022-12-31 Exploding Cigars? Yeah, it was funny, y’know? Light your cigar, then — bang — it explodes! Funny …

2022-12-28 End of the World – Individual Serving: War.

2022-12-27 Hey #henchmen, when tying people up check for double-jointedness or dislocation tricks — I mean, …

2022-12-18 Merde!

2022-12-03 Should be a great xmas, so many Santas!

2022-11-28 Headlines that tell the entire story

2022-11-28 Twitter is the town square for a very small square town where the townsfolk can only like, repeat, …

2022-11-24 I try to be a good atheist, but sometimes I’m just like “goddamn it!”

2022-11-18 End of the World – Individual Serving: Famine.

2022-11-18 End of the World – Individual Serving: Plague.

2022-10-25 If you take away the trappings of success, what’s left? Correct—nothing. So go out and succeed …

2022-10-23 Sometimes I wish I didn’t know better.

2022-08-10 Was excited about the new tube so much that I forgot about the ride but then I got some frozen …

2022-08-03 Being enlightened is cool and all, but I kinda miss the longing, y’know?

2022-08-03 Hey #languagepolice #neologists #orthographychampions and #innocentstandersby, how about …

2022-08-03 Rationality, and patience, and generosity, and love do not need protecting. They are the protection.

2022-08-01 Yes, again it is the promise of apocalyptic judgement that is the core of their manipulative powers. …

2022-07-31 Cross Word Puzzle

2022-07-29 I run my mouth a lot, so I should make clear...

2022-07-29 Hey, #cybersecuritypros the only question you must have a yes answer to: When any of your systems do …

2022-07-24 Everybody is confronted with profundity, by the raw awe of living. It’s just that not everyone …

2022-07-23 J Dilla - Donuts You really should listen to the whole box, not just grab The New, Mash, and Time: …

2022-07-23 Is “denude” like “inflammable” in that they mean whatever the hell you want them to mean? Definitely …

2022-07-23 Software is really just very very very very small hardware

2022-07-22 He turns to me and says with a straight face “I’m hard candy, but I don’t melt.” and I immediately …

2022-07-22 If laws are written in such a manner as to allow smart insiders to skirt them, then we must write …

2022-07-21 I generally try not to pay attention to what machines suggest I do, but my player recently said I …

2022-07-18 Y’ever think trees and plants are kind of over-compensating for gravity? I mean, I stand here …

2022-07-18 Are you ever lucky

2022-07-18 Remember officers, sacrifice is a value reflected universally in

2022-07-18 Among peers, language can be used for communication, otherwise it creates a world...

2022-07-18 Isn't Dogmatic, Pedantic & Servile an intellectual property law firm?

2022-07-17 Good god—sorry for all of the obviously he hasn’t read this at all type of typos. [ EDIT: this of …

2022-07-17 I really don’t know why I am not posting more. But of course I do.

2022-07-17 Living a more value aligned life style does have its perks. It is faddish, but an e-bike has been …

2022-07-16 If there is one thing I’ve learned after all of these years it is that there is more than just one …

2022-07-05 It is true. I was no match for that sulky girl.

2022-06-29 I recognize that half the time it is hard to tell if I’m joking or even what I’m talking about. We …

2022-06-28 Step Right Up YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch Apple Music - music.apple.com

2022-06-28 The House Always Wins.

2022-06-28 Even when the dead are the only ones asking questions, don’t forget—only the living can hear the …

2022-06-27 Record highs? Let’s make some public art anyway, decided #FoPo stronglings! Thx! Love the motif- …

2022-06-23 Well

2022-06-12 There’s stuff that I can’t talk about, stuff that I won’t talk about, stuff that I don’t talk about, …

2022-06-12 It’s not just the heat, but the stupidity…

2022-06-11 Frankfurt am Main - City Center This is not a great reproduction, but it is a great map, especially …

2022-06-11 And (laughs) do you remember when we thought a dancing monkey atop every webpage was the price we …

2022-06-11 I’ve always been a bit cranky and obtuse but now this attribute better fits the age demographic I am …

2022-06-10 (breathlessly)…it’s about a hacker that knows super-advanced Cashzeer, who goes to a self-checkout …

2022-06-10 Unwanted Series Extension

2022-06-10 Return of Pedantic Ass-Clown

2022-06-10 Pedantic Ass-Clown

2022-06-10 Who’s to blame when parties really get out of hand? Who’s to blame when they get poorly …

2022-06-10 Time waits for no man … or woman for that matter. Or kids come to think of it — no one really. Time …

2022-06-09 If you are quiet, and the rain stops for a minute, you can hear Tom Waits asking “What’s …

2022-06-09 Marvin’s Follies

2022-06-09 Happy Doggos

2022-06-09 Socks

2022-06-08 The cats, one with a camera.

2022-06-08 I keep getting this comic-book impression, right outside my field of vision, while I’m doing the …

2022-06-08 Maybe you don’t need some new shirts, maybe you just need some new hangers. You know, show …

2022-06-08 Names Don’t Do It, Justice

2022-06-08 Life? Well, let me retort

2022-06-08 And by people I mean, of course, corporations and regular biological people, too. All of them.

2022-06-08 Hey, maybe AI isn’t a worry. Maybe cities have already reached sentience. Some people, too, even.

2022-06-08 You’re a shining star, no matter who you are…

2022-06-08 Software is my religion, Science is my practice.

2022-06-08 Feudal Quotes They’re reading? So what? What the fuck do we care that they’re reading? Look at us. …

2022-06-08 Geez I sound like such a scold. Hrmph. Anyway, on the positive, right here is a good example of …

2022-06-08 Buzzword Tourettes

2022-06-08 Yeah, @samgrover, it’s like my brain and Wordle have cut a deal I don’t know much about. …

2022-06-06 Recently diagnosed with Cassandra Simplex, but it’s no big deal. The Complex is rough, sure, but …

2022-06-06 Spotlight is gonna kinda be a Command Line for MacOS/iOS/iPadOS? Cool… #WWDC22

2022-06-06 Oh and hey @elonmusk, any big event (#WWDC22) is goodway to re/evaluate bots vs non-bots reality and …

2022-06-06 Okay, let’s just watch this one (#WWDC22) unfold on #twitter. Normally I’m sniffing for …

2022-06-06 The inevitability of our bodies insists on one thing only — dance.

2022-06-04 Despite our best intentions, the response from posterity is probably going to be “What the …

2022-06-04 Likely initial reaction of alien intelligence viewing high resolution individual component level …

2022-06-04 And in that same spirit, a quote from The View belongs to Everyone (the FLC) for those who tweet …

2022-06-04 Instructive insight on modern software design from a G. Carlin quote: “Nail two things together that …

2022-06-01 The Latest Episode

2022-05-13 Hey, @elonmusk, you can’t buy chess—you can only buy a chess set. The real value is not so much in …

2022-05-12 The people who live where the sun goes down see the true nature of things differently than the …

2022-04-18 Instead of bitching about the TimeSuck of confirming your TimeMachine backups are correct and …

2022-04-15 Hey, folks who do the AppleTV+ MLB knockout ad spot mound overlay graphics. Make them a bit bigger, …

2022-04-11 I, too, sometimes find art puzzling.

2022-04-07 Why am I Mr. Pink? Why can’t we pick our own color?

2022-03-30 The Smith Rock Slap? A national inflection point in the long running Woke vs Joke debate; in …

2022-03-28 You really want to solve a conspiracy? ;-) Tell my why window installation companies are SO GOSH …

2022-03-21 I’m suspicious that the central dilemma in my life is the belief that there is a central dilemma, …

2022-03-19 Just turned the house fan off, after absentmindedly switching it on to treat a minor air quality …

2022-03-18 The Inky Barrier

2022-03-17 Wait — the map ISN’T the territory? Okay, that’s why there’s no parking…

2022-03-17 The secret to my fitness regimen? Jumping to conclusions—some days I can do a whole long far-fetched …

2022-03-07 The moment when people in this country started seeing the surface as the subject was when they …

2022-03-06 Post NeXT design drift :: power supply of 1999 iBook looks like old NeXT mouse.

2022-03-04 The secret to my fitness regimen? Forget things alot, then run up the stairs to get them. Two or …

2022-02-22 Wordle 248 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle - The New York Times

2022-02-20 Wordle 246 2/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

2022-02-16 Found art: file attachments. 🎨

2022-02-09 Strong, Healthy - Ed Ruscha, 1987

2022-02-08 Why was I trying to post to more than one federated mastodon instance? Seems a bit daft to guard him …

2022-02-08 X-post facto, right? :-)

2022-02-07 I just had a “back-to-normal” resolution of an “involuntary-loss/restriction” experience. It’s …

2022-02-06 Goddamn time traveling robots, covering up their goddamn tracks. I knew it! Detective O’Brien

2022-02-04 “Should I know why I’m in love with you? Should I justify Out of the blue?” Rubberbandman – …

2021-07-02 This is what you ought to know… loved you though it didn’t show… Da Da Da, Trio 🎵

2021-06-30 “A longhorn breed…” Who Makes the Nazis? - the FALL 🎵

2021-06-25 it’s a must, it’s compulsive it is family entertainment play americans and russians find …

2021-06-23 “Explanations, exclamations, exaggerations, it’s all talk” King Crimson, Elephant Talk 🎵

2021-06-18 “I see the shapes, I remember from maps…” Talking Heads, The Big Country 🎵

2021-06-17 Appy Polly Loggies, O My Netizens!

2021-06-17 Pen Praising Passions Prompt Paper Planner Picture Post

2021-06-16 Years ago, after dragging a comb across my hair in the morning and fussing and nudging and patting …

2021-06-13 Just re-checking I haven’t dropped the castanets during the username chacha.

2021-06-13 Just checking I haven’t dropped the castanets during the username chacha.

2021-06-12 Horse sees horizons.

2021-06-12 Someone should check if maybe one of those monkeys actually has typed out Shakespeare’s Complete …

2021-06-12 What Is the Information Circus?

2021-06-12 Breaking News

2021-06-12 Ziggy suggests reticence.

2021-06-08 My favorite UI take away from WWDC 2021 is Universal Control.

2021-06-03 Mango insists, maybe.

2021-06-03 Tenet Consulting, Inc. ”We tell you what already happened before it already happened again, like we …

2021-06-03 So What Can We Expect

2021-06-02 What This Is All About

2021-06-02 Sully got root!

2021-06-02 First Post Best Post

2021-06-02 Finished reading: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. …

2021-06-02 Still working on some mechanicals to establish sufficient intertwingledness.

2021-06-02 A nice strong fresh cup of tea or a nice fresh strong cup of tea? The rhythm is the same, but I …

2021-06-01 Taking Off My Coat, Clearing My Throat

2021-05-29 Of course, we can only know afterwards.

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