Inspired by @scherzy. I put some thought into this. Twelve isn’t enough but this is my best effort. Read more…
My back yard is walled off and I don’t play Pokémon. What I’m saying is…$20 for right of first refusal to whatever is lurking back there.
One of the greats by one of the greatest.
The words of Seneca’s Phaedra which mean something like:
“Light sorrows speak but the deepest sorrow stupefies.”
Or, in the words of Hamlet:
“These indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play, but I have that within which passes show.”
UFOs aren’t real.
Elvis is dead.
According to Priceonomics, women are far more likely to take selfies than men but men are far more likely to die doing it. The more you know.
Taylor Swift’s love life.
Hillary Clinton’s relationship with her husband through a difficult time.
Relevant tonight. One of my favorite XKCDs:
I’ve always thought the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence is hilariously snarky.
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
So we did one of those “escape the room” things with some friends last night. To solve it required figuring out about 15 tricky puzzles plus one engineering problem. Unsurprisingly I was hopeless with the puzzles but … well, I am an engineer…
This is super cool. Link
Just sent my first monthly college tuition payment for my kid. One down, 95 to go. We can do this.
Too hot. Need new latitude or altitude stat.
Huh. Fascinating.
Inspired by @DG Read more…
Don’t eat for 24 hours.
Make literally anything.
America, if you would be so kind… Read more…
Hey internet, be a dear and get my child tickets for Hamilton in Chicago. I’ll pay you back. Thx.
@sophster is arguably the most obsessive person on earth. Two of her many obsessions are Pixar and Ellen. She’s been planning for Finding Dory for months. I know what you’re thinking: isn’t she too old to dress up for a cartoon? No she is not because she has a beautiful and infectious enthusiasm for life. We could all use a little of that. Read more…
Courage
Kindness
Future self will roll his eyes at this but present self is enjoying this homey heat. Back in Phoenix after 4 long weeks in San Jose.
Dear flight attendants,
You’re all dressed like dorks.
That is all.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Matchbox Cars
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This face still haunts me 23 years later.
I wanted him to die.
Guinea Pig
Neither from Guinea nor a pig (according to Wikipedia).
Holy Roman Empire
Neither holy nor roman nor an empire (according to Voltaire).
There are obviously a lot of good parts but this is the best part. Read more…
Inspired by @bjnovak. I’m a deep sleeper. Read more…
This thing.
…I have long legs…
Surprise
I want to make a browser extension that lets you add Wikipedia style [citation needed] tags to text on any web page, and have them show up for everyone else who has the extension.
This would be so cool. [citation needed]
This eulogy of Muhammad Ali by Natasha Mundkur is such a powerful illustration of the importance of diverse heroes. And by extension an important reminder of the danger, to our collective cultural soul, of a Trump presidency.
Inspired by @joemurphy Read more…
This train wreck: “Although it’s not required most of the time, but if in case we need to set some global options for the JVM that Gradle will use, Gradle provides us a convenient way to do that.” 🚇 Read more…
I love that the day we met when she was 14 she was so tan I thought she was a foreign exchange student from … somewhere.
I love that she got that tan not on the beach but working in the corn fields.
Indiana.
@list database administrator.
So I could go find all the lists with this title and change “an option” (which really doesn’t make sense) to “a concern”. The expression, of course, is “money is no OBJECT” but even that’s wrong because we’re not suggesting we’d pay any price for this career. We’re just saying if we didn’t care about making money, right? I mean I guess technically taking a huge pay cut could be considered paying a price, but that’s stretching it. And anyway, “option” has nothing to do with it at all.
I should go to sleep.
