My father answered the door naked for JW’s once. They stopped visiting afterward.

Trust me, they do make a killing. My brother is one of the seemingly few people who have actually paid off A Credit Acceptance loan and those things are terrible. (Over $20,000 in a loan for a 2001 Chevy Tracker is insane.) But, very few people will make an auto loan to someone for a decade old vehicle and, if you…

And when someone places a heavy bag next to their infant before changing them and the kid hits the floor? That sounds like a problem.

Since you said Puerto Rican, I’m going to guess that your niece isn’t hearing much American English. If that’s the case, then she’ll probably be stuck with the accent unless someone works to change it. If she does hear American accented English regularly then I have no idea how it even happened unless she was spending…

The deal also includes adding two more independent board members. With a company this large, at least part of the board has to be independent from the operations of the company already so they'll be adding even more non-Musk affiliated board members if the deal goes through. 

It already has it. You can use IFTTT, Tasker, Automate It, or any other automation app to do what this Shortcut does. You _may_ even be able to setup a Google Assistant routine for it but, I'd be more comfortable using one of the third party services. 

Once you have more than two or three coaches an AD makes sense. The AD deals with interacting with the other schools in whatever conference they play in concerning scheduling, hiring/firing/disciplining athletic staff, managing all the athletic fields, scheduling bussing for teams, etc. 1,200 is larger than my…

Cellular providers don’t store pictures for anywhere near 90 days. IIRC on Sprint I’m only able to download them (for example, if my phone is turned off or out of the service area) from the network for about 5 days. The actual text in a message may be stored longer than that and the metadata is certainly stored for…

In 2020 only the under-18 POC population will outnumber the under-18 white population but the white population will still hold a plurality (the largest individual piece of the pie) just not more than half of it. Same with the 2040-2050 demographic changeover point (we’re still too far out to know exactly when that’ll…

Based on current demographic trends, over 50% of all children in the US will be minorities by 2020 (take that white America!). If a significant percentage of the black ones have...interesting names, there won’t be any choice but to accept employees with these names by the middle of next decade. Unless we want to see…

Autocorrect makes my life easier every time I write code. Minor typographical errors there cause chaos. 

I’d like to state that I saw this post on the second and immediately went to eat a pound of mussels in white wine sauce for lunch (it gave me a reason to check out the new restaurant near me so, thanks for that!)

It’s a simulated person, accented English is fine with me since I still have to be able to understand it.

Machines are already programmed to detect risk of self-harm and the like. Facebook uses AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported and send them to human moderators (plus add extra notifications to them so that friends can try to help the person back away from the ledge so-to-speak).

I’m trying very hard to remind myself that my Japanese is nowhere near good enough to justify blowing $2,000 on something that I can’t actually use. I wonder if it could link via IFTTT or Stringify to my existing Frankensteinian Google Assistant/Amazon Echo based home automation system? Google is pretty good at live…

I’m fully aware of that I pulled my references from Cornell’s copy of the compiled US Code. After all, the vast majority of our laws weren’t written by the founders of our nation. They still considered most people in the United States who looked like me to be slaves in states that chose that system of labor and I…

Oddly enough, I didn’t see anyone collecting signatures for this one here in Genesee County but I did sign it when I was at Art Prize last October in Grand Rapids. It’s good to see that it made it on the ballot.

I should add here that he’s my first cousin twice removed and in his mid 60's now. I don’t know why he chose his control scheme but he does stand by it.

I have a cousin who binds his movement controls to side buttons on his mouse in almost all video games. I’m pretty sure he’d play with a mouse.

Hell, it’s after midnight on the 26th when I’m reading this. Let’s write that entry right here, in public.