We have a weird paradox in the US where bicycles are mandated by law to treat themselves like a motor vehicle (ie use the streets, not sidewalk), but also a manual bicycle is a “vehicle” going 1/10th the speed limit of the rest of the vehicles and completely exposes the soft fleshy body of the human, with none of the…

[bong rip]

Shoot me an email with the jargon and we’ll circle back later.

I want to blame it on covid. Several series that were disrupted by the first restrictions and then again with omicron restrictions had weird non-sequitur-ish plots. Falcon and the Winter Soldier and BoBF feeling like the worst hit.

I knew the thing that went viral last week had to be BS because it’s the exact opposite of the rule of thumb I heard several years ago: that the lower case pyrex was the “good” kind and PYREX was the crappy one.

“colorblindness” is one of those sinister Enlightened Centrist™ concepts that couches an unequal status quo in nicey sounding language.

“low confidence” that it’s “most likely” 🤷‍♂️

And also, small companies. And medium ones.

Well now I remember that joke!

The Margaritaville episode won an Emmy.

It’s not a remake, this lie needs to stop. The earnings call explicitly said “new stories” from the time period.

Dude, the Charlotte-Douglas Bojangles doesn’t count 🤣

The problem with Bojangles (since about 2016) is there must be some regional management rot, because I haven’t been to an individual location in years that made a good product with care.

My bong-rip psychological assessment is that we’re a unique society based around individualism in an era where there’s never been a wider gap between the individual and the fruits of achievement.

It’s just bad storytelling structure to do what they did. Continuity between different works in a shared universe should be an optional bonus

Ah yes, that newfangled automatic transmission....

We don’t archive our company Openfire chats (a unix based instant messenger) for more than 7 days. There’s no legal requirement.

No, it’s not of low importance when there is (or should be) a litigation hold

Anyone who works in enterprise IT knows that there’s billions of lines of logging that can be produced per day, between the 10,000 systems working at all the OSI layers. Switches, firewalls, routers, load balancers, web servers, applications, etc etc.