Amusingly, I work for an established company these days (I did my time in the startup mines, thanks) and first quarter every year, C-level is chanting whatever buzzword is en vogue. Last year we were going to “disrupt” everything. I don’t remember what the year before’s buzzword was, but we were gonna do that, too.…

Thanks for proving my point.

I believe at this point, after a mountain of litigation being tossed out for complete lack of credible evidence of anything at all, we’re into Russell’s teapot territory. There is no investigation exhaustive enough to assure these people that whatever’s going on in their febrile imaginations didn’t happen when math,…

The human condition, sadly, involves a long history of many people being dipshits. The monumental problem for the framers would be twofold: getting past their own dipshit tendencies and then providing sufficient guardrails against the myriad of inventive new ways future generations might come up with to be dipshits.…

Late to the party, again.

The Square Cafe is amazing, but, all I recall from my last visit was how insanely packed the place was, with a crazy line to get in and my plate basically overlapping someone else’s when I finally got seated. Pick up orders may be the best idea ever, even without a pandemic to contend with.

I’m late to the party, but, my friend, rewatch the scene at school in the anatomy classroom. The lingering, furtive looks while discussing a date. The staging, too. All the students clumped together, gossiping about a boy, except for our girl; an outsider, gazing at one girl in particular, and not because she gives a…

I’m having some trouble. Last episode, the ultimate evil was a Jewish man; this episode we other and then murder an indigenous intersex person. I get that there’s a broader context, but given the horrific nature of the main history, and the intensive attention to detail, I’m left wondering what to do with these…

For all the thoughtful historical and mythic work going on in this episode, I was quietly dismayed that the ultimate evil was a character with a quintessentially Jewish name. In Chicago of the 1950s, Skokie and Lincolnwood were the primary Jewish neighborhoods — on the north side — but since no mention is made of it…

I saw the same article — the “good news” is that those projections were if mask use abates. Not that the 200,000 dead we’ll easily have by the end of the year is anything like “good news.”

If there’s a Chinese adaptation in the works, then, the problem kinda solves itself. Hello, English subtitles, I am ever so thankful for you.

I appreciate the help (and the user name). I didn’t even know “hair extensions” were a thing. Then again, I have very little interest or knowledge of hair and get the look of an uncultured wombat caught in headlights when the stylist asks me what I want done to my own mop. “Uh, please make it so I can see where I’m…

I watched the episode and immediately came here to read the review of the episode. I was reminded of a time I accompanied a friend, a part-time music critic, to a concert. We sat and listened to the same music, but then I read his review in the paper and realized we hadn’t heard the same things at all.

Never thought I’d be rooting for shoggoths, but by the time they turned up, “horror” was a relief.

Yeah. You’re supposed to be “feminine” but not be “flirty,” distracting, or emotional. Competent, but not more competent than the men, and certainly don’t expect any credit for it — that’s for men, honey. Be pleasant (because you’re decoration!) Do all the little extra bits like cleaning up the conference room table…

I’m sorry you had to endure that.

I wasn’t sufficiently obsequious* to my older, male boss — while doing his job because he’s too incompetent to do it — on Wednesday. I was then asked how this criticism made me feel.

Can we give Melvil Dewey a posthumous Nobel Prize, because I think he’s got this covered. :)

They’re signaling very loudly that if it did happen, they’d be totally cool with it.

I’m curious to try a weighted blanket, but besides not believing for a minute that a giant blanket full of sand (oh, okay, tiny glass beads — processed sand) sounds “cooling”, whenever I look at weighted blankets, the reviews go on and on about the filling leaking everywhere. Are the reviews giving a distorted…

I’m curious to try a weighted blanket, but besides not believing for a minute that a giant blanket full of sand (oh,…