bottom: yeah that's the real root cause of most workplace conflict
date: 2021-08-14
id: 00002
top: ...and that's how I became a YAML engineer.
bottom: To be honest, I'm not sure it's a real job either. But they keep giving me YAML and I keep ENGINEERING it!
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00003
top: So did you watch the Super Bowl?
bottom: Yeah, me neither.
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00004
top: Did you know that one of the very first television advertisements during the AFL–NFL World Championship Game was for Budweiser beer?
bottom: Yep! I guess you could say it was a SUPER BOWL PROTO AD!
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00005
top: Who even ever asked for or wanted an information SUPERHIGHWAY anyway?
bottom: All I want is like a small cute remote information HIKING TRAIL somewhere out in the woods where I can see some flowers and leaves and listen to the birds and stuff.
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00006
top: Is there even such a thing as "mainstream" anymore? I mean it used to be the case that everybody watched the same nightly news and listened to the same radio station. And "counterculture" was growing your hair long and listening to rock and roll. Now the duality of mainstream vs. counterculture seems as quaint as the idea that there are only two genders or only two sexes. Kids don't listen to rock & roll to rebel, they listen to soundcloud emo rap, or whatever, and if the niche sound that speaks directly to them doesn't exist, they can invent it and upload it for the world to hear with little more than a cheap laptop.
bottom: At the other end of the LONG TAIL of the internet is a metaphorical infosec furry, and because of them there are as many small STREAMS and countercultures as there are individual people.
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00007
top: there should be no such thing as billionaires
top: There was a sense of euphoria while we were in flow, like we were invinsible, but afterwards everything seemed brittle and fragile like it was held together with duct tape and kite string and like it might all come crumbling down if the wind blew in from the wrong direction. And there we were in the aftermath, unsure whether we accomplished our goals, who we hurt in the process, or if there was anything good about it all.
bottom: So anyway that's what we call a "hackathon". The tech bros invited me to "do some lines" and at this point I can't remember if it was code or coke.
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00009
top: So I picked up a book in the middle of this epic fantasy series. It's by this author who I heard does really good sword and sorcery stories, and I'm into that. Anyway the story opens on a tragic, lonely noble lord, last of his line, subject to disfigurement because of the family curse and whatnot. But, get this, it totally takes place in Old Germany during the rise of the Nazi party!
bottom: I was so disoriented that I looked it up, and there will eventually be a classic fantasy storyline that interweaves with the modern nazi storyline.
+ Which means eventually the hero is literally going ride a dragon to Hitler's bunker and punch him in the face and if there's one thing this world needs more of, it's mother fucking dragons beating the shit out of nazis.
date: 2021-08-29
id: 00010
top: a guy was looking for a priest to officiate his wedding and narrowed it down to his final two choices. the first one walked in with two beetles and started praying over the bugs. the second one started spraying everybody with holy water from a water gun. Know who he chose?
bottom: He chose the blesser of two weevils
date: 2021-12-01
id: 00011
top: So I was down by the capitol and I noticed some kind of protest was happening. I saw a couple people wearing US flags and thought to myself, ew, probably a bunch of treasonous right-wing fundamentalist bastards. Which, you know, is always the first thing you think when you see somebody wearing the US flag. But then I saw somebody holding a "My Body My Choice" sign and thought, aw, it must be some pro-choicers! And I decided to get a little closer to check it out.
bottom: I got close enough to see a bunch of the other signs and they were all like, "No Jab! No Vaccine!" and that's when I knew I had been tricked. It WAS a bunch of treasonous right-wing fundamentalist bastards! I said "ew" again and turned around and ran away.
date: 2022-02-03
id: 00012
top: Ed is the standard text editor!
bottom: ?
+ ?
+ ?
date: 2022-08-25
id: 00013
top: You can't fathom the unfathomable.
bottom: You can't derstand the understandable!
date: 2022-11-04
id: 00014
top: So there's this librarian who logged into a remote server to tell everybody on irc to keep the chatter down
bottom: It was a ssh shh
date: 2022-12-01
id: 00015
top: dang it yall hvae me writing a bunch of other fun stuff in there
bottom: I wonder if i can find something somebody calls home
date: 2023-08-23
id: 00016
top: Having fun isn't hard!
bottom: ... when you have a library card!
date: 2023-10-01
id: 00017
top: today, I'm playing camp counselor at work and also facing the reality I need to upgrade my very old cell phone
bottom: hahaha, one is just emotional, the other is me doing the emotional labor of redirecting other folks energies so that they don't do a murder or something
date: 2023-10-02
id: 00018
top: hello my friends wit hshell access
bottom: but my mood is good, which trumps everything
top: Mickey is at his attorney's office filing for divorce. Lawyer says, "I'm sorry Mickey, I just don't think you have a case. You can't divorce Minnie for being weird..."
bottom: Mickey, getting visibly frustrated, says, "You're not listening! I never said she's WEIRD, I said she's FUCKING GOOFY!"
