JJ Wolverine @jjwolverine@computerfairi.es

I made the wah watch Run Lola Run tonight. Holds up pretty well for a 20 year old film!

I finally processed some photos of our trip to Maui! I hope there's not like, a statute of limitations on photography...
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOc0Ogmyo6ToQqpx1j__uUMACY-iYaNmuvuHLRLvpif9FmrPUy5IRQFt3RdJOQ8GQ?key=dUItUGZxSkllWEFOS2RzYVljSUJnd0VpT3ZIWWdR

my employer's HR goblins are EXTREMELY concerned that they may not be getting credit for my "diversity". Their plan is to ask me for a shit ton of highly personal secrets, non-anonymized, to see if I'm an interesting deviant. LOL no, also get fucked, jerks!

Lovely bluebird day at San Gregorio beach. https://computerfairi.es/media/Ptb_6HqorG5AwA_s44g

@werecupine *snugs* was nice to see you! Thanks for hanging out this con. <3

Ho boy post-con cognitive dissonance... I almost accidentally snuggled a coworker just now. >.>

@nikomonkey he liked it! horrific.

our Irish house guest has insisted on trying "an American s'more". I don't think he realizes what it entails, but we are dedicated to making this happen https://computerfairi.es/media/VdMlYmA7WEUf93LvSRQ

@robey@mastodon.technology +1, if they deleted the post then that's what's important. I think it's fine for small-time brand managers to not be up on the latest fascist symbolism. (And I seriously doubt the rival hypothesis of "hey marketing peeps, lets test the waters on how our customers feel about racism! We'll delete the post if we get blowback!")

Thanks to the many organizers and friends for making my FC2019 excellent! I had a lovely time, and I shall now sleep for a week. -.-

I would happily pay $500 at the dealers den for a self-fixing lanyard which makes my nametag hang right and never flips around backwards

tfw you realize that your lead researcher is basically Jenna Maroney, which makes you the Liz Lemon of the project

@hellamander nice! I still have mixed results with mentorship; sometimes it's very satisfying. But sometimes with junior engineers it's still kinda annoying. Like, "I could have done this faster than I can urge you through it."

Fortunately with these more senior people I'm working with, there's less of the "one inch gopher moats don't stop bears" kind of mentorship XD

20 years in, I finally see how I might enjoy being a manager. When I have teammates who can do something that I don't know how to do (like ML research), it seems genuinely worthwhile to spend my time protecting them from bullshit instead of engineering it myself.

we have an irish house guest who just found out about in-sink garbage disposals and he is INCONSOLABLE

jfc my dad just casually mentioned that he's taking oxy regularly for his back now. Does anybody have a good "how to talk to your Boomer about drugs" guide?

I wonder how many bemused looks this person gets in parking lots! https://computerfairi.es/media/RkOdodaPoUc06Ayaq4k

After the most recent GMS update, my phone now kernel panics and reboots whenever I walk under a specific tree near my office. o.O

This mailer from my power company seems vaguely threatening. Stay safe from these old people? Stay safe by saving power, so that PG&E doesn't need to come and rough me up? I don't think I want to know https://computerfairi.es/media/66xIlBZsg0_DXcQynHM

But 2018 bro, you had some shit:
- Wasted a year of my career on utter bullshit
- Continued to drift away from old friends for no reason that I can understand
- omg world politics and climate
- omg the stock market
- California, plz stop being on fire