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imagine if everyone in advertising were doing literally anything else

2000s hackers: My dream is to connect all of my devices to the internet.
2020s hackers: My dream is to disconnect all of my devices from the internet.

me: "this CSS rule will match exactly what I intend"
<seconds later, every time>
me: "oh."

lying awake in bed in the middle of the night, in a quiet room, I just now had an unmistakable auditory hallucination of the Duolingo "lesson complete" sound. Maybe 400+ day streaks are not a good idea ... o.O

The Album Leaf! This is really quite a strange show... but I'm into it ^.^

now that i've slept for 30 hours, here's my belated pawcon tweet! We had such an awesome time this year, thanks
@pacanthro
for organizing a great little local con. And thanks especially to all of you local critters for turning up and being fun!

evry time someone quits a telegram group without explanation or a goodbye message im basically horrified lol

long ago I had this idea to make fake warning stickers for BART, so it delights me to see that someone actually did it

its taken me nearly a year to clean up this nasty mess of a dataset + pipeline i inherited from The Bad Researchers at work. I'm increasingly sure that they purposefully kept it an undocumented wreck so that they'd be the only ones who would know how to publish results from it.

im sure some marketing bro thought this backpack product shot would inspire thoughts of world travel... but i can't get past my visceral first reaction: "OMG YOU'RE ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR PASSPORT"

this restaurant is entering it's second hour of playing all Wyndam Hill dulcimer instrumental re-imaginings of 1960s and 1970s rock songs and I'm like, marvelling that this much easy listening remake schlock even existed

im kind of amazed at myself for going without alcohol last week. I thought I'd be clawing the walls but didn't miss it that much! that's my first 7 consecutive dry days in, what, 5+ years? Maybe I'll keep doing this a while...

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