Not Even Nothing
@fellow-creature.bsky.social
A software engineer who is neverendingly tinkering with found data. A parent. Liker of early music and choral music in general.
Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
In my personal programming project, whenever I implement a new feature that automates the wrangling of the data a little further, I'm faced with a dilemma:
Should I ride the high of the success and implement another feature, or should I use the feature for a while to see if it's really helpful? 1/2
Should I ride the high of the success and implement another feature, or should I use the feature for a while to see if it's really helpful? 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In my personal programming project, whenever I implement a new feature that automates the wrangling of the data a little further, I'm faced with a dilemma:
Should I ride the high of the success and implement another feature, or should I use the feature for a while to see if it's really helpful? 1/2
Should I ride the high of the success and implement another feature, or should I use the feature for a while to see if it's really helpful? 1/2
It's funny (and completely understandable) that it has the same tone and vibe - the same ridiculous, breathless and clueless praise - as AI spambot comments on AO3.
So real authors are being hit by them too? Spam is a great equalizer.
So real authors are being hit by them too? Spam is a great equalizer.
Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's funny (and completely understandable) that it has the same tone and vibe - the same ridiculous, breathless and clueless praise - as AI spambot comments on AO3.
So real authors are being hit by them too? Spam is a great equalizer.
So real authors are being hit by them too? Spam is a great equalizer.
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Weight loss is the blood-letting of our era. We prescribe for everything, and it only helps very few and actively harms others.
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Weight loss is the blood-letting of our era. We prescribe for everything, and it only helps very few and actively harms others.
Look at this Easter Egg in the 2025 Sacred Harp edition on Bremen Sacred Harp website!
sacredharpbremen.org/666-crash-ti...
sacredharpbremen.org/666-crash-ti...
666 Crash Time, Baby! (Let’s Roll.) – Sacred Harp Bremen
sacredharpbremen.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Look at this Easter Egg in the 2025 Sacred Harp edition on Bremen Sacred Harp website!
sacredharpbremen.org/666-crash-ti...
sacredharpbremen.org/666-crash-ti...
The old work laptop fan emitted high-pitched whine like a dentist's drill. The new laptop fan makes a sound like a running faucet. It is an improvement, but every few seconds I startle myself with "OMG, did I not turn off the water in the bathroom?"
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The old work laptop fan emitted high-pitched whine like a dentist's drill. The new laptop fan makes a sound like a running faucet. It is an improvement, but every few seconds I startle myself with "OMG, did I not turn off the water in the bathroom?"
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Vampires would experience time differently than a mortal, years passing in the blink of an eye.
For a vampire, time is infinite and free. It is worthless.
So why don't they ever show vampires using linux?
For a vampire, time is infinite and free. It is worthless.
So why don't they ever show vampires using linux?
April 15, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Vampires would experience time differently than a mortal, years passing in the blink of an eye.
For a vampire, time is infinite and free. It is worthless.
So why don't they ever show vampires using linux?
For a vampire, time is infinite and free. It is worthless.
So why don't they ever show vampires using linux?
The transition of my work laptop to the Great IT Asset Management Abode In The Sky was not dramatic. I woke up after 5 am (!!!) and missed the moment. My password simply no longer worked.
I did not even have a chance to sing the Parting Hand to it, but my family was asleep,so I wouldn't have anyway.
I did not even have a chance to sing the Parting Hand to it, but my family was asleep,so I wouldn't have anyway.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The transition of my work laptop to the Great IT Asset Management Abode In The Sky was not dramatic. I woke up after 5 am (!!!) and missed the moment. My password simply no longer worked.
I did not even have a chance to sing the Parting Hand to it, but my family was asleep,so I wouldn't have anyway.
I did not even have a chance to sing the Parting Hand to it, but my family was asleep,so I wouldn't have anyway.
Meanwhile, my old work laptop will be "frozen" (that's the term IT support person used) and stop working at 6 am. tomorrow. If I'm awake at that time (very likely) maybe I should watch it happen. Be there for it in its last seconds. Sing the Parting Friends song for it, perhaps.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Meanwhile, my old work laptop will be "frozen" (that's the term IT support person used) and stop working at 6 am. tomorrow. If I'm awake at that time (very likely) maybe I should watch it happen. Be there for it in its last seconds. Sing the Parting Friends song for it, perhaps.
That feeling when you have successfully exported your Artifactory credentials to a new work laptop and it now connects and installs the packages from the company Artifactory repo. It's like it is now officially adopted into the family!
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
That feeling when you have successfully exported your Artifactory credentials to a new work laptop and it now connects and installs the packages from the company Artifactory repo. It's like it is now officially adopted into the family!
Note to future self: If you have the misfortune of using Microsoft One Drive again do not try to back up an entire folder to it. Not if it has more than a few files in it.
It will hose your laptop so badly it will become completely unresponsive. As in, a minute to respond to a mouse click/keystroke.
It will hose your laptop so badly it will become completely unresponsive. As in, a minute to respond to a mouse click/keystroke.
December 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Note to future self: If you have the misfortune of using Microsoft One Drive again do not try to back up an entire folder to it. Not if it has more than a few files in it.
It will hose your laptop so badly it will become completely unresponsive. As in, a minute to respond to a mouse click/keystroke.
It will hose your laptop so badly it will become completely unresponsive. As in, a minute to respond to a mouse click/keystroke.
My son attends a class on the language of the Galaxy Far Away - the native language of half of his ancestors. Today the homework was to write an acrostic where the first letters of the poem form your name. And:
His name contains a W, but the language of the Galaxy Far Away does not have that letter!
His name contains a W, but the language of the Galaxy Far Away does not have that letter!
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My son attends a class on the language of the Galaxy Far Away - the native language of half of his ancestors. Today the homework was to write an acrostic where the first letters of the poem form your name. And:
His name contains a W, but the language of the Galaxy Far Away does not have that letter!
His name contains a W, but the language of the Galaxy Far Away does not have that letter!
Not sure how many days it's been, but I noticed just now that Bremen Sacred Harp website has changed over to the 2025 edition! And they have archived the 1991 edition in its own subdomain, so it's still there.
I'll crawl back into my cave now.
I'll crawl back into my cave now.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Not sure how many days it's been, but I noticed just now that Bremen Sacred Harp website has changed over to the 2025 edition! And they have archived the 1991 edition in its own subdomain, so it's still there.
I'll crawl back into my cave now.
I'll crawl back into my cave now.
I made a cranberry pie with a store-bought crust. I was also informed by several people that cranberry pie is Not A Thing, later amended to "well, it can't be worse than cranberry relish in a pie crust, which doesn't sound that bad". For a Not A Thing it tasted pretty decent.
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I made a cranberry pie with a store-bought crust. I was also informed by several people that cranberry pie is Not A Thing, later amended to "well, it can't be worse than cranberry relish in a pie crust, which doesn't sound that bad". For a Not A Thing it tasted pretty decent.
I suck at programming less than I would suck at "people" jobs.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I suck at programming less than I would suck at "people" jobs.
The early music concert is in the bag. Now I can let the earworms of Thomas Tallis and several anonymuses air out of my brain and be replaced by my usual shape note earworm playlist. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The early music concert is in the bag. Now I can let the earworms of Thomas Tallis and several anonymuses air out of my brain and be replaced by my usual shape note earworm playlist. 1/3
Heard today at the dress rehearsal of our early music ensemble and choir, with some people concerned about to make consonants come through clearer in a French song, as that language is notoriously light on consonants:
"Speaking French is like chewing marshmallows and partially regurgitating them."
"Speaking French is like chewing marshmallows and partially regurgitating them."
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Heard today at the dress rehearsal of our early music ensemble and choir, with some people concerned about to make consonants come through clearer in a French song, as that language is notoriously light on consonants:
"Speaking French is like chewing marshmallows and partially regurgitating them."
"Speaking French is like chewing marshmallows and partially regurgitating them."
Today brought me the news that I won the first place in a speculative flash fiction contest that took place in the Galaxy Far Away of my birth. Granted, there were only 20 submissions, so it's not much to brag about. But still. 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today brought me the news that I won the first place in a speculative flash fiction contest that took place in the Galaxy Far Away of my birth. Granted, there were only 20 submissions, so it's not much to brag about. But still. 1/2
Copilot has been useful in code reviews, pointing out potential bugs that I, in my infinite attention to detail, had missed. So I thought, let's try to let it optimize SQL queries!
The first query I asked it to optimize, it made it run four times LONGER.
The first query I asked it to optimize, it made it run four times LONGER.
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Copilot has been useful in code reviews, pointing out potential bugs that I, in my infinite attention to detail, had missed. So I thought, let's try to let it optimize SQL queries!
The first query I asked it to optimize, it made it run four times LONGER.
The first query I asked it to optimize, it made it run four times LONGER.
That's so funny - we are practicing a Thomas Tallis piece for an upcoming concert and there IS an F and F sharp occurring in it at the same time.
So crunchy! Dissonance resolving into dissonance!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jqf...
(This edition says "He never published the piece himself and it is not hard to see why." How rude!) www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jqf...
(This edition says "He never published the piece himself and it is not hard to see why." How rude!) www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/...
O salutaris hostia (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble)
YouTube video by LeStrange Viols - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
That's so funny - we are practicing a Thomas Tallis piece for an upcoming concert and there IS an F and F sharp occurring in it at the same time.
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Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
My 14-year-old (US-born, native English speaker) son says "tortilla" rhymes with "idea", since they both end in "ee-ya". I (non-US-born ESL speaker) say those are different sounds, since the "ea" in "idea" is a diphthong and thus a single syllable, but the "ee-ya" in "tortilla" is two syllables. 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My 14-year-old (US-born, native English speaker) son says "tortilla" rhymes with "idea", since they both end in "ee-ya". I (non-US-born ESL speaker) say those are different sounds, since the "ea" in "idea" is a diphthong and thus a single syllable, but the "ee-ya" in "tortilla" is two syllables. 1/2
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It’s a small thing, but I get so mad at the assumption posited by AI that ideas come before writing. No, idiot, writing and beliefs are formed in concert, you fool, you rube. It is only by bothering to try to communicate that I discover who I am.
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It’s a small thing, but I get so mad at the assumption posited by AI that ideas come before writing. No, idiot, writing and beliefs are formed in concert, you fool, you rube. It is only by bothering to try to communicate that I discover who I am.
I kind of wish that at Sacred Harp singings there was a different protocol for announcing leads. I would like to be told which my leading slot will be much earlier than just one song in advance. The way it is now, I can't enjoy the singing completely if I know I could be called soon. 1/2
November 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I kind of wish that at Sacred Harp singings there was a different protocol for announcing leads. I would like to be told which my leading slot will be much earlier than just one song in advance. The way it is now, I can't enjoy the singing completely if I know I could be called soon. 1/2
I got my grubby paws on the 2025 book, finally. Aaaand, there are sticky breakfast pastries here. You know what that means. I'll be eating that gold paint off of my fingers any time now!
November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I got my grubby paws on the 2025 book, finally. Aaaand, there are sticky breakfast pastries here. You know what that means. I'll be eating that gold paint off of my fingers any time now!
At Dallas county all day Sacred Harp singing.
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
At Dallas county all day Sacred Harp singing.