i’ve tried using it on & off for debugging code when i’m very stuck or in a hurry and it’s really good at giving me such bad ideas that i can sort of negatively find the actual problem by elimination

when i was in college i interned at a govcon place (digitization … not drones) and my boss would always say with a sort of mistaken pride that our job was “herding cats,” like we were doing something very difficult but necessary, and not something ultimately fruitless & stupid

my manager generally is a universal thumbs-upper (confounding in its own way) but today i expressed that a client seemed to be having a bad day, to which she for the first time ever reacted “😔”

think it’s meant as a “right??” emphasis but i mainly use it as a sort of silently confused “right..”. not sure if this is correct

some of the worst effects of cooking at home i've been shielded from by veganism (meat in particular's now horrible in quality & price), but even still, produce is really bad; feels like every 3rd onion i get is rotten inside. restaurant stuff is especially true anywhere exurban, where sysco rules

“i need a gas stove, i just can’t cook without a responsive heat source” oh i’m sure.

i’ve long been fascinated by the karaoke bar school of interior design. i lived near one in atlanta that was similarly styled, except one room was inexplicably ferrari-themed & cost extra to rent

i think about this one weekly

bouquets on the side of the road outside of Mos Espa where a palawan on a speeder got obliterated by an imperial freighter merging left

macos saves screenshots to desktop by default (& without any real prompting) so you can keep 10 gb worth of every thing you have ever screenshotted conveniently timestamped in one very pretty place

i was instructed to refer to even my good bit older cousins as aunts/uncles as a child, i guess as a matter of respect. maybe the polish-american experience is more colorful than i had ever imagined …

a tidbit i took away from abuse counseling—as cliche as the comparison between domestic abuse & political domination might be—was that fear is useful for abusers, because it’s usually incompatible with anger. you aren’t really able to be mad at the lion charging at you

one i love [hate] is when you send an email about something to a group of people, and then one of Them one-offs you and asks you to explain it all again to them personally

top brass reportedly having green tea for lunch