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Last night I went to my brother's house to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters.

What a wonderful experience.

Yesterday: earnestly believed

Today: obvious fraud

Tomorrow: political theatre

Anyway, I did get a ticket before the movie started, so that's good.

(Dune Imax. I enjoyed it.)

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The movie theater has a guy up front processing online tickets, but no ticket booths, merging everyone into a single concession line.

It would be faster to buy the ticket by phone and talk to the bored guy, but it costs an extra $1.75

People trying to react to Facebook becoming Meta but forget that Google already became Alphabet.

FAANG --> MAAAN

Pronounced like a teenager who has just been told that yes, they have to go to their younger sibling's dance recital: Oh Maaan...

Jill (British): I'm not wearing any pants.

Jack (American): No, you're obviously wearing a skirt.

Jill: * smacks forehead *

Selling my soul to the devil for the ability to make my commitments.

If I get the job that is remote with a bunch of people in Pacific time should I sleep in and work late?

Once, I foolishly thought Twitter would be good for professional networking.

The following list on my meatnym account is proof of that. The timeline on my meatnym account is proof that it's a terrible strategy.

Me: Why is "Kyle Rittenhouse" trending?

Also me: I regret my decision.

You don’t even have a word for the look two people give each other when they each hope that the other will do something that they both want done but which neither of them wants to do.

Despite rumors to the contrary, @AnonCorn and I are not married, and @hifuncornsyrup is not our child.

I am enjoying the flavor of posters talking about their spouse by calling her <Mrs. MyPostingHandle>.

I predict that when a fully general AI is developed, it will not be based on the techniques that underlie today's text generators.

The final AI will not be GPT-X for any X.

It seems like it's really hard to get computer parts in physical stores these days.

My son's laptop's hard disk failed and we had to get him a new one. There was _one_ applicable model available for purchase.

Felagund means badger and was given to him as a mocking nickname by his cousins.

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Boring: arguing about trans officers.

Hilarious: a woman was sworn in as a four-star admiral in 2014. twitter.com/nytimes/status/145

I have a previous try at _Dune_ (the one from the '70s) on DVD.

I'm tempted to watch it.

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