We’ve considered doing this. Why buy a home in an area where you have no intention of living permanently? It’s just a liquidity trap and a huge risk.
Jan
07
Jan
07
Lost In Datacenter Space
Back in the day we helped a customer find a lost server by popping it’s cd tray out!
— Tim Panton CES Booth no1708 Westgate (@steely_glint) January 7, 2020
Have done this. Also have found lost servers by blinking the drive lights.
Jan
07
Dip In
Florida woman arrested for threatening McDonald’s employees over dipping sauce dispute, police say.
Dipping sauce is serious business. As the Beastie Boys once nearly expostulated, “You’ve got to fight, fight for your right to dipping sauce!”
Jan
07
Bruising
It’s amazing how just a few more inches of muscle makes you look more imposing.
A woman I work with said she glanced across the parking lot this morning as I was walking in (I park far away) and thought, “Huh, who is that bruiser walking across the parking lot?” And then she realized it was me.
Ha. Absolutely no one would’ve described me as a “bruiser” a year ago. I don’t really think it’s that accurate, because I think a bruiser really needs to be over 200 pounds, but I sure am a lot different than I was then.
Jan
07
Not Meating
Impossible Dumplings and Beyond Buns: Will China Buy Fake Meat?
Fuck, let’s hope not.
Jan
06
Cost Accounting
With the war in Iran looming, remember that what it’ll cost could’ve paid for Medicare for All four times over, and a complete conversion to renewable energy for the entire US — as well as free college for everyone.
Easily.
Jan
06
Fight Throng
I spent 2019 hearing people ask how we’d pay for Medicare for All.
Thus far in 2020, I have not heard any of those people ask how we would pay for a war in Iran.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 5, 2020
And we should send all those people to fight in Iran. Problem solved.
Jan
06
Adaptation
So one must believe hominids ate toxic saturated fats over 3 million years of evolution, until the great day roughly 100 years ago when we learned to extract healthful unsaturated fats out of seeds. This absurd idea persists only because seed oils are obscenely profitable. https://t.co/yZw5Ei27bI
— Brad Lemley (@BradCLemley) January 4, 2020
That’s pretty much it. Really need to increase my meat consumption greatly. Bittman was wrong, mostly.
Jan
06
Iran Not So Far
If Clinton had won, we’d probably already be at war with Iran.
That’s not very comforting as to the future, but alas true.
Jan
05
Eat Some Sense
Since people are apparently forgetting, here is your reminder to eat a food.
Any food. You need calories to live, and a food has calories. Food has no moral value. You can just eat ice cream and potato chips for dinner! But please eat a food.
— 🚩Auntie Shepherd🏴 (@NeolithicSheep) January 5, 2020
Fuck this awful bullshit. Might as well put “Sponsored by NabiscoTM” after it.
Food has no moral value, agreed. But that doesn’t mean one should just consume it for kicks. It has consequences, though we are not really allowed to talk about that openly any longer. (You feet will let you know, though, when they fall off due to diabetes at 50.)
Why do people care so much about enforcing mediocrity, of being worse than they can be? Of course it’s because capitalism depends on this, but why do people apparently want this? Because I want no part of any of this.