Lockdown is about the same strategy as slamming your head against a concrete wall when a mosquito lands on your face.

Just saw a woman with a full on gas mask jaywalk through the middle of moving traffic in NYC and I don’t think I understand risk tolerance anymore.

— Nick Maggiulli (@dollarsanddata) July 15, 2021

A lot of lockdown lifers and blue state scoldy people are the same ones who drive SUVs like goddamn maniacs while wanting everything to be “completely safe.”

Football/soccer is the most boring goddamn sport in the entire world. Chaotic running around and half the games end in a fucking 1-1 tie? Why does anyone like that? A sport essentially popular because it’s easy to play shouldn’t be a thing so many people are so passionate about. At least not in my mind.

I think I will never understand that sport. It’s what I’d watch if I needed a more-powerful pentobarbital. It’s just the lowest common denominator sport — which I guess makes sense.

When we were in Asheville on vacation, we stopped by a Publix to grab some provender. I was wearing one of my tighter shirts and as we were leaving the self-checkout, the checkout kiosk minder woman wished me a good day and said a few other things.

I don’t think she ever once looked at my face. She was checking me out hard. Mostly the arms, but also spent a long and longing gaze on my chest. I was joking with my partner that I needed to get one of those “my eyes are up here” t-shirts.

I was laughing about it as I walked out the door. For the average guy to become non-average and get treated how the average women gets treated some of the time, you have to work out hard for three-ish years and watch your diet pretty closely.

That’s not the reason I did it, but I do find it fun and funny when this ogling happens.

Programing is terrible because programming languages and environments are written by programmers. I can see how it could be made vastly better, but I don’t have the interest and passion to do any of it myself.