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Month: February 2024
Obob
Is there even a thing called unsolicited boob pic?
Yes. Way back when Craigslist used to have personals, a woman I’d exchanged all of two emails with decided to send me some nude photos, completely unasked for and not related to any previous interaction we’d had. No idea why — we’d barely chatted.
I told her that I wasn’t really looking for anything like that just yet as I didn’t really know her. She ghosted me after that, but so what? Obviously not a match.
But it does happen.
Thermo
How much food are obese people actually eating a day?
Far more than they claim to be eating or think they are consuming. It only takes an extra 200 calories a day (a small handful of nuts or so) to be up 100 pounds after a few years. And most obese people eat far more above their caloric needs than that.
No matter what people claim, in the end losing or gaining weight is just energy in, energy out. Everything else is just details.
Data Blam
Something else China will strike in the US (with advanced warning of 30 minutes to an hour) in the coming war: AWS and Azure datacenters.
Can almost guarantee this will happen. Just FYI.
Leave Me
I’m proud to say that I exhibit every one of these behaviors. I am not at work to make friends and I don’t want work friends.
Leave me all the way out of that bullshit.
Degreed
Anyone here become part of management without degree?
I now have a bachelor’s degree, but I’ve been in management roles in IT since my 20s with no degree. I’ve switched back and forth between individual contributor roles and management roles depending on what paid better and what I felt like doing in my career.
But it’s easier to break into management if you have a degree for sure. I certainly have not gotten roles or been ineligible for them because I had no degree.
Deep
I recently finished The Deep by Nick Cutter. I read a lot of books but that one has cycled through my thoughts in the past couple of days for some reason.
I didn’t even like it all that much. It was very repetitive and not particularly thoughtful. The ending was a real corker, though. That’s why it has gotten stuck in my head I think. The denouement reminded me of the best parts of Hellraiser. Someone with more time on their hands than I have could edit 100 pages out of the work and really improve it.
Not recommended, but that ending — dang.
SVC
The first ten on today’s playlist:
No Wazzup
My family threw me a surprise party and I feel guilty for hating it.
No surprise parties for me ever, please. Not that one is likely. Just not my kind of thing. I don’t like surprises and I don’t like parties. Combining the two is even worse.
Built Lie
Book review: “Power and Progress” – by Noah Smith.
The problem with this is that most of the reviewed book consists of distortions and lies — but so do most of Noah Smith’s claims. He’s an economist. His entire field is built on lying to people about their own lives and about how prosperity functions. In many important ways, promulgating those deceptions is why the field of economics exists at all.
It’s important to remember that when reading anything penned by an econ.
Notice that Noah’s whole shtick is to claim against all evidence — and often using completely bogus “evidence” — that workers have never had it better, housing is actually cheap, wages have kept pace with productivity, etc. And then you look at the real world and realize this is heinous clown-level shit that is obviously false.
The entire field of economics should be dissolved and rebuilt from scratch.
Bon Hoz
Today, I figured out Bon Iver and Hozier are not in fact the same entity.
They both suck so who cares. But now I know.
You Get Knocked Down
I get pretty tired while working out, but the most exhausted I’ve ever been in my life was from fighting. That’s a whole different kind of spent there.
One fight I got into, I got knocked down (not from a head hit) and I was so damn wiped out that I could not even lift my arm up off the ground. Luckily I’d knocked the other guy down at the same time so I had a little time to recover.
The only film I’ve seen portray this aspect of fighting relatively realistically is Atomic Blonde (I linked to the correct time in the video there). Just like Charlize and her attacker in that bit, all I could do was roll around on the floor uselessly for 10-15 seconds. No film is realistic as to fighting, but that one felt far more real than most.
Had a Nickel
What’s the wildest shit you’ve seen a girl pull out of her purse?
Nickel-plated Colt Python .357 Magnum Revolver with 6″ barrel.
It was a big fucking gun in a big fucking purse. North Florida, baby. No place like it on earth.
Soul Stare
Whats one compliment you got that you remember till this day?
A very close friend of mine in high school told me that I could see everything about her so clearly that it was like my eyes were burning through right to her very soul.
She intended this as a compliment (despite how it sounds) but also said it was incredibly intense for someone to be able to do that. But I’d known her since kindergarten. I’d witnessed every step of her metamorphosis from an awkward, gawky shy isolato with a dead mom to a charismatic, extroverted and talented young woman. I’m not glad I grew up where I did, but I am glad I got to see that.