Every keyboard should have a jog shuttle.

I seriously do love making recruiters angry by telling them I do remote work only, and that nothing else is even worth considering. And then those that push back with some variation of, “It might pay to not be so picky,” I respond with a semi-canned, “Bro/Broette, I already have an extremely well-paid job and 3-5 of you a week contacting with me actual fully-remote roles. I don’t need you. You need me.”

And that really sets ’em off. But they deserve it.

I enjoy sleep paralysis and I also like nightmares. And I am completely serious about both of those things.

I don’t care when my “heroes” do fucked up stuff to an extent because I don’t expect those I think of as awesome in some way to be amazing in all ways. No human can be that. It’s not a condition that they are 24/7 saints for me to think they’re great.

Obviously, some behaviors are intolerable. But particularly for artists, they often swim against the current. It’s difficult — nearly impossible — for that to be true in just the area where they make great art.

Seems not so difficult to understand to me.

I do not do well in groups and do not like being part of them. Groups inevitably lead to groupthink and I want nothing to do with that.

I recognize that groups are an unavoidable part of life but doesn’t mean I have to like it. And groups generally end up having issues with me because I’m always the one saying, “I know everyone here thinks that, but you’re all wrong.”

That does seem to be my assigned role in life.

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024

One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And Elon Musk (as odious as he is) does “nothing.” Right. He hired Gwynne Shotwell and gave her enough money and space to do what she do, which might be the greatest hiring decision in all history.

Being dangerously thin is back in. Is the body-positivity era officially over?

God, let’s hope so. It wasn’t about “body positivity” in reality. It was just an excuse for unhealthily obese women to excuse their behavior and lack of self-discipline.

Anyway, to people like this “dangerously thin” just means “normal BMI.” It’s sad what we’ve become.

Dude, yeah, that’s fucking crazy. When I got out of the army one of the reasons I was considering going to UNC Chapel Hill is that it was 65% women and on that campus was the only place in my entire life I’d ever had a woman approach me in a flirting/romantic sense.

I did not end up enrolling but I am not going to lie, at the time it was a consideration. (And not just for romantic reasons. I also get along better with women as friends.) What the ever-livin’ fuck is wrong with Gen Z?

Today, I have fixed three different problems developers should’ve been able to correct themselves. I am not a developer. I don’t even like programming.

But I do what I do because I have to. Someone has to be awesome; might as well be me.

White American women have insane, absurd expectations these days. All of them think they deserve the top 1% of men, mostly due to social media contamination as well as just the generally poisonous women’s culture in the US. If I weren’t with my current partner, I’d not even try to date a white American woman. It’s pointless. If Israel weren’t likely to be bombed into oblivion I’d probably go there.

Literally any other Western country and many Asian countries are better than the US for any man (even top 1%) to attempt to date. What the fuck has happened here?

Two women kicked off Spirit Airlines flight for wearing crop tops.

And people said culture was not getting more prudish. The last flight I was on, the woman sitting next to me had on a cute crop top. They didn’t kick her off, but it was not Spirit (which I’d not fly if I could at all avoid it).

I hate biking and don’t want to bike anywhere or interact with anyone while doing it.

I like my car.

By the way, we are happy with our new (to us) house and would be happy even if it halved in “value.”

We bought it to live in, not as an investment vehicle. We only pulled the trigger on buying when we knew we could afford the house to be worth $0 and we’d be financially ok. We are lucky to have that privilege. Lucky, and worked hard too. And I have zero guilt about exercising that privilege and reaping the rewards of my luck and my work.

I bet he can actually read. Of course, I am biased by my own experiences.

I was accused of memorizing books when I could definitely read very young, between 3-4 years old. I remember being angry about that. (One of my earliest memories is being incensed at adults underestimating me.) I could read fine. To prove I could actually read, I picked up one of my grandfather’s electrical engineering books and started reading it aloud. There were some words I didn’t yet know, but I had no problem with most of it.

That shut ’em up. For a little while, anyway.

WGU alumni accepted into Brown for Grad school.

I’ve gone to several community colleges and have had friends in state schools and Ivy League schools. And I have a degree from WGU.

Given my direct experience and my proxy knowledge, I’d say WGU is better than the average community college and about the equal of a mid-level state school. It is not a diploma mill (one of the reasons I chose it), but it absolutely does not work like a regular school. In some ways — many ways — it’s harder. There are no classes, so you have to learn everything yourself, at your own pace.

For many people that’s impossible. Hence why there is a pretty low graduation rate.

The exams are proctored and many are extremely difficult. I’m ace at taking exams and I nearly failed one, which is unheard of for me. I don’t think I’ve failed a single non-math exam in my life. Still haven’t, but the practical SQL exam I barely passed.

Because the exams are all-or-nothing and there is only one, you have to remember a whole lot more than you do for the average college class. I have a capacious memory so this was ok for me. Many people flunk out because they cannot do this, though.

I did finish my degree fairly quickly, but it’d be fucking embarrassing if I couldn’t plow through a degree in a field in which I have nearly 25 years of professional experience. That’s why you see some people finishing so fast. Hell, many of those classes I could’ve easily taught with no prep at all. (I also had half of my credits fulfilled by community college and high-level certs.)

WGU is not a school for everyone. If you’re not self-motivated with a quality memory and experience already in your degree field, you’ll probably fail. But it’s a great school for some people and I happened to be one of them.