stopnamingnuts

The Seattle forecast, overcast with a chance of showers, will change nothing.

Fifteen pieces of flair is the minimum.

If I'm imagining your experience correctly this exemplifies part of why we need to open up our culture. Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed.

Can confirm.

If I've been on the road for a week already and it's after midnight and I just spent 11 hours rebuilding the server closet of my organization's Oak Ridge, TN location and you're waiting the graveyard counter at Waffle House and you bring my meal with a smile and call me "Hun"... well, you get a $40 tip on my $7.95 bill. Thank you again.

That's a lot of frunk.

I guarantee the flux capacitor will be extra.

I would add that overreach is a thing and it alienates many of us who are not fundamentally against greater density. Perfect example: the developer is planning a seven story structure to replace the current Albertsons property across from the pool. That's seven stories from the alley at the back of the inclined lot which means more like eight or nine from the sidewalk. And it will occupy the entire space, shoe-horning itself up against the relatively affordable three story apartment buildings on either side. At the first public meeting when asked why they were going so big their exact words were "because we can". So, yeah: even reasonable, progressive people get bent out of shape.

I concur. My wife commutes north-south and was just able to get through Viadoom but it was a close run thing. It would have been apocalyptic if permanent. I sometimes wonder if proponents of shut-it-off-and-see-what-breaks strategies are people in my organization's network infrastructure group using throwaway accounts. They love that approach.

Nice sentiment but I must correct you: I am definitely shit. And an impostor.

I concur. The tedium of maintaining somebody else’s crap code in an obsolete language is an invaluable learning experience for new devs. Also, it’s hilarious to listen to the whining.

Correct. Every neighborhood around SeaTac is densely populated.

Amen.

Twitter needs to die just so I can... please, in the name of all that is good and holy... stop being fucking hounded on all other media at 26 second intervals by every Z-list celebrity, podcaster, radio clown, journalist and postal carrier begging me to follow them.

This. The feed algorithm appears to be designed by committee with the usual results. Fonzi stuck his landing a long time ago.

I used to post random thoughts that struck me as funny and I spent some time getting the wording just right. But I'm such an outlier that it stopped being fun. I just text them to a couple of people now.

On the few occasions I go on Facebook I have to resist the urge to post a tongue-in-cheek comment about how I check in so rarely because "you're all so goddamn boring."

And if I have to look at one more picture of somebody's $37 plate of paella I'm going to burn my eyes out with a fireplace poker.

Can letting go be the change that qualifies under this definition? For most of my users the problem making them (and me) miserable is not the absence of the minor, nice-to-have feature which they have turned into a major defect in their mind. It's the neurosis itself. The change they need to make is to lighten up rather than dancing in the entryway of my cube on tiptoes like they have to tinkle until I break down and work on their pet priority.

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