dan

dan, 7 months ago to random

I love how some UW student was so enthusiastic about the kalua pork in the food court that they FOIAed the recipe.

https://imgur.com/tZ3TTSt

dan, 11 months ago to random

New phone. Looking forward to all the time I’ll save dialing by storing my contacts… on punch cards!

dan, 15 days ago to random

currently attempting to use an ethernet interface called "enp8s0f0npf0vf1" and cannot help but think

STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

dan, 3 months ago to random

I would have thought that if there was anything we could trust Texans with, it'd be peppers, but apparently that is not true at all.

https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-peppers-less-spicy-blame-aggies/

dan, 1 month ago to random

It has now been 6 years since I was banned from home decor.

dan, 10 months ago to random

Oh great, Grace Hopper -- the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists -- is being held in Florida later this year. I can't imagine any way that might go badly...

dan, 2 months ago to random

I'm hearing that Broadcom has quietly decided to stop renewing VMware employees' H-1B visas as a way to lay them off without having to pay severance, and, wow, what a shitty thing to do.

dan, 6 months ago to random

I spent my entire PhD telling people eventual consistency models for things like shopping carts were going to lead to weird anomalies, but nobody listened to me, and now here I am trying to figure out what to do with the extra 8 onions the grocery store just delivered to me.

dan, 3 months ago to random

thought I finally made some progress clearing out the pantry by cooking 5 pounds of dried beans last week, but 6 pounds more showed up today

Bean Club is an exhausting lifestyle

dan, 1 month ago to random

Went to the Japanese store to stock up on non-essentials

dan, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday I found myself sitting at 40,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific, miles from any civilization, when my phone popped up a notification that one of my cats had used the litter box.

This is a level of technology I could never have dreamed of. Or necessarily wanted to.

dan, 11 months ago to random

There is a mural not far from my house that reads “Kids can code C++! Every child matters!” and I’d just like to state for the record that I believe children who don’t know template metaprogramming have value too.

dan, 11 months ago to Cats

Minion has an existential crisis after confronting his reflection in the mirror.

#cats

dan, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Happy 41st birthday :-)

dan, 1 month ago to random

@irene and I visited the Temple of Confucius and Imperial College in Beijing, where the civil service exam was given from 1306-1905.

dan, 1 year ago to random

My weightlifting coach just told me that a bunch of his friends are semi-pro cornhole players, and I have so many questions.

dan, 5 months ago to random

Number of DNS servers in my house (that I know of): 11

I will not be answering any questions about my poor life choices that got me to this point.

dan, 10 months ago to random

Since we are talking about things named X today for some reason, did you know that the X Window System was originally started in Barbara Liskov's group because the Argus distributed programming language needed a graphical debugger?

dan, 2 months ago to random

My brilliant proposal for Microsoft Teams For Polycules has been universally unpopular.

dan, 10 months ago to random

Sometimes if you are nice to people they will randomly give you a ton of morels months later.

dan, 18 days ago to random

Now the proud owner of my very own zero-volume non-orientable surface!

dan, 3 months ago to random

someone seriously decided it was a good idea to have my dishwasher send me this notification

dan, 5 months ago to random

Received a text from @irene that said “URGENT: puppy downstairs!” and was not disappointed

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dan, 27 days ago to random

I don't understand why everyone here isn't already talking about how James Mickens spent his sabbatical recording a metal album where all the band members are himself.

https://tentimesyourmaster.com/

dan, 5 months ago to random

representing my favorite noodle dish