RickRussell_CA

I’d call it a Chaswozzer.

Misinterpreting contextually appropriate diction is not pedantry.

This is why customer service folks often keep a mirror by the phone, looking at their own faces helps to keep their emotions in check when dealing with a difficult customer.

“This MIT-trained engineer left a big plumbing company so he could disrupt the market with an innovative product”

I wonder if they still make that shampoo I like?

SNL’s 2 A-Holes

I’ve been using Ubuntu for years and I literally had no idea. Admittedly, I don’t deal with servers or anything, so I guess some of the stuff coming from their package respositories could be “snap” format and I wouldn’t really notice.

What the hell is a snap?

Slackware circa 1996

sometimes you have to make a point and you just have no other way of doing so

Well, that’s just an excuse for bad leadership.

Zach Sherwin Kicks It Old School

It was never a question of being technically right or wrong. Linus’ realization was that his inflammatory language was viewed as permission by other people in the Linux community to be verbally abusive to their peers. People who had been valuable contributors to Linux projects explained to Linus how they had been berated by colleagues, and when challenged those colleagues cited Linus’ own language.

What Linus wants is working code, and you don’t get working code by giving tacit permission to your most aggressive & abrasive community members to attack others.

if the choice is nuclear or carbon I’ll take nuclear

I’m totally with you on that.

My response:

Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.

I am persistently mystified that so many people – many calling themselves “green” or environmentalist – consider this a solved problem.

Spent nuclear fuel piles up in retaining pools at nuclear reactor sites, and we can’t take it anywhere because nobody can figure out where to put it. Everybody has easy answers and a proper & permanent disposal site and method are always “just around the corner”.

Meanwhile, solar and wind – for all of their problems – can meet large portions of our energy needs RIGHT NOW with minimal capital outlay to install new capacity.

His kung fu is strong

Anything that complements your career as a Cheese Greeter

Do what you enjoy. Half-ass all the things.

I saw “Pictrs Migration” and I thought was about to open a map porn post regarding the movement of ancient Scots.

FYI, the new official Office default is Aptos. I’ve been making work docs with it for a few weeks and I have to admit, it looks really clean and technical.

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d