Feed the birds. Then what have you got? Fat birds.

All good until someone expects you to do the same with wine and fish.

10 days after an ice storm.

I don’t miss doing Microsoft license audits.

Got oil and a filter sitting in the garage. Been waiting for a warmer day. Looks like I might finally get one this week.

Main uses for me are coding, bookkeeping, email, office apps, and general web browsing. I haven’t played games in years. Not how I prefer to unwind these days anyway.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored [gay, trans, Hispanic, etc ] man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Musk is currently in the limelight, sort of. They know they have a short window of opportunity to unload those non-performing assets while minimizing their losses. And the way Donny burns bridges with virtually everyone, that window is closing rapidly.

Definitely not Puerto Rico. Nobody at the federal level gives a shit about them.

Weird. Similar thing happened to me. One day I was thinking, “Damn. These streaming services are getting too expensive. I may have to get back to sailing the high seas if this keeps up.” I shit you not, all of a sudden my home server is sucking up all kinds of movies and TV shows and streaming them to my living room. It’s like The Brave Little Toaster if the toaster were actually a Dell PowerEdge and it went on a long journey to find the master (me) as much high quality media as possible.

I also wondered what kind of rock OP lives under. I use email every day, multiple times per day. I probably send more emails than texts.

Which was itself a sequel to Nixon trying to stall peace negotiations during the Vietnam War.

That’s going to depend on who you ask. Some of the gripes Trump supporters have are completely legitimate. Things have, in fact, been getting slowly worse for the average American for the last few decades and most of them are aware of this from their own personal circumstances, even if they don’t understand the root causes.

Trump is an idiot but he is smart enough to know that people want to be told what they want to hear and they don’t want a complicated solution, even though the solutions to many of our problems are very complicated. So, that’s what he offers. Simple, horseshit solutions that are vague enough for his supporters to imagine the outcome however they like.

No one will remember that since it happened prior to last week.

Did the law give Trump the power to change the deadline through executive order?

I don’t know but I’m curious about this as well. Not that it matters. Republicans in congress have already decided that Trump is above the law so he’s going to do whatever he wants with their full support.

Translation: “We would like to thank President Trump for protecting us from the oncoming car he shoved us in front of. We would also like to make a generous donation to his inauguration – which is most definitely NOT a bribe in any way – to show our gratitude.”

It’s like watching a much stupider knockoff of The Sopranos.

I know at some point politics will get me and my style of insulating my engineers will cost me my job, even though by doing so we have great productivity metrics.

Mine ultimately did cost me my job. Or at least it was a contributing factor. I was so sick of the relentless conflict and the toxicity. When I eventually got fired, I missed my team but I was also relieved. It was like a huge weight being lifted. Knowing what I know now, I would never have taken the job to begin with. On the other hand, I do think it helped me grow personally and figure out what my values are. I decided I was ready to put my career on the line if I had to choose between keeping my job and doing the right thing. I did the best I could and my conscience is clear.

17 years in tech. Made it to director level. Decided I hated ladder climbing. Transitioned to software engineering full time and spent the last 5 years doing that. The work life balance was a lot better but the corporate BS was not. I’ve decided corporate jobs may not be for me.

Currently working on a software project of my own. If that works out, great. If not, I may get out of the business instead of going to another corporate job. I’ve got enough experience to do just about anything I want to but I honestly don’t know what that would be.

You know its me it’s a me…

FTFY

I was listening to NPR a few days ago and they were talking – in the context of Jimmy Carter’s passing – about the global community having to grapple with two different sides of the United States. The side that is incredibly generous and has contributed an enormous amount to the welfare of people throughout the world and the side that is a basically a bully that uses it’s vast power and influence as a means to further it’s own selfish interests.

Both of those things can certainly be true. The US has contributed a lot of positive things to the global community and at the same time, the US is effectively the most powerful and sophisticated empire in human history. Empires cannot maintain their power without oppression. Over the last 249 years, we have created some truly horrific disasters, at home and abroad, in the name of acquiring and maintaining power. That deserves criticism no matter who’s doing it.