Well when you fire all the competent people or demoralize them so much that they quit, this kind of bullshit is what you’re left with.

I was really disappointed when Resident Alien was cancelled. It’s a good show.

I already switched months ago.

Somebodys gonna have to go back and get a shitload of chicken nuggets.

Battleships are a really fascinating piece of naval history. In reality, they’re not very practical and the sheer logistics required to lob a 1 ton shell at a target up to 20 miles away, with any reasonable degree of accuracy, is substantial.

But they look intimidating. And, if you’re the intended target and you should find yourself in between two near misses, it’s not luck. It’s just the guys in the plotting room getting everything dialed in for the home run.

Or, you can just setup a forgejo instance and migrate all your repos to it.

Five Minutes Earlier…

Accidentally harass anyone. You have to be careful because it’s easy to say things that are not necessarily intended to cause offense but could be perceived offensively by the other party.

Things like, “Wow! You look great today, Janice. That top really accents your tits.”

Or, “Ryan, I think you would be a great fit for the managers job. If your interested, you should stop by my place tonight and fuck my brains out.”

Now, as innocent as both of those scenarios might appear on the surface, they are both examples of different types of sexual harassment.

Big Corpo HR: “We’re going to need you to watch 8 hours of videos about ‘empathy’ and ‘active listening’.”

6 hours later…

“…and body language is very important. It’s perfectly ok to rest your chin on your hand but DO NOT cover your mouth because it gives the impression that you’re holding something back.”

To Do:

• Make ToDo List

Well, that’s enough for one day.

As others have said, relationships are the key. The current state of the tech job market is bad. Probably the worst I’ve ever seen and it is still getting steadily worse.

I spent almost a year applying before getting my latest job. I was even getting interviews until the beginning of this year. Then they very abruptly stopped for some reason. Only reason I got the job I have now is because an old business associate happened to think of me and reached out to see if I was looking. I’ve been doing this for years and I’ve got a solid resume but it is tough out there.

That said, I’m not trying to discourage you. Keep at it and you’ll find something. Working on side projects or contributing to open source projects can help give you accomplishments to put on your resume.

Radiation alarm at nuclear plant in Sweden trips…

Sweden: “…What the hell? This doesn’t seem to be coming from us. Hey, USSR, did you guys have some sort of atomic incident? We’re getting some off the chart readings over here.”

USSR: “Nyet. Everything is fine here.”

Sweden: “Hmmm… OK. Well, were going to file a report with the IAEA. There’s some crazy shit going on somewhere.”

USSR: “Oh! Did you say ‘incident’? We thought you said something else. Yeah, we had just a very minor one. Nothing to be too concerned about.”

TR is my favorite US president by far. He was a man of high moral integrity. Idealistic and eager for a fight, if he believed he was on the right side of it. Qualities that can be good in moderation but can unfortunately also bite you in the keister if unrestrained. And he did get bit a few times.

Kind of sums up the mating ritual of the striped bark scorpion.

Pretty much what it’s like to be a Wells Fargo customer.

Wells Fargo is a crime syndicate masquerading as a bank.

Whoa. A really bad month for me is 2500 kwh.

Create custom functions. Excel has lots of built in functions. “SUM()”, “CONCAT()”, etc. You can use VBA to create your own functions that manipulate data within cells.

Uncrates ACME Shell Bomb

Harmonia axyridis AKA “Asian Beetle”. Native to Southeast Asia. Artificially introduced to the US for aphid population control, which they allegedly do very well.

And that is their single redeeming quality. Other than that, they are an incredibly annoying pest. I remember being a kid, when they really started to take off in the Midwest, and having to vacuum up thousands of them out of, well, everywhere. I quickly learned that if you used a vacuum cleaner where the dirt gets drawn through the impeller, they would die instantly and that would lessen the awful smell.

We had this antique Hamilton Beach hand vacuum with a large bag on it that was perfect for the job. The distinctive “ping” sound of those little bastards getting obliterated by the cast aluminum death machine was sweet revenge.

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