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"The most interesting part of the whole thing: it was completely organic. There was no interference by any algorithm."
Not what I expected to hear today. I'm still trying to decide if that was meant as an apology, defense, or just a statement of fact.

I think this is weird but right now I am craving "really good pudding" and yet am unable to specify what I mean by "really good" here.

I'm just kind of making food up as I go.

We who are about to dine salute you.

The sounds of people mowing their lawns in Virginia in February.
I am not ready for this, and yet

All I'm going to say is I remember a time when managing things via email was easy.
OK, maybe I'll say more, but right now I'm diving through way too many email configs to talk.

And, no, my email doesn't talk to me like that. Well, at least not yet.

Seen in my email:
"New Markdown Mania starting soon"
Me; Ooo a publishing thing
Email: No, it's a sale, what's wrong with you?
Me: But I like do all my documents in Markdown, it's awesome.
Email: OK, yea, I'm going to say this isn't for you. You're too weird.

I'm starting to miss the days when working in IT out of the Eastern Stansard Tribe was easy, because everyone set their clocks to EST and worked around us.
Now between the handoffs in from IST and out to PST, I end up starting early and skipping lunch making sure everything is going the way it should.

Seeing reports that house exploded in Sterling, VA.

Butch boosted

The echo dot on my desk just decided I needed to know something about Tupac. And the mic is off, so what is Amazon playing at now?

Me; OK, Google, Stop the news.
Google: Here's an article about Scotland. . .

/sigh

A note to people putting events together: not all of us are using Google Calendar or Outlook to run our lives. It would be nice to just get a boring ISC file, not a link to one of those services.

Traditional, but I'm switching it up.

Lockdown is now over. No information yet.

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