shower thought: my country, 'tis of thee, thou art largely morons

@APBBlue yeah, it's kind of forced but it's stuck in my head now

@APBBlue 🤔 I think you got something there!

@APBBlue I shall soon be, as well :fingerguns:

“Temporary Secretary” is, hands down, my favorite Paul McCartney song.

In a team standup this morning wherein my report is "this week so far has been a suboptimal period for productivity" and confused that a few folks in the meeting are confused by that and want more details

@mav hope springs eternal like toxic waste from a superfund site 😅

This work unit is experiencing elevated levels of adverse inputs from the general operating environment. Please do not apply further adverse inputs. Nominal operation will resume in the fullness of time.

@mos_8502 That would not be very resilient of me, I would be assigned to appropriate corporate training

My last toot reminds me that last year I wrote this tiny story, "The Machine is Grieving", about container orchestration systems following the Kübler-Ross model

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2023/02/06/the-machine-is-grieving/

I think it's safe to say I feel some doubt around my commitment to Sparkle Motion

@randomgeek Yeah, I've long used crunch and forced urgency as a motivator. But, in recent years, I think I've burned out the circuit, because it works less and less well.

shower thought: "We can disagree and still be close. I keep my enemies close."

(i don't do that actually, i am a master at the art of ghosting)

"We can disagree and still be close. In fact, I'm coming up on infra-red behind you right now."

(this might be only be amusing to me 😅 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISvc-yUU1A

I need a slack alert sound that's just my voice muttering "aw fuck's sake"

@oopsallnaps I think browsers should turn the bookmarks window into an RSS reader

Today's moment that made me shake my tiny fist:

"Subscribe to our podcast!"

(it's a youtube channel)

Like, "here, have a chocolate bar!" (it's carob)

"But it's a video podcast!"

I can't watch it on my 2005 iPod Video, now can I?

(okay so that's a bit petty I guess)

@paulmison Nah, I killed the hard drive years ago and have been meaning to get around to a project of replacing it with a CF card or something

So I've been trying to work on losing weight and exercising more lately. It's been working insofar as I've stopped eating quite so much, I have been exercising more, and I have lost some weight.

But, this "Goal - Food + Exercise" equation on the myfitnesspal app is making me think "oh, I can have 3 cocktails as long as I immediately go for a 15 mile bike ride. that's entirely feasible" (this, after I'm 2 cocktails deep)

@wavebeem What if I take a flask with me and slam a cocktail every few miles?

@benbrown "EEEHHHMMM!!!!" is very close to a sound I made seeing that 😅