I intend to be retired for Y2038. I have been warning my younger coworkers that 1. they’re going to have to fix it, 2. It’s going to be worse than Y2K, and 3. Managers and up are not going to take it seriously because Y2K was mostly a nothing burger (because of a lot of hard work and investment that people forget about).

Every time I reboot my Win 11 PC, Microsoft tries to get me to switch to Linux. (I don’t want their online backup and the forced advertisement for it on startup pisses me off.)

My issues are not install, but uninstall. Why do I have so much crap installed? I used it on a project once 7 years ago and haven’t since. Why not uninstall it? It is useful, just not currently. It took less than a minute to install when you installed it the first time and your connection is faster now? But what if the archive goes down or it is retired or obsolete? It is small, keep it!

Turns out lots of small adds up to big.

This is my new canonical definition for the CRM acronym. Now please fill out another fucking survey to tell us how we did.

I am just going to mention yum so that I can get downvoted. (We use it at work.)

Well the other kids thought those of us playing Dungeons and Dragons in the early 80s were nerds. Didn’t help that we also made the best grades. We also didn’t dress like the cool kids. It’s hard to separate all of the factors that caused us to get bullied.

Night sweats. Insatiable thirst.

Diapers. I brought something that new parents actually need, but the story tellers thought it was boring.

Problem: people are starving. Response: not a bug, actually a feature.

I imagine the disputes would get heated.

GenX has never had nor will it ever have significant political power. Outnumbered by older and younger generations. Also, I doubt we’re very unified in our political beliefs and asperations since we tend to be pretty independent and mostly want to avoid attracting too much attention.

From the same party that wants to charge minority children as adults if they misbehave. Actual adults are just kids though.

Only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

Now I’m picturing a T-rex doing a Naruto run. I’m not sure I will ever be able to take T-rex seriously again.

8,000 species of termites survived the flood, implying that Noah had them on his wooden boat. Of course, Noah is an idiot.

The best part is that the number sent to your phone doesn’t match and neither advances past the verification.

My solution to politics: if 50,000 people vote that we should execute you, we execute you. Pretty soon there would be no politicians left.

It will be worse than the movies because they don’t portray how every mundane thing will somehow be worse. Tech support? Worse. Customer service? Worse. Education? Worse. Insurance? Worse. Software? Worse. Health care? Worse. Mental health? Worse. Misinformation? Pervasive. Gaslighting? Pervasive.

A recording of University of Oklahoma legend, Brian Bosworth, ranting about the University of Texas. I remember him saying, “I hate cows. I hate orange.” Pretty sure I originally heard the rant on AM 1310 The Ticket in the late 1990s. I have searched a few times over the years without finding it. Every year that passes makes me feel less likely to find it.

I think you would enjoy the concept of solipsism. We’re all just thinking computers driving around skeletons with flesh armor. Maybe our flesh mechs are part of the simulation too.

I am guessing none of these guys will work for “equity.”

I have been teaching myself rust. Rewriting this wheel in rust will be a good exercise for me…

Now that I am 95% done, I have lost interest in this project and have started another playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3. Maybe I will come back and finish it at some point.