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I swear I teared up just reading your post and being reminded of that song.

Just did a POC with the new Nats transport. It is fantastic! Whoever contributed that has my respect! Kept it idiomatic Wolverine AND Nats. Perfect so far. No notes.

Cover art for the first Devo album, produced by Brian Eno. A weirdly featured golf pro (perhaps) smiles ambiguously in a circle that resembles a golf ball. Outside the circle is a flat field of yellow. The title of the album is hand written across the top left of the circle: "Q: Are We Not Men?" The name Devo is spelled out vertically along the right side of the golf ball in big primary school letters (and prime colors). It is a quotation from the horror film, "Island of Lost Souls" (1932), based on a novel by H.G. Wells. The character in that movie who screams that line is a half-man, half-animal. In the film, mad scientist Dr Moreau is breeding a whole race of such man-beasts, in a hideous parody of evolution. Devo means de-evolution. Have a nice day.

Devo was right about everything.

Dang. You are old. Haha. (I’m older but had kids later.) congratulations!

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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A fake skeleton on the porch wearing a Santa hat.

Busy day switching our Halloween decorations for Christmas.

I just do this with .reg files, but you do you.

But who is going to click on *that*?

Actually I probably would. Carry on.

Best moment of the transition to remote teaching was similiar. A studient posted in teams "LaBronIzHawt69!".

Got to see the legend Herbie Hancock last night here in Cleveland. Fantastic show, fantastic band, fantastic keytar.

Weird - won't tell us his super-secret healthcare plan, but just blurted out the best possible plan for the Democrats.

I am amazed by their persistence. Especially when an even cursory glance at my profile would tell them I don’t need whatever they are selling.

Took my son last night to hear the Cleveland Orchestra perform Beethoven's 9th. We were right up front. I'd prescribe that for anyone that needs a joy injection. Which is about everyone, I think. So priveleged to live in Cleveland and have this available.

My home-town guys!

In order for this to even have a chance at success we'd first have to create a culture that would accept this. Oh wait...

One woman I work with said "the ones that don't code miss meeting in the breakroom to make decisions that affect all of us that actually work for a living".

Meanwhile doing absolutely nothing to learn how successful developers have been working "remotely" forever. They got to "our standup is on Teams|Zoom" and quit there.

Bumper sticker that says “IN THIS HOUSE. WE BELIEVE:ARBY'S HAS THE MEATS DANZIG NEEDS YOUR SKULL.

Spotted in the grocery store parking lot. Waited a long time to proposition whoever owns the car. Got tired. #genx

A good thing about getting older is sort of having a life that coincides with the life of artists over their career. I agree Cruise and Reeves narrowed - but it’s striking that Magnolia and Boogie Nights, etc. is the same guy that did There Will Be Blood, The Master, etc. love PT Anderson.

Good analogy with Keanu. This movie really made me realize he could act. Definitely all sorts of content warnings for it; it ends in sort of an orgasm of interrelated trauma that could only be resolved in a surreal way. It doesn’t work for everyone but it did for me.

I love the movie. Painful - Jason Robart’s last role. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is an angelic hospice nurse. Great music. And weird.

He plays a “pickup artist” proto “influencer”. Very misogynistic guy. He’s running a conference for guys to get laid.

I give Cruise a lot of credit for this one. I saw it when it was released in Iowa somewhere (I was out of town for work) and EVERYONE in the theater left during his first scene.

See young people? This is what you get if you wear the right clothes to the meeting and show proper deference. I guess. A wasted year and so many lives.

Seems like a lot today is just training us to be grateful it works at all. “AI” can sometimes do that!

Had a consult with a surgeon for a minor outpatient thing. He said post-op I could alternate Advil and Tylenol. I gave him a grin. He said “I’m not getting political but JESUS CHRIST THAT GUY!” Hired. Cut me oh woke surgeon.

Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Heat is on! Let’s do it!

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust.

If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.