Brian Boyer

yes please

An illustration of corn in husk. Headline placed below reads “City of Masa: L.A. TACO’s Ultimate Guide to Tortillas in Los Angeles”

Flour or corn?

It’s one of the most important decisions that the millions of us who live and die by L.A.’s Taco Life make every day.

The full guide: lataco.com/best-tortill...

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A fortune cookie note with the message “Life to you is a dashing and bold adventure”

So sing and rejoice and sing and rejoice

I went out of state but between the parents, grandparents and one great-grandparent, I’ve always taken “I bleed green and white” quite literally

No cute story but Mason/Abbot made a lot of kids my age

I think about the episode of Enterprise with the Vulcan emotions perverts a whole lot

All manner of cool places to pick up our guide but I would just note that two places to hang out and learn about judges are the Beer Temple and Bucket O’ Blood Books and Records. Could make a nice Saturday afternoon of it.

Honestly they taste like Doritos (non-derogatory)

Three quesadillas frying in a large pan

Breakfast status: Kimchi quesadillas

We’re all gonna look like dopes wearing frameless spectacles in protest

When’s Ray-Ban gonna realize that Wayfarers aren’t gonna be cool like ever again

I wore out at least three of these.

So good it confused this young metal fan the first time I heard it

The Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium

Tonight from the CD archive:

And the old disc still sounds great

My now quite old copy of Matthew Sweet, Girlfriend.

Unpacked and shelved the CDs. Now playing:

I love the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District posting in observance of Pulaski Day

The street so nice they Pulaski’d it twice

Sweet and sour pho greens are definitely going into the rotation

No recipe for the greens but they’re braised in my house, pho-like noodle soup broth with garlic, onion, piloncillo and cider vinegar.

Quick(ish) vegan red beans and rice Alright, y'all. Here's one that really shows off what's great about a home-cooked pot of beans.

Approximate red beans recipe: beantips.com/quick-ish-ve... Griddle cakes: leitesculinaria.com/77176/recipe...

Red beans and rice with sausage, collard greens and a cornmeal griddle cake with a slab of butter.

Family ate well tonight.

so what does this teach us about data quality? that data is only as accurate and clean as the human beings who enter it.

so always take data with some grain of salt and never assume anything.

and also the phrase "data doesn't lie" might not be entirely wrong, but it's not always entirely right.

me: "AI" as a public or public-facing technology is primarily oriented toward the performance of plausibility and the post hoc rationalization/justification of a priori assumptions on the part of the user or audience.

cs people: nuh uh!!!

I interned with them the summer of 2020 and their remote work vibe was a little underdeveloped at that point (understandably) but everyone was very nice!

I know a good amount of people at CMAP and honestly they’re some of the nicest, most passionate people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing professionally. I can’t vouch for internal culture but I also have no reason to believe it wouldn’t be a terrific place to work

Awesome to hear! Thanks much!

Thanks for this! :) Are they nice people? Well-coordinated and easy to work with?

Here’s a neat gig for the right nerd, maybe. (I know nothing about the org)

A Bird Machine print, with a drawing of a blue rabbit eating ice cream, and the words “Let’s eat ice cream and dismantle white supremacy”

I woulda picked a different frame, and I woulda been wrong. Good job, kid.