Ben Kershner

Echoes of GWOT.

Finally found the excuse I needed to get my wife and son to Whistler.

How much money did DoD lose last year?

Image is from the film the blues Brothers. Jake and Elwood blues are sitting in their car. Jake is saying I hate Illinois nazis

The Chicago Pope

Seattle rarely has thunderstorms (once or twice a year) but had one recently that was forecast to produce golfball-sized hail.

Local news warned and instructed how to protect your vehicle, so I rode home to find dozens of cars covered in blankets and cardboard.

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.

New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info

www.404media.co/mike-waltz-a...

I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.

Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Let it be known that I was the first kid in Bellaire, MI to have the American Hi-Fi's debut album on CD.

It is insane to me that one of the world's wealthiest people is a founder and CEO of one of the world's most valuable tech companies and also a graduate of this college of engineering who and they cannot find $250k.

Left of image is Sickos, your favourite window staring friend going "YES HA HA HA YES!" Right of image is a French revolution era Sickos, Monsieur Pervers, saying "OUI, HON HON HON, OUI!"

Everyone watching Pierre Poilievre eat absolute shit in Carleton and respecting Canada's bilingual culture.

It’s nice to have my Seattle back.

Wade Grant won! Musqueam nation - hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker (a Salish dialect, the Native language most of Metro Vancouver). The first Coast Salish person in parliament, AFAIK.

Our Millennial priest quoted Nirvana during Easter Mass.

North Beach smells like a paper mill. But why.

I got chastised by one of my peers for NOT wearing hoochie daddy shorts to the office today.

I like this team.

Dusk reflecting off of still water in a marina with sailboats.

Don’t move to Seattle, it rains all the time.

That’s just called “Mainer Keto”.

Randomly blocking people ensures that your feed is only lucky people, which in turns makes you luckier as well.

sometimes good times do make soft men, and those are anti-vaxxers

Two bites of burger, a few fries, and then about half of my wife’s milkshake.

A man who understands the value of balance in life.

Fuck you, Pike Place Market PDA, for pushing out Virginia Inn, a historic place that is even older than you.

Took my two-year old son to Dick’s for the first time. My wife showed how to dip a french fry in her strawberry shake.

He took a bite, thought for a moment, and then with a big grin says “happy BIRTHDAY!”

So that’s a memory I will have forever.

“The country is run by people who think there’s a 1% difference between 2% and 3%.”

There’s been a second airline reservation system!?

Partner called diamonds and had the right, left, and king. We took a point and I actually won a trick.

A euchre hand of all off-suited tens and nines, the worst possible hand in euchre.

Stressed about <gestures around>, let me pop open the euchre app to numb my brain for a few minutes. Tight.