@enobacon WWeek is worse than the O sometimes. Okay, oftentimes.

@dx modern radar also makes it tenable to plan your trip for in between rainfall periods, if you can wiggle your schedule a bit. Sometimes waiting five minutes will make all the difference.

Something else I’m feeling really good about right now is the amount of my life I spent painstakingly implementing rigid gov security requirements that made Word crawl, and now we just let uncleared 24 year olds with Xbox gamertags install code and remote access apparently.

@kenwhite.bsky.social why is it righties never seem to understand how to conjugate the past participle of “bias”?

@cstross _I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't._
— Paul Verhoeven on Starship Troopers movie

@cstross I think Pynchon has the inverse problem, where he needs to make up scads of new characters to deplete the river of catchy names flowing through his head.