Hacksaw
@mrthesaw.bsky.social
Writer of things. Maker of Musics. Digger of holes.
Music: https://privatecircus.bandcamp.com/album/drive-sparky
Music: https://privatecircus.bandcamp.com/album/drive-sparky
I wonder if Douglas Adams would be amused or dismayed by the popularity of digital watches now.
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I wonder if Douglas Adams would be amused or dismayed by the popularity of digital watches now.
Me: OH search engine, in the very narrow context of this field, find me mentions of x.
Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.
Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.
October 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Me: OH search engine, in the very narrow context of this field, find me mentions of x.
Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.
Search engine: Okay, I'll search the entire internet for mentions of x, OR mentions of the field OR mentions of narrowness OR context.
When a lawyer submits a filing that is full of false citations and errors, one wonders how much they cheated in law school.
I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.
I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
When a lawyer submits a filing that is full of false citations and errors, one wonders how much they cheated in law school.
I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.
I also wonder how many lawyers are happily using #AI to generate filings, and "getting away with it" because they're actually reviewing them and correcting mistakes.
Huh. Apparently Rush is gonna do a tour.
October 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Huh. Apparently Rush is gonna do a tour.
Reading a Jenny Lawson book in bed next to my sleeping sweetie might kill me from trying to suppress laughter.
#letspretend...
#letspretend...
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Reading a Jenny Lawson book in bed next to my sleeping sweetie might kill me from trying to suppress laughter.
#letspretend...
#letspretend...
"I'm swabbing some of what looks like mascara which was running down the face of the deceased, so we can check... it's crawling onto my swab..."
#twoSentenceHorror
#twoSentenceHorror
September 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"I'm swabbing some of what looks like mascara which was running down the face of the deceased, so we can check... it's crawling onto my swab..."
#twoSentenceHorror
#twoSentenceHorror
Gotta love a story where the utterance "You literally used to be a grain combine" is the straight man line. #questonableContent
September 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Gotta love a story where the utterance "You literally used to be a grain combine" is the straight man line. #questonableContent
Watching a youtube vid with lots of section markers. Someone went to a lot of trouble to annotate the natural breaks in this video.
Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.
Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Watching a youtube vid with lots of section markers. Someone went to a lot of trouble to annotate the natural breaks in this video.
Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.
Naturally #youtube drops commercials right in the middle of the section, thus breaking the flow of what happens to be a scholarly history video.
New experiences come at all ages. For instance, here in my 60th I finally got to experience being stung by a number of yellow jackets. Three or four reached flesh, I brushed off a number of others.
Yay?
I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.
Yay?
I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.
August 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
New experiences come at all ages. For instance, here in my 60th I finally got to experience being stung by a number of yellow jackets. Three or four reached flesh, I brushed off a number of others.
Yay?
I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.
Yay?
I don’t seem to be allergic, so I have that going for me.
If you can’t be bothered to read the whole bug report, do not offer fixes. #techsupport
August 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you can’t be bothered to read the whole bug report, do not offer fixes. #techsupport
Gosh, linked-in, you think I ought to read this post of a friend so much that you sent me a suggestion several days after I read it the first time?
Was that really a good use of that energy?
Was that really a good use of that energy?
August 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Gosh, linked-in, you think I ought to read this post of a friend so much that you sent me a suggestion several days after I read it the first time?
Was that really a good use of that energy?
Was that really a good use of that energy?
Why would anyone consider Sirius/XM to be comparable to Alphabet and Meta. “They deliver media” is very tenuous. Maybe I’m missing some part of the picture. #investing
August 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Why would anyone consider Sirius/XM to be comparable to Alphabet and Meta. “They deliver media” is very tenuous. Maybe I’m missing some part of the picture. #investing
Bittersweet: thinking of a joke a dead friend would have loved.
August 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Bittersweet: thinking of a joke a dead friend would have loved.
Dear advertisers: Using the popular songs from my youth, with your product pitch instead of the original lyrics, is not the marketing vehicle you think it is.
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Dear advertisers: Using the popular songs from my youth, with your product pitch instead of the original lyrics, is not the marketing vehicle you think it is.
Reminding people that the “Broccoli Cut” isn’t new: youtu.be/cL0NXKprKnQ?...
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (Official Video)
YouTube video by Blancmange
youtu.be
July 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reminding people that the “Broccoli Cut” isn’t new: youtu.be/cL0NXKprKnQ?...
I wonder how much ad money is wasted by pharmaceutical companies who avoid saying what a drug is for because they don't want to talk about side effects and stuff. The one that's been in my feeds a lot seems to be sure that I'm going to ask my doctor about it by literally doing a song and dance.
July 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I wonder how much ad money is wasted by pharmaceutical companies who avoid saying what a drug is for because they don't want to talk about side effects and stuff. The one that's been in my feeds a lot seems to be sure that I'm going to ask my doctor about it by literally doing a song and dance.
Reminder: it’s tick season.
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Reminder: it’s tick season.
Once Sabrina Cruz hits one out of the park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Yl...
what is the future of art?
YouTube video by Answer in Progress
www.youtube.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Once Sabrina Cruz hits one out of the park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Yl...
#UIKit is from 2008, #SwiftUI is 2019, so UIKit had more time on the planet when SwiftUI came out than SwiftUI has right now. I find reading SwiftUI code a lot easier, and getting things done is often faster, but the current problem of poor error reporting in resultBuilders is frustrating.
June 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So many default through life, seeking fulfillment by pursuing the MacGuffin of their dreams.
June 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
So many default through life, seeking fulfillment by pursuing the MacGuffin of their dreams.