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Rob Shearer
@r.v.cx
Pretty sure I’m right about:

- RFC 3339 dates
- ISO 216 paper sizes
- Fahrenheit weather temperatures
- Dot-grid paper
- End-to-end encryption
- Software engineering being about collaboration costs

Less confident about the rest.

https://linktr.ee/rvcx
Social media is full of these people.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I feel like encouraging public libraries to buy two hundred copies of such trash is a bad thing.

But buying the trash myself seems worse somehow.

I hope people who watch reality TV feel similarly conflicted about the harm they do to the world.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Finally caught up on my years-long backlog of (manual) wood splitting.
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Colorado is a safe blue state because of Denver and Boulder. But when the GOP officials in deep red counties like Durango are turning on ICE, it can’t be a good sign for MAGA.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My best theory of local school board elections in which there is nothing to separate candidates—no party affiliations; nobody campaigned at all; even the most motivated politicos couldn’t find any basis to choose—is that voters slightly prefer female names.
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Second innings: classic yellow mustard, ketchup, relish, and celery salt.
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Leading off with a chili cheese dog.
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
World Series. Saturday night. What the hell: we’re doing 9/9/9. Ideally each of the nine hot dogs will be mildly different, using this combination of toppings:
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Aww.
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Rob and Bailey pulling the old frog-n-dog.
October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Another month; another sign.

I don’t think my art skills are improving.
October 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Financial “journalists” don’t like being called on misleading their audience. He didn’t delete the post; he just didn’t like my quote. This is the chart he still thinks accurately represents a 13% drop:
October 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
So...not exactly the cute little mice that have occasionally found their way into the house.
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Kroger obviously wins on packaging. Just because it’s a fruity diet beverage doesn’t mean you can’t make it manly and sinister. Works a lot better than their similarly-stealth orange soda packaging, not just because “sip freely” is a nonsense slogan, but because the picture there is of a lemon.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I bring you another thrilling commodity-product brand comparison. Two sugar-free cherry colas enter. Does either leave? It’s Signature Select (Safeway’s house brand) vs Kroger (whose stores are called King Soopers here in Colorado).
October 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You can tell when the voter guide had a lot of trouble soliciting someone to oppose the “small tax on high earners to keep funding school meals” ballot proposal.
September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The one part of the on-screen graphics with an obvious improvement impeded only by history: the team names and score should be on the side that team is defending. Ie they should flip each quarter—KC on the left, Philly on the right in the below.
September 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My fastest-ever #nytxw solve. Just a Monday, but still.
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I’m a big fan of glass marker boards. I have a big magnetic (metal-backed) Quarter glass board in my living room. But the magnetic bit is a little sketchy. You need really strong magnets, because the glass separates them from the metal. Just got some “magnetic” labels, and they don’t stick at all.
September 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I am amused by the size of the YouTube logo.
September 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The month in “middle-aged man attempts to learn primary-school art skills”…
August 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
(This is particularly annoying because I spent a LOT of hours creating a whole visual language in TikZ for tableau diagrams, and it's like ChatGPT doesn't even care.)
August 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For the first time, I asked ChatGPT to explain some of my own research to me. It successfully regurgitated the introductions to several old papers, and then asked if I wanted to see a diagram to explain the work. And...wtf? I have no idea what it was even trying to do.
August 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Catching up on @matt-levine.bsky.social 's Money Stuff, and last week he wrote a little about memecoins. But this goes back farther than memecoins-as-indices: this was *exactly* the technical sleight of hand behind NFTs. "It just *is* the artwork I say. Shut up." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM