Spent the last few months with a lot of thoughts; mostly ones best kept to myself. Survived fall quarter. Gastrocnemius tear mostly healed. Thanksgiving plague has continued to linger. Did myself another MCL tear, trying to avoid inflicting a worse injury on an out-of-position intern. So it goes.
December 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Spent the last few months with a lot of thoughts; mostly ones best kept to myself. Survived fall quarter. Gastrocnemius tear mostly healed. Thanksgiving plague has continued to linger. Did myself another MCL tear, trying to avoid inflicting a worse injury on an out-of-position intern. So it goes.
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A thread on obscenity. I'll get back to these cars. But first: tonight I took my 12yrold to see Nuremberg. He's a pretty serious movie watcher. Thought Zone of Interest was genius. I knew he could handle this. But this isn't a movie review. It's about IRL... 1/
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A thread on obscenity. I'll get back to these cars. But first: tonight I took my 12yrold to see Nuremberg. He's a pretty serious movie watcher. Thought Zone of Interest was genius. I knew he could handle this. But this isn't a movie review. It's about IRL... 1/
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Lying awake with my brother giving it his all in the midnight snore-us. Christmas often gets me feeling extra pointless, but reviewing the past year in friends’ text messages is making a strong antidote for that.
December 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Lying awake with my brother giving it his all in the midnight snore-us. Christmas often gets me feeling extra pointless, but reviewing the past year in friends’ text messages is making a strong antidote for that.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?”
I keep hearing the Tom Hulce Amadeus giggle in my head in response to whatever obscene/absurd thing I happen to have just observed
I can't tell if it's helping anything,
although it makes them seem less dreary
but it might be making me crazy
I can't tell if it's helping anything,
although it makes them seem less dreary
but it might be making me crazy
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I keep hearing the Tom Hulce Amadeus giggle in my head in response to whatever obscene/absurd thing I happen to have just observed
I can't tell if it's helping anything,
although it makes them seem less dreary
but it might be making me crazy
I can't tell if it's helping anything,
although it makes them seem less dreary
but it might be making me crazy
had some sort of vile Thanksgiving plague the last couple days. just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and it’s giving hard Fester Adams
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
had some sort of vile Thanksgiving plague the last couple days. just caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and it’s giving hard Fester Adams
Nearly time again to blow the dust off the only Christmas song I'll ever need: Christmas Wrapping. (The Waitresses, 1982)
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Nearly time again to blow the dust off the only Christmas song I'll ever need: Christmas Wrapping. (The Waitresses, 1982)
Wilson Phillips have just arrived in a time machine from 1990 and would like to know, "...how you like us now?"
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wilson Phillips have just arrived in a time machine from 1990 and would like to know, "...how you like us now?"
Today I:
reported to my cell provider as junk an unsolicited text message from my cell provider about a branded credit card offer.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
reported to my cell provider as junk an unsolicited text message from my cell provider about a branded credit card offer.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today I:
reported to my cell provider as junk an unsolicited text message from my cell provider about a branded credit card offer.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
reported to my cell provider as junk an unsolicited text message from my cell provider about a branded credit card offer.
BECOME UNGOVERNABLE
First day of school and the iPod has just Foreignered me. It could just as well be 1987, except I’m not waiting for the school bus in the dark and rain.
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
First day of school and the iPod has just Foreignered me. It could just as well be 1987, except I’m not waiting for the school bus in the dark and rain.
season 22, coming in the air tonight
September 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
season 22, coming in the air tonight
At some point I entered the phase of my life where there's still food I don't care for but avoiding it or picking it out seems like a bigger waste of life than just eating it and not enjoying it. Like baby corn, or celery, or mayonnaise, or brazil nuts.
Squash, though... squash can **** right off.
Squash, though... squash can **** right off.
September 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
At some point I entered the phase of my life where there's still food I don't care for but avoiding it or picking it out seems like a bigger waste of life than just eating it and not enjoying it. Like baby corn, or celery, or mayonnaise, or brazil nuts.
Squash, though... squash can **** right off.
Squash, though... squash can **** right off.
"Far too many programmers are red pencillers. Some are literal red pencillers who do things by hand that should be done by machine. Others are figurative red pencillers whose use of the machine is so clumsy and awkward that it might as well be manual."
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"Far too many programmers are red pencillers. Some are literal red pencillers who do things by hand that should be done by machine. Others are figurative red pencillers whose use of the machine is so clumsy and awkward that it might as well be manual."
“The truth is, I broke the Tense Operator by living in between tenses. I broke it through my cheating, wishy-washy way of moving through time. It used to be that you could cheat the machine by leaving it between gears, living in a kind of half-assed way, present and at the same time not quite
September 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“The truth is, I broke the Tense Operator by living in between tenses. I broke it through my cheating, wishy-washy way of moving through time. It used to be that you could cheat the machine by leaving it between gears, living in a kind of half-assed way, present and at the same time not quite
I skated a lot in my 30s. At one point I thought I'd try aggressive inline, grinding rails and whatnot. Needs totally different skates. Bought a pair. Immediately discovered they are atrocious for doing any kind of normal skating in.
August 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I skated a lot in my 30s. At one point I thought I'd try aggressive inline, grinding rails and whatnot. Needs totally different skates. Bought a pair. Immediately discovered they are atrocious for doing any kind of normal skating in.
yes, well done Half Price Books. very droll.
August 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
yes, well done Half Price Books. very droll.
...aaaand welcome to the twice annual Spiders Going Full J.P. Morgan event with webs stretched clear across the front entrance multiple times a day. gack. ick.
August 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
...aaaand welcome to the twice annual Spiders Going Full J.P. Morgan event with webs stretched clear across the front entrance multiple times a day. gack. ick.
The other day I lost a favorite classic mechanical pencil to my 25 year old backpack finally starting to shred at the seams. The prospect of having to replace it adds to overall sense of bummed-out. Today the pencil turned up in the trunk of the car. Microscopic elation is still elation.
August 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The other day I lost a favorite classic mechanical pencil to my 25 year old backpack finally starting to shred at the seams. The prospect of having to replace it adds to overall sense of bummed-out. Today the pencil turned up in the trunk of the car. Microscopic elation is still elation.
Headed into the last week of summer quarter. I'm in rough shape.
August 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Headed into the last week of summer quarter. I'm in rough shape.
After a couple months with the Lamy Studio fountain pen, it's not for me. It's built well enough and makes a mark on the page, but neither the balance nor the grip are right. I prefer my old Waterman Expert II, and it's not even close. So I bought a second one off eBay.
It's also blue.
It's also blue.
August 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
After a couple months with the Lamy Studio fountain pen, it's not for me. It's built well enough and makes a mark on the page, but neither the balance nor the grip are right. I prefer my old Waterman Expert II, and it's not even close. So I bought a second one off eBay.
It's also blue.
It's also blue.
caveat: I haven't set foot in a mall in almost two decades.
Internet memes making fun of Hot Topic of the '90s (dark) vs. today (bright). If true, though, it makes perfect sense to me. Cheerfulness and optimism is about as countercultural as you can get right now.
Internet memes making fun of Hot Topic of the '90s (dark) vs. today (bright). If true, though, it makes perfect sense to me. Cheerfulness and optimism is about as countercultural as you can get right now.
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
caveat: I haven't set foot in a mall in almost two decades.
Internet memes making fun of Hot Topic of the '90s (dark) vs. today (bright). If true, though, it makes perfect sense to me. Cheerfulness and optimism is about as countercultural as you can get right now.
Internet memes making fun of Hot Topic of the '90s (dark) vs. today (bright). If true, though, it makes perfect sense to me. Cheerfulness and optimism is about as countercultural as you can get right now.
dude in the U District in a Royal Crown Cola t-shirt and Honda Acty. Might be a hipster look, but… right on.
July 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
dude in the U District in a Royal Crown Cola t-shirt and Honda Acty. Might be a hipster look, but… right on.
“LLMs are just Calvinism for techbros” oh snap that is COLD
July 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“LLMs are just Calvinism for techbros” oh snap that is COLD