@mikesusz social feed.

@hotdogsladies in the 90s when i first signed up for BMG i ordered 12 CDs of (various grunge and pop and pop-punk music) and instead of the Green Day disc i had selected, i received Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. i now realize this was probably a frustrated BMG employee who was trying to teach me something, and i very much appreciate it now.

@revmem trying to sleep, def. if you end up succeeding, 💯

today i drove the Ford Flex to (fill it with gas and) get donuts. then i drove the Ford Ranger to the transfer station and to get propane. then i drove the Ford Focus to get wood-fired pizza. i call this “the trifecta”

@irafcummings i’m trying to get better at this, as well. a lot of what i want to write goes off on tangents and turns into an opus. here’s how i’m trying to get better:
1. make an outline
2. have a file open on the side to capture (new/tangential/related) ideas, so they don’t infect the main piece
3. write the conclusion first. it’s like marking a spot on a map that you want to be the destination.

i’ll let you klnow how this goes.

while i had previously repaired the damage that the dogs did to the plugs on my subwoofer, they still insist on flopping behind my desk. so today i did a quick plywood project.

@hotdogsladies

hearing reports that datacenters are having problems because of windows servers that control the HVAC being affected by the CrowdStrike outage… nothing is immune

@sarajw it’s certainly preferable to the alternative, no doubt

@sarajw “this isn’t even my final form”

@m750 yeah i’ve got the generator wiring and interlock all set. i UPS all my networking gear but only get 60-90 minutes out of it. my wife works from home too and she can’t flex time at all, and has to stay on wired ethernet. so i’m leaning towards better generator for now.

@m750 yeah i’m weighing a $1,000 generator, a $5,000 generator, or replacing my ranger with a hybrid f150 w/7.2kw plug in the bed. my current generator was (very cheap and) a snap purchase and it isn’t sine-wave and my electronics don’t like it.

@m750 what does that back up, and for how long?

wild line of thunderstorms and we are without power. ironically on one of my recent 3am panic-thoughts sessions, i decided i should just get a better generator now, before “things happen” again.

all the reports i see about Return-To-Office mandates conclude that it’s a bad strategy for morale, productivity, and talent retention.

Yet? all these executives are issuing RTO orders. what are they basing their decision making on? is there any scholarly literature or reports to back their decisions, or is it just some “reckon” based on their internal feelings and/or fears?

@jerzone wait, a series of tubes … ON a truck???

@threetonesun @briandigital dragonflies eat mosquitos so i love them.

@film_girl you’re a good auntie, Mary Brown

@revmem virtual monitor device maybe? i always hated when distros fell over because no VGA was present

@Meyerweb i would vote for an unplugged toaster oven instead of the former president.

@jerzone dress for the job that you want

update: this is the best one that i took

pro tips if you have to take a 'profile' photo for work.

1. set up your phone on a tripod or prop it up, higher than your eye line (nobody likes being photographed from low angles)
2. use the timelapse function of your camera to capture a series of frames
3. stand and mug for a while. to get a natural smile, consider how absurd all of this is
4. replay the video frame x frame until you can find one that you might tolerate
5. (optional) give up, throw your phone & computer into the nearest river

@coburnicus @jayroh @briandigital hey guys, let's have a think about this and we’ll solution it together.

@fred destiny.

@fred i love party parrots. i do not want to see a blinking red light in my peripheral vision all day.

so i had tooted another complaint about Apple TV+ content being egregiously dark, but i deleted it. i found settings in my TV (Sony X800H 65” yeah it’s mid, w/e) to compensate for low contrast and black levels, and i can actually SEE what’s happening now.

my best guess is that Apple assumes you have an OLED and you’re watching in a completely dark theatre or something.

If people you work with completely refuse to stop using the “alarm” emoji - you may need to go scorched-earth.

writing a blog post for the first time in a year. i finally figured out how to synthesize a lot of things i’ve been thinking about. maybe because i just got done with an assignment at work? my brain is free to do ‘other stuff’ than panic about meeting unrealistic deadlines.

@snugug crunch with zero fat

@jayroh oy this is such a pet peeve of mine. just once i wish an engineer would say “should we make sure that people can still give us money even if they block our creepy tracking bits?”

@jerzone that 2nd pic looks like an Escher drawing. wild.

@danyork this is so cool. i’m from Polish descent and i don’t know if i’ll get there. enjoy your trip!

@revmem i’m grilling in a raincoat but not complaining.

@drdrang i have 400%’d my move goal and i wish it would have said “stop. stop doing things.”

if Marshall Mathers was your number one adversary would they be your Eminemesis

okay okay i get it, no politics in your documentation. maybe instead of gender specific pronouns we just use some _hypothetical_ names like “Adolf and Eva”

Hence Aborting!

@markllobrera mammatus clouds! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud

@jerzone wow cool! i’ve had this video saved on youtube since my kids were small. we used to watch it just about daily. https://youtu.be/ACkmg3Y64_s

@m750 oh no! dang

@marcamos that’s a lot of HP, i’d hate to meet Poop Senior.

@m750 @jerzone i remember the after-school specials about this in the 80s

@jerzone @m750 nope, our stories are funnier.

@jerzone the frog did it?

Slack would probably get 20x more conversions if instead of threatening to delete the old data in your free account, they threatened to use it to train AI.

@m750 very cool. i’ve been wanting to drive electric, im guessing the torque at launch is ridiculous.

@marcamos they need that dad revenue

marketing products or services to guys with kids should be known as dadvertising.

@esinclai @hotdogsladies or the official logo store. (source: i work for IBM) https://logostore-globalid.us/category/ibmrebus

@jerzone @m750 extinguisher nearby. heat will ignite everything you just sprayed all over it 😂