mike susz
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i don’t really want to know if you get an award for quintupling your Move goal
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i feel like i beat myself up on projects all day Saturday except (checks calendar) i have four more days of this
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i’m so tired. i managed to slip back into “work like heck all weekend on house projects because there’s work on monday” even though there’s technically not work on monday
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put wire mesh on both ends of the shed. tired of the critters living under it.
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dear designers: tiny light gray text on a white background is exceptionally hard to read.
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the smooth collie folds up into a compact bundle.
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snerflerks
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i finally got everything onto my desk (PC was on a cabinet before) and all cords tucked up! laptop shelf is awaiting future employer’s macbook pro (probably)
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spent today doing a lot of work around the house, now i’m trying to finish up all the household tech debt projects i was “able” to do while i had”free time”
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this tastes like Bed Bath & Beyond.
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morning y’all
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it’s been a long week
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New Hampshire… these numbers are going in the wrong direction really quickly y’all. approaching our highest case counts ever.
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also this means that i jinxed us. if it snows soon - my fault. if it does not snow for a while - my fault.
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snow tires on, could have been done faster but i spent 1/2 the time looking for tools and filling the compressor.
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and the rest. next project: replacing the carpet in the rooms on either side, probably with wood.
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the first course always takes 7x longer than any subsequent course.
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yesterday at 1:19pm my weather station measured a wind gust of 45.2mph, then 5 minutes later at 1:24 we received rainfall at a rate of 4.96in/hr
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😮 #PokemonGo
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this has been a heck of a day, y’all
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find somebody that makes you as happy as this illustration of a cat getting medicine applied inside their ear
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kids had today off from school. all day long my brain thought it was sunday.
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one of these companies still exists, while the other one put rubber dome switches in their keyboards.
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i’m rounding out my skills by doing a complete react dev course but it’s from 2017 and i’m learning a lot about what’s changed in webpack since then and M1 macs didn’t exist then and i feel like the best option maybe is to kobayashi maru
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Overall stats from not commuting, from my last day in the office to my last day working remotely for IBM:
* 73 weeks, assuming 71 weeks working
* 3 days/wk commuting, 110 mi r/t
* 23,430 mi @ 34mpg average
* 680 gallons of gas
* almost $2,400 in fuel costs
* approx. 550 hours
* 73 weeks, assuming 71 weeks working
* 3 days/wk commuting, 110 mi r/t
* 23,430 mi @ 34mpg average
* 680 gallons of gas
* almost $2,400 in fuel costs
* approx. 550 hours
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why would you do this Vimeo?
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what this teaches me is all that talk is horse apples and i should move on and not waste my time caring about your people or your problems.
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it’s been interesting to talk to companies who interview me as a leader and who talk about growth and finding people who will foster talent & support the team & build a culture …
and then get a rejection email from a no-reply@ email address telling me i’m not technical enough.
and then get a rejection email from a no-reply@ email address telling me i’m not technical enough.
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“if you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?” 🤔
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it might be sacrilegious to use these lovely Mustang wheels i had in my shed for snow tires, but the Flex needs more traction and sidewall for the winter than the stock 20’s provide
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oh look it’s almost dark at 5 o’clock apparently some people like this
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thank you, @Coburnicus, this is where my brilliance peaked for the day.
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one thing i’ve really accelerated on between jobs is at-home IT tech debt. it’s like letting the engineers plan the sprints all by themselves!
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hit me baby standard time
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my dog did not recognize our schedule for daylight savings, but i am going to adjust to his schedule of taking naps all the time
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today’s quick but useful project - cutting a base to attach to my new chop saw and a block to hold longer material level. allows me to store the saw standing up (eventually i’ll put eyelets on the edge and literally hang it on the wall)
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me: i’m finally caught up with that long weekly tech podcast i listen to! yay!
(checks twitter)
long weekly tech podcast: new ep yo
(checks twitter)
long weekly tech podcast: new ep yo
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do you remember when companies were trying to use foosball tables to get us to work for them? lol
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that thing where you reply to a tweet with a dumb joke and then you think “oh no what if someone else already made that joke” so you check all their replies and you SEE YOUR JOKE and you panic for a sec and then you realize that was your own reply
…
(i should prob still delete)
…
(i should prob still delete)
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I think it’s time I sat my boys down and have THE TALK
about
why you never take dad’s tape measure and leave it somewhere else in the house
about
why you never take dad’s tape measure and leave it somewhere else in the house
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the sun dropped below the clouds and i had about 45 seconds to get this shot tonight
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first perfect month ever
(in the month i turned 48)
(in the month i turned 48)
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shout out to all the other dads in garages handing out candy. it’s awkward but we’ll get through this and maybe clean things up too!
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ehh… minus two mice. ugh.
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minus one mouse.
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good news: i figured out where the dead mouse is in my truck! bad news: i can’t get to it. 😕
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one of the gems i found in my college papers: Virus Characteristics List v57, 1989.
pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TF0vfiJ4EwUDfGPGfQhzNdeAiuRGDgbl/view?usp=sharing
pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TF0vfiJ4EwUDfGPGfQhzNdeAiuRGDgbl/view?usp=sharing
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i’m glad i found this in my old stuff; i still haven’t beat the top 16 video games from … 1982.
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does Neal Stephenson get a cut of all this ‘metaverse’ crap?