mike susz
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one statistic i calculated today: this year i did not commute for 42 weeks. at 3 days per week, 110 miles r/t per day, that’s 13,860 miles i didn’t drive, $1,100 i didn’t pay for 400 gallons of gas.
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watching watered-down new years entertainment and a phrase really struck me: don’t say “we’re all in this together” when you’re addressing people who work harder than you do
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my health insurance charges a monthly surcharge if you partake in activities that increase your risk of health problems, i.e. smoking. what should health insurance companies do for people who refuse the covid vaccine?
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while we miss the snow we had last week, we had the chance to use our new christmas gifts (adirondack chairs) on our new patio (lots of hard work this year)
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high winds tonight. i have taken the appropriate precautions.
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i laughed … so much
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my pets and i want to wish you a Merry Christmas. or something. just don’t disturb them, apparently. (not pictured: fish)
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@abbyfuller @ashleymcnamara 2007 this was the last one we had before i moved. it was so pretty. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeyboydotcom/albums/72157594563981683/
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that thing where you wear tall socks all day and they’re squeezy and you take them off and then scratch your legs
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so glad i got this big whiteboard
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shout out to th designers of the Apple Store app who thought it would be cool to make you panic and think your ipad crashed and rebooted itself when you launch the app. brilliant.
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don’t know if Big Sur or M1 or (my external drive enclosure) but this happens every time my computer sleeps, and when it wakes itself up/sleeps again. all night. anyone else seeing “Disk not ejected properly?”
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got about 14” of snow today. appropriate beer choice for tonight from @newbelgium #NHwx
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had to use my ipad to take a picture because my dumb phone uses “machine learning” or some crap to make all my photos look like daytime
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it’s been a long week
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Puppy is my lap-cat.
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additionally, if i’m attending for personal development/not endorsed or paid for by my employer, i really don’t want to enter a Company Name.
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if you force someone to enter their Role when they’re signing up for a conference, and they don’t see their Role on the list - does that mean they’re not welcome/won’t get any value out of it? 🤔
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so, i don’t currently own a graphics card that can do raytracing. this means … i’m not eligible to enter this giveaway? https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1336436032653279232
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maybe the code that verifies the password in the hints below should be the same code that verifies the password input itself? 🤔
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i still feel like a kid who managed to swindle the world into letting me have adult things
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i am torn between my appreciation of actually-informative app update messages, and my abhorrence of cutesy app update messages.
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lactose challenged friends:
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considering setting my kids websites up with a repo they can edit, submit PRs and i will review them. give them feedback. when changes are merged to main, they deploy (netlify or similar). simple framework/CMS recommendations?
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Shout out to my neighbors who have 14 cars in their driveway. Fourteen.
Four. Teen.
Four. Teen.
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i decided to clean import all my Music over again on my new machine. i … guess i had … 600 duplicates?
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one quirk with my M1 Mac Mini - i have a USB drive attached, and it seems every time the computer sleeps/wakes, it warns me that the drive was not ejected properly
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lap dog.
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love the USPS but … i can … pay them $9.99 to continue tracking the same package … for 10 years?
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also every time i type ‘scum master’
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sometimes i mistype and say that i’m a “scum master” not a “scrum master”
we need a better term for this. Iterator? Conductor? person who yells at you to update your items in Jira?
we need a better term for this. Iterator? Conductor? person who yells at you to update your items in Jira?
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Monday. https://sqd.co/_/monday.gif
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today at home depot, a lot of chin-masks, and some folks who wore them walking through the door then immediately took them off. and rubbed their noses.
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today the Apple TV app pushed a notice to my watch for a show i have never watched nor do i want to watch.
it’s a service, i’m the product.
it’s a service, i’m the product.
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that thing where you finally get a stretch of time to concentrate on code for longer than 4 minutes and you get into the zone and you're making progress and ... oh it's 5pm on friday.
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welp i’m stuck here and never moving. and typing tweets with my free left arm.
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apparently i quickly forgot how i wrecked myself yesterday, and i wrecked myself again today.
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today the weather was beautiful and i may have done too many of the things
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well if this election has taught me one thing, it’s that i was right to leave my hometown and get away from the people i see on facebook.
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just a reminder that absolutely no
amount of fret and worry right now will change anything. the only thing you have left to do is vote (if you haven’t already)
amount of fret and worry right now will change anything. the only thing you have left to do is vote (if you haven’t already)
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a great failure of people in history is neglecting to imagine what they will do, how they will react and how they will go forward, if some momentous event does not go the way they hoped and predicted. what will you do if tuesday does not turn out like you hoped?
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hey, whatcha eatin?
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i got tired of standing outside in the cold while he just eats snow
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tonight on youtube my kids discovered: Will It Blend?
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"Why don't you make your reporting slides the night before the presentation?" I ask myself for the 14th sprint in a row.