I was in the middle of my Calculus III class when I took the GRE. For some reason I blanked on the formula for the area of a circle so I derived it during the test.

I went to India in the early '90s and happened to see a small software shop that had five programmers and one PC. The programmers wrote all their code with pencil and paper and the secretary typed it all into the computer. I want to say that this explains a lot about the quality of offshore code, but it probably doesn’t.

I myself just caught the tail end of the punch card era. It was actually kinda fun to sit at home with just a stack of cards and create working (hopefully, you wouldn’t know for days) code.

I thought you wrote “Scranton”. I was like “what the fuck does The Office have to do with all this?”

What’s a “book”?

couldn’t even be bothered to build in the same style?

Typical wealthy American’s house, unfortunately.

The problem with getting a court jester today is that Peter Dinklage would make sure nobody got the job but him.

Yeah, record these conversations. Save the emails and text messages.

My fear is that short of political capital, they’ll start just assassinating people.

This is similar to how when Roman generals got a triumph celebrated for them, a slave would stand behind them saying “remember, you are mortal”. In this case, the page would say “remember, you are a corrupt douchebag who is only in this position because you can somehow smile for sixteen hours straight”.

or how many neglected to read it for its substance

All of them neglected to read it. I think senators and congresscritters should have to take a test to prove they read a bill before being allowed to vote on it.

I grew up in Ohio in the '70s. The first snowfall was usually in late September. The ground was completely covered in snow in October and you didn’t see grass again until some time in April. The snow wasn’t completely gone until May and the giant mounds of plowed snow usually lasted into June. More than six months of serious Winter every year, nothing like that happening today.

You’re overestimating some of us oldsters here. I work with people who are mostly in their 60s and 70s, and they can almost in the same sentence claim that 1) summers are hotter and winters are warmer than they used to be, and that 2) climate change is a hoax.

It would technically be self-harm, and in his case I’m all for it.

Also contact your state senators.

Sigh. I live in Pennsylvania.

There’s a house in my neighborhood that doesn’t even have stairs leading to the front door. Like, the door is three feet in the air, no way to actually use it for anything except breaking your ankle while drinking at night.

It is a good way to keep the Jehovah’s Witness and the Mormons at bay, to be fair.

Somehow Lowe’s only has these things in pressure-treated lumber. So I made my own for my stairs in my basement using regular lumber. And then my basement flooded.

I worked for a tech giant that is a homonym of Sysco. The mandatory security training videos were I shit you not animated cartoon animals. I would be deeply concerned about security flaws in their products, except that I never encountered anyone there that had anything whatsoever to do with their actual products, nor did I encounter anyone who themselves had ever encountered anyone that had anything whatsoever to do with their actual products. This abstraction from the product line was actually a common topic of conversation there among the employees.

They are completely divorced from reality.

I saw a sticker on an electrical junction box yesterday: “END RACISM AND HATE: stop voting for democrats”. Had to rub my eyes and blink a few times.

Speaking as an old white man: I’m sorry. I don’t like us either.

It’s only tiny because they used " instead of ’ on the measurements.