Microblog
This is my own private microblog where I post one- or two-sentence thoughts, spur of the moment, with no context. Think Twitter, but instead of the whole internet's poison concentrated in one place, it's just my own. Proceed with caution. (Newest posts are on top.)
Friday, May 16, 2025 at 09:31:13 AM (EDT)
Listen American car makers. I know you desperately need to make some money. Well I know the secret. All you have to do is re-introduce your boxiest body styles, with EV axles. For example: a mid 90s style Jeep Cherokee, or a mid 70s Ramcharger, or an OBS F150... but under the hood it's basically a Tesla. Offer a small integrated generator as an upsell. Trust me.
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 07:41:32 AM (EDT)
I guess if I had one question for God, it would be why the **** does my body wait to start making melatonin until 5am?
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 07:39:56 AM (EDT)
All holidays are officially bull****.
Friday, May 09, 2025 at 09:52:36 AM (EDT)
I guess the main reason I don't like being told I'm not good enough, is that I'm not.
Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:15:24 AM (EDT)
Regardless of how asinine, self-defeating, and illiberal the current trendy progressive thing happens to be... why is it you can bet Neil Young is flying its flag?
Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:03:58 AM (EDT)
AI based phishing attacks might finally, once and for all, end my desire to get off the internet... because they'll destroy it.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 10:55:31 AM (EDT)
If you want to get a sense for how far gone western society is, just take any state-mandated training course.
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 12:23:56 PM (EDT)
Lately, I've found that I no longer enjoy most holidays, and it's because so many of us don't actually celebrate the reason for the holiday. I hope that while eating our sweetened toxic industrial byproducts and putting away our stuffed pagan fertility symbols this week, we'll all at least ponder for 10 seconds that the Almighty God has defeated evil through the sacrifice and resurrection of his son, Jesus the Messiah.
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 08:32:05 AM (EDT)
And how heretical am I?
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 08:31:22 AM (EDT)
Who is more heretical: a woke Christian, or a Mormon? Will anyone from either group be saved? Just how far does God's grace, and the sacrifice of Christ, extend?
Wednesday, April 09, 2025 at 10:29:32 AM (EDT)
Thinking of making a TODO list app that just picks something random once a day from the list and constantly spams you with 'DO THIS NOW' until it's done
Wednesday, April 09, 2025 at 09:32:44 AM (EDT)
I really had no idea how many things could stress out a person all at once.
Wednesday, April 09, 2025 at 09:25:00 AM (EDT)
Why is it that every new feature Square introduces is, at best, half-baked... and often closer to quarter-baked?
Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 11:29:42 AM (EDT)
Mobile-first development is stupid. It makes every website ugly and useless. And besides, we should be discouraging people from using the internet on their phones in the first place.
Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 11:23:41 AM (EDT)
So-called 'modern' UX design is apparently all about making everything so large as to be unusable.
Monday, April 07, 2025 at 11:00:45 PM (EDT)
I'm starting to wonder if, during the course of a small business's growth, the moment the owners quit their day job so they can cover the day-to-day operations signals the beginning of the end? Growing a business seems much, much harder when you have to live off the business's already slim margins. Would it be smarter to hire young employees, without the lifetimes of debt, to run the place?
Friday, April 04, 2025 at 03:29:16 PM (EDT)
I guess there is one thing that I have in common with progressives: I really don't like people.
Friday, April 04, 2025 at 01:41:38 PM (EDT)
So-called infinities, just like negative numbers, are the result of imprecise mathematical language. In other words, they don't exist.
Friday, April 04, 2025 at 11:34:03 AM (EDT)
To the people hailing Trump as the new FDR: Yes, he may in fact turn out to be that bad.
Friday, April 04, 2025 at 09:10:33 AM (EDT)
The director of the WEF has stepped down, because he won.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:44:10 AM (EDT)
Technology is leaving me behind. I am a bit sad, but also mostly ok with it.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:02:51 AM (EDT)
New rule: you don't get to call and ask if a server is down until it's been down for at least 5 minutes.
Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:43:56 AM (EDT)
Today the insides of my shoes are still wet, and I forgot my coffee. But I'm not letting it get to me. The wet socks are a reminder of the fun I had walking in the woods with my son, and the forgotten coffee just means I get to go to Sheetz to get more.
Friday, March 28, 2025 at 09:13:26 PM (EDT)
You know, you might be happier if you didn't look down your nose at other people all the time.
Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:34:08 AM (EDT)
Anyone who uses the term 'far-right' has absolutely no idea what the far-right is.
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:58:55 AM (EDT)
Progress is when you start seeing different errors.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 09:45:15 AM (EDT)
If my wife's Tesla gets keyed or spray painted, I'll simply buy another one for her, and drive around the vandalized one myself as a badge of honor. (The new Model Ys do look pretty cool. Cybertrucks are still super dumb, though.)
Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:37:42 AM (EDT)
I'm starting to wonder if the WEF will indeed save the world... through reverse psychology?
Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:34:47 AM (EDT)
Not only is Thomas Massie right... he's so right that if you don't think he's right, you're a G*n idiot.
Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:43:59 AM (EDT)
The levels of deception: Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Products Which Promise to Fix Your 90s Dodge Truck Steering
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:09:29 PM (EDT)
The syllogism goes something like this. 1, if God doesn't exist, then evolution is the only plausibleexplanation of the existence of life. 2, if evolution is true, all of our beliefs are survival mechanisms and have nothing to do with truth. 3, there are atheists. 4, therefore God exists.
Monday, March 10, 2025 at 10:14:02 AM (EDT)
Me, any time I'm trying to do something actually useful in Square's point of sale management stuff: Apparently I'm the first person to ever think of this. (Or: Apparently we're the first brewery in the entire world to use Square. Or Or: Apparently no one who works at Square has ever managed a small business.)
Sunday, March 09, 2025 at 08:34:47 AM (EDT)
There are three steadfast rules that I live by, which have not failed me yet: 1. Wireless technology sucks. 2. Don't put it on the network. 3. Mobile OSes are evil. Stick to these three, and you too will be a happy curmudgeon.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 11:54:36 AM (EST)
Pictures of Free Ross out in the real world doing Free Ross things will never get old to me
Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:59:24 PM (EST)
The more I think about it, the more I agree with Ron Paul that we should just default on the debt, or at least the portion owed to the Federal Reserve. They defaulted on the currency first, by backing it with nothing. We don't owe them anything, because they didn't lend us anything.
Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:14:04 AM (EST)
Sometimes you have one of those days, like when you look through your folder with screenshots going back 15 years, and think to yourself... wait, what year is it??
Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:26:09 PM (EST)
I'm a simple man... I doomscroll on X until I read a tweet saying Trump intends to end the IRS, I like the tweet, and I go to sleep.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 08:42:04 AM (EST)
That's it, I've figured it out. The universe is just a big simulation, the goal of which is to figure out how many explitives a quiet nerd will shout at the top of his lungs when he spills his coffee all over the inside of his Jeep.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:56:46 AM (EST)
The real world is no place for an idealist.
Monday, February 17, 2025 at 09:59:29 PM (EST)
Again I say it: there is nothing in the universe more important -- or amazing -- than your kids.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:02:35 AM (EST)
Sometimes I wish there was some way to get to know people in real life who I have anything, at all, in common with.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 08:43:46 AM (EST)
[Cat Reading Newspaper Meme] I am going to start reading more science fiction and fantasy books. Like, from modern authors.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 09:57:02 AM (EST)
USPS is terrible. Privatize the heck out of it.
Monday, February 10, 2025 at 08:32:04 AM (EST)
I suppose it's worth noting that the truck is officially 30 years old now, and the Jeep is 20.
Monday, February 10, 2025 at 06:56:34 AM (EST)
Instead of eliminating pennies, how about we make the money worth minting. (Ahem, by ending the Fed)
Monday, February 10, 2025 at 06:38:12 AM (EST)
Up early thinkin about how negative numbers don't exist (or really, how our mathematical language might be too imprecise)
Saturday, February 08, 2025 at 10:09:26 AM (EST)
(actually at this rate, I'll be replacing the Pis with C64s)
Saturday, February 08, 2025 at 10:08:07 AM (EST)
Me at the next brewery owners' meeting: "Guys, I'm gonna need a lot more Raspberry Pis."
Friday, February 07, 2025 at 09:00:11 AM (EST)
I wonder what leisure time feels like?
Thursday, February 06, 2025 at 04:06:32 PM (EST)
Doing 1099s feels like I'm ratting out my fellow musicians to the mafia (because that's exactly what I'm doing)
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 04:08:40 PM (EST)
Centering text in C64 basic is easy: print spc(abs(20-len(a$)/2)); a$;. Centering text in CSS is... uh... I have no idea where to even begin.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 11:00:27 AM (EST)
You know, I've been trained for so long to be pessimistic about US politics that it's difficult to process these recent wins (from a libertarian perspective). So far, I rejoice quietly, but reservedly, because I just instinctively assume the apparent winning is all the result of a psyop, or even if real, everything good will be reversed by some kind of Democrat/deep state push back and we'll just continue to descend into Hell.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 09:44:34 AM (EST)
Anything you decide to do should not be covered by insurance, otherwise it's not really insurance, it's a savings account. Which would be better served by, you know, an actual savings account.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 09:22:58 AM (EST)
So, apparently I've started buying Commodore 64 diagnostic equipment, and am starting to think about buying up chips. It has begun.
Wednesday, February 05, 2025 at 08:33:30 AM (EST)
It's funny how as people have increasingly realized that the major news networks and affiliates are fake, the more the networks' studio sets seem to resemble some random person's thrown-together garage studio.
Tuesday, February 04, 2025 at 10:21:37 AM (EST)
I haven't done anything that makes me truly happy in a very, very long time.
Monday, February 03, 2025 at 09:19:51 AM (EST)
The new Turing test will be when an 'AI' model can program itself directly in machine code.
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 03:18:19 PM (EST)
If Trump manages to end the IRS, I will literally get back not just many tens of thousands of dollars in annual income, but more importantly, I'll get back roughly one entire month of every year of the rest of my life. ('Normal' people really just don't understand how much of an insanely unreasonable buearocratic burden income taxes are for a small business owner.)
Friday, January 31, 2025 at 02:37:32 PM (EST)
Yes, of course I believe in slavery reparations... for the thousands of hours of pointless busy work imposed on us by the IRS.
Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 03:35:55 PM (EST)
If your 'app' doesn't work on a rooted device, it is broken. As such, I will throw it in the trash.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:04:42 PM (EST)
We have a bill of rights, sure. But what we need is a constitutional amendment that requires anyone in elected office to be capable of correctly defining "rights."
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:32:07 AM (EST)
The cure for social media is to work on making something.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 01:26:09 PM (EST)
Note to future me and other devs, my new favorite way to get debug info from PHP is to json_encode it and stick it in a header. You could log it to the JS console as some have done, but that only works if you're using the PHP to generate HTML rather than Commodore 64 basic binaries.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 08:35:03 AM (EST)
No tax on tips or overtime is not good enough, because I'll still have to report my tips, and now I'll have to report how many hours I've worked in a week. The only acceptable solution is to shatter the IRS into a million pieces and scatter it into the wind. There is no compromise.
Monday, January 27, 2025 at 11:34:35 AM (EST)
Things I get so lost in that I lose track of time include, apparently: Writing a PHP script that generates a C64 basic program binary from Wordpress data.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 11:00:59 AM (EST)
Once you have a child, it's difficult not to get a least a small glimpse of how God sees us: as children, who may have been led astray by the evils in the world, but who are nonetheless worthy of love.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 09:05:19 AM (EST)
Trump signs executive order making software licenses not just illegal, but also retarded
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 04:20:21 PM (EST)
It's the same old story: I have a half dozen cool, productive projects that I really want to work on, but I can't because of a half dozen b.s. governmemt-related projects I 'have' to do more urgently.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 10:29:52 AM (EST)
Me using an Avantis console for the first time: "This is Unix, I know this." (It is, and I do)
Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 08:46:48 AM (EST)
The last two posts have nothing to do with each other. worriedly smirks and looks around at a room full of skeptical faces
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 09:17:28 AM (EST)
I guess one reason my 'career' was never destined to go anywhere is that I'm simply not interested in fixing problems caused by other people's negligence.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:29:40 AM (EST)
Apparently, I've made a career out of finding bizarre Active Directory corner cases. Largely due to a poorly thought out decision I made 20 years ago when setting up this domain.
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 08:15:52 PM (EST)
I play one little offroading game for a couple hours and now all of a sudden I need a steering wheel and pedal rig
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 09:09:42 AM (EST)
I'm tired, and cold, and tired of the cold.
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 12:23:10 AM (EST)
Why are there so many retarded tech people? (Sorry, I was reading hacker news again)
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 11:03:09 AM (EST)
Imaginary numbers are roughly as imaginary as continuous functions.
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 09:54:50 AM (EST)
I like the whole 'protect my tweets' thing, because it keeps me from posting anything.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 11:30:57 AM (EST)
Actually, my real posistion is, fine lets take them over but only if we abolish the Fed and the IRS and end all the wars first. No sense in making them less free than they already are.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 11:28:19 AM (EST)
How about instead of taking over Canada and Greenland, we just get rid of passports and trade restrictions and also the federal and state governments? (gets thrown out of window)
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 10:05:16 AM (EST)
I guess what I'm trying to say, is that it's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I just don't care.
Thursday, January 09, 2025 at 09:40:46 AM (EST)
Some people have what could be called a passion for their technology-driven career. I have what would most accurately be thought of as the exact opposite... Due in large part to my understanding of what technology could be, and isn't. It's the lazy perfectionist's curse, in a somewhat different form.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 10:46:55 AM (EST)
When the docs say "you can write your own extensions" it should be implied that "you'll have to maintain your own extensions"
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 10:37:44 AM (EST)
One of those old unix lessons is hitting me today: just learn Make.
Tuesday, January 07, 2025 at 08:51:19 AM (EST)
The whole world is moving to wayland, and here I am disabling my display manager
Monday, January 06, 2025 at 12:43:05 PM (EST)
Remembers that GDQ is a thing. Happily tunes in. Within seconds, sees multilple masks and pronouns. Disappointedly remembers that many, many people are badly damaged goods. Oh well, after saying a quick prayer, still up for watching weirdos do some good speedruns.
Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 09:22:17 PM (EST)
Oh were you waiting for me to answer? I just figured you were going to mock anything I said so I stayed quiet.