Oooh, good point. That’d be a photo finish out the garage door, for sure.

Butbutbut the name has ‘open’ in it. How can this be?

(I worked on OpenUnix and OpenLinux, so I get it)

it’s light

Aye, it is light.

Better yet: sharks existed before our notion of FIRE.

IBS people hate this one weird trick?

It’s like you neither read the article, nor do you understand how software works.

That’s a bit of a reach.

Your cat will respect that, once she gets over being pissed at your not noticing her camouflaged on the stair. Because how dare you.

Being actually mean is stressful.

Wow. Paying your kids’ bills in college is so great if you can manage.

We had a lineman up here get attacked by a cougar. Fought off the cat with a 4-inch pocketknife, got himself out of the bush and to a highway before getting a ride to the hospital.

Absolute badass.

Was it there? Over there?

generally not born simultaneously

I’d say definitely not born simultaneously. Can you imagine?

Concrete is a [disaster] from an environmental perspective

Concrete -> density -> efficient housing and metro

I’m sorry you love sprawl and roads.

Palmetto bugs.

In NJ they were 3 inches long, sleek and black and abhorrent. Ugh!

My old boss, as a child, adopted three orphaned kits.

He’ll confirm there’s nothing illogical about fearing those little thumbed miscreants.

How did this happen? I apologize for my mistakes and back it up with changed behavior, and Ive never hit him. He is his own person, and I am his safe person. This also means he sometimes will take his anger out on me. I dont take anything he says personally, because he is just a kid, expierencing emotions he doesnt yet know how to regulate. So, not taking his comments personally.

Fantastic. Humility is a great combo while still setting boundaries and guiding development.

Aida on Freakin’ Broadway in NYC. I’m not a theatre type but I was in the area for a few years, and the performance was everything I hoped to see in a real broadway play; but I was a little disappointed to learn people do not dress up - biz-casual at least - to see a show.

be prepared to take a (minor) paycut and/or not work on something “shiny and impressive” in exchange for a better working environment.

I can confirm this is an excellent plan. Anecdotal as it is, I traded a fast-paced job with great people and terrible management for a slower-paced job working on things that do not interest me at all, with excellent peers and fantastic management. The change in working environment (and recognition of WFH as work) has made a huge difference.

My pay cut was 3% initially, but the rate increases of the new job has outpaced that of the old, and it’s a few percent in my favour now. I’m pleased and relieved, and I hope its boring self can continue for a few years while I derive satisfaction and joy from interactions at work, and accomplishments and leisure outside of work.

Borders are dumb, IMO.

How would you better define and manage the different zones of consolidated, shared resource management and ensure no fair-weather cheats skim benefits from each instead of committed to one and paying their part? No no, I’m curious.