Author: Brett L

Whoa, I just talked for two hours straight and that is not my jam. Here are some quick links because my meeting ran long.

Apparently $1M is not enough to buy forgiveness for being young and stupid enough to post racist stuff on Twitter.

Local news, manatee wants to be frens.

I don’t think that’s how pet-breeding works.

I lived in a men’s dorm my freshman year of college. I can see how this could happen. My roommate and I had an argument over who left the tupperware out that got moldy in March. He won in May by moving out first.

It’s a links drive-by again today. Here’s today’s poll question: How long does it take for a new employee (junior level) to do productive work? Maybe if I have a meeting tomorrow morning, I can read the responses.

Iowa man, that’s some horror movie shit you done. I’m sure He Who Walks Behind the Rows was pleased to accept the sacrifice.

The Russian Navy lost a ship to a.. walrus? We should definitely be spending several hundred billion dollars a year to increase our fleets to deal with threats such as these!

Well, this will definitely piss off the communists, since they’re all of the Internationalist flavor. Personally, I think nations are, on balance, too large to address most problems in an efficient manner, but damn sure better than the UN/World Government

Well, they’ve certainly got Trump right where he wants them. I can’t decide whether I’m rooting for President Pence, or Trump skipping impeachment proceedings to campaign more.

Well, folks, I’m busier than a Democratic candidate at an Iowa picnic. Although probably more welcome at work. I hate to link and run, but it looks like I’ll be earning my paycheck for the next month or so. I hope you’re all fat and happy. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get to play in the links a bit.

If I wanted to be ranted at by a sixteen year old autist, I could play online video games. Brutal

Wow, voters are not quite as stupid as I thought they were. PPACA was recent enough, everyone remembers how much less care cost, and how marginally better the care was before the government got more involved.

This dude has basically been LARPing Tom Cruise’s character in Vanilla Sky, right?

Florida Woman knows how to get a camel off her. Daamn.

In honor of the brutal meme, here’s some 90s Grrl pop.

Man, being without minions for the week has been both brutal and productive. Brutal because I have to answer every email and help request that comes in for our team. Productive in that there’s no one around to ask me questions. Need a 3 hour block to make some fixes and enhancements? Oh look, I has one. How strange. My admin-in-training gets back from vacation next week, and I’m supposed to have a new baby coder start… well, it was gonna be this Tuesday, but they’re still calling references as stuff. So hopefully next Monday. So I’ll be teaching class, not writing code for a couple of weeks. Hopefully, by November, we’ll start getting some productive work out of them.

Florida Man, you can’t pawn your county issued weapon! Also, domestic battery? You know you’re not a real cop, right?

Florida Man, consent is important!

I’m sure the Hat & Hair were behind this.

Space Force active by 2020? Well “active” — gotta figure out important shit like ranks and insignias, and then they can start working on missions and goals.

Meh, I’m in the mood for some present century pop-rock.

Happy Wednesday everybody. I’ve got plenty to do, but I hit my own self-imposed deadline for getting the stuff that has to go this week shipped to the QA guys. I’m really liking this “devops” shit. For minor, non-critical fixes, if it isn’t ready for the testers to test by 1pm Wednesday, you get a whole ‘nother week. Unfortuately, the HNIC of my group is a real slave-driver on Monday and Tuesday. So after I got my stuff out, I took an actual hour to steal a bunch of snack food my wife had put out for her friends as they “crafted”. I don’t really understand this, but for some reason they were sitting around painting wine glasses instead of drinking out of them. Maybe there’s a future payoff that I’m missing, but I think they intend to put candles in the wine glasses. Now I know how my wife feels when I try to explain why I like video games. Also, I took a pass on replacing the wife’s AC compressor. She has a good mechanic so the markup was only about $300 above doing it myself. I watched a couple videos, and they’re gonna earn it trying to squeeze around under that CRV. Also, I imagine I’d fuck up drawing the vacuum and spend a couple of hours fucking around with that. Anyhow, that’s my day. How the hell are each of you?

(Some) Californians saddened to learn that the EPA will no longer let them be special. This should be an object lesson (but won’t be) to all states dominated by a single party. The Feds can always fuck you, and eventually, the President and his cabal get their hands on those levers.

Less beer than I expected, but otherwise Aussie as hell. I’ll bet his friends call him a big girl for having to be rescued at all.

This person is obviously missing the point!

Aliens, bro. Its always aliens.

Happy Tuesday, everybody. I’m thinking about asking my doctor when I see her next week if I can have their technology contract. Their “web portal” is always down, I got an email from them to confirm an appointment that just had a time of day, but no date. I know I can do better working on this as side hustle. And, it just pisses me off that I can’t do anything without calling their office. I just want to fix it for my own convenience, but I might as well make a little money off it, right?

Also, after much feedback yesterday, I’ve decided to change my title from “Lead Architect” to “Head Nerd in Charge” — so I am now the HNIC of this project.

The skeptic in me wonders how the Church of Scientology feels about his stance. And whether his prayers go to Xenu.

Oh sure, make me defend Bill Maher.

Oh shit, Sloopy and Banjos… run!

Women can’t be psychopaths, right? She’s certainly no criminal mastermind: “The attacker left a cellphone in a case that contained her driver’s license, as well as a wallet with documents that included her name”

Happy Monday everybody. I am in the first day of my new work assignment in upgraded capacity. This basically means I am the only developer on the team, so I have awarded myself a promotion to Lead Architect. Sure, I’ve got nobody to lead for a few days, but that’s just a minor quibble. Also, I’ve been teaching myself a new code framework, and its about as much fun as sex with whiskey dick. The payoff.. is coming… any time now… whoops, nope. Maybe next time. And having left that picture in your minds, here’s some links.

I respect the cut of this Florida Man’s jib. It takes real balls to mail the State a bill for $2.5M. Guess what happened next?

Brutal. But not unfair. Me, personally, I’d give Taggart until the end of this season to figure out how to not blow leads.

As much as I hate the flying rats of American cities, this pigeon has my respect.

In my head, I hear the priest from Heathers saying.. “Esss-kilator”

Here’s a fun and rambling rock song.

It’s my anniversary. And the first time it has fallen on Friday the 13th since we got married. Six years and I still love her. Why do I lover her? Well, she did get me tickets to see that Little Band from Texas when they come through next month. So enjoy your links, I’ll be taking my wife out for a nice dinner.

Florida Man, missing for 22 years discovered in pond by Google Maps.  h/t Jesse.in.mb

“Why I’m a selfish cunt” — UK edition.

Oh shit, I should stop by the store. Sorry honey, I forgot Borderland 3 was out today.

I’ve found a new hero, although I have to say, his firing appears legit to me.

Here’s one of my wife’s favorites.

Everything is really coming up Brett today. First, I scheduled the Uber to the airport about 20 minutes later than I really should have, but it turns out that at 5am you can make the drive to the airport in under 30 minutes without speeding (more than usual). I was expecting more like 45. The desk guy at the hotel we always stay at recognized me and got my room cleaned first, so I was in way early, and then I found a sixer of Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest at the drug store on my way back from lunch. Now I should probably do some work.

Damn, but they rolled this ship good. I’m surprised it was able to get fully 90 degrees tilted, and also, it appears to be pretty high in the water. Maybe they had to blow a lot of ballast to get out of the port?

These whiners. Listen, you don’t lose 59-10 because the coach called the wrong plays.

“Uh, hello, airplanes? It’s blimps calling, you win.” Now with TOTALLY NON-FLAMMABLE helium.

Happy Friday, y’all. Football season starts for real this weekend. My wife is making about 5lbs of my favorite taco recipe, and I have some beer. Life is good.

Are Iowa women the locus of infection, or just eating too many pig ear dog treats?

“We have no faith in Boris Johnson to lead the UK to Brexit” and “we also don’t want to hold new elections until after Brexit”. I love politics.

What kind of corrupt administration would investigate companies who refuse to cooperate with Federal regulators? I’m going to go with “all of them”.

Is this the worst kind of science reporting?