George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org

“Oh this? It’s my emotional support pile of empty notebooks,” I say as I tenderly add another to the stack.

Stressed? Got that Friday the 13th feeling?

Just watch this. It's video Valium.

Colorized footage of Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway, #Germany, 1902.

The 5 second rule doesn't count if you have a 3 second dog.

Disruption is happening

I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.

Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.

The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.

The place: 1920s Portugal.

The crime: Counterfeiting.

The obvious mistake: That the money is counterfeit.

(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)

SOC responding to a false alert ​

Courage is a child of serenity. It is what you get when you are certain in your deepest principles, and in all of your actions, you are merely following that deep current. You do what you feel is morally necessary, and you are not afraid because you have accepted that the cost and risk of your choices is lower than the cost and risk of compromising in your deepest beliefs, not because it is courageous but because it is right.

“Mansplaining as a service.” Spot on.

Quoting @andrewfeeney: https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778

Myers–Briggs test = astrology for coworkers

A friend works for Otis elevators. I asked him for the biggest mistake builders make in creating these super structures. He said builders don't wait long enough for elevator shafts to cure.

He said it can take two years for an elevator shaft to cure, but they wait half the time and then budget fixing their elevator problems for the life of the building.

The image is the new criminal justice center being built in our city. Those five elevator shafts have been curing for almost two years.

This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.

The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.

https://vintageapple.org/byte

#retrocomputing #magazines

Internet: "C++ bad"
C++ Person: "Look, I agree with you, but it was really hard to learn, so I'm not stopping now."

#firewall 🤭

I would pay to do this job! :confused_dog:

“Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better, do better.”

~ Maya Angelou

This week, a bailiff stopped me and acted as though I was in the wrong place as I walked through a portion of the courthouse that is restricted to attorneys and judges.

I'm an attorney. I was wearing a suit and conducting myself just like every other attorney in that area.

This is not the first time that has happened. I can think of several other instances in various counties where courthouse security has assumed that my black skin means I must not be an attorney.

I'm tired of it.

#racism