“Gangsters don’t hire family members because they’re qualified. Gangsters hire family members because they’re less likely to talk to the FBI.” (Click to embiggen)It’s Friday. July is flying by. We’ve had 34 consecutive days without rain, which isn’t a record, but would surprise some people about Seattle. We have to go at least 18 more days before we’ll tie the existing record. After the wettest winter in the recorded weather history, it would be appropriate if we broke the rainless summer record, too.
This week has been another of very long hours at work, so the links round-up may be small.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
“When you are dead you do not know you are dead. All of the pain is felt by others. THE SAME THING HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE STUPID.” (click to embiggen)It’s Friday. It’s the second Friday in July!
This week’s round up is a bit smaller than usual. Still trying to figure out how much time I should put into these posts, and still being way busier than usual at work and such.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Some Republicans are finding their conscience… (click to embiggen)It’s Friday. It’s the first Friday in July, though this will be the second weekend of July. That concept seems to really bug some people.
I didn’t get a weekly round up of links posted last week. The following list is both last week’s and this week’s. I’m doing some serious thinking about how much time I devote to assembling these posts when as far as I can tell only a fraction of my readers ever click on any of the links.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
How Americans Order Their Steak.
A couple flaws: 1) the big steakhouse chain they picked to use as the sample skews things more than a bit, survey left out Very Rare and Blue Rare (though that might be because the steakhouse doesn’t offer those)–aka, my choices.
Let’s stop talking about inclusion and just do it…It’s Friday. The third Friday in Pride Month. And both my husband and I came down sick this week, but I still have impossible deadlines at work, so you’ll notice a lot fewer links this week.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
“Clark, my country is all women. To us, it’s not ‘gay marriage,’ it’s just marriage.”It’s Friday. The second Friday in Pride Month. And the news in the real world continues to be both depressing and frightening. So, if you haven’t yet, I highly recommend you go see Wonder Woman, because no matter who you are, it should make you feel empowered (well, unless you’re an alt-right/neo-nazi/MRA jerk with enough self awareness to recognize what the bad guys believe). Seriously.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Is Trump’s blocking of some Twitter users unconstitutional? A lot of people think the first amendment is only about personal expression and the press, but the first amendment also guarantees citizens the right to petition their government; Trump has turned his personal twitter account into an official policy communication conduit and some would argue a public forum.
“We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same.”We had an extremely productive holiday weekend, getting a lot of errands and unpacking done. There’s still a lot to do. I hoped to continue the work weeknights this week, but we had another impossible deadline at work this week, which meant I worked really long hours Tuesday, Wednesday, and a bit of Thursday. That also means that this week’s collections of links may be a bit smaller than usual.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
“Do or do not. There is no try!”We finished clearing out the old place. I went to bed early two nights in a row. I haven’t really worked on any unpacking at the new place the last few days. We have a lot to do in that regard, but we’ve been spending every spare moment dealing with the move for about six weeks, and we’ve both been exhausted and sore the whole time, so a couple of days of just going to work has been an incredible rest.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
“Hello Darkness, my old friend.”We’re STILL unpacking at the new place and still cleaning the old place. So not having a lot of time to work on things like this post.
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story.
“MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free. There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3, it’s good enough for almost anything, and now, over twenty years since it took the world by storm, it’s finally free.”
David Brooks is quite often an idiot, but he nails some important truths here which most of his fellow conservative pundits have yet to admit: When the World Is Led by a Child.
“We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar… And out of that void comes a carelessness that quite possibly betrayed an intelligence source, and endangered a country.”
Sam The Bengal Cat & Pip The OtterWe’re still unpacking at the new place and still getting the last straggling things out of the old. I’m looking forward to some mythical day in the future where I’m not constantly exhausted. I have been slightly less sore most of this week, so that’s a good thing, right?
Anyway, here are the links I found interesting this week, sorted into categories.
Font Folly 