mike sugarbaker @misuba@theha.us
I know Apple’s always been bad at online services, but iMessage’s GIF search gets no results for “owlbear” even after the movie trailer dropped, and I’m annoyed
With drunk with power comes drunk with responsibility
nm it was on twitter. Sorry if I maybe should have CW'd this.
(it's Blindsight by Peter Watts)
Did you post recently about a science fiction book that's kinda challenging, e.g. your post may have included the phrase "I am meat"? Please remind me what the book was I'm losing my mind tysm
What could be more pleasing than crossing the street at a diagonal crosswalk and signal? Satisfies the inner order muppet and the inner chaos muppet all at once. Beautiful
mike sugarbaker
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Me: There was a point in computing history when we could have had high-level programming languages be a normal way to interact with and customize your machines, like on the Alto. Computers, even microcontrollers, have much more power to do that stuff now.
Guy: I just don't think it's possible.
Me: But...Alan Kay did it 40 years ago. His technical limitations are now moot.
Guy: We're going to have to agree to disagree.
Me: 🤨
Truthfully I don’t really care about the experience of anyone who has to touch code? I mean, if you have to touch code to get stuff done I need to know that
Someone tell me why Drupal is great or sucks
"It's PHP" is not allowed as a reason (for either)
too many ideas for computer games and associated difficult-to-execute foolishness
I could ask dall-e mini but I know what it's going to say
Tired: owlbears
Wired: owlcats
This is the kind of thing people post with accompanying visual evidence, and yet
My oven always starts its temperature-setter at 350, likely because that is what it usually ends up being. I can't decide whether this is ferociously irritating or the best possible design choice, and I vote
This isn't even the Main Street USA of hellworld. This is just when you're inside the ticket gates and standing around looking at the train station and checking the map and shit
j/k I do. But to say more than that would be to retroactively need a uspol warning
I have feelings about what should be done with Tomorrowland, and I vote
I'm gonna miss this thing of going to shows without leaving my house. (If it goes away.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_lPsuA6G0
violent us history
I don't know a lot about Kent State but lately I've been thinking about it a lot. Someone made me aware yesterday that May 4 is its anniversary date.
If it weren't for a Star Wars pun, maybe we'd be talking about it. It sure seems relevant.
Just spent a solid 2 minutes at the bar trying to figure out which “oldie” they were playing a cover of. Realized it was the fucking Strokes and I was five years out of college. BRB gonna go wither into dust
Took a job! With a (checks notes) early stage startup?
Christ, I’m having a weird day
