I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT. On the plus side, most of these job listings are fake anyway, so it was probably just a phishing attempt of sorts based on my resume. At least the AI isn’t smart enough yet to know they should not mention Palantir with me.

We used to have a “Guess what?” “What?” “Nope!” routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.

I’m a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say “what is six plus seven? Six-seven!” and I say “sure, in Visual Basic”. They don’t get it, naturally enough.

My tenth grade nephew said something about how it started because NBA player Lonzo Ball is 6’7" and was described as “six seven” during a broadcast.

stray carts

This would be a good name for a rockabilly remix band.

some people also have larger-than-average holes

Like sleeve of wizard.

“Oh wait. You put a large cart in the small cart section.”

Or gravy!

I used to work for a small software company that had had hired a DC lobbying firm and gotten their hands on a $12 million per year pork grant that was ostensibly to be used for improving manufacturing in our (very rural and very red) state. My company couldn’t just pocket this money, so instead they had set up another corporation which was probably a legitimate legal entity but was actually run by one of our employees out of a closet-sized office rented in a generic building downtown. This mostly bogus corporation would dole out the $12 million to other companies (most of which weren’t even really in our state) which would in turn hire us as consultants at inflated hourly rates to produce software that nobody ever used. And as anyone could expect, the owners of my company were rabid conservatives who loved to rant about “welfare queens”.

You could call this “one hand washing the other” but “circle jerk” is a lot more appropriate. And this little bit of corruption was an absolute drop in the fucking bucket in terms of what’s really going on out there.

When I first started cooking I used to burn the rice all the time and I had to throw it all away. Then one day I had dinner at a Persian restaurant and they brought me some of the charred rice (called “tahdig”) as a special treat. It was a real eye-opener (tongue-opener?) because that shit is incredibly delicious. They regretted serving it to me because I started begging for it every time I went, which is apparently a rather rude thing to do.

Korean dol sat bibim bap is similar. It’s a dish served in a massively hot stone bowl with the rice on the bottom, and the longer you let it sit there before mixing everything together, the more the rice chars and the better it tastes. It’s almost crazy how much charred rice is not a thing in world cuisines when it’s actually incredibly delicious.

also had his 500k debt mysteriously paid off

God damn these fuckers work cheap.

“Can’t find a better man.”

Can also be used if you agree with former Bengals QB Boomer Esiason.

For me, the best part of being old is that hopefully I’ll be dead before the shit really hits the fan.

Fiscally challenged

I thought it was Il Douche’s fasces logo. Which was a fucking lame logo, although that’s not exactly the worst thing about his rule.

TBF this was all more than 5 years ago when the job interviewing process at most IT companies involved just putting a moistened finger underneath the candidate’s nostrils. Apparently the programmer job market is pretty horrific these days, although I wouldn’t know since I drive a school bus now.

How about an example from the last 40 years?

You had me until “unless”.

MS is waaaay too big to fail.