they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year.

Holy shit. I think we used that much last month, which is higher than average but not that high for August around here.

Bless me Father Chat GPT for I have sinned.

I had a relative spouting off on Facebook about how Kirk’s death was [somehow] the fault of “liberal universities”.

I wasn’t involved in this “conversation” because I don’t use Facebook and I try to avoid talking to idiots. But I was told that when questioned, they could not explain which universities are the “liberal” ones, which ones offer courses on how to perform assassinations as part of their curriculum, why the US isn’t just running rampatant with would be assassins, or how they managed to arrive at their fucking stupid conclusion.

You are not wrong.

Just dying to be the favorite child. Too bad that’s already Ivanka.

Letting his friend pierce his nipples was dumb. Coming to you with his concerns was smart. I wish our oldest (17) would do that more often but she usually likes to let things go until they are really out of control instead. I promise you, there are way worse things your son could be doing.

Just remind him that it’s better to consider the consequences before doing something like that.

Yeah baby! Strip those regs! Who’s ready for some more early 2000’s level fraud induced corporate bankruptcies? We’ll call it “Vibe Accounting”, which is where some idiot who can barely add uses an LLM to spit out financial statements that have no basis in reality.

/s

Put down the thought of what’s right, what’s wrong…

Yeah, I can’t do that. I refuse to celebrate his death but I don’t mourn it either. He was an evil man who died in a horrible way.

That’s as far as my thoughts go on the subject.

You’d need a case of dynamite and some matches to cut through that irony.

Well you see, it’s ✨magical✨ data that only executives can interpret. Us lowly employees ungrateful peons just wouldn’t understand it.

“Vibe Executing” is apparently how alot of CEO’s do their jobs. They didn’t know how to gauge productivity before the pandemic and they still don’t. They just pull whatever sounds good out of their asses at any given moment.

Ah yes. The Intel Strategy.

I’d like to learn to play the organ. I have an old Allen MOS-2 in my workshop that I started doing a MIDI conversion on and just haven’t had time to finish it.

Personal Anecdote

Last week I used the AI coding assistant within JetBrains DataGrip to build a fairly complex PostgreSQL function.

It put together a very well organized, easily readable function, complete with explanatory comments, that failed to execute because it was absolutely littered with errors.

I don’t think it saved me any time but it did help remove my brain block by reorganizing my logic and forcing me to think through it from a different perspective. Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

I am not even going to attempt to climb those stairs.

Then there’s all the expenses you didn’t know about before you bought the house. If you don’t have at least some DIY skills, you get to pay people a lot of money to fix things for you.

…BTW, the county just did a reassessment on your property and your property taxes have now doubled. In exchange, you get nothing. Congratulations.

A little surprising since I’ve heard they’ve not been getting along recently.

Absolutely. As long as the boots are made properly and the sole isn’t just glued on. I think a lot of Danner and Redwing boots are resolable.

I’ve got a pair of Danner’s that I really like.

Timberland boots don’t retire. They constantly slack off at work and quit in a rage when confronted about it.

…also I’m pretty sure they were smoking crack while driving the service van

That goes in the grease jar in the fridge to make gravy later.