I was told blue looks good on me by a girl.

10 years later, most of my shirts are blue.

Adjusting for overscan in the 2000s…

I had a professor in my government and private organizations interactions class who was clear that he’d never given a “true” 100% on a paper before and was confident they never would. They’d just adjust it so that the best paper would get bumped to 100, and everyone else would get the same bump. So if the best was what he’d consider an 85, everyone would get a 15 point bump.

He was essentially making the point that the subject was too complex. I took it to mean that he was a harsh grader and expected way too much out of students.

Later that semester, I had a paper and presentation in which I decided, stupidly, to try and map out the history of the intersection between corporate personhood and campaign finance. I basically wanted to bitch about Citizens United (this was in like 2013).

So I started with Citizens United and worked my way back through Supreme Court cases tracking precedent. I got a little obsessed because I actually found it fascinating, and I ended up having like 25 SCOTUS cases summarized across over 200 years and before I knew it, I had a 60-page paper.

At that point, I knew it was way too long (there had been a 10-page minimum), but I was out of time, so instead of editing it down I just had to turn it in at 11:59pm. My presentation was like 20 minutes in which I was rushed, and I felt pretty bad about it.

The next week the professor came in and opened with 2 announcements. 1 was that there was now a 15-page limit on any papers, and that for the first time in 35 years he’d given a “true” 100. Because of the presentation I’d done, everyone knew it was me that blew the curve, so I didn’t know whether to be proud, embarrassed, or scared about it.

The laptop I wrote the paper on was stolen a few months later and I didn’t have a backup of the paper, which is a shame because I’d love to read it today and see if it really was good, or if I just wore him out with citations.

This hits too hard. I was born in 83, so even the ages line up.

They also aren’t speaking Gaelic.

I’m just saying the one key I’d be 100% okay losing is numlock. Turning it off when I’m typing fast can guck up an excel sheet SO fast.

And as great as althea simultaneous editing is kn SharePoint, the necessary saves all your edits live feature of it can be a real problem if you don’t immediately notice a fuckup.

numlock disabled

While we’re on the subject of violence…

Matthew 25 (separation of the sheep and the goats) is pretty much the only time Jesus straight-up threatens people with Hell, and he’s basing it on the treatment of the poor, sick, and social outcasts.

Do you people never do any actual work on your computers?

I have body parts that are less important to me than my numpad.

You try to take numpads from standard keyboards and I’ll gladly charge that hill.

He wasn’t just deported. He was deported without due process to a slave labor camp.

This is going exactly like the Holocaust.

I was born in 83, and grew up in the time where being a computer need required real work and knowledge of computers.

The things got easier and easier, and then the smartphones came.

These new kids literally don’t know how to search a file directory because they are used to the apps magicing stuff where it needs to be.

I also like how this particular video pissed off Tesla AND Disney.

Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

I am fairly handy and have never had that method fail for anything except screwing into thick metal, in which case I’m tapping threads and using a bolt anyway.

The fuck you on about? Trump announced to the world that the intent is to remove all Palestinians, permanently, to build resorts.

When did Kamala openly say the genocide should be accelerated and made total?

They still have to enter the building, and the courts have specifically found that holding signs signs and handing out pamphlets about jury nullification in public space outside of courthouse are 100% protected speech.

Rober is definitely a businessman out to make money and is very self-promoting and will accept just about anybody as a sponsor, but I can’t think of anything he’s done that’s been out-and-out deceitful or political. And he really does have some engineering chops.

I think he’s a good voice for this b3cause he’s been so intentionally apolotical, and even my right-wing family likes his stuff.

Though my YouTube crazy engineer of choice is Stuff Made Here. He spends months between videos, but the stuff he makes is awesome, and he shows off a lot more of the actual creative process. And his fabrication tool collection is insane for a home shop.

Look up “depraved-heart murder.”

It’s when someone knowingly does something that’s so obviously likely to cause death or injury that that indifference to life can essentially be treated as intent, and if someone does as a result it isn’t manslaughter or wrongful death, but murder.

Classic examples would be arson or knowingly selling tainted medicine.

I love how they wake up in my backpack so they can overheat AND drain the battery at the same time.

That’s efficiency.