And yet for all of eternity we have had different numbers of hot dogs and hot dog buns.

My 401k would only ever be a supplement to Social Security. Fortunately the ruling party would never even dream of abolishing that.

/s of course. They used to say Social Security was the third rail of American politics – soon it will be the third leg.

Nothing can possibly beat Road House in that department. Namely “pain don’t hurt” and “I used to fuck guys like you in prison”.

Just a reminder that ICE vans do have catalytic converters.

Q: What’s the capital of South Sudan?
A: Not a whole lot!

I remember some years ago when a version of MSDN came out that had clearly been developed entirely on enormously wide monitors. Despite word-wrapping being a problem that the programming world solved many decades ago, this version of MSDN had completely fucked it up and you could only read it on a normal laptop screen by scrolling left and right with the horizontal scroll bar for every line. I spent months copying every article I needed to read into Notepad.

Customizing the look, feel, interaction of elements, and general mechanics, seems like a toooon of effort. (It kinda seems like you’re not supposed to customize it.)

Sometimes all of this is there for a reason. I used to really hate standard Windows (and I still do) but it had one big advantage: everything was accessible, in the sense that it all worked very well for blind and vision-impaired people. Usually when people create their own custom look and feel etc. they never accommodate accessibility at all.

the omnipresent Qt

So weird. I spent more than two years of my career working on a Qt app (not by choice) but I’ve never met another human being who has ever even heard of Qt. Nothing else has ever made me so certain that I’m clinically insane.

My favorite thing about Qt was the use of C++ for the back end and Javascript for the UI layer. It lets companies take advantage of the, uh, four people in the world who are good with both languages.

Technically, their profession is “Saudi ball-cleaner”.

Now they are nickel and diming us until the bubble pops and they we have to pay.

She knows her endgame is being buried in an unmarked grave on a golf course.

Youngsters don’t realize that people became fucking bored with the Apollo missions after 11. Apollo 13 generated some buzz because the crew was probably going to die, but that’s it. Same thing happened with the space shuttle.

In graduate school I used to go out drinking six nights a week, the kind of thing that would start at 5 pm and end at 2 or 3 in the morning at somebody’s house doing bong hits. Thirty years later, I would choose waterboarding before I put myself through that again.

I have a 76 year old coworker who does 18 mile runs. He doesn’t do marathons because he gets too bored. I console myself with the fact that at least he looks like a pork chop that’s been forgotten in the fridge, but it’s not much of a consolation.

Lol out loud

It couldn’t possibly be rich parents.

A rule of thumb is that a corporate employee costs their company roughly twice their salary. Probably not very many Oracle employees are making just $37,000 a year.

No, I meant the cackling muppet in the Jabba the Hutt scene.

I remember being utterly distraught after the first one came out and Lucas said it was the first of nine movies. The thought of having to wait that long to see them was a torment. And then I didn’t give a shit any more by the time Return of the Jedi came out; I only saw that one years later on VHS and I was like “why the fuck are muppets in this movie?” Have still never seen the prequels or the recent ones.

Same. We made popcorn at home and brought it to the theater in paper shopping bags. We had to wait in an insanely long line. The film broke during the trash compaction scene and we had to just sit there for ten minutes until they fixed it.