I never really “got” Bach until I saw the smalin visualizations.

If you have a cat named “Garfield”, you are in big trouble.

Love that Muhammad Ali pose.

The response was that they couldn’t stay operating if they paid everyone for being on call instead of us “supporting the company”.

That’s the heart of the matter. They wanted you to support the company, without the company supporting you.

Compare to excavation of the Atari video game burial:

Remnants of E.T. and other Atari games were discovered in the early hours of the excavation, as reported by Microsoft’s Larry Hryb.[48][49] A team of archaeologists was present to examine and document the Atari material unearthed by excavation machinery… Only about 1300 cartridges of the estimated 700,000 were removed from the burial, as the remaining materials were deeper than expected, which made them more difficult to access, according to Alamogordo mayor Susie Galea.[51] The cartridges found were from 59 different games, the majority of which were for the Atari 2600; six were Atari 5200 titles. Atari hardware was also excavated.[52] The burial was refilled following this event.

There is a single insightful line in this whole image:

Your biggest enemy is distractions.

Unfortunately, this image is one of those distractions.

Excel is the one good piece of software in MS Office.

Last time I used MS Office was 10 months ago, and it had a bunch of annoying “features” related to sharing, etc. But PowerPoint has always had some great authoring tools. Sometimes if I was writing an article in LaTeX, I’d still do the figures in PowerPoint.

LibreOffice is a solid substitute, though.

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I was gonna complain about the lack of pipes, til I looked at the ceiling.

Link to the article.

She’s only dating him to get to Scoob.

IRL clowns are usually hard-working professionals with great people skills. Just sayin.

I’ve been using Gimp for simple things, and it’s been OK once I realized that whatever I want to do, I should look it up first instead of just trying to figure it out through trial and error.

A bare bear on a bear, bairn.

Uh… whichever one is against the rules, that’s the one I want!

Why are we in your commonwealth meme? And how can this not be cross-posted to [email protected] ?

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

Yeah, not the same thing and a couple decades earlier but Wilde’s “De Profundis” is a useful contrast.