Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I enjoyed Dirk Verbeuren's (Megadeth's current drummer) blind play through of Mr. Brightside https://youtu.be/tbUYVcaF_l0

Out on the dog's AM walk and the humidity is oppressive. He's 1/3rd husky and really doesn't like it. Stopped to look at me and folded his ears back so I turned around and brought him home.

Carlos gets it #f1

Of particular interest is the part about acrylic windows and the fact that Rush - an engineer - ignored everything he had been taught.

The New Yorker essay on Oceangate is really good, for those of you that enjoy a long read.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

Happy Friday all. I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

It's amusing to me that if you choose 'Update and shutdown' AND the updates require reboots you'll still encounter the phenomenon of thinking that you chose 'restart' instead. It's logical behavior, and yet...

There's a lot of debate about the relative merits of remote work, but I will tell you this: People absolutely use it as a means to hide when they're needed.

Although my favorite part of this interaction was "can you use your admin account to fix it?"

And again I lose a morning because some RA has chmod'd 777 on the root file system "...to get their web app to work" I don't even want to know

Saw this trundling along on my way into work. The horn at this distance really gives your ears a workout.

A "Why I'm sticking with open source (because corporate greed)"video probably doesn't need a 30 second intro for your sponsors. Sorry, but no.

The news coverage of this supposed fight between two billionaires shows so many rotten things in tech and business, and the societal decay consumerism and the need to be entertained has caused. It's just pathetic.