Macrophage Defector

A pure philosopher has no other touchstone for truth than our natural understanding, not theology.

Code that includes commented out code negatively impacts performance. Removing the commented out code improves performance. TFW you realize commented out code is being parsed and it's causing effects.

Cladonia sp. / Begerlav sp.

My "this isn't complicated" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt.

So much clowning on influencers but the real cancer is life coaches talking about law of attraction or whatever yuppie bullshit 'philosophies'. Hang them by their testicles etc

do you know how some dogs go insane if you leave them in silence for too long? i think sometimes people are sort of like that

The economics of the band-aid industry hinges almost entirely on the suffering of small children

One bummer revelation from this most recent business trip is that I may have reached a point in my career where I need a worksona, i.e. a real-name presence on Twitter and possibly even LinkedIn. This was unnecessary when I was doing work way in the internal plumbing nobody would ever see, but when I was at a conference telling real people "hey, you should use this", it became an issue.

it does suggest that "friendship" is a rare and serendipitous thing

why should anyone be friends with anyone else? what do they get out of it?

maybe everyone else has, like, peripheral ports and protocols that make it click

Hachiko, the loyal Japanese akita. In 1924, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo, as his pet. Each day, Hachiko would wait at the train station for the professor's commute home. This continued until 1925, when the professor died of a cerebral hemorrhage. For nearly 10 years—from then until his death on March 8, 1935—Hachiko would return to the train station, exactly as the train arrived each day, waiting for the professor to return.