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oppressed people liberating themselves

October 8, 2023

oppressed people liberating themselves the last rosebush to survive the landscaping is still blooming kissing on molly

to reset my mind

October 7, 2023

finishing work on friday afternoon and doing a quick string of bong hits to reset my mind and heading south in the sunshine on our way to meet our friends...

as a kind of psychedelic experience

October 6, 2023

trying to treat my withdrawal from constantly eating massive amounts of sugar as a kind of psychedelic experience

on and on forever

October 4, 2023

"all the way down," the finale of the current season of futurama (hulu), which does these wonderful formally playful riffs on simulation theory and also ends...

huge amounts of sugar and fat

October 2, 2023

i have to go to the doctor this morning, after missing a message they sent me in the client portal about an important follow-up for oh you know just an...

a recap of the push notification

October 1, 2023

after a wonderful long night of sleep waking up a half hour after your usual alarm and breaking into a brief moment of "ughhhh gotta get up the weekend was...

friend of the pod

September 29, 2023

got a friend of the pod namedrop on my favorite podcast, a huge achievement even if the reason is for (my old tumblr friend <3) joe to completely destroy my...

trompe l'oeil tiktoks

September 28, 2023

these trompe l'oeil tiktoks, which get me every time even though i know what to expect going in (a true and delightful accomplishment) weird story about some...

the justin show

September 27, 2023

i had to make a document explaining the complicated relationship between two feature flags (bits of code configuration used to hide features that are works...

things i appreciate about the onset of fall

September 26, 2023

1) really hot showers feel fucking incredible (the ASMR-esque feeling of being covered in goose bumps as you step inside and then all of them receding healed...

September 25, 2023

i stayed awake for all of howl's moving castle (deborah had previously estimated that i tended to fall asleep about thirty minutes in and i think that's...

a string of three :tada: emojis

September 24, 2023

i had the foresight to mow the backyard just before it started raining yesterday. it's going to rain here every day through next saturday, which i am not...

tgif guest post: a new comic from deborah

September 22, 2023

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improvising these immaculate electric piano parts

September 21, 2023

before our disney+ subscription (which we weren't really using) elapsed on september 19, though i didn't finish a complete cycle of once again rewatching get...

a worse version of myself

September 20, 2023

i'm thankful we got our new covid boosters (the vaccine card is out of lines) and flu shots yesterday (same arm for me (left) because i sleep on my right)....

i'm a liar i'm not totally crazy

September 19, 2023

1) i'm thankful that deborah and i are both very much on the same page about not wanting children (and have been for a long time), especially since we love...

don't read if you just ate or are at work (butt stuff)

September 18, 2023

1. the spotify playlist feelin' myself, because one of my favorite flavors of music is joyously aggressive female rap groups (formal ones (often duos) like...

September 8, 2023

i'm thankful that yesterday i had the cardiac stress test that the doctor scheduled for me after i went to the ER a few weeks ago for a panic attack that i,...

new olivia rodrigo album

September 8, 2023

1. that today is the first friday i've had to work in two months (because work had summer fridays again this year). i'm not thankful to go back to more work...

the best new chip i've had in a while

September 5, 2023

1. spicy pineapple jalapeno doritos, which like any foods with "spicy" in the name are not actually spicy, but which have a pretty great pineapple flavor...

i smoked a joint for the first time

September 1, 2023

i smoked a joint for the first time since last week

September 1, 2023

1. glanced at deborah's computer screen walking by and saw a webinar freeze-framed to a powerpoint slide with the heading "the four 'inner hater' mindsets"2....

the first time i ate chocolate

August 29, 2023

1. deborah and i have been playing a lot of co-op vampire survivors since it came out on the switch (previous report of it being the most addictive video...

drake is the millennial david bowie

August 28, 2023

1. wearing loop silicon ear plugs underneath my bose noise-cancelling headphones (the double-wrapped condom of noise blocking, both in the most obvious joke...

a legitimate reason to scream

August 27, 2023

saturday i was in a subpar mood because i couldn't do real exercise or smoke/vape weed because of the need to protect the blood clot in my mouth from suction...

getting my wisdom

August 26, 2023

the sensation of lying deeply reclined under a thick blanket in a well padded dental chair before getting my wisdom tooth removed as, at the edge of my...

simply keep this attitude

August 25, 2023

nice phrases from my peer and coach reviews of the last six months at work:Justin is awesome!i've been able to see firsthand just how much code Justin has...

an immense noise

August 24, 2023

great new issue of deborah's newsletter:we left the windows open all day, for the first time in months. it’s so quiet without the a/c and the fans whirring,...

reminders to be more mindful and present

August 23, 2023

1. unlike last summer, i kept the grass in the backyard alive through the heat wave. before it ended, we rented the backyard of someone who had a pool for an...

extremely fun new toy

August 17, 2023

1. last night e shared this extremely fun new toy rave.dj which lets you select videos from youtube and makes automatic mashups of them (including video,...

the good lord bud

August 16, 2023

ice cream in the summer, like what a magic trick that is. i remember still vividly my grandfather making ice cream with fresh peaches in a metal can in the...

kind of a diss but also kind of a compliment

August 14, 2023

the delinquent season which was introduced to me as a movie where cillian murphy has lots of sex and you know sold (it also has andrew scott i.e. hot priest...

i know that in all likelihood it will happen eventually but i haven't yet had a bad nectarine this summer

it made me laugh so so so so so hard

1. if you have to use docker i recommend this app called orbstack which i just started using on the recommendation of a coworker and which makes everything...

it's gross that it's about bathrooms

1. new (and final 😔) season of my favorite work of poetry how to with john wilson is back and even though it's gross that the first episode is about public...

to let the breeze pass through

1. the last couple weekends i told myself i was going to catch up on work on sunday (which i did to varying degrees but regardless of how much i did also...

almost everything

1. crazy new yorker article that will make a good movie or HBO series someday and will entertain you now. first line of a bad poem i thought of which is...

1. i beat the lightning temple in tears of the kingdom without ever looking at a strategy guide, which i haven't done yet for any of the other temples or any...

like literally i laughed in the theater

1. i'm thankful that last night we got to see oppenheimer, the movie i was most excited to see this summer, even though in the end i was disappointed to find...

i didn't have work today except i did a little because our peer and manager and self reviews were due at work and i hadn't finished my self review and i'm...

frosting in all its forms

1. frosted mini wheats cereal. as with poptarts, can't imagine ever wanting the unfrosted version (thankful for frosting in all its forms). ran out of...

i have to live my truth

1. transform functions in CSS, which really helped me yesterday when I needed to push pixels to get elements of a component i redesigned situated right....

my favorite quick meal to make

1. my favorite quick meal to make myself (for lunch or dinner, but i'm having it for lunch this week), and is to start two pieces of diced thick-cut bacon...

and then i almost immediately said "$10,000"

at craft night, as we drank the great bottle of natural-ish wine that ec brought, hm asked whether deborah and i had tried the esther perel card game that...

vinegar-based hot sauce

1. it was fine that i didn't finish my project before the end of the sprint and i made a lot of really good progress yesterday that made me happy. i let...

cf previous items

1. i'm thankful that i didn't work any (more) overtime last night to try to get my big project done before the sprint ended even though i "wanted" to (thanks...

in the halo of the moment

1. doing molly with deborah yesterday. we've started spending the day doing it together on a saturday at the beginning of every quarter (this was our Q3...

talked to jkha for the first time in a long time (facetiming while she and her daughter ate indian food at an outdoor table) and felt so very happy to hear...

unlocked 4 of the 5 locks without looking

summer fridays started at work and will go through august. the five-day "weekend": eating late tapas by the river in perfect weather for t's birthday....

such a good song to karaoke

1. "making the band (danity kane)" by earl sweatshirt. earl is one of my favorite rappers forever, but some of the choices in his more recent music feel...