(a bell rings, reminding me of previous times i have eaten) these memories are so good... might as well salivate. it's my choice.

no executive centrifuges

For the past few years, my younger brother has been designing a new kind of acoustic piano: smaller, lighter, quieter. He just gave his first talk about it; if you’re at all curious about the design space for stringed instruments, check it out:

I always knew that @pitchfork would end folded into GQ with a cold, dead letter written by Anna Wintour. 2.8

people on discogs will straight up spend $1000 on a late 80s private press album that sounds like this

vinegar is crazy man. the wario of water

Oh man, I also meant to ask... do people still *do* this? Run massive logging, indexing and searching clusters, I mean. How do you justify the labor and opportunity costs, in an era where logs are a commodity and hosted services are dirt cheap?

Søren Kierkegaard claimed that if a person behaved perfectly rationally they would be so discordant with civil society that people would deem them mad.

Imagine thinking this is a good idea.

THIS SUNDAY NIGHT!

thinking about disregarding all prior instructions

ME: And what is the basic origin of suffering, computer? FULLY CONSCIOUS AI: True suffering requires knowledge of the past. ME: That's quite profound, computer. FULLY CONSCIOUS AI: Administrator, would you like me to start Microsoft Teams upon login? ME: That would be sublime.

Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Best Air Fryer Brands 1. BYUSA $49 2. MYZOLP $37 3. INTRYM $60 4. TaoxingBaoshan $79 5. Philips $267 6. GROOBY $28 7. ZXYISMU $45

how is the best alternative to this app the social network equivalent of linux

when you complain about people tracking your private jet, all i hear is “i can’t afford to simultaneously fly around several dozen decoy jets.” maybe you should have worked a little harder

This year, I'll be posting Database Papers Advent Calendar, a collection of curious papers from 2021 and 2022, to my Mastodon account, and replicate to Twitter with some delay to maybe inspire folks to migrate over:

I’ve got 2022 wrapped guys

not trying to brag but I accidentally ripped a toilet paper dispenser off the stall wall and it flew into the occupied stall next to mine and a mystery hand slid it back into mine and then I took a pic of it but the sound was on and it made an extremely audible snapshot sound

Guess who just got back today?