I like to do my long form writing in a coffee shop, but Dude in the booth behind mine: if you don’t stop talking animatedly with your buddy about the differences between how certain coding languages handle certain situations, I’m not going going to get any work done.

Sometimes when I’m at coffee shop I like to give my name as “Arugula” because it is so much more fun to say out loud.

Everyone in the world needs to watch this IMMEDIATELY. NO EXCEPTIONS

The moment where the microwave popcorn bag starts to open up—that’s one of my favorite stop motion sequences.

Tribal knowledge at a company is a strange thing. Want to set up SSO for an application? Well, you will need to talk to enough elders until you find the one who was able to successfully appease the goat god four years ago. Hope that person wrote some notes down in an email.

Every few years I feel the need to recalibrate my understanding of #DevOps .

I’m pondering the job title “value engineer” which I recently encountered. Actually, I’m mostly pondering what that makes the rest of us.

Here’s my favorite crash dump excerpt (pasted verbatim): Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In my experience, the importance or urgency of a piece of postal mail is inversely proportional to the number of times they print things like “Important” or “Urgent” on the envelope.

I’m a person with many skills and talents. I have a wealth of experience. But if you would like to hire me to put a fitted sheet on a bed I’m afraid I’m going to have to respectfully decline your offer.

Things I forgot about traveling, a series: Airports don’t know what to do when an airplane arrives early at a gate. “Whoa, there’s a plane out there, how could we have known it was coming? We’d better go find someone to drive the jetbridge now.”

On a walk I saw someone put out a sink for disposal. I don’t know who they are, but I already love and appreciate them.

Things I forgot about traveling, a series: Receiving great music recommendations from my @lyft driver. Today: Lebanese classical music (Fairuz was the only Lebanese singer I knew before my driver educated me)

Me: Alexa, add spaghetti to my shopping list Alexa: spaghetti added to your shopping list. By the way, I can teach you how to become an actuary or perform the role of Brünnhilde in the Ring cycle, just say…

This brought back so many details I had not thought about for eons….like closing the latch on a drive to use it. https://t.co/W5a1Fn3rfC

Hmm, why haven’t I started a band called “SLI and the family SLO”?

How do you spell the noise you make when you first take off your mask? Is it “bluh”, “bweh” or something else?

Today the kid came home with the assignment to complete the sentence “Poetry is like….”. We quickly put the family braintrust on the problem and came up with: 1) Poetry is like…a forced simile. 2) Poetry is like… a moose. Have you seen a moose? What’s your answer?

Hmm, I can’t be the only person who sees the irony in this ad on https://t.co/gFXVFX4Eor:

Brought a family member to our dentist for the first time today. Me: is it true you and your staff do some kind of “Be My Guest” musical number for new patients? Dentist: we had to stop doing that because of COVID.