My latest obsession? Writing an IRC bot. If I’m relegated to hanging out in my own channel by my own lonesome, at least I’ll have a bot to keep me company. The digressions of writing an IRC bot are endless. Sort of like writing your own Siri or Google Assistant, but with your own brand…
A redo
RAGBRAI 2018 overnight towns announced! I’ll get a chance to redeem myself after last year’s shellacking the weekend before RAGBRAI. Onawa -> Denison > Jefferson -> Ames -> Newton -> Sigourney -> Iowa City -> Davenport. There’s a few heavy hitters for overnights this year with Newton just outside of Des Moines to go along…
Echo echo echo
That sound when everyone in the cube farm has the same meeting appointment with the same alert scheduled.
Well, is it?
At $EMPLOYER, the 2T men’s restroom’s left-most sink has been broken. It’s been this way for at least half a year. It’s been broken so long no one remembers when last they washed their hands in that sink. It’s been broken so long someone looked up the faucet on amazon and printed out the page.…
Yo, Dawg, let me google that for you
A thing that needs to happen, Internet. A Yo Dawg/lmgtfy mashup. You provide it a search string and then it animates googling for lmgtfy. Then it animates clicking the result and landing on lmgtfy.com. Then it turns over the animation to lmgtfy to google the string you provided. All of this being narrated by the…
My new project: create a bunch of odd, free-association Google News Alerts. That way, if one of those things comes to pass, I’ll be the first to know. I thought about this after receiveing an alert for “Council Bluffs levee break” that I had set up when last the Missouri was a couple of dozen…
IRC me
Part of my moving off the Facebooks et al is to find alternate modes for the sorts of communications that social media platforms facilitate. While my account at Facebook is still sort of up–I don’t monitor it. I also don’t monitor Facebook Messenger all that often. At least that is the plan. To that end,…
Well, is it?
So this is now a thing: Botswana Requests Clarification on Whether or Not It Is a Shithole. #MAGABCOCS
A new tattoo
My next tattoo (which would be my first tattoo I guess) will be an embellished “A lack of planning on your part does not equate to an emergency on my part.” I’d like it on the palm of my right hand so that I can slap people with it when they get all twitterpated and…
The fire? It’s over here, guys
While the world rails on about the stable genius that is the current occupant of the White House, this little number seems like it should be blaring from every news channel 24/7. Chinese slowing/stopping purchase of US T-Bills The short of it? China no longer feels that US sovereign debt is a safe investment. The…