At my last job the technician who worked in our group just casually dropped in conversation, months into knowing him, “Yeah, I used to be in a cult.”

I had so many questions. He acted like it was just a funny story from his past, but he lived in the Alaskan wilderness for years. He only left a few weeks before we met. He got married and had a child, and his family stayed behind because his wife was in love with the cult leader.

I asked “Why would you ever?” and he said that they made some good points about the nature of our reality. And I’m thinking “Dude, you still believe in the cult? You seemed so normal!”

I guess it happens to real people, too.

Guy next to me at work was doing this with a knife today. His boss saw me look at him wide-eyed and went “Yeah, he does that” and walked away.

love BDG

I talked myself in a corner today making it seem like I was a yo-yo aficionado to someone who used to love yo-yos. As he was walking away he went “Duncan! That was the dope brand!” And I had to go “Oh hell yeah, Duncan!” even though I had no idea.

Black Mirror is great, but I can’t watch it because it makes me so sad. Same with rewatching Grave of the Fireflies.

Motorcycles are more dangerous than I thought! Would have thought a factor of 4 maybe.

I freaking love the s’mores blizzard at DQ. My roommate is obsessed with s’mores ice cream. I talk up the blizzard and he says “man, I’ve got to try that”. Sounds good. Let’s make a plan.

For a month I try to get him to DQ with me, until finally we’re there. But it’s seasonal, so we can’t get it anymore. Keep checking in for months until I see it available again. Another month of trying to convince him to go there. We literally spend the car ride there talking about how good s’mores ice cream is.

We get to the counter: “Can I get a chocolate sunday?”

This is the fifth time he’s done this in similar situations. I simply do not eat out with him any more.

I think a bunch of people had a hair trigger sell button on Nvidia expecting a bubble pop, and panic sold the second they saw a headline. Not quite a bubble pop yet.

I’ve always been of the opinion that gas should be more expensive. This idea has been unpopular in pretty much every group I’ve exposed it to.

Same. Every time I get to the airport I’m in a state of sheer panic that this time I pushed it too far, and every time I invariably end up waiting at the gate for a while thinking “I could have come half an hour later.”

Come to think of it, voice-to-text would be a reasonable excuse to use your phone.

Thanks for this, I didn’t know that’s what they meant by “initiative”.

I’d just go to one in person, they should all stock it. Unless you’re non-US, then I’m not sure.

I got some in person at Home Depot

I was surprised it even got far enough for a vote, much less that it passed.

Yeah it’s full-on pink.

Normally I wouldn’t name drop a corporation, but this stuff is amazing.

I’ve always felt that cleaning the shower was by far the worst chore. It was such a pain that I started using more and more extreme tools to try and make it easier.

Then about a year ago I found this EcoLab industrial shower cleaner spray. It works like scrubbing bubbles pretends to; just spray, wait a minute, and wipe off. Now I’m excited to spend two minutes cleaning my shower.

Back before I knew Amazon was cartoon supervillain evil, I caught a lightning deal on black friday for an Xbox 360 for like $50, at a time when you couldn’t get one at all. After that every black friday deal has paled in comparison, so I just don’t leave the house or buy anything online that whole weekend.