The things people label as sensitive content on this site never fail to baffle me

I really am convinced that something snapped in the brains or souls of millions of boomers and gen Xers when those towers fell and they've been on a quest for revenge ever since, leading us right up to this point. They never got their revenge in a satisfying way because you can't really vanquish a diffuse ideology, and they've been looking for someone, anyone, to focus their anger on ever since.

I've just been reminded that its the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

25 years of the country having lots its mind and not regaining its sanity

All the research we talk about at work now is AI or quantum. It's just AI and quantum, every day. How will AI make chemistry better. How AI is revolutionizing math. Quantum is going to change the world. Quantum is going to be worth so much money.

I'm so tired of it. I want to go back to the fun research, like spiders and jellyfish doing interesting things.

Remember when I said cargo bikes should not cost thousands and thousands of dollars and got yelled at by bike enthusiasts? I remember

Thinking things about bicycle activism that would just make people mad if I posted them. So I will not post them

On these really hot days when I'm walking around on pavement that's almost too hot for my feet, I look at the humble plants growing out of cracks in the asphalt and wonder how they do it. The ground is so hot that my feet can barely stand it, but it's their home, where they live and grow every day.

If you would spend $2,000 on a phone, you should be robbed for $2,000.

Why do people spend $2,000 on a phone? That's what I would spend on an old used car. No phone is worth $2,000. People are nuts.

I volunteered to run the light booth for the theater's upcoming show. I should never volunteer for musicals. I've heard the same songs over and over every night since Sunday, and I will hear them every night through this coming Sunday. And then two more weekends after that.

106 degrees is much hotter than they said it would be today. how was it raining just yesterday?

Lots of good content on the fediverse today. What's going on? Why is everyone in such a fun mood for a change?

I'm at the library and a middle-aged Asian woman wearing an oversized polo walked in looking very angry and carrying a bag of limes. She sat down in a chair nearby and glared into space. She took out her hair claw and readjusted her hair, but otherwise sat there glaring at nothing.

A few minutes later, a middle-aged Latino man wearing a short-sleeve tan plaid button down, dark sunglasses, and newsboy cap that matched the tan of his shirt walked in and headed over to the chairs.

As he approached, he said, "Are you just going to stay in here?" He was still ten feet from the chairs so i couldn't tell who has talking to. For a moment i wondered if he is talking into a Bluetooth headset, but he sat down in the chair next to the angry woman.

"Honey, you're not going to stay here. I'll give you the hundred dollars," he said. She continued to sit there glaring, not acknowledging him

"Let's go. C'mon," he said.

This finally stirred her. She got up and looked at him. "Stupid people," she said, shaking her head. "Always stupid."

She started walking toward the exit without him. He got up and followed.

As she neared the door, she stopped, put on her own dark sunglasses, and looked back over her shoulder. She waited for him to catch up and they walked out the door together.

I had to log in to the LA County library website to request a book this morning, and I remembered that they used to have a different URL long ago, so I decided to look on the Internet Archive and refresh my memory of it.

I do not remember their dial-in library catalog, but what trip.

I was driving and saw a business called a "teeth bar." I stared. What the hell could a teeth bar be? Some kind of dental thing?

I looked again. It said tea bar.

I gave up and I'm using photoshop to assemble a newsletter, maybe one of the worst ways to do this, but better than Scribus.

I told the board president that they need to buy some real desktop publishing software for next time

This software is AWFUL. Apologies to all the people who contribute to this open-source project, but dear god

I'm having to learn Scribus this morning for the community theater, and nothing is intuitive, and all the tutorials are videos and take forever to get to the point. Pray for me.

It's weird how people follow that fesshole account just to be mad about the confessions

I can't really complain at metro too much. My route is not one of the more popular routes, and the only time it's crowded is when students are trying to get to the community college and trying to get home from the community college.

Sometimes there are only two or three people on the bus on one of these weekend runs