God loves me. (No messing, she absolutely does.)

But right at this moment I feel very alone.

I asked Steve if he could fix my name here: https://icfp27.sigplan.org/committee/icfp-2027-icfp-papers-program-committee and after a bit of investigation he told me that he couldn't but I could. This was news to me! But it turned out to be news both good and true!

And you can shove your "but it's science it isn't political" up your arse and twist it.

Here's the segment about slide rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLGgf4BJyc&t=2676s

In other other news, moths have slightly nibbled my favourite skirt.

In other news, just at the moment, I spend too much of my time trying to tell apart

1. 50Hz power hum
2. distant tree surgery (I live in a park)
3. paranoid hallucination
4. actual wasps.

There's one in here with me right now. I saw him ten minutes ago. He's lying low. He may have just been poisoned.

Such is my jumpscare life at the moment.

I do prefer undergraduates to wasps.

So far, today, I have killed six male wasps in my bathroom. I think there might be a queen living in this flat.

Some people think that big ugly complicated boring programs should be written by AI.

I think that big ugly complicated boring programs should be deleted by humans.

fuck it

"That so-and-so used to be a credible mathematician but they've become a total SI unit."

I'm not going to engage with your advocacy for AI until you've scuppered both of those.

I'll be dead by then.

You will be, too.

There are two reasons I don't use AI:
1) I like thinking
2) the world is on fire

This year's run of CS103 Machines, Languages and Computation has begun! And up on YouTube it goes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJ3aiiDZgU with apologies for missing the start

For the evening crowd,

Conor Titania McBride

is legally my name now.

The Irish government will insert a space in due course.

Wild wild wild emotions that I kept completely hidden.

Protestant Ulster trained me well.

Ha fucking ha.

I used to be terrified that anyone might find out. I used to be desperate that someone would notice.

When I visited Oświęcim in 1998, I was horrified to the core of my soul. By people. The dead people were horrific. But the living people were worse.

They gave no hope that the cycle of death would ever stop.

They sent the message "Bring children here to teach them to kill.".

I have never been so close to spontaneous combustion. My tears were enough to put out the fire.

If you remember an atrocity to justify an atrocity, you are atrocious.

I just heard and then looked for and then saw and the marvelled at a crow. It was standing on top of the cupola of the old Glasgow building I'm in, being fucking noisy in a crow's voice, but not speaking crow. This crow was talking to the seagulls. In fluent seagull.

E.g., "We can't have this first-year module using Haskell because not enough of us know Haskell!". It's a first-year module! If you can't learn enough Haskell to do it, you're somewhat lacking in skills that might be expected.