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Geek How to be a Grown-Up

Write it down

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I agree and disagree with this comic:

✅ Agree: I have a saying: “If you don’t write it down, it never happened!” There are so many distractions that it’s too easy to forget ideas, plans, and other things we were sure we’d remember unless we write them down (and just as important, review them later).

In an age where most of us have access to a pocket-size supercomputer, there’s no excuse not to write an idea down.

❌ Disagree: This comic is an ad for Evernote. Evernote has lost or mangled my notes enough times that I will never use it again. I use text files and Google Docs.

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America The Current Situation

How “angry white guy” videos get started

Thanks to Panagiota for the find!
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Florida Florida of the Day Tampa Bay

Florida of the day: Parking lot pants

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Seminole Heights’ seal, which depicts a two-headed alligatorBecause the Walmart at 15th and Hillsborough (a.k.a. Supercenter #5964) is a bike-able distance from home, has Coke Zero (a vice that makes you productive can’t possibly be a vice) at the best per-unit price, and reasonably well-stocked “ethnic” and “specialty” food sections, I’m there about once a week.

And since I go on bike, I see everything that happens in the parking lot. And at a Walmart — a Florida Walmart — that can be a lot.

But I was really surprised when I saw a pair of jeans, fairly neatly laid out — just as you might lay out your jeans on a dresser for the next day — on a trash can, and on top of them, a black cloth mask, also laid out as if on a dresser.

It was in the middle of asking myself “Now why would someone need to remove their pants and mouth covering in a Walmart parking lot?” that I figured out the answer.

“Well,” I thought, “now’s a good time to leave.”

And I did just that.

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Music Slice of Life

It’s November 1, 2021, which means…

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Slice of Life

Another Hallowe’en reminder

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You might need to do this again after Thanksgiving.

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funny

But that eye of newt had better be free-range!

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Florida

Ron light, green light

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You may have already seen the triumphant tweet from Karol Markowicz, who’s shilling her article in the New York Post as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’ news release about Florida now having the lowest COVID-19 case rate.

She vaingloriously announces that it was achieved in this fashion:

“without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school & with no restrictions on businesses. Life simply went on.”

What Markowicz failed to mention is life did not go on for 60,000 Floridians. Author Chuck Wendig nailed it on the head with this response:

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“This orphanage, which already burned down, has the lowest case presently of burning orphans in the country. They did it without any anti-fire measures and no restrictions on flammable orphans. Life simply went on. After the fire already engulfed the orphanage and burned out.”