I’m reading this now for the first time. All of the conversations between Palpatine and Anakin leading up to the fall add so much flavour to his fall. Worth a read for sure.

Hello me.

I used to love singing One Armed Scissor on Rock Band but I’ve never had the guts to try ATDI or Mars Volta in public.

It’s also probably some Product Manager’s OKR to get some engagement metric every quarter.

More a typo than a spelling mistake but if a word ends in ‘th’, my brain cannot stop adding an ‘e’.

• withe
• bothe
• mythe

The “journalist” credited’s bio literally says he is addicted to twitter as some kind of base of honor.

Penultimate. Anyone writing about or reviewing the second last of anything uses it in their first breath like their English degree depends on it.

Prestidigitation

I’m going to see Bloc Party for the first time TONIGHT.

Unless it’s Krispie

Unpopular opinions are one of my specialties.

Western Canada. I was thinking maybe it’s like a soda vs pop thing. Or just wildly isolated to my own experience. Just showerthinking.

That might be true, or something local. I posted that this morning then got too busy to check in. I probably should have made it less about “positive/negative” and more about “it’s cool vs not cool” Here is my way too late OP explanation:

I go to a lot of sports events, hockey mostly. Since the 90s my friends and I play a little game. Count the people who give a #1 finger on the jumbotron vs point at their jersey vs thumbs up. Collectively, we have decided that ”kids today” don’t use thumbs up as much as in the past. I also noticed “Let’s go!” Is the cheer these days.

Sorry for oversimplifying my shower thought.

I call it my zombie blend. I have a mason jar that I add a little to each time I switch, then when I have enough to do a cold brew I use it for that. I find cold brew to be more forgiving with stale beans.

I wonder if in the 1800s people saw the first photograph and thought… “well, that’s the end of painters.” Others probably said “look! it’s so shitty it can’t even reproduce colors!!!”.

What it was the end of was talentless painters who were just copying what they saw. Painting stopped being for service and started being for art. That is where software development is going.

I have worked with hundreds of software developers in the last 20 years, half of them were copy pasters who got into software because they tricked people into thinking it was magic. In the future we will still code, just don’t bother with the thing the Prompt Engineer can do in 5 seconds.

Maybe they just asked chatGPT who to hire.