Tom Darci retweeted
🔥 VIRGINIA BEACH: “You’re never going to find a right way to do the wrong thing… be the good guys, while you still can.”
A local dad speaks up against anti-LGBTQ student policies.
was delighted that NYTimes crossword (from a few weeks ago) answer to "Tripping" was "HIGHAF"... until I realized it was actually "ONACID"
Seeing this a LOT in resumes lately --> "lead" instead of "led" when talking about leading in the past tense. "led" does look weird. And my brain is now starting to read "lead" as the new way to spell "led"
Would love to be in the post-mortem over at GotSport... if there is a "post". This system that powers seemingly a lot of soccer scheduling has been out for A WEEK. They are not even providing daily updates at this point🤔
1/2 A live version of "Punk Rock Girl", by the Dead Milkmen, came across my FB feed the other day, and I was appreciating the lyrics, yet again, as I had done back in the day...
2/2 ...but then I'm riding my bike later and my brain is like "California Dreamin"... "Such a Winter's Day"... BEACH BOYS? Wait a minute. What are they up to here? And how did I not notice this before?
some explanation here: avclub.com/punks-and-squares… "The Dead Milkmen do not f*(&!ing care who sang “California Dreamin’.”
Tom Darci retweeted
People often confuse the positions of knee and the ankle in most animals. Counscious of this, illustrator Satoshi Kawasaki imagined what would happen if human legs were drawn using animals' skeletons as a base.
[human -> dog -> horse -> flamingo]
source: buff.ly/2NSSWmX
Tom Darci retweeted
Whichever of us is the last person to leave Twitter, make sure your last tweet is just the word "CROATOAN"
I used my advanced lock picking skills to pick this lock in one try. And probably figured out the name of the owner as a bonus finding.
on managing: “your job is to help them determine where they can add outsize value, and include them. Only if they trust you to loop them in will they feel free to go heads down and focus.” lots of great thought in this piece
I wrote a long and rambling post on why the hierarchy is bullshit (and bad for business). Includes digressions on
* the big lie of hierarchy (higher is always better)
* why hierarchy endures as a data structure
* why it sucks (we imbue it with dominance)
charity.wtf/2022/09/23/the-h…
i'm a fan of "inbox zero" for my email, but like most, am rarely there... just got to 0 last weekend, and now I hear "intruder alert! intruder alert!" in my little mind any time a message arrives -- get it out! get it out! keep it clean
i found this piece on stuttering quite moving
Several months ago @ByJamesRobinson asked me to describe the experience of stuttering for a short @nytimes documentary. This is what I said.....(1/3) nytimes.com/2022/08/23/opini…