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I gotta say, this new CZARFACE with Ghostface is also fire. What an open!

Yeah, new Rotting Christ is kick ass. Very ritualistic and heavy but also with that Iron Maiden riffing sensibility.

Three separate recruiters (the most recent one thought I was named "Joe") have contacted me about this stupid company that is "disrupting pizza".

I'm interested in working for startups (or as I'd like to think of them, small companies), theoretically, but this is the kind of thing they think are problems to be solved. This startup's whole proposition is that owners of pizza chains are not getting enough return on investment, and so they are going to automate away human cost.

There are just so, so many problems out there that are real problems that these companies could be working on. They don't have to even be "saving the world" problems, though those, of course, are the most important problems. Making rich investors even richer, of course, is the only problem VC-funded startups are trying to solve.

For several years, climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas at national parks. After Friday, she’ll be out of a job.

In a January episode of Reveal, Caffrey spoke about the pressure she experienced during the editing of the parks report. She said supervisors at the park service yelled at her and threatened to kill the report or remove her name if she would not agree to the changes. Some told her they could lose their jobs or be transferred if she didn’t capitulate.
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She was paid $25,000 a year, about a third of the salary that she had earned for several years. Her supervisors at the park service’s water resources division tried to secure funding for a better position, paying $76,000 a year, to assess wetlands at national parks, according to Caffrey and park service emails. But they emailed her on Thursday that the funding isn’t available.
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Caffrey, 37, doesn’t regret her decision to stand up for her science.

“I wouldn’t do anything different, but Jesus, this is stressful,” she said. She’s pulling her toddler out of day care and has set a goal of applying for a new job every day.

Goddamn. She's heroic.

5-5-5-6-6-6 at home.

OK, here is where you get Mass Health Connector insurance premiums!

Holy shit, insurance for a family of three is expensive. Not bad for a single person that doesn't expect to have many problems, though.

Yet another reason that startups are traditionally the domain of the young and single. Imagine how many new interesting companies we'd get if we lived in a social democracy?

There seems to be a conspiracy to never allow actual health care premiums to be on the web. Gross!

5-5-5-5-5-5 on the bar at home.

1-2-4-5-3-4. It's been hard to get out to the bar lately. I'm going to be away for a week, so I should make sure I do some at home at a set time each day so that I don't slip further.

Hey, I made an "awesome" new GitHub repo!

The guy was so worn out he went to bed 30 minutes early in his clothes.

Then, he woked up two hours later, bewildered that he was in his daytime clothes.

Then, he went to sleep again, feeling like he was getting away with something by sleeping in his clothes.

You know, putting aside even what I'd like to do as a job now, I realize I have doubts about what makes me happy as hobbies. Should I keep struggling to make all of these apps and bots? Why?

ScanNet is fascinating. It's a whole bunch of 3D reconstructions of 3D spaces using 2D pictures.

For example, here's an apartment. Here's a room in a library. I could look at these all day.

Ola Englund bought a house! It's really nice to see.

A really detailed account/confession from a member of Rings of Saturn about how they faked a high level of technical proficiency. As someone who's only experienced an Ableton Live 6 level of production technology, I have to say, wow, Pro Tools!

One benefit of recovering from the flu or whatever that was is that I was forced to get enough rest. Over the last few weeks (months?), I forgot that it was possible to not feel like I wanted to lie down over the course of a long laundry-folding session.

You *can* reach full hearts, Zelda-style, and it does make a difference.

The food I cooked today wasn't that good to me, but the rest of the family liked it. I think it's because I don't actually like lamb — at least not without all the intense seasoning that goes into a gyro. I just assumed I would like lamb with salt and pepper!

I put Symbolic on in the car. The guy's comment was "It sounds like a bunch of guitars." Indeed.