Author Archives: David K.

The Annotated Watchmen

Posted on October 9, 2024 by David K.

As my second cerebral processor was doing whatever it does while my primary one is busy doing work, I was reflecting on The Watchmen. Why? I don’t know. I haven’t been watching or reading anything related to comics or superheroes … Continue reading →

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Pizza Delivery

Posted on October 2, 2024 by David K.

The “Crusty Crab Pizza” episode aired on August 14, 1999. It’s been 25 years, and it still lives rent free in my head.

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Global Emissions

Posted on September 27, 2024 by David K.

I work in a company within an industry that is figuratively being strangled to death over emissions standards, and I have to sit here and look at this. The increases from the East have dwarfed the decreases from the West. … Continue reading →

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Sweet Baby Inc. Employee Admits Goal Is “Burning The Games Industry To The Ground”

Posted on September 27, 2024 by David K.

A Sweet Baby Inc. employee named Camerin Wild, who claims to be non-binary, admitted that his goal is “burning the games industry to the ground.” Source: Sweet Baby Inc. Employee Admits Goal Is “Burning The Games Industry To The Ground” … Continue reading →

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Who Decides What Constitutes Disinformation?

Posted on September 27, 2024 by David K.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “You know, I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy, because that is a part of what happened here. And we’re going to have to figure out how … Continue reading →

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Brace Yourselves, Election is Coming

Posted on September 23, 2024 by David K.

As we approach another US Presidential election, my only question is: Will these sudden vote surges for the Democratic candidate happen this time around? It’s confusing to try to sift through everything individually, so I asked ChatGPT to summarize the … Continue reading →

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Israel Hezbollah War: 3 Grams Of Explosives Per Pager: Israel’s Complex Op To Hurt Hezbollah

Posted on September 18, 2024 by David K.

The senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, which several sources say were brought into the country earlier this year. Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the … Continue reading →

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Sidekiq. Feels Good, Man

Posted on September 17, 2024 by David K.

After 15 years of doing Rails applications, I finally had a serious need of utilizing long-running background jobs to get things done, and setup Sidekiq. My jobs are database-bound, but my database was being underutilized, so I opened up the … Continue reading →

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We Used to be a Civilization

Posted on September 6, 2024 by David K.

There were a handful of websites I found way back in the 2000’s that I liked, and kept on a short list to check every few days. This one stuck in my head because of the domain name, which I … Continue reading →

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More AI for all the Corporate IT Things

Posted on August 31, 2024 by David K.

Last month, I was talking about how I didn’t understand what my bluechip Fortune 250 is doing with AI. From AI for all the Corporate IT Things: Well, it’s a good thing I don’t understand, because he’s not talking about … Continue reading →

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