Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Screen time

    All we’re doing is shouting at screens.Ophira Eisenberg’s son on Ask Me Another podcast 2020-06-09

  • AYFKM

    Guess we need to put audible warnings on the weapons that activate when drawn from the holster, “Handgun drawn” or “Taser drawn.”  Or take them away entirely.

  • Another curfew

    Another fucking curfew because a police officer fucked up again.

  • Magic autonomous vehicles

    Magic autonomous vehicles

    Car jumps median, hits busA Minneapolis Park Police officer examined the crash scene Friday after a woman’s car jumped the median and struck a school bus at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Vineland Place near the Walker Art Center. The school bus was not transporting students at the time of the incident, but the…

  • Refactoring

    Refactoring

    Don’t be sentimental around your bad ideas. Iterate on them.Martin Molin, Wintergatan, 2021-03-03

  • How far we’ve come

    I get the Bloomberg Technology email blast every morning, and this one hit home particularly. I can’t believe that I’ve been working in tech for 37 years, and the items she mentions aren’t even the most amazing things to have happened in that time… Welcome to Bloomberg Technology, I’m Emily Chang in San Francisco. For 10…

  • Kate Knuth

    Kate Knuth

    I don’t know if I can support her candidacy against Tim Walz, she reminds me too much of the women who played Nate’s wife on Six Feet Under. I don’t know if I could get past that… never liked that character. Shallow I know, but what ya gonna do?