I spent an hour today on a webinar about how to optimize token usage with more than 500 other participants from the company I work for. Because billing is about to have its come-to-Jesus moment.

That’s probably an actual quote? It’s so bad, I find it hard to tell.

This could genuinely be actual dialogue from True Blood.

I drunkenly hate watched a season and change of that ages ago and can still hear the vampire guy grunting “Sookeh.”

I’m definitely aware now. We’re global and that means even more overhead with multiple regulatory bodies. Our products are several years to their first market, and at least another year for the global rollout.

And I’m just over here writing software and trying to reduce toil for these insane people who hand-roll excel files like they’re databases and applications.

I left the tech world and now work for a medical device company. All I can say is I’m extremely happy to be working from home with the 3 hours of meetings and 1-2 hours of work I have each week. And the director wants to get me a junior because I’m managing so many projects. Hell, I’m actively drumming up work and it takes weeks for anything to happen.

Sure I took a bit of a pay cut, but I’m not on call 1 week a month and I’m not being run ragged everyday either.

Barnes and Noble Nook HD+

I was all in on a 1080p tablet with micro sd card in 2012. And then it just shut off and never turned on again a few months out of warranty.

Then there was a Lenovo yoga tablet in 2014 with windows 8. The Intel atom processor was such a dog it just ended up being a solitaire screen and about nothing else.

Recently bought another cheap tablet for a different specific use case. We’ll see if this one is a POS.

My Das Pro 4? just crossed 9 years of professional daily use.

It was a massdrop special with mx clears and I added custom caps with a funky profile.

Here it is in 2018 when it was still fresh.

For sure (our Volvo is 1 year too old to have the android automotive system and … It would be better). The Amazon effort that powers the Alexa + Ford sync business isn’t quite at that depth: it’s an API with always online “AI learning” stuff OEMs can integrate.

https://developer.amazon.com/automotive/

Ford has had Amazon Alexa built-in for something like 5 years …

Up over 7% after hours (on near 2x expected EPS). For a business that big, it’s enough. Of course that could change next quarter. The mythical “investor” is capricious in the extreme.

I’m convinced that the writers had Janeway wipe out the timeline where he made Captain in the finale specifically as a final joke at his expense.

Jabba the Hutt looks weird with hair and pink lips.

That’s a classic.

Ironman indiglo? Still miss that watch, and I haven’t worn one for 15 years.

Fried spam with some cheap yellow mustard was a regular Sunday lunch. Usually with some boxed waffle mix topped with watery mapleine homemade “syrup”.

For sure, but good cheese curds are amazing.

Yep, cream of mushroom or cream of celery. A staple for the upper Midwestern hotdish.

“gravy” is a stretch. This picture looks way better than the reality. Cream soup and usually some bread crumbs or noodles to stretch it. If there was flavor, it was the salt from the tots.

That’s not MIA, that’s AWOL.