I don’t go to business meetings anymore, so maybe it’s still going strong, but I feel like the wave has kind of crested on using “ask” as a noun. Like, “that’s a big ask,” or, “my ask of you is this.” I know that nouns get verbed and verbs get nouned all the time in popular usage and normally I’m totally fine with it. Impact as a verb never bothered me, for instance. But for some reason ask as a noun was always super annoying to me.

OK, honestly I’m not going to celebrate a murder. But nothing can stop me from appreciating the heck out of the irony.

I feel sorry for them regardless. With Charlie for a daddy, they never stood a chance.

Oh, what’s interesting about a nautical mile is that it wasn’t originally even based on a number of feet or meters or whatever. It represented one minute of latitude (60 minutes in a degree type of minutes). Since the earth is an oblate spheroid instead of a perfect sphere, that meant that traditional nautical miles varied based on your position until they were standardized it in 1929.

I think it’s about 1.85 kilometers, but I wouldn’t have occasion to do the conversion because I’m a landlubber.

Walking. I take a long walk around the neighborhood and let my mind drift and eventually I find calm. I see some of the same people again and again and even though we’ve never spoken a word before, there’s a nod of recognition and I’m glad to see them. I get the impression they’re glad to see me too, which is a weird but fun kind of human relationship.

Yeah, absolutely, I’m not arguing in favor of making everyone do the memorization, I just think it’s interesting that it occurs after enough exposure.

I’ve often thought that if we’d have evolved to have 6 digits instead of 5, we might have adopted a base 12 system and made fractional calculations a lot easier.

I don’t know glitchdx from Adam, but I say with confidence that they were being sarcastic, and laying it on pretty thick.

Most people who deal in imperial units know off the top of their head that 1/3 of a mile is 1760 feet. They don’t have to calculate it. After a while you see that number come up often enough and it’s committed to memory.

I’m not saying that metric isn’t better, it is, and I wish we would hurry up and switch to it. I’m just saying that the numbers involved aren’t a handicap once you have worked with the imperial system for a while. If you have a set of sockets that you work with every day, you know instantly that 3/8” is bigger than 19/64”. Hell, even 5/16” is bigger than 19/64”.

And, you must admit, 333 meters is not one third of a kilometer. It is one third of 999 meters. The number 5280, for all its awkwardness, is beautiful in the sense that it is evenly divisible by 12, Meaning that it can be exactly divided into quarters, thirds, or halves without a fractional part.

Management has no incentive to field a competitive team. They are the worst team in baseball, haven’t been any good since 2007, and they are currently 9th in attendance, in a not-so-huge market.

So many businesses and shops are named 5280. Breweries, coffee shops, bars, transmission shops, interior design shops, animal hospitals, dry cleaners, bakeries…that number is plastered on signs and advertisements everywhere. 😂

Fair, but I lived in Denver for 26 years. I will never forget the number of feet in a mile. 😂

The refund will have to go to China or Trump is proven a liar. 🤪

It’s also kind of funny because while the frog boiling effect certainly exists, the phenomenon it’s named after does not. A frog will absolutely jump out of gradually heated water when it reaches an uncomfortable temperature.

Come to think of it, we should do that anyway.

Last Kiss by Wayne Cochran. You kids probably remember the Pearl Jam version, which was a bit more subdued. But the 1964 hit by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers is very upbeat and cheerful sounding. It’s about a boy who gets his girlfriend killed in a car accident while on a date and holding her as she dies. He’s consumed with guilt and can only think about dying so he can see her again in heaven.

Any of JS Bach’s works for organ. Toccata and Fugue in D minor is the most famous, but I mean the guy wrote like a million of them. Adagio and Fugue in C Major or Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are a couple more examples that I find particularly nourishing. (I’ve never heard music described as nourishing before, but I like that. It’s a great way of putting it.)

Yeah, of course you can add front end interactivity with css, but you still need JavaScript to run your server-side.

If I told this to 2005 me he’d think I flipped my lid. 😜

So did George Washington.

Yep. My thesis is that a larger share of AI investment and energy should be directed toward more promising areas.

There’s two people you never lie to: your doctor and your lawyer.