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I must admit, mobile computer media events do momentarily convince me that a new piece of technology barely different in any appreciable way from my current 3-year-old device will transform my life, injecting it with immersive happiness and cutting-edge meaning.

It's a weird flex for Google to develop APIs for a mobile device that hasn't existed in over a decade, but what do I know?

Milo, 8 years old, upon planning a group bicycle ride: "I've always wanted to be in a bike gang."

Dogs: training
Cats: negotiating

When did Jira start infiltrating the non-dev world? Trying to reach real people, we've started getting automated replies from Jira running (for example) Square's HR dept and Syracuse University. I need less Jira proliferation, not more.

"If he were a human child he would be in so much trouble. He would be in timeout all the time. We'd have to send him to boarding school." -- Wife, re: Walter our new chaos monkey kitten

Late #caturday post

Meow Wolf is coming to DFW…but in Grapevine of all places meowwolf.com/visit/grapevine

Damien Jurado at Wild Detectives. If it doesn't rain. If it does, maybe just a nice dinner somewhere.

It's time to admit that at my age, if I've been up since 5:50am, by 10:10pm my eyes won't focus on a screen and nothing else productive is going to get done.

You know, I was going to stop believing, but then the inspiring tones of Steve Perry's voice came over the speakers in the office lobby.