Have to go home and finish mowing the lawn. Better not be any kids on it when I get there. #curmudgeon

You know when you were a kid and another kid would repeat everything you said? Remember how annoying that was?

When on the train, I'd love an app that listens to a nearby passenger's phone conversation and then uses various silly voices to repeat what it hears, with a variable delay for maximum distraction, but cancels it from my headphones.

Yes, I am a #curmudgeon.

#app #innovation #idea #privacy #defend #polite #impolite #travel

At this point in my life, I'd prefer to work through merge conflict markers by hand in a text editor without any sort of fancy GUI or other weird magic presentation.

Just show me the damned conflict, and let me work it out as text in the usual way.

Your GUI that re-arranges everything in terms of "yours" and "theirs" can die in a fire. I ain't got the energy to keep track of how that shit gets reversed in a rebase versus another flow.

#SWE #Git #Curmudgeon

It's not that I'm too lazy to Google it, it's that googling it has become less efficient than actually interacting with my colleagues for basic questions.

Pretty soon the kids will be using their phones to actually speak with each other.

#BigTech #curmudgeon

@theotherbrook

People hear at most 20% of the lyrics of a song. They cherry pick which phrases they notice, then interpret them to mean what they want them to. All without even thinking about it!

So yeah, pretty much the same as everything people do everywhere else. People are impressive.

#curmudgeon

#thinker #old #foolish #curmudgeon

When i need a tutorial for a technical task, i don't want to look at a human talking or hear their dumb voice droning on for a 2-3 minute video when i could just silently read the info in 30 seconds.

If i desired to be around people, especially to "learn" "things", i would stop having gills and slither back out of this cold, ominously dark pond

#PostTranscriptsYouAssholes #Curmudgeon #AncientSlimeBeastUsingTheInternet

Oh joy. I've been adulting. Just made the extortion payment to the state/county/local guberment to get new auto tags.

Well, some people call fees and/or taxes, but I prefer the term 'extortion payment.'

Will pick them up tomorrow or Thursday.

#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#Curmudgeon

Not digging Bluesky's 250 character limit, Mastodon has a 500 character limit and even that feels too short to me. And I don't like the 1/x, 2/x, etc. dividing of posts either. Trying to get folks to join me at no limits Diaspora or Friendica, oh well. #curmudgeon #socialmedia #bluesky #mastodon

With Maggie and Vira, preparing to film "Gay Curmudgeon" quotes for next week. #dogs #doglover #doglovers #canines #pets #pomeranian #shitzu #jack #jackrussell #curmudgeon #gay #equalrights #gayrights #gayrightsarehumanrights #humanrights

Oh joy. Just had the first neighborhood firework. It's 358pm PST.

#NYE
#Curmudgeon

#grumps #curmudgeon #curmudgeons #oldsters #oldfart #oldfarts #seniors #seniorcitizen #grumpy #hermit #hermits

#Boston's Central Synagogue deciding to do their annual #Chanukah menorah lighting at the State House a week before Chanukah actually starts, because otherwise it will conflict with Christmas, is a textbook example of how #ChristianHegemony plays out in this country. *sigh*
If you light a menorah when it's not actually Chanukah, then you're not actually doing a Chanukah menorah lighting, you're just lighting a big lamp. #curmudgeon
#Judaism #Mazeldon #BostonMA
Ref: https://www.csboston.org/chanukah-at-the-state-house

It was 34° as I drove to work this morning, and yet the kids at the bus stop were wearing shorts.

#idiots #curmudgeon

If I didn't already hate the Patriots enough, my morning train packed w/Pats fans heading to their parade will seal it #curmudgeon #fb

Oh. Joy. It's Sunday, November 3rd and there is an ice cream truck still driving around the neighborhood. Playing, among other stuff, christmas music...

Now what was the title of that one Bruce Cockburn song? Oh, yeah... 🚀


#OldPeopleOfMastodon
#Curmudgeon