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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Lots of things like grey hair, moving more slowly, injuries that I would have bounced away from before instead hurting for weeks or months.

    But the one that hit hardest was a breakup I had a little while back. She was the love of my life and I fully intended to marry her, and when she ended it out of nowhere I was sad, but fine. She dumped me, and it sucked, but I also needed to finish a staff report for a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that night. So I moved on.

    The thing that upset me most was that I wasn’t that upset. There was a time in my life when I would have been a mess. But as I’ve aged, my emotions have become more regulated.

    I miss being capable of that level of joy and pain.



  • The suit should be by an American cartography company over the proper US Board on Geographic Names’s official process not being followed for the name change.

    I’m actually submitting a name change to the board through the official process. But since the USGS added a bit to the process saying that resetablishing historical names isn’t a reason for a name change, I’m going to recommend it be changed to “The Gulf,” since it meets all criteria for a name change - most importantly that it be a name in common usage by locals. Lots of people refer to it as “The Gulf,” while “Gulf of America” isn’t in common usage.

    The most we can do outside of lawsuits is at least try to take the “America” part away.






  • New Coke was different in 2 important ways.

    1. It was actually a way to hide the flavor change in the switch to Corn Syrup instead of Sugar, and never intended to be permanent.

    2. Pepsi existed

    There’s no real commercial competition for Microsoft. Linux is great, but there’s nobody for a business to call when shit fucks up. And Apple’s walled garden and high prices make it terrible for enterprise.