great time to be in the oat milk industry. (well, stock performance of $OTLY is pretty dismal, but like, people are really buying a lot of oat milk (14% growth/year), so they need to figure out how to fix that)

The pandemic is "over" except that the hospitalization rate in my area (Multnomah County) is still just as high as the worst rates of 2020. COVID-19 is still an active and present threat. People are still getting sick, getting hospitalized, and dying from it.

if you give nothing back to the land what makes you think you have any right to it.

Company GDPR training used an example based in Lisbon... TRIGGERING. I need vacation time, and I need it to be in Lisbon. I need fish and beer and winding streets and music and great coffee and pastries and miradouros and friendly people saying obrigado every 5 seconds.

i keep thinking i'm going to be a phoenix rising from the ashes but now i'm feeling like the burnt out coals of some grocery store generic brand charcoal in the bottom of a weber grill, just some damp month-old ashes that need to be scraped out so the new fuel can breathe.

Thomas Tallis - Spem In Alium, the original purveyor of Wall of Sound production.

just say no to last inning key changes in pop songs

fleetwood mac's dreams is such an interesting song from a production perspective. it is ostensibly simple, but there's a some subtle tricks in there, especially around the drum production and the bass. also a weird mid-song tempo slowdown for a few bars that recovers right after.

taking the temperature... who wants more .NET/FRINGE/ ? august 2023? it *could* be possible.

where do I put on my resume that I speak fluent "you feel me bruh"?? (as a 2nd language, not native).

Hrm I'm struggling with the whole "talking myself out of starting a business" thing that I do so well. I have an idea for a thing, looked up competitors, found a handful of apps that are similar, which have failed to gain traction. Why would I think mine would be any different?

what even is this. i am not really here any more. please go find me elsewhere. i love you so much, but i do not love this website anymore

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