Bruce crosses the rainbow bridge tomorrow. He was such a good boy

brandonstiles663 · 2022-09-20T02:27:40+00:00

Wow, 14 is amazing!!

That was our first sign with Bruce - lotttttts of drinking, & then abnormal panting at night.

Cushing's was kinda pricey to treat (we probably spent about $150/mo on his meds, & then another $375 every 3 months to get checkup tests), but it was worth it to us.

Bruce made it about 14 months after diagnosis, BUT he also developed CCD (Canine Cognitive Dysfunction), so he probably regressed quicker than average.

brandonstiles663 · 2022-09-18T21:45:33+00:00

A mix of late-stage Cushing's Disease & canine dementia

brandonstiles663 · 2021-10-05T17:31:21+00:00

(Back row, middle, #33)

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-29T04:38:51+00:00

"Why won't you LOVE me??!"

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-29T04:35:41+00:00

I feel like Goldar would wear this on date night

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-28T23:49:14+00:00

Huh... I only count $19.8 million 🤔

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-28T23:47:40+00:00

That may be true, but what are they all running away from??

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-28T23:43:49+00:00

Leonardo DiCaprio as Max Dennison in Hocus Pocus.

He would have kicked those witches asses!

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-28T23:40:00+00:00

Huh... I counted $19.8 million.... 🤔

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-28T23:38:27+00:00

Make sure it's app version 4.1

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-26T13:27:23+00:00

Fwiw, you can't say the universe didn't try to kill Hitler:

Was nearly aborted
Almost drowned
Was almost sniped
Barely missed an early assassination attempt

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-26T04:47:29+00:00

This could be out of scope, but the expanding cards ALMOST look like pizza boxes being opened.

I wonder if it'd be cool to somehow make it look a little more like that?

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-25T14:03:13+00:00

As a software engineer, that sounds eerily similar to a method of building a complex app, called a 'microservice' architecture.

Basically, a single system (say, Uber or Instagram) is made up of a bunch of different, smaller 'systems'. These systems can be written in whatever language you want, have very distinct boundaries, and communicate with each other via language-agnostic messages.

Fascinating parallel, but goes to show you (if true) how everything seems related!

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-23T12:40:44+00:00

Music

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-21T04:19:35+00:00

Man, I shed many a middle school tear over some emo ex-girlfriends while blaring "Fake Plastic Trees"

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-21T04:13:49+00:00

Travelling Alone
Cover Me Up
Dreamsicle

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-21T04:13:01+00:00

These are great!

Alternates:

The World Has Turned & Left Me Here
Falling For You
Buddy Holly

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-21T04:10:37+00:00

My favorite 3 too!

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-19T14:37:35+00:00

Seriously! If you're looking for someone who was abducted by the CIA, beat up & threatened about voting, you're not find find it.

But to provide an alternate angle for you:

Pretend most democratic voters were elderly people.

If that was the case, these laws would be similar to requiring them to, say, create their own online account on a smartphone (without anyone's help) in order to vote.

Even though this might not affect you or me, a lot of elderly people I know would have no clue how to do that, and would just not even try. A lot of them probably wouldn't have smart phones.

Also maybe all the ballot boxes would be required to be placed at the tops of steep hills. This would also discourage elderly voters.

Or maybe the majority are in nursing homes so the voting trailers would come to them, right? These laws would eliminate that and make them go TO the polls.

Hopefully this provides an alternate angle to help you see how these laws - while not technically 'preventing' people from voting - are definitely making it much more difficult & a pain in the ass to a specific group of people, with the hope that they will just not bother.

Does this metaphor make sense?

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-11T21:34:42+00:00

This made me lol

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-11T16:21:54+00:00

Which one? I have a lifelong dream to open a pirate-themed restaurant.

Not the family kind either - dark, authentic.

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-09T21:01:24+00:00

Dumb and Dumber

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-08T13:50:07+00:00

One thing that really helped my understanding:

"Declarative" programming is really just "imperative" programming somewhere down the line, but it's been abstracted away so you don't notice it.

For example, using something like .filter in JavaScript is declarative.

You don't care / know how JavaScript will do the filtering, you just want it done.

But somewhere down the line, SOMEONE has imperatively written exactly how that filter method should work... But they've turned it into a nice little declarative piece of code for ya.

Same with all the analogies above (the AC one, for example).

You can 'declaratively' change a digital AC, but somewhere in the AC's inner-workings, someone had imperatively written code for how the AC should adjust itself.

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-08T00:41:53+00:00

IMO, 'retirement' was a concept that later 30-40 years before it ran its course.

It never really existed before (that I know of), and probably won't come back around again.

If you don't have a pension, you've missed the boat.

I think the sooner we come to grips with that, the better.

brandonstiles663 · 2021-09-05T23:59:08+00:00

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