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Sometimes you are looking at a perfectly normal, unremarkable software development job ad, written in standard corporatese, and in the middle of it you see this:
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These are not the peaches you are looking for.
They are not ripe.
They are not yours.
Do not pick them from the trees.
In the tradition of Keeping Austin Weird, Obi-Wan Kenobi protects the peaches in a tree in someone's front yard.
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I still fondly remember this recent (now gone) LaunchDarkly billboard "Let your feature flag fly". I appreciate that LaunchDarkly thinks of Austin as a place where there are enough people to understand this message, and a place where people still let their freak flags fly.
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Sometimes you are looking at a perfectly normal, unremarkable software development job ad, written in standard corporatese, and in the middle of it you see this:
These are not the peaches you are looking for.
They are not ripe.
They are not yours.
Do not pick them from the trees.
In the tradition of Keeping Austin Weird, Obi-Wan Kenobi protects the peaches in a tree in someone's front yard.
My good deed for the day was to convince a neighbor that it's NOT safe to look at the solar eclipse with sunglasses. Luckily, we had spare eclipse glasses to give her.
New Crobuzon is an imaginary world from one of my favorite writers, China Mieville, so I was happy to see this here (in the Interimaginary Departures lounge at the Austin airport).
Maybe it's old hat to everybody, but I found this just today. Austin airport has a little lounge called Interimaginary Departures that has a departure board with science-fictional destinations.
I was listening to BBC news today on NPR. BBC announcers often insert an extra "r" at the of a word that ends in a vowel, e.g. China -> Chinar, Gaza -> Gazar. This announcer said "lore enforcement" instead of "law enforcement". I thought t…
I still fondly remember this recent (now gone) LaunchDarkly billboard "Let your feature flag fly". I appreciate that LaunchDarkly thinks of Austin as a place where there are enough people to understand this message, and a place where peopl…
It's been said that "you guys" is not a good way to address a group, as it is non-inclusive; but on the other hand, trying to cast it into the possessive form leads to interesting linguistic contortions!
Overheard at a meeting today:
"We …
The Santa that visited us last night must have been our cat in disguise, because the present was a freshly-dead roach on the kitchen floor. But, as my daughter pointed out, better that than a live one running around. So our cat does unders…
(I only marked it as sensitive content because otherwise Mastodon blows up one word in the image, and it looks ugly. It's not really sensitive, it's just I guess the job ad writer snuck it in there to check if the reader is really paying a…
So then they gave me a generous credit -- bigger than what I spent for the entire tutorial; and said they will monitor my account to see if the charges keep growing. It's been nearly 2 days, and they stayed constant.
The biggest surprise i…
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