cjewel

curmudgeon extraordinaire

  • It’s a Cold Tuesday

    Yeah that car guy thew a Nazi salute at a presidential inauguration. There are literal Nazis in the White House. So, are you Vichy or are you the Resistance?

  • It’s a Dark Monday

    On the off chance that anyone besides me is reading these posts, this is a dark day that will follow into four years of destruction. My only hope is that because most of the people taking power in the US today are incompetent, in over their heads, and driven by greed divorced from truth and…

  • I Already Turned that Off

    Apple has this Enhanced Visial Search “Feature” in the photos app that sounds like it will do faster, better job at finding a specific photo from among the photos on your device. But when you read the “about” it says: “Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained…

  • Silicon Valley is a Hate Machine

    It seems the rich white men who run Silicon Valley have gotten together and agreed that women are bad. Every single one of them recently published a screed about how women are ruining everything. This is terrifying shit.

  • What The Fuck, Owls?

    Outside my bedroom window when I’m trying to sleep and hooting like there’s no tomorrow. Despite all the noise, they are silent winged killers, sneaky AF. They drop in like taloned party-poopers on the rodent population. Some rat or gopher looking to wreak havoc and some owl comes along blowing up the fun times. And,…

  • My Dog’s Butt Exploded

    Poor little doggo. She was scooting her butt on the ground so I took a closer look and she had one of those anal gland issues. I made a vet appointment, but it was five days away. The next day there was an abscess approaching the size of a ping pong ball so I called…

  • But Sure, It’s a Meritocracy

    Zuckerberg wants companies to have more male energy. What happened to Tech is a Meritocracy? It guess if you exude male energy, you merit a job at FB and you’ll even get promoted! If you come off as girly because, oh, I don’t know, you’re a girl or a guy who isn’t traditionally masculine enough…

  • Life Hack

    Do not ask for legal advice from someone who isn’t a lawyer. This is a two-for-one, friends. Do not take legal advice from someone who isn’t a lawyer. You’re welcome!

  • Little Mind Huge Ego

    After a conversation with a family member I jumped on the interwebs and searched for “Elon Musk Path of Exile 2” and it was everything I was told and more. I highly recommend doing the same search if you haven’t already heard about it.Here’s the background: Path Of Exile 2 is an APG (Action Role…

  • This is NOT helping me write

    “Autocorrect” is getting more and more dangerous. I’m realizing now that we’re in this age of forced AI that after decades of writing fiction I have developed an expert level of finding normal typos and errors when I’m rereading/editing my work. Now autocorrect is making stupid dumb and WRONG changes that slip by me because…