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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • IT.

    Injured out of infantry and poored out of college but landed a shitty little ISP job. Started one to beat that one, because they were sleazy like used-car salesmen. Left embezzling biz-partner to do coding-adjacent job in NJ and stop being startup-poor. Kept working. Fast forward.

    I only regret I was unable to use my skills to relo for new jobs farther away like some of my peers.



  • I rode a bicycle to the 10th grade when I wrecked it in a non-dramatic fashion. Down the boulevard of a busy rural highway (shippers and logging) I’d ride every day to school.

    I’ve never worn a helmet. #gen-x

    Not proud of it, but it’s a quirk. I came here more to say that helmets are new for some of us.

    Wasn’t there a paper about behavior changes with helmets and how the added safety could be off-set by more risk?

    Finally: what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.





  • Bill Gates spent a lot of his pro years running a bad company quite well, and exploiting a dominant position in the market that any soulless biz guy would love to have.

    He seemed to get a conscience around the time he stopped running the show, and seems to be different while not regretting his behavior in that phase.

    I think we can decide he was a bit of a cock back then, while still noting he’s done some good work since. We are nuanced enough, right?