Some people pay extra to be hurt

When I started at one company I put together a text file with all the different sources of info I found in training. By the end of training I had turned it into an HTML file. Years later we got bought out. Support from corporate disappeared on legacy customs who hadn’t moved over to new stuff.

A coworker tapped me on the shoulder “If I were to make a local network web server on one of these computers could I upload your help system to it for everyone to use?”

Next thing you know I’m the default source for all information on every system that has ever existed. Prior to that everyone knew that I had it all in my brain but only a handful of people knew that I also had it all in HTML.

TL;DR I built a pirate help desk knowledge base.

It was the most insrutable. And it was very template friendly, versatile trope as you put it. Has very clearly defined elements that move from the foreground to the distance. It makes no sense by itself so one must give it meaning. In the process any meaning can be had or made with a few minor edits.

I could put a yogi on the left and a bunch of colored spheres on the table and say that it’s chakra tools and it would make just as much sense. Especially since chakras and cow tools both don’t exist.

Cooking by the book

I am from the internet. I’m here to help. Not to shame.

Let’s just say I get real uncomfortable when someone says “what are your hobbies” because there are too many. … Oh I just remembered something. I’ll have a new post here in just a moment.

Odd are this kid will be back in government custody with another week or two. We already have enough cats.

Dovey has a little white on her. Just barely calico.

Probably not. Right now she is just a “safety is the high ground” cat.

This one made no sense to me at all. I have zero context for whatever is in the picture of text.

However I got the SCUD Disposable Assassin one instantly because I remember it from my youth.

That’s deep.

This is a replay of eliminating the Ba’athist in Iraq. Turns out when you remove the only thing keeping a factionalized sectarian country together it destabilizes the country. We learned this lesson already. Now we’re repeating it because we have an administration that refuses to learn anything from history…