ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon discovers a diet trick 33 minutes ago:
Irritable Fowl Syndrome
- Comment on Anon tells a story about president Taft 2 days ago:
Everybody remembers “a man, a plan, a canal: Panama” but nobody remembers “Taft: fat”.
- Comment on Two chemists walk into a bar 1 week ago:
Aren’t those the guys who feed beers to their tattoos?
- Comment on ohhh 1 week ago:
it’s made from fucking grass!
I started making my own sourdough bread during COVID because for a while there they didn’t have bread or yeast at the grocery stores. I love the fact that the ingredients are just flour, water, salt and starter (which itself is just flour and water and the yeastie beasties). The yeast all dies during cooking and the water is essentially cooked out of it, so sourdough bread is really just flour altered into a really funky form with a bit of salt. I like the added thought that even the flour is just ground-up grass.
- Comment on Funding 1 week ago:
TBF that guy’s primary responsibility was to look good in a suit (or a tech vest) and help secure the next round of venture capital funds. Not anything that I was good at.
- Comment on Funding 1 week ago:
I had a meeting with a c-suite type from one of our clients about ten years ago. He had just read an article about APIs and wanted to find out from me how his company could start using them. His company’s back end was basically nothing but APIs. This made me lose the last modicum of respect I had for c-suite types, shocking because I don’t know why I even still had that modicum left.
- Comment on Funding 1 week ago:
AIRBORNE ICEBERGS
Bring back Habakkuk!
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 1 week ago:
“So, how many polygons can we use to render this car in the game?”
“Uh … four?” - Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 1 week ago:
I feel the same sense of embarrassment for the driver that I would if I saw some guy masturbating in public.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 1 week ago:
covered in rust
The best thing about these “trucks” is that they all will be, eventually.
- Comment on So excited for the Cybertruck 1 week ago:
What shocked me the most was how much stupider it looked when surrounded by normal vehicles. It looks like a cheap prop from an early '70s sci-fi movie - I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Sean Connery climb out of one wearing a codpiece while shouting “renew!”
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
I got laid off from my job with a big silicon valley company and was just too sick of the whole industry to even try getting another coding job. I randomly bought a used school bus to convert into a motor home, and when I got to the point where I needed to get another job to avoid paying $1000 a month for shitty health insurance, it turned out owning and driving a school bus made me eminently qualified to be a school bus driver. I really love doing it - it of course doesn’t pay what programming pays, but I get the middle of my days off to go on long bike rides, and little kids aren’t that awful to be around.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
I agree that the Navy Yard is south Philly and Wallingford ain’t Philly, I’m not claiming otherwise (nor do Wallingfordians ever make such a claim). I do not know why they decided to house people who worked in Philly in a place that is so far from Philly - that’s part of the story I’ve never found written anywhere. I can only surmise that since Wallingford is so close to Chester, the workers were able to ride a commuter train to and fro. Or maybe they ran special buses, I dunno.
Jim’s finally opened back up so let us give praise to one of the few cheesesteak places I’d ever give a tourist directions to
So, I actually used to live on South Street, right next to the Jim’s. When I got a steak from there, I always had to order it with marinara because it was too dry otherwise. How a sandwich with that much grease in it could possibly be dry is not something I can answer. I know this exposes me as non-native, but at least I wan’t ordering it with bell pepper.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
I am taking care not call you a liar
I appreciate that. :)
I did say “one of the best school districts” and it’s in the same ballpark as Radnor, at least (but not Radnor). It is a full-on house, a semi-detached with a sizable yard in a weird neighborhood of smallish houses that were built during WWII to house workers at the Navy Yard in Philly (the neighborhood is known as “Garden City” in Wallingford). These houses were never intended to last 80+ years but they’re still better-built than today’s pieces of shit. The house was not a complete gut-and-rebuild project but it wasn’t move-in ready, either (although the seller thought it was despite collapsing ceilings, a 25 yo water heater, and not a single door that closed properly - including the front door). It was a private sale brokered by a coworker of mine who knew the seller, but the price was in line with recent sales of other houses in this little neighborhood.
I’m careful to avoid being the kind of moron who says “I bought a cheap house so I think the housing market crisis is a complete fiction”, but I do think in general that having the willingness (and the skills) to fix up a less-than-perfect house can mitigate the problem somewhat. Just not in LA or Toronto.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
Just last summer.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 2 weeks ago:
I live in a Philadelphia suburb (in one of the state’s top school districts) and just bought a modest two-bedroom house for $142K. While this represents almost six years of my current income as a school bus driver, I used to make $150K a year as a software developer so the house would have cost me less than one year’s salary. As it is, I was able to buy it outright from my savings. TBF the house is 80+ years old and was in need of some repairs, and the average house price in this district is over $500K, and Philly is not Toronto or Los Angeles - but the house-buying situation is not completely hopeless everywhere as long as you’re not expecting to live in a brand-new mcmansion.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen a web ring in more than 20 years.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
As a website owner, you would just register your site with a ring and then add a bit of HTML at the bottom of your page which would display the randomly-selected banner of another site in the ring (and your banner would sometimes be displayed on another site). So visitors could just click on the banners and be taken through a circuit of interesting (sometimes) websites.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
If you want to get really old school: I miss web rings.
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 2 weeks ago:
It’s never House.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
The main similarity between Musk’s companies and MacDonald’s is that they both involve clowns.
- Comment on What a deal! 2 weeks ago:
I saw my first real Cybertruck in the wild the other day. It was absolutely incredible … how fucking stupid that thing looked.
- Comment on Yeah, I call BS 3 weeks ago:
This is domain-specific, but what annoys me the most about Paleoanthropology articles is that whenever somebody digs up another 4 myo shard of thigh bone, the article is guaranteed to contain the phrase “will force Anthropologists to rethink their assumptions”. This all goes back to the “Lucy” find which was fully bipedal but still had the small brain of a chimpanzee, which did actually force Anthropologists to abandon the prior assumption that upright walking and large brains had evolved together. No find since then has had anywhere near that significance.
- Comment on Yeah, I call BS 3 weeks ago:
My new book The First Thing, the Second Thing, and the Third Thing: a Cutesie Subtitle Following the Semicolon is dropping tomorrow.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 3 weeks ago:
This is 1874…you’ll be able to sue her.
By fax!
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 3 weeks ago:
You could always call him “the father of the capacitive touchscreen”.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 3 weeks ago:
This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 3 weeks ago:
I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM’s T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with “B. Mandelbrot” on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said “are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?” He said “yes” and I said “oh” and walked on. Apparently he didn’t hear that I said “Bernard” instead of “Benoit”.
- Comment on This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating 3 weeks ago:
For a while in the programming world “why are manhole covers round?” was a common question to be asked in interviews. I had no fucking clue the first time I was asked, but subsequently I would put on my deep pondering face and reason through it out loud and arrive at the correct answer, which never failed to impress the interviewer. After a few years I started owning up to the fact that I (and everyone else) had already heard that question.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 3 weeks ago:
I feel like living with Jeffery Dahmer would not fit this description.