NFL

 How much do I care about the NFL? Madison Cawthorn is the kicker on my fantasy football team.

Familiarity

 One of the stories that came across my feed yesterday was that Elon Musk split with the Canadian musician Grimes. While I'm not familiar with her music, I am deeply familiar with the desire to launch my ex into space and maybe not bring them back.

Captain Planet

 Apple Air

Amazon Fire

Google Earth

If Facebook made water and Microsoft had a heart we could totally do a big tech version of Captain Planet, but like the dumpster fire version of that.

By the way, I realize this is a generational thing because I could have gone for the Earth Wind and Fire reference or gone younger with an Avatar / Korra reference and I intentionally didn’t. Fuck you, I’m not that old.

Marketing

 The Democrats are shit a marketing. You keep trying to sell the Green New Deal. If you had any sense you'd pitch burning all the neo-Nazi's, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers and the rest of these fuckwits for electricity and call it White Power. 

Recall

 Typical California. Waste hundreds of millions of dollars and in the end another black man loses a job to a mediocre white dude. 

Unions

As a way to decompress from a rushed-through business continuity testing last night evening, I was reading through some stuff from the Union of Concerned Scientists on US stockpiles of nuclear weapons (that looked slightly out of date) 

https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons

The problem is that I kept getting sidetracked by the idea to create the union of unconcerned scientists. Those who have seen the data, checked it all out and concluded it's all a fucking dumpster fire and we just give up. We embrace the inevitable heat death of the universe that can't come along too soon. 

I'll start taking tax-deductible donations once I get the domain registered. But I probably won't because as an unconcerned scientist I kind of just want to watch the world burn.

PSI

 If I start seeing Pumpkin Spice Ivermectin become a thing, I swear to fuck, I will murder all of you.

App Creation

 I want an Outlook plugin that scans my emails, searches the text for all the terms on Urban Dictionary and automatically appends them as footnotes.

Statistical Fact

 Did you know that if you switch from regular to decaf coffee, you can remove 78% of the enjoyment from your day?

Overselling

 Earlier this evening I got a call from a recruiter trying to setup an intro call between me and a company she didn't want to name that's doing some municipal fiber broadband and I've been trying to figure out for a few hours now what bothered me about the call. It's not that she didn't want to tell me who I'd be talking to. Intro call, fair enough. I get that. 

I think really it's that she was talking about this company with the same bullshit zeal that tech IPO's use. Like they're out to save the world, and better humanity and change life as we know it and blah blah, woof woof. I get that in a digital age broadband internet access is important, but I've been in this industry for 20 years. Let's not kid ourselves, fundamentally we're providing a delivery vector for ransomware and a way for pervy old dudes to jerk it to pictures of feet.  Don't oversell me.