What’s your preferred camera angle for Zoom meetings? I have traditionally kept mine head-on, but considering moving to a side angle so it doesn’t always look like I’m distracted when I’m looking at one of my side screens.

Rarely do I see a new (to me, at least) meme that hits so close.

“What’s it called when you’re introverted but have taken on numerous leadership and outgoing roles your whole life?”&10;&10;“Introvirtuous: I’m here to help. But I’d rather not be.”

OK, it’s a little (a lot?) programmer-nerdy, but I thought this post on speeding up JSON.stringify was fascinating, particularly the move to keep separate implementations for 1-byte vs. 2-byte characters and hot swap between them if needed.

v8.dev/blog/json…

2025 Reads: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz 📚

Apparently read this one back in 2017 and had totally forgotten about it. Still a decent read.

Dozing off during the sermon: a time-honored tradition.

Dozing off during the sermon when you’re the reader assigned the creed and the prayers: a slightly riskier proposition.

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Kinda surreal seeing my old boss testifying at the NTSB hearing today for the DC crash investigation. Couple of career balls bounce differently, could’ve been me sitting there. (He’s doing great, glad it’s him and not me!)

2025 Reads: Introduction to Tantra by Thubten Yeshe 📚

After a couple weeks of every morning being 70F+ at 5 AM, this morning it was a glorious 62F. What a difference those 10 degrees make when it’s time for a run! Felt great doing 4.5 miles.

2025 Reads: The Ghosts of Trappist by K. B. Wagers 📚

Yesterday started with a 5k run and gym workout at 0530 and ended with umpiring 3 softball games in 100F+ heat index until 9pm. Then we had the tornado sirens go off at 2 AM for very high winds. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised I’m a bit on the tired side today.