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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I was only off by 10,000 years!

    I’ve noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn’t expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.




  • No, it’s one of those things everyone assumes or guesses. When it’s confirmed by someone by name that has insider knowledge, the theory carries a lot more weight. Enough to alter stock prices, if it’s damning enough. Or in this case further hurt public perception, which hurts revenue.









  • I had to have a tendon reattached, and that means cutting the skin to get to it. The problem is that as the skin heals, it attaches to the tendon very easily. The surgeon has to cut your skin in a Z-shape to lessen the amount of scar tissue along the tendon’s path. Even then, the little bit that does tries to latch on.

    So you have to constantly work at it to get it to loosen, and let the tendon glide. That means moving it, vibrating it, pulling it. It sucks. It hurts. For years. But the alternative is to freeze that joint and limit your range for the rest of your life.

    Not having scaring would be amazing.





  • I had a coworker that started to hate his job and feel trapped. We all did, but he was more vocal about it to his friends. He said:

    “I think sometimes, what if I didn’t take that turn on the highway and just kept going?”.

    Well one day he didn’t come in. Emailed the boss he quit later. I like to think he just kept driving on to a better future.