We met with my mother’s broker a few weeks ago (company rhymes with “Laymond Maims”). My brother expressed his concern about the AI bubble and the broker basically said CEOs are smart people who are legally bound to safeguard their companies and they wouldn’t be so heavily invested in AI if there was any chance of its being a bubble.

Just one of the most dumbassed arguments I’ve ever heard. OK, then how did all the other bubbles in history happen? But it was equally dumbassed of my brother to expect a broker to say anything else. I’ll bet he gets a fucking daily memo telling him not to let anybody de-AI their portfolios – if that’s even possible at this point.

I always preferred “when life gives you lemons, jam them up life’s tailpipe.”

This one doesn’t take too long: Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight on Netflix. Very true in spirit to the original comics but with modernized puns (e.g. one Roman general is named “Fastandfurius”). I would call it “a fun romp” if that phrase hadn’t already been ruined by industry shills. Not to be confused with the recent live-action Asterix & Obelix series, which I couldn’t even get ten minutes into. Live-action versions of animated movies/series generally suck, even when they don’t have Gal Gadot in them.

I had the rim of my rear wheel crack last week, first time I’ve ever had a wheel problem in 20 years/100K miles of riding.

I have a 20-year-old Trek 4200 with about 70K miles on it. The thing is fucking immortal and it wasn’t even close to being a top-end bike in 2006 (I think it cost around $500 new). Drivetrain, tires and brakes are the only things I’ve ever replaced, obviously many times over.

“Call the police.”

They had the same effect on the minds of twenty-somethings on mushrooms. Or so I’m told.

Nothing has ever made me as proud to be an American as Jackass.

My favorite episode is the one where Ren gets split into the two opposite sides of his personality: his evil side, and his indifferent side. I’ve never seen that episode since and I wonder what ever happened to it. I remember it was pretty dark, which is saying something for Ren and Stimpy.

I went to a Hooter’s once a couple of years after 9/11. I noticed that their hottest wing sauce was called “911” and as a joke I called the waitress over and showed her the menu and said I was pretty offended that Hooter’s would name a wing sauce after our “sacred tragedy”. She got all wide-eyed and insisted they were named after the emergency phone number, and then ran off and got her manager to come over. The dude apologized left and right and comped our whole table and gave me $200 in Hooter’s gift certificates. At that point I didn’t think I could safely admit it was a joke without getting my ass kicked, so we thanked him and left.

I still have the gift certificates somewhere. I didn’t not use them because I was ashamed of myself – Hooter’s food just sucks so bad I never happened to go back.

Yeah, I got laid off when I was 52 and became a school bus driver (I now make about 1/6 of what I made as a mobile apps programmer). I’m not exactly “retired” but that is what I tell people.

Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I’m AI – oh the ironing.

My creepiest experience was shopping at Lowe’s and then getting recommendations on Amazon that night for drill bits and cabinet door handles. The thing is, I had purchased some drill bits at Lowe’s so OK, but I had only stopped and looked at the cabinet door handles.

Instant hot cereal has completely ruined hot cereal. It’s just shit compared to the regular stuff.

Sometimes I scan it and then click the Wikipedia link and it’s almost word-for-word the same as the AI summary. “Plagiarism machine” is by far the best description of AI (LLMs, at least).

vowing to hold off on any future layoffs

He didn’t say anything about holding off past layoffs. Get ready for some retroactive shitcanning.

C’mon, killing off Newt and Hicks at the start of the third was unconscionable. It’s in the same category as “somehow, Palpatine returned”.

Alien at least had the second film better than the first, which was a hell of an accomplishment since the first film was great. Fortunately they never even made any movies after the second one.