“I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.”

— Max Bay

The Twitter Police


“I try to sleep, they’re wide awake, they won’t let me alone. They don’t get paid to take vacations or let me alone. They spy on me, I try to hide, they won’t let me alone. They persecute me, they’re the judge and jury all in one.”

It’s official: on Twitter, disagreement is harassment. Unless you’re disagreeing with those people, of course; then anything goes.

Twitter against diversity

(via, at least until that account gets banned, too)

Anyone else going to Merge?


Due to a combination of company growth, whiny devs, and SOX compliance, I’m off to the Perforce Conference, aka “Merge”, April 11th-15th.

My dinner plans for the week mostly consist of “avoiding aggressive bums who piss on the sidewalk”, so unless I run into someone I know, I’ll either eat at the hotel or send out for pizza.

RIP Vanity


Denise Matthews is the latest casualty of 2016. Not as politically significant as Antonin Scalia or as beloved as Abe Vigoda, but an important piece of my youth.

Denise Matthews

(via; as much as I preferred her sexy pics, I’ll leave that for another time out of respect for her beliefs)

[I don’t know who this young whippersnapper who turns up in iTunes searches is, but there will only ever be one Vanity.]

My new favorite cosplayer


Nice to see some people still remember the good stuff.

Angelic Layer's Misaki and Hikaru

(via the never-safe-for-work Sankaku Complex)

Sous Vide and the Accidental Paleo Diet


A couple of weeks ago I bought the Anova Precision sous vide immersion circulator. Then I stopped off at Dong Vinh Restaurant Supply for some large plastic bins to hold the water, and Ikea for a few cheap accessories.

Since then, I’ve made terrific steak, roast beef, burgers, chicken breasts, eggs, and wings, all in convenient single-guy-living-alone serving sizes, and the larger bin will be filled with steaks for friends this weekend.

And, hey, it’s on sale on Amazon today for $140 instead of the usual $180:

Carry on, kitty


There’s nothing I hate more than a web site filled with animated GIFs that takes forever to load and spins up your CPU fans. So this one goes after the jump, even though it’s completely safe for work.

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It's a dog's life...


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Lack of anime-blogging


I haven’t had anything to say about anime recently, because the only things I’ve watched so far this year are Bodacious Space Pirates on Crunchyroll (in convenient tablet form) and The Seven Deadly Sins on Hulu.

[gratuitous link to Elizabeth cosplay]

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