Adam Vartanian @flooey@mastodon.flooey.org

One advantage of being an involved dad is at the end of swimming lessons the kids and I have the men’s changing room all to ourselves.

It’s hard to wrap your head around it, but a company like Google is really like 200 different groups that share HR and tech and such but can have wildly different workloads and cultures.

Some teams spend 6 months adding a button. I once spent 6 months making BoringSSL’s TLS 1.3 impl available to a billion+ Android users.

On the other hand, that button might generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, depending on what button it is.

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We have two children. Mr. 7’s hair always hangs straight down from the top of his head, no matter how you attempt to style it. Ms. 4’s hair is instantly tousled, seconds after having brushed it.

I just had to reboot my keyboard because it was causing input lag. The future is really dumb sometimes.

I’ve recently realized that the number one reason I don’t post very much is that I don’t like typing with a virtual keyboard, and I keep my social media only on my phone. I’m not sure it’s worth moving it, but it’s interesting to consider.

Very sad to hear that Tony Bennett died, I was always a big fan.

My best minor-brush-with-celebrity story is that I was working in the main ballroom at the IAJE conference in 2006 when he was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters fellowship, and I got to congratulate him (along with everyone else backstage) as he exited after accepting the award. It's a fun memory, and he was a very deserving honoree.

I’m currently reading The Lord of the Rings, and one of the things I’m particularly enjoying is the fact that hardly anything is widely known. Boromir has no maps of the way to Rivendell, Gimli has no info on Moria’s layout, Legolas doesn’t know if the Lórien elves even live there anymore, the hobbits know basically nothing about anything outside the Shire. It makes everything feel much more like there’s a whole world there.

This morning I won six games of Uno in a row and now my kids think I’m a literal wizard

Spotify has a new (or at least, new to me) auto-DJ feature where a computer DJ introduces each block of songs, and the best part is how terrible it is at pronouncing band names. I want to skip songs just to listen to it mangle more names.

A much better explanation: the pizza was sliced by a 16-year-old at speed, so you got one enormous slice, three minuscule slices, and four vaguely normal-sized ones.

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