~xmc@TTBP



01 december 2017

discussion on facebook about gentrification and techbros has me all sad

i'm from seattle, been here all my life. moved to my neighborhood when i was making 35k a year. now im in the same apartment making four times as much. my rent has gone from 1295 to 1800. am i part of the problem?

i feel like im part of the problem.



27 november 2017

i'm not sure why i'm still employed... i never accomplish anything and i'm not good at this work stuff. i mean, in reality i'm good at this but,,,

the code i wrote over the past month has come back from testing. naturally, it's full of crashes and coredumps, and probably can't be made to work at all. figures. my coworker who was working on the unit testing for it apparently spent the entire month fucking around and now i have to write the unit tests. he's one of my favorite coworkers, but still.

and the project is actually not anything worth doing ... it's for compliance with some off-the-wall interpretation of a regulation on protocol neutrality, pushed solely by a vp who's been reassigned to another area. pretty much everyone agrees that it's bogus, but because this vp was able to push it to the "scoped and included in a release" phase before being reassigned, we can't stop working on it.

i'm extremely pleased about this whole situation.


my favorite shirt is wearing out and i don't know what i'll do to replace it.


i hear all the time that cross-sex hormones change body fat distribution, but more effectively when you gain weight than when you lose it or maintain it. i also hear about many people who gain weight after starting HRT that get it in the wrong places.

i've also heard that fat cells don't go away when you lose fat; they only deflate in-place.

hypothesis: hrt is more effective at affecting the placement of new fat cells than it is at selectively filling existing ones.

if this is true, then someone who's gained-and-lost very weight before HRT will have more satisfying results by gaining weight on HRT. i'm tempted to try it myself, because my body hasn't ever had much more fat than it does now, but i don't really gain weight, like, ... at all. so it's moot. an interesting thought though.


someone has been tagging the neighborhood around my work as "scrum :)" and it's fucking me right up.