

This is why the FDA is so important. So that:
- I don’t have to know what’s in my eye drops.
- I don’t put pig semen in my eye without evidence that it will help.


This is why the FDA is so important. So that:
There is this myth that the relative prosperity in the US in the mid twentieth century is the norm, and not result of a geographically isolated US with ramped up production and distribution while so much of the rest of the world was recovering from WW2.
Yes. They grow that stalk and flower and then die. The plant in the foreground will do the same one day.


Love it. Send me a calendar with firefighter pugs.


It kind of annoys me that the months named for their position don’t line up to that position anymore.
September - (7) 9th
October - (8) 10th
November - (9) 11th
December - (10) 12th
But if we have the option to make big changes I’d be interested in going for 13 months.
People could lay vertically in their hiding pods stacked on each other and we could put wheels on the bottom like those big baking sheet racks in commercial kitchens. But then we would need someone to push them…cue the bats!


I second this and would also recommend the Software Architecture Book Club podcast where the authors cover a chapter each episode (Head First Software Architecture and then Fundamentals of Software Architecture).
I would also recommend the InfoQ architecture RSS feed to stay current.
Sure, if you don’t mind sub-optimal freshness. Some people are more refined than that though.