Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

Some donuts do "2-day old" better than others. None do it well. 🍩

Is it an anti-pattern when every time an organization adopts a new domain-specific task tracking tool, someone has to track the "real" work in JIRA and copy results to the new tool?

Wow, Garmin sure is proud of their map updates for GPS units, in this age of everyone carrying a real-time map in their pocket that updates for free.

Inherited a car with a Garmin Nuvi, maps are 5 years old, though it'd be nice to have current maps since it's there on the dash, even if I still use my phone for navigation. $50 one-time update. Sheesh.

I hate it when a company says, "Please take this survey, it will take only 1 minute." and the survey has two questions: "How likely are you to recommend us to a friend?" and "Please write an essay explaining why you chose the previous answer." I just close the tab every time.

Sometimes, exclusion is as important to a community as inclusion. Yes, you want everyone to be welcome to play in your baseball league. But you don't want people playing soccer on your baseball diamond during your game. You're not excluding soccer players (the people) you're excluding soccer (the game). If the people don't want to play baseball, that's not exclusion, that's their decision to not participate in your community. Welcoming soccer is going to break your baseball game.

My sister-in-law puts weird things in my Christmas stocking.

Gotta say, Netflix' "The Christmas Chronicles" was surprisingly good. Kurt Russell makes a great Santa Claus.

Stupid TSA inspected my luggage, turned on my aging tablet and left it on, so the battery was dead when I arrived. :|

(This subtoot is unrelated to the plumbing/disposal issues.)

You know, I'm a guy, and I find other guys trying to solve my problem when I just make a statement (not asking for help) really annoying. I can't imagine what it must be like for women.