That would be hilarious if Ukraine pulled an Ender’s Game and

I had no intentions of quitting but I have a high stress job, was going through a nasty divorce, and was having unhealthy thoughts, so I went to therapy and started anti-depressants. The quitting smoking part was literally a side effect I wasn’t aware of at the time, and I just realized one day I hadn’t had a smoke in like 3 days. It surprised the hell out of me.

…and yes, smokers STINK. If anything, get your sense of taste and smell back. It’s awesome. After smoking for 20 years, I had no idea how stinky I was all the time.

Me quitting smoking was a side effect of an anti-depressant I was on called Wellbutrin. One day I just didn’t smoke and that was 580 days ago. I stopped Wellbutrin a year ago and just never had the urge to go back to either.

Ha! Matt Gaetz is the only guy on the list. Trying to look all pretty for Boss Hog.

“Commentators and surgeons have characterized the look as engineered, overdone, sometimes tacky, and have linked it to the aesthetics and performative aspects of Trump-era politics.”

I guess I don’t understand the metric of success. My training at work has helped me recognize risks more than most of my family that has no idea what root domain URL scam is. Did most of my family fail? Yes. Did 20% learn something and avoid risk? Yes.

In large companies the training is for liability purposes, “see they all passed their tests, we tried to warn them”. People are always going to be the attack vector, that’s unavoidable… but 20% success is better than 0% success. As an admin, if I received a 20% spike in phishing reports, that’s statistically significant and should be looked into and stopped (proxy violation).

Cost of training is unavoidable and budgeted for.

Isn’t any training better than no training?

Fuuuuuuuuck. I felt that shit in the bottom of my heart.

They are! I was only going to get one cat after a nasty divorce, but found out they were a bonded pair and went home with two. They keep the silence at bay. I couldn’t picture my life without them.

Po’ Boy (Handsome Man)

Pepper Pepper Pepper (Pretty Kitty)

DESTROYED, even.

The cocktail wieners tasted funny. I think it was the Brazilian rosewood toothpicks soaked in cognac, and covered in gold leaf. Billie had 16!

One of my first IT jobs in the early 2000’s was managing customer DNS and e-mail boxes for a service provider. I would often have to kick start global propagation of a domain by adding nonsense to their url and removing it, forcing the domain to start propagation… a foo record.

Now imagine having to check the url to make sure the change worked. Now imagine it was German shit porn. My lunch was ruined on multiple occasions.

That wasn’t even the worst. We had a section of our run book that was all about contacting the FBI if what we found was bad, and sometimes it was.