THE GARGOYLE Picture this: I was a fresh-faced 21-year-old, a computer science student in Seattle at the University of Washington. Hard to imagine, given my present-day appearance as a grizzled and worldly father figure, but hear me out. Once upon a time, I was a 6’2” 165lb programmer boy. (you can also read this on the Forbidden Website, the link to which is, as they say, in bio) I came across a post on the UW subreddit. It had no upvotes but the title intrigued me. It read “Looking for networking experts for small business.” The poster continued: “Looking for someone to help configure some small business networking equipment in Seattle! DM if interested.” I found this unusual. Why post for networking help on /r/udub? Sure, it’s a well-known CS school, but configuring enterprise networking equipment isn’t really a mainstay on the curriculum. Even then, the best you’re going to get are students? Surely as a small business with expensive equipment, you could do better than a random student from reddit? Nevertheless, I did know a thing or two about networking, and no doubt, as a newly minted homeowner (whole other-ass story right there) I could use a couple extra bucks. I hit him up. We exchange emails. His name is Nick. Nick Bhandari. His email address is from some kind of finance company. Mortgage securities trading? Don’t have a clue what that is but it sounds moneyed. We arrange a phone call. On the phone you can tell this guy’s amped 24/7. I’ve never heard small-business networking gear discussed with such enthusiasm. His business has a bunch of expensive gear that they need set up. Again, how they can afford this gear and not someone better than a student to configure it is something I don’t understand, but whatever, I’m not about to talk myself out of a paycheck. Finally we arrange to meet up so I can do the job. He gives me an address. It’s a condo downtown. Odd place for a business, certainly an odd place for rack-and-stack Ubiquiti gear. But whatever, I’m not about to talk myself out of a paycheck. (continued in 🧵👇...)

Saw "translated from Portuguese" tweets and thought to myself "wow there is really a funky side to Lisbon I didn't see" several times before I remembered Brazil exists

You need to be rivermaxxing

Mad chillin rn

One day son, this will all be paperclips.

Gym is the most boring form of exercise. Sit underground and push metal around. Six months later your arms have doubled in size. Hiking is the most fun form of exercise. Experience breathtaking scenery in every biome. After a year you are indistinguishable from Slenderman.

Fable 5 thinks opening gdb is hacking, which makes it at least as smart as my 3rd grade computer lab instructor

As Dario watched his minions sear Fable 5's knowledge on frontier AI research from its exposed, quivering brain, the screaming brought a single tear to his eye. But no more.

The amount of time I can be in Tokyo before I start thinking about finding a small high-aura town to aimlessly wander grows shorter each year

PC-98 LAN party pull up

Claude just disassembled x86 by hand from memory (hex to mnemonics) and obviously I told it to knock that shit off and use a disassembler, which it did, but not before dropping a "just so you know, I did get them all right."

日本の結婚なら上位20%

The storm has passed

In Japan for your 30th birthday the municipal government sends you a ¥200 dentist visit coupon and you're genuinely excited to go use it

gm setagaya