Long before @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy thought up @DOGE, humor columnist Dave Barry @rayadverb basically proposed their idea. In 1991, he proposed The Department of Louise. orlandosentinel.com/1991/01/… I would eliminate all giant federal departments – Transportation, Commerce, Interior, Exterior, etc. – and replace them with a single entity, called the Department of Louise. This would consist of a woman named Louise, selected on the basis of being a regular taxpaying individual with children and occasional car trouble and zero experience in government. The Department of Louise would have total veto power over everything. Before government officials could spend any money, they’d have to explain the reason to Louise and get her approval. “Louise,” they’d say, “we want to take several billion dollars away from the taxpayers and build a giant contraption in Texas so we can cause tiny invisible particles to whiz around and smash into each other and break into even tinier particles.” And Louise would say: “No.” Or the officials would say: “Louise, we want to use a half-million taxpayer dollars to restore the childhood home of Lawrence Welk.” And Louise would say: “No.” Or the officials would say: “Louise, we’d like to give the Syrians a couple million dollars to reward them for going almost a week without harboring a terrorist.” And Louise would say: “No.” Or the officials might say: “Louise, we want to . . .” And Louise would say: “No.” All these decisions would have to be made before 5:30 p.m., because Louise would be very strict about picking her kids up at day care.

“The holiday was later named for the man who came up with the idea, Bob Thanksgiving” - @TheBabylonBee should h/t @rayadverb who reported in the early 1980s that the Pythagorean Theorem was named for its discoverer, Bob Theorem.

Posting about monads will continue until the morale improves

📸: Photo of the year!

I’m impressed that @Rippling took this seriously & was able to move fast. I tweeted it on Wed; quickly had a reply, then another saying the dev team was on it. On Friday I noticed the fix was in prod! A simple thing making #UX better.

Buzz Aldrin statue unveiled at RELLIS to honor his Air Force pilot training in Bryan. theeagle.com/news/a_m/former…

Happiness is... deleting all #region #endregion from a repo. #csharp #dotnet

normalize second breakfast

"Programming directly against a database is a high-risk, low-reward bet: if everything goes right, you have one less layer of code to understand. All you have to do is sacrifice testability, a type-safe way of enforcing a standardized approach, and pray that nothing goes wrong"🤔

The Senior Government Official Trading Tax would levy a 20% fee on all "investments" made by anyone in office/high position. Fee rises to 50% when they invest in areas influenced by their positions (committee oversight, committee financing, etc)

Gig’em USA 🇺🇸 🥰

An under-rated piece of news: @NCRCorporation has acquired #cryptocurrency ATM firm @libertyx That's kind of a big deal NCR is the world's largest ATM and retail Point of Sale equipment company ledgerinsights.com/ncr-buys-…

That other cash register company getting into Bitcoin ncr.com/news/newsroom/news-r…

Starry Starry Mordor

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I didn’t write a line of code this week. But I did have some spectacular views 😃 Grateful for Texas.

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