Notices by Brandon Hall (bthall@mastodon.social), page 7

@quad centuries ago I used to work in a design office where the senior engineer was known for coffee cup stains everywhere.

It was almost a way of seeing if he had checked the design, like one of those approval stamps.

The Python environmental protection agency wants to seal it in a cement chamber, with pictoral messages to future civilizations warning them about the danger of using sudo to install random Python packages.
https://xkcd.com/1987/

“Dekotora” or decorative trucks of Japan

https://www.designboom.com/art/dekotora-truck-todd-antony-04-26-2018/

This is apparently a movement in Japan, now mostly relegated to charitable events. Drivers elaborately and intricately decorate their trucks both inside and outside

Photos by Todd Anthony

#Photography

RT @jakevdp@twitter.com: XKCD tackles Python packaging today 😀 https://xkcd.com/1987/

I wonder if the honeybee issue can be combatted by planting bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants along the nation's highways and interstates. There's a bunch of weeds out here on the levee beside the highway, with little flowers that these bees seem to be getting along just fine with. #ideas #nature

I'm inclined to think that metacognition is overrated

Overheard: "I can taste the Costco in this [sandwich]" 😂

If Atlas was a woman, she would carry the world in her purse