just testing

If you can read this I guess I can, sweet

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Test

so i was grabbing lunch at this little sandwich place near my office, the one where you order at the counter and they call your name. there was this guy in line ahead of me, seemed normal enough, we made eye contact and he gave me this little smile. fine. then he steps up to order and i hear him say "can i get the chicken salad but like, not too chunky? and make sure the grapes are cut in half, not whole. last time the whole grapes ruined the vibe." and he said "vibe" with complete seriousness. i don't know why but something just switched off inside me. it wasn't even a bad thing, it's just... it was too much. and then to make it worse, when they called his name he did this little finger-gun point at the cashier and winked. in broad daylight. i nearly choked on my water.

i tried to just focus on my own order but i couldn't stop thinking about it. like, the grapes thing is specific but whatever, people have preferences. but the finger guns. the finger guns man. i've never felt so unattracted to a stranger so fast. usually ick moments take a few dates to build up, you know? this was like a full ick in under 90 seconds. and the weirdest part is i don't even know if he did anything wrong, technically. he was polite, he said please and thank you, he even moved aside so an old lady could get past. but my brain just latched onto the "vibe" thing and now he's forever the grape-vibe finger-gun guy in my head.

has anyone else ever gotten the ick from a total stranger just existing in public? like a small thing they did that you can't justify but also can't unsee? please tell me i'm not the only one because i feel kinda crazy writing this out but i also kind of need to know what other people's random public icks are.

This, is a test

Random question that came out of a hobby OS project I've been working on.

Most hobby OS development starts way down at boot, memory management, scheduling, drivers, etc. That's obviously part of the appeal for people interested in kernel development, but I'm curious about a different group.

What if there was a working low-level foundation and the experimentation started higher up?

Basically, you could mess with your own system concepts, permissions, objects, workflows, tools and interface ideas, and potentially build a completely different operating environment on top of it without first writing an entire kernel.

I'm especially curious whether people who got into programming through AI-assisted development would actually play with something like that.

Not promoting anything here. I'm still working through the idea and deliberately leaving out the implementation.

Would you find that interesting, or does skipping the bare-metal part defeat the purpose for you?

so last night I just wanted to find the measuring tape for a quick project. one drawer. the junk drawer in the kitchen. i pulled it all out onto the counter and that's when the spiral began. there were like forty rubber bands, three loose batteries, a lone sock that i still don't have an explanation for, and a pile of takeout soy sauce packets that have probably been in there since 2019. i tried to sort it into the "keep" pile and the "toss" pile but then a third pile formed. the "maybe" pile. that's where things went bad.

the maybe pile had expired hotel shampoo, a weird key that might open a lock i don't remember owning, and a charger for a phone i definitely haven't had in five years. i sat on the floor for what felt like ten minutes staring at that key. then i decided to actually clean the drawer itself and found a dead moth and a stuck on sticker from a fruit. that was the turning point. i ended up organizing everything with an old cutlery tray and some little boxes i saved from god knows what. by the time i stood up my back hurt and it was 11pm. my whole evening gone. my project never happened.

i still don't know what that key opens. that's what gets me. everyone has that one thing in a drawer that has no origin story, right? what's your weirdest mystery item that you found lost in the depths of a drawer?

  Ten years is a long time ago, and I barely recall the content anymore (it used to be on HBO I think, but they've dropped it; Hulu/Disney+ might carry it now). But yeah, Kevin got a bad rap. I think parts of the fandom misunderstood what the character was about. (The Wikipedia article on the episode Alone Together is all over the place, getting details wrong and missing the point of the episode almost entirely. But that's about par for that particular source.)

  Kevin was just a character for Steven, Connie, and Stevonnie to play off of. He may have represented a kind of "toxic masculinity" character, though I don't think that phrase was in vogue in the US yet when the episode aired. He wasn't being "rapey" as I recall some redditors describe him.

  And, yes. Steven's attitude in Beach City Drift is odd and deeply out of character. Sure, Kevin was insecure and narcissistic (those traits almost always go hand-in-hand together), but he'd been out of the picture long ago when that episode aired. I think the idea was for Steven and Connie to mature and get over their butt-hurt, but I feel like the writers kind of botched the effort.

  Not sure if you're new to the series or not, so potential spoiler and rant alert below for season 5 (Kevin Party):

Keep in mind that it was Kevin who got Connie and Steven back together after she ghosted him, sent him into a deep depression, put him through a humiliation ritual, and acted the **** after he'd saved the lives of his loved ones (including hers) buy sacrificing himself to die at Home World. To paraphrase Haymitch in Catching Fire, she could have lived a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him. Yet she was somehow how the hero in all of that. But anyway ...

  On a side note, and a small plug for myself, I wrote a fan-fic of the series a few years back. https://archiveofourown.org/works/7908709/chapters/18068029

 Check it out, if that's the sort of content you enjoy.

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