Little conveniences

I wish my old car screamed at me when low on fuel like my new car does, it would have saved me a ton of anxiety.

(I guess the marketing worked...)

My father wanted a Smart not because of anything about the car but because of the name.

My mother put her foot down and said that he wasn't going to be driving around in "a death trap".

(I don't know about the early models, but these days they're as safe as your average sedan.)

Eye contact

For many animal species, eye contact is a sign of aggression. As an autistic, I agree with them.

Writing Problems Vol 5

Me, trying to come up with a plot for a serious novel I'd like to publish: [flails around for two months]

Me, coming up with plots for joke novels I'm not actually going to write: [comes up with ten in the span of five minutes]

A programmer's nightmare

When looking at a number that only contains digits 0-9... you could be looking at hex and not know it!

-lovingly pats VPN on the head-

Dreamwidth shows you the IP address that comments on your posts were made from.

(Ask me about my siblings)

Hypothesis: there's no such thing as healthy sibling rivalry. If two kids have prolonged conflicts, that's a symptom of underlying dysfunction.