David

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Dad, programmer, Catholic, nerd, @nationals.com fan Full bio @ davidsmedberg.me “They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

Brigadier General Buford, played by Sam Elliott, in GETTYSBURG
When I think, as one often does, about what I would rescue from my house if it were burning down, one of the first things that comes to mind is the two-volume collection of World War II reporting from the Library of America. Now, when I pause to reflect, I realize that this probably wouldn’t really be one of the first items I would rescue, because I could buy another copy, whereas acquiring a new family would be both cumbersome and fraught with legal difficulties. [1] https://www.loa.org/books/519-reporting-world-war-ii-the-75th-anniversary-edition-boxed-set/
The cover of Dalmartian, a Mars Rover story by Lucy Ruth Cummins. A big dog with green spots.
My Apple Subscriptions listing. It says “MLB.TV Premium Monthly” but my renewal date is March 6, 2027.
A guy bowing nearly prone Caption: “My sincere apologies. My brain had a short circuit.”
A screenshot of a tweet by @DarrigoMelanie. it says: “Updated:” and has a screenshot of a Trump tweet from 10/9/12. Trump originally said: “Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin-watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.” The ‘updated’ version says: “Now that my poll numbers are in tailspin-watch for me to launch a strike in Iran. I am desperate.”
A screenshot from the ellipsis menu on a feed that I previously added to “My Feeds”. It shows “Like”, “Pin Feed” and “Report feed” but not “Remove from my feeds”
A package of Simms brand Turkey Sausage Snack Sticks
My sons and I pose smiling after the Nationals game
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The cover of Turn the Ship Around by L David Marquet
A poster for RAN by Akita Kurosawa
A screenshot from Creative Minority Report. Matthew Archbold harshly criticizes the late Pope.
LetTeddyWin, Mark Zuckerman, Dcnats are all excited about Kroeber Ruiz too
The Yankees were ahead 7 - 0 until the 9th inning then the Phillies came back to score 8 runs and win the game.
A man is sitting at a desk with a headset. A sign reads "Manipulators Tech Support". Separately, in a second panel, a woman is on her phone, speaking to him. "I have tried pushing all the buttons repeatedly. They. Don't. Work. Anymore."
Cardinals Blase Cupich and Timothy Dolan at the March 11 installation Mass of Cardinal Robert McElroy. Credit: Ed Condon/Pillar Media.
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cartoons cartoon Woman #1: "How do you do it? How do you spend so little time on your phone?" Woman #2: "Easy. Imagine you're at a crossroads. One Path is marked 'Lasting Happiness'. One is marked 'Not Being Bored Right This Second'." Woman #1: "I would get a picture of myself going to 'Lasting Happiness' then use it to make strangers online jealous." Woman #2: "The crossroads was a metaphor." Woman #1: "Ha! Nice try! I've lost the ability to think in metaphor."
A Hoopla screenshot with a rental of Get Shorty starring Gene Hackman and Danny Devito
Top caption: *Any type of food exists* “Americans”: Meme of Elrond at Mount Doom Caption: “Cast it into the Fryer”
An Airtable platform update: "Preserve object IDs when cloning bases" When cloning a base using “Duplicate base” or “Take snapshot”, the underlying object IDs (table IDs, record IDs, view IDs, and more) will now be preserved, with only the top-level application ID changing. This update makes it much easier to restore bases from snapshots and revert to original functionality without workarounds.
Friends "repeat after me" meme: Your Computer My Computer Plays Your Games Plays My Games Just Fine Just Fine See? I Want to Upgrade!
A bell hanging from the wall, with another bell tied to the rope you pull to ring the first bell.
Existential comic. Nietzsche, Epictetus, Buddha, and Schopenhauer discuss what to do when you’re a losing loser who loses.
Smidge, a smart fridge from the video game Hi-Fi Rush. He is overly friendly to the point of being creepy, and can tell things about you that you don't know yourself.
Fireballs flying between galleys during a naval combat scene from the 1959 Ben Hur
My 7 year old daughter “O” reading Detective Beans
A Christmas tree in our house with lights and ornaments.
Backend (label)
Ranking of a new baseball stat, "Runner Stealing Runs". Shohei Ohtani is first with seven runs gained. Victor Robles is third with 6 runs gained.
A car battery with a bright red heart sticker near the positive terminal and a black mustache-shaped sticker near the negative terminal.
A screenshot of an email. It says my vote was counted.
An email: "Important Notice Regarding Alleged Copyright Infringement". With a bunch of words regarding how I torrented a file.
The poster for Apollo 13. Tom Hanks glances worried at the camera. Tagline: “Houston, we have a problem.”
A screenshot from Hacker News. crngefest says: If someone tells me what to do I instinctively do the exact opposite or at least have the overwhelming urge to graybeardhacker replies: Don't go read about Oppositional Defiance Disorder.
…even Western commanders, who professed to recoil from Japan’s kamikaze suicide warriors, not infrequently ordered their own young men to undertake missions that would almost assuredly result in their extinction.
“AMOLED you finish but Steam Deck OLED is one of the best handhelds of all time.”
Top half: Nationals Braves score is 0-0. Bottom half: Freddie Freeman’s two run home run.
My first 2 games of Keyword took me 11 and 15 guesses but now I’ve gotten 2 in a row in 6 guesses.
An office worker crying. A word bubble says, "Drain Bamage"
Children of Men Blu-Ray on sale at Walmart. Price is displayed as $9.94 ($55.22 per pound).