My aunt died in 2013 and at the reception after her funeral my cousin (her stepson) suggested the whole family make a “Harlem Shake” video. Even as a joke it would have been staggeringly tasteless, but he wasn’t joking.

At least he didn’t suggest putting my aunt in it, I suppose.

I’m sure Microsoft has some good devs

I’m sure they do too, but I’ve been surprised many times by the former coworkers I’ve learned have ended up working for Microsoft. To put it politely, they were generally not the best programmers I’ve ever worked with.

Their spell check sucks too. “I’m the capstan now!”

An interesting book somewhat related to this is Poilu, the notebooks of a French soldier who served through most of the war. He was an avowed socialist who never fired his weapon at the enemy and encouraged the soldiers under him (when he was a corporal) to do the same. One of his stories was about a period later in the war when the soldiers on both sides of the trenches in his area had reached an “accommodation” where they refused to shoot at each other. One day a high-ranking officer visited, saw the situation, picked up a soldier’s rifle and shot dead an enemy soldier lounging in full view across no-man’s land. This precipitated a resumption of “normal” warfare in the area but almost got the officer killed - by his own soldiers.

I watch a lot of street food videos on Youtube, nothing angering or annoying about them at all. The weight gain is a problem, though …