Making it up as I go

Father, teacher, programmer, writer and digital nomad since the death of Google+.

[danamongden]

Classroom wishlist

A couple of years ago, I got fed up with the corporate culture at my last software development job. It was quite literally killing me. With a blood pressure of 155/115--day after day, with the max dosage of the various medications--I was at serious risk of a stroke.

So I quit and became a high school teacher instead. I'm no longer making software. Instead, I'm making software developers. My blood pressure dropped about 40 points, and I'm much happier. It did, however, come with a huge paycut. I'm making it work, but it's tight.

So, if you feel at all like supporting me in this, here's my Amazon wishlist for things I want in the classroom.

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[r-truth]

[gischtglas]

[hybernating-bear]

That's because this is Silmarillion

[the-commonplace-book]

[dee-the-red-witch]

Gotta hand it to Netflix: weirdest Witcher sequel that no one asked for.

[danamongden]

No, this is just Thor and Loki crossing the Rainbow Bridge.

[lightfield10]

[strawberryjayne]

💚

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[danamongden]

We had a Coke machine in the lobby that would never take your first dollar bill. No matter how many times you tried to put it through, it would refuse it. But pull a different dollar bill from your wallet, and it would accept it on the first try.

So one day, as it was refusing my first dollar bill, I opened my wallet to find no other dollar bills. I put the original bill back in my wallet, fiddled around in there for a bit, and pulled it back out. The machine accepted it immediately.

[danamongden]

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

“select your gender” except the options are uquiz aesthetics

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

less of this

more of this

this is what im talking about. that’s gender

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

@scentedluminarysoul @stelte23

more gender

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

Most inclusive option:

[professional-chaotic-dumbass]

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

[uploads DOOM as my gender]

[foone]

So fun fact that won't surprise anyone who knows me: I've done this. My job had a inclusivity survey that pissed me off (they included "transgender" and "cis gender" as possible responses for "what's your gender?", alongside "male" and "female"!) but I noticed they didn't put a length limit on the gender field if you selected "other". So...

They didn't accept binary files (which is fine, my gender isn't binary) so I had to base64 encode doom, but even though it froze chrome for nearly 8 hours, I was able to paste a full copy of the Doom install disks into the form.

as a side project while waiting on chrome to unfreeze, I developed a way to encode Doom into PNG files that could safely be posted on Twitter without them being corrupted into JPEGs, as Twitter loves to do.

Anyway, the thread is here, but really all you need is this one screenshot.

[danamongden]

So, if you can upload DOOM to gender, does that mean that gender is Turing Complete?

[daily-deliciousness]

(@sonoritasla)

Surf and turf burrito

[danamongden]

I don't know, but I'm suddenly feeling very nervous about this pizza.

[byjove]

I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.

[byjove]

[thememedaddy]

[catchymemes]

[caterpilleee]

I know why you drew him. Because he is beautiful.

[danamongden]

When your physics experiment requires a perfectly spherical cow, but your doctor said you need to cut back on red meat...

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[todays-xkcd]

Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

Countdown Standard [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[The comic shows three different ways of counting down]

[Around the first 2 in red curly brackets: "Too easy to mix up"]

One ... Two ... Three! X Deprecated One ... Two ... Three ... Go! X Deprecated Three ... Two ... One ... Go! ✓ ISO Standard

[Caption below the comic:] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I'd do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

[danamongden]

And when asking directions, i.e. "Turn left here?" the ISO standard response is either "Correct" or "No, turn to the <direction>."

[dracula61]

[shavedman69]

WTH??!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

[stavarosthearcane]

Good Job.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this post gets me every time 

It’s from two days ago fam how many times could there have been

[heroofthreefaces]

do you think no one else has time travel

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Happy one month anniversary to this post that has not allowed me a single day of fucking peace since I made it.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#surprise reblog!! 

STOP IT’S BEEN MONTHS. MONTHS!

YOU CAN STOP.

[roach-works]

wow if only you had a time machine

[transdaughterofthesun]

Honestly having reached a billion notes I think it’s safe to say that in the Year of our lord 2041, this is the most popular tumblr post out there.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m killing your parents before you’re born

[iforgotmyfandom]

:)

[idiototheinternet]

Still here, why’d you hesitate @derinthescarletpescatarian

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your mum’s ability to hold up under active gunfire was really hot. I’m your dad now.

[lizyarikus]

Isn’t that the plot of Terminator

[anexperimentallife]

Where do you think the plot for Terminator came from?

[what-if-i-just-did]

This is such a classic trainwreck post that has the vibes of a 2014 screenshot posted to Pinterest and then the last addition is just last Tuesday I can’t even

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Imagine how I feel

[mrsjdavis]

POST, LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It doesn’t have to

[smegorl]

Yes it does.

[danamongden]

I point you to "Time Travelers Never Die" by Jack McDevitt.

[radicalgraff]

"They blame immigrants so you won't blame billionaires" sticker

Seen in The Hague, Netherlands