The startup ended much earlier than the rest of the time that I spent learning new tech. It wouldn’t have been plausible to expand the startup time for a plethora of reasons. I did learn to use it on my resume from a similar online discussion.

You’re fucked you should give up. That was sarcasm.

You’re fine, friend. I know the feeling. I dropped out of high school when some credits weren’t gonna transfer and I was gonna graduate late. I got my GED and started college classes during the second semester of my senior year. Guess what? I didn’t finish that either. I work in tech, where you can be self-taught and make a nice living; that isn’t true for most industries, I’m just saying there’s no requirement that we approach education as a cookie cutter absolute.

You know who else is graduating late? People your age who took a year off to travel abroad. People who had tuition struggles. People who fell on hard times and had to take time off. People who had a family member get sick and they had to care for them. Literally tons of people.

You’re frustrated and that’s valid. But it’s really a very small issue in the grand scheme of your life. You’re also at an age where things like that feel more important than they really are. Keep your head down. Study. Use the extra time this summer to try to get some experience at an internship or work on some way of furthering your knowledge in your field so you can be first out of the gate when you graduate. Get a tutor if you think that will help. You got this.

I had a six year gap. I tried to found a startup with a buddy and it fell through. I had enough savings to spend time learning new technologies and leveling up my skills. It made me unemployable. It really sucked. Finally taking a temp gig for four months got the phone to start ringing.

There are a couple of downvotes, but this is a valid comment. It’s considered good etiquette to demonstrate that some effort has been made to solve an issue when asking for guidance online.

My gf was finishing a semester before she was to move out to California with me. I awoke to a butt-dial voicemail of her dry-humping a guy. She tried to say it wasn’t what it was. I transferred the audio to my computer and sent it to her (online, but in 2002, so I think it still applies to the question cause we didn’t have voip and such). She couldn’t defend it. I never spoke to her again.

Boards of Canada kick fucking ass. That much is true.

While I do work a government job (state, thank goodness), I am not law enforcement. I do support them sucking each other off, though.

This made me laugh. Unexpected, so thanks.

First really good laugh of the day. I had to walk over to a coworker and show him, too. Thanks!

I love it. I’d wear it.

TIL.

Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.

Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million

There’s my prince!

For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.

Oxford Comma.

I can’t repeat it because it was racist af but surprisingly clever (I know, racism isn’t clever, it’s ignorant).

Every day, at some point, I think of three things for which I’m grateful.

The Catholic Church.

The Mythical Man-Month.

I put video call at the bottom. It’s the most awkward because voice has less delay. Face to face has none. If you try to Facetime me, I’ll block you. It’s for talking to my (small children) niece and nephew on their bdays and that’s it.