Literacy was a mistake

When you think of the most famous programmers in the world, who do you think of? Alan Turing comes to mind for me. I doubt you would be reading these programming memes today if it wasn't for Alan Turing. You probably wouldn't be a programmer, and who knows what kind of world we'd be living in. Turing cracked the Enigma code, beating the nazis and inventing one of the core concepts of computer science in the process. Not only is he the father of theoretical computer science, but he's also the fa…

To be clear, it isn't that thing.

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Not every meme is unique, and that's how it should be! Some memes work just well enough to get you to blow some air out of your nose. Some memes will make you cackle, but those are few and far between. In the meantime, it's perfectly acceptable to scroll through middling memes that aren't reinventing the wheel. As RuPaul Charles once said, "You ain't got to reinvent the wheel! The wheel is fine, girl." Nobody should be shamed for having basic taste in memes. You're probably better off for it! I…

'Exposure' doesn't pay the bills.

Telling them like it is!

Great. We've officially reached the time of the year that makes it entirely too difficult to get out of bed. After some unseasonably warm weather, we here in the northeast are feeling the transition pretty hard. All I want to do is make soup (last night it was avgolemono, a delightfully lemony Greek chicken soup) and curl up with a good movie or two. The other option we enjoy as an alternative to getting out of bed and being productive is just staying under the covers and mindlessly scrolling t…

It's no secret that some jobs discriminate based on age and gender. There's a reason that restaurants typically have teenage girls work as hostesses and servers and teenage boys washing dishes or bussing tables. It's not because one group is uniquely skilled at one of these jobs but because of industry conventions. There are still incredibly legal ways jobs can discriminate against certain groups. For example, have you ever applied to a job where one of the requirements is “the ability to lift…

There are a lot of true crime haters in this world, and frankly, I get it! Not everybody has the temperament and the willpower to watch or listen to hours of painstakingly long and graphic content about murders . When I was a teenager, I was far more interested in true crime documentaries about kidnapping cases like Jaycee Lee Dugard or Elizabeth Smart than I was in serial killers. I was a casual 20/20 viewer, but that would rarely get as intense as the true crime media we see dominating today'…

Breaking down the beverage of the moment.

Behold

I don't care what anyone says, farts have got to be the pinnacle of body-related humor. In fact, we don't trust anyone who doesn't appreciate the humor of gas, be it a soft grumble, a high-pitched squeal, or a trumpet-sounding explosion. The sound of farts is funny, the smell of them a bit less so. Fart jokes have been tickling people and ticking them off for centuries if not longer. If you think you're beyond this kind of classic, we want nothing to do with you. While farty funny things are no…

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This week, Disney announced several upcoming sequels: Frozen 3 , Zootopia 2 , Toy Story 5 , and Inside Out 2 . Toy Story 5 is simultaneously the most and least shocking of all the projects. Pixar cannot let Andy's toys go, and I understand why! I speak for millions when I say I would forever be entertained by hours of pointless episodic adventures of Woody, Buzz, Hamm, Slinky Dog, Bo Peep, and Rex. The numbers don't lie; every Toy Story movie has made absolute bank. Toy Story 5 will probably ma…