A not-so-famous baker once said to me, “Even if you do like cake, don’t go working in a bakery unless you wanna fuck around with cakes for the rest of your life.”

#protip

Nothing to report.. Too busy on the work front. :-(

#random #worknews

How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Really Happened

This misreading of the actual fall of the wall is, at best, incomplete; at worst, it’s dangerous, contributing to the belief that American leaders can go “from Berlin to Baghdad,” shaping world events while ignoring the complex realities of the locals.

In truth, the opening of the Berlin Wall on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, was not planned. Well into that year, East Germany remained nearly inescapable: The last killing by a guard at the wall occurred in February 1989; the last shooting, a very near miss, in April; the last death during an escape attempt on the larger East German border, only 10 days earlier.

So what happened to make this heavily armed border open literally overnight? The answer lies in a series of mistakes by East German officials. These errors threw off dangerous sparks into the tense atmosphere of autumn 1989, already supercharged by the conflict between the rise of an East German resistance movement and the collapse of the ruling regime.

#politics

#photos #christmas #robots #tentacles

I’m not so sure about this Peter Pan special with Christopher Walken.

#photos #tv

There should be a least one scary Christmas craft.

This one was from a couple of years ago. Still planning this year’s terror.

#crafts #photos #christmas

The Duchess — the plot was sound and Keira Knightley wasn’t pirate-y. The other characters were solid and I never “left” the movie.

Dracula: Untold — it wasn’t Twilight in the middle ages and Vlad getting around as a bat was the best yet. Ignore the last scene.

Lucy — no love scenes and no kung-fu when it wasn’t needed. Ignore Morgan Freeman.

One movie you can skip: The Maze Runner. Besides “explaining the why” at the end, there’s this.

#movies

I should have all the broken email and site links from the codebase update fixed now.

Crossing my fingers… :-P

#tcr #devhell

On Being a Black Male, Six Feet Four Inches Tall, in America in 2014

I am afraid of the cops. Absolutely petrified of the cops. Now understand, I’ve never been arrested or held for questioning. I’ve never been told that I “fit the description.” But that doesn’t change a thing. I am afraid of cops the way that spiders are afraid of boots. You’re walking along, minding your own business, and SQUISH! You are dead.

Simply put, I am afraid of the cops because I am black. To raise the stakes even further, I am male. And to go all in on this pot of fear, I am six foot four, and weigh 250 pounds. Michael Brown, the unarmed Missouri 18-year-old shot dead by police this summer, was also six foot four. Depending on your perspective, I could be described as a “gentle giant,” the way that teachers described Brown. Or I could be described as a “demon,” the way that Officer Darren Wilson described Michael Brown in his grand-jury testimony.

I don’t engage in any type of behavior that should place me in a cop’s crosshairs. I don’t live in “one of those neighborhoods,” or hang out with a “bad crowd,” (unless you count comedians). I am not involved in felonious activity. I’m not bragging. I’m just boring. But the fact that I’m not involved in any of that stuff doesn’t leave me any more confident I won’t be killed. That’s because I’ve been endowed with the triple crown of being killed for no good reason: big, black, and male.

#ferguson

If you’re faced with a decision like this, your customers’ time is more valuable than your own. Make it easy for them.

— Source

I know of people who should have this stapled to their forehead.

#protip #worknews