I love that all it takes is the photo.

Is that indirect? That seems kinda direct to me.

Annual performance evaluation this afternoon. I look forward to telling my boss that I have "the concept of a plan" for every project. If that doesn't work, I'll tell him the other sysadmin is going to eat his dog. Wish me luck, everyone!

How do you even satirize this? Has Poe's Law achieved its final form?

The Alex method for spending a day off: spend the entire day trying to figure out how you want to spend it, growing increasingly stressed that you're wasting it. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Yeah, just a bit.

No BattleTech or MechWarrior? Lies!

Introduce yourself with 5 #videogames to get to know you! (In no particular order) ChronoTrigger Hades Europa Universalis IV Morrowind X-wing vs. TIE Fighter

A few of those history classes might have taught him that the "Feudal era" had a bit more going on than "polishing turds," too. I could practically hear the historians cringing at that bit.

Yeah, even as I was typing that, I remembered the cover for A Memory of Light, which is *also* a favorite.

The retort I usually hear is, "But I'm really smart!" Yeah, so are the experts. The difference is that they've been focusing that intelligence on this one specific subject as a full-time job for years and years. Intelligence + study will always beat intelligence by itself.