

I can’t believe they missed the opportunity to say it’s “Wheel Engineered”


I can’t believe they missed the opportunity to say it’s “Wheel Engineered”


“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.”
“What happened?”
“He lived happily ever after.”
At the late great Robert Anton Wilson would say when making the motion of the cross: “Spectacles, testicles, brandy, cigars.”


I just saw one earlier this afternoon:

Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73
An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/
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