"That's the funny thing about hope. Nobody else gets to decide if you feel it. That choice belongs to you."

Kind of wasn't prepared for the kids watching K-Pop Demon Hunters to hit me in the face with something we all know but need to be reminded of sometimes. Arguably more now than usual.

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OH: why am I the one who's always finding out if they're over there doing all of the messing around?

My daughter, after we've watched the Rankin/Bass Hobbit and Return of the King plus all of the Peter Jackson Hobbit films as a family, after requesting a dramatized audiobook of the Hobbit for evening listening, as the action picks up with the escape in the barrels: "who's Bilbo??"

...send help.

OH: What do you mean, "growing old gracefully"? I'm growing old the same way I grew up, stumbling around and bumping into things all the time.

SCS is one of my favorite days of the year. There's still time to submit!

OH: I've been preparing for this my entire life.
Really? What sort of thing?
No idea. I'm here for it though.

Fellow devs and tech people of all varieties: what's your feeling on "AI", not just the overhyped buzzwords but generally? I'm personally flip flopping between wow this might change everything, not necessarily for the better, and thinking a lot about the reddit "show me a hot dog bun" post.