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Until the #COVID-19 global pandemic is over, we urge you to PLEASE stay at home! Only go out when necessary, and then you should always maintain social distan...

Current Status: I have greatly underestimated the level my pandemic supply of #chocolate! 😭

Geek Food: The 🇺🇸 DoJ has issued "Legal Considerations when Gathering Online Cyber Threat Intelligence and Purchasing Data from Illicit Sources" that y'all wi...

Y'all: the whole damn world is a mess right now. 😭 It's gonna take ALL of us to fix it! If you pull a little to the left, or if you pull a little to the right - that's perfectly okay. But we better all start pulling in the same damn direction, or might none of us survive! 🌐☮️

Until enough testing is done, the statistics won't be accurate but for a map of reported #COVID19 cases and links to research visit Johns Hopkins University website: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

USA Strains of #COVID-19 - There are at least TWO human strains of the virus. The Washington state outbreak so far appears to be of the same strand based on t...

Oh no! This guy has saved over THREE BILLION of us from carpal tunnel syndrome and needs a statue in his honor: Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who invented "cut, copy and paste" has died at age 74.😭 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51567695

PLEASE, I sincerely beg ALL OF YOU!!! Help raise awareness of decorated veteran Reality Leigh Winner who is in jail for warning us about Russian election hacking. Say her name. Tell her story. Let's bring her home again! 🇺🇸 #FreeRealityWinner https://standwithreality.org

Geek Food: Tutorials are meant to teach you concepts, not best practices (especially security!) and you should learn from code examples - not just cut/paste them. So, where to find examples of working production (open source) code?🤔 Check this site out: https://hotexamples.com/

Confession: I'm a dumbass! As a kid, I thought my aunt was strange because in her thick southern accent I remember her saying, "I'm off to my toe painting class!"🎨 I am today years old when I learned that she was actually saying "tole painting" and that *I* am the weird one. 🤔

Geek Food: Chrome v80 will start blocking mixed content (HTTPS mixed with HTTP requests). That may cause some problems if you don't update your websites or un...

My #FlatEarther Challenge #2: aka "The Final Challenge" Step #1: Go skydiving! As your dumb ass falls through the air, you'll notice the earth is ROUND. 🌐...

My Challenge for #FlatEarthConspiracy Theorists: How do you explain Coriolis effect???🤔 Hint: that's the force of physics that determines which direction the water swirls when you flush your toilet.

First Rule of Princess Combat: Never argue with a homely opponent unless you know you can kick their ass. Why??? Because if it escalates into a fight, the ugly person has nothing to lose. #FightSmart

Hey fellow #Musicians: the good folks at Steinberg have released a free version of their music notation software (Dorico SE). I haven't used the interface for composing yet, but I'm using it with MIDI and Cubase and it prints BEAUTIFUL sheet music!🎵 https://new.steinberg.net/dorico/

Python: Equality vs Identity - The == operator compares the value or equality of two objects. The "is" operator checks whether two variables point to the same object in memory. Do know when to use which one? https://realpython.com/python-is-identity-vs-equality/

The Biggest Miscarriages of Justice⚖️ During (Most of) Our Lifetimes: Last Century: "If the glove🧤 don't fit, you must acquit!" This Century: "The GOP Senate don't give a shit💩, so they are going to acquit." Vote ALL of them out of office!!! 🤬

Wanna know if he's worth a second date???🤔 Just play this Carrie Underwood song during your first date and watch for his reaction: "I dug my key into the s...

At 2:05 in "Give Your Heart a Break" it sounds like Demi Lovato says "When your lips are on my ass, then our hearts beat as one" or am I just tripping???🤔 https://video.cleverthings.com/video/give-your-heart-a-break-demi-lovato/page/1

Geek Food - An easter egg: at a 🐍Python prompt type this: >>> import this and it will display The Zen of Python by Tim Peters. Got any other cool easter eggs or geek tips??? Send them to Gary @ Gary-Wright.com

Geek Food: I use silly memory aids. Example: Python data types - brackets vs. parenthesis L as in List is half a square, and [ is half a square, so a List uses brackets: my_list = [1,2,3] If I said "Yer' Tuple is showing!" you'd guess Tuples were round, so use parenthesis: my_tuple = (0,0)

Cyberwar: I hope y'all updated ALL of your software in the past week. Have you made data backups? You should have AT LEAST three copies: 1. Local Backup (a...

Geek Food: In recent years we've gotten distribution package managers to resolve tedious conflicts like "sudo apt upgrade" and even self-updating distros like...

The "Slate of Hate" is back! I just got an email from @tnequality and lots of discriminatory legislation is being introduced (yet again): 1) License to discr...

Me (writing screenplay): I wonder how far I can push the envelope???🤔 The Universe: A South Park marathon comes on.🤔 Me: Oh, we gonna' burn the damn envelope!!!🔥✉️🔥 <pauses> Me: We'll just have to hire some really good attorneys...⚖️