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*pumps fist triumphantly* So glad you got to meet her. We had tentatively planned our Portland visit (and several other trips we owe to our friends) for the inter-canine era that just started, so once the holidays are over I might run some calendar dates by you and Andy.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 15h

I see your poignance and raise you a joke: it was merciful relief when her hearing got slightly worse. It meant we could receive mail in a mailbox without her loudly interrupting our workday.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 16h

I have gripes about the design of the universe: 12½ years isn’t enough time to spend with a dog. We lost ours yesterday morning and this one might take a while to walk off. barbara-and-andrews-personal-updates.ghost.io/saying-goodb...

barbara-and-andrews-personal-updates.ghost.io

Saying Goodbye to Morgan

This is Andrew writing. Barbara has contributed the pile of pictures and I’m contributing the prose. I think it was late 2013 when Barbara and I first started visiting Austin Pets Alive to see about ...

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 07/10/2026

You forgot Northland Drive. For a total of ~8 blocks in the middle. (Why, you ask? Fuck you — that’s why.)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 07/10/2026

I used to live off of Parmer Lane. There's ample evidence to suggest that it was once PALMER Lane decades ago, and somehow a mispronunciation or sign misprint stuck. Austin can’t even _spell_ its place names properly

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 06/10/2026

Austin does _not_ pronounce its street names correctly, though I grant your premise. I also wouldn’t try to name streets after all the muses no matter what city I was in

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 06/10/2026

Austin was a revelation for me (having grown up in New Orleans) because you can use Cartesian coordinates. “Go north” is a phrase you will never hear in New Orleans; so hard to build a mental map when all the streets follow the river’s curvature

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 03/10/2026

And even if you’re not Catholic, you must understand the pope isn’t picked randomly… so the options are “elected” or “chosen by god,” neither of which can be used to drag the man

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/10/2026

“Wait, so he was Donald McDonald?” asked Andrew — as though that were any more ridiculous than “Ronald McDonald”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 25/09/2026

I feel like something is missing here, but I can't quite put my finger on it

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 21/09/2026

sluggo wants one thing and it’s disgusting (I dislike baseball)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 18/09/2026

The rarely discussed downside to your favorite team being… good

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/09/2026

If your moral framework does not guard against special pleading and motivated reasoning, you have blundered. Practice debating the voice in your head that reassures you you’re a good person! Make that voice prove it!

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/09/2026

The tragedy of it is that utilitarianism is liberating in its simplicity (just try to reduce the net amount of suffering in the world!) and deserves a framework that _doesn’t_ serve to launder practically any selfish act into being moral

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/09/2026

Also: the one with Leonard Nimoy (I think it’s in S1) is great for a reason I won’t spoil

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/09/2026

The ones with climactic logic traps are few and far between, but they are the best ones

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 16/09/2026

“Suitable for Framing” is a classic

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 15/09/2026

Ohtani’s on IR anyway — and I promise I only know that because it’s impossible not to know if you live in the LA metro area

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 14/09/2026

I mainlined cinnamon candy/gum

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/09/2026

My point is that even a plain reading of the law by a sane court would not consider this a criminal act of bribery. Is it “bribery” in a more informal sense? Sure. And, as has already been mentioned, it’ll never happen anyway.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/09/2026

I agree that it is a different, more craven sort of promise. But is it a difference that matters to the law as it is currently written?

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/09/2026

When you start using keyboard with a new layout, how long does it take your brain to adjust? Not “new layout” like Dvorak — I mean subtle differences like “the arrow keys are farther away than they are on my laptop keyboard.” Trying to decide how much longer I continue my current, uh, experiment.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 09/09/2026

ME: So this is a chat app, right? TEAMS: Totally. ME: It does chat and nothing else. TEAMS: Exactly so. ME: So tell me why I have a “1” on my dock badge when I have no new chat activity. TEAMS: Oh, that’s because someone updated the description of a meeting that’s on your calendar.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 08/09/2026

hardest problem in computer science, apparently

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 08/09/2026

RETAILER: Your thing shipped and here’s the tracking number COURIER (when given tracking number): I don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. This “tracking number” is no more meaningful to me than if you had simply mashed on the keyboard COURIER (24–36 hours later): Yeah, this is a package

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 05/09/2026

Jake, please do not go raising the table stakes here

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

*finger hovers over “like” button for like 90 seconds as andrew sighs and stares into the distance* … OK, fine

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

Ah, of course. What was I thinking

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

You’ve got a guest room _and_ an interrogation room? Check out Uncle Moneybags over here

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

Also worth ruling this out: check if there's a pea under the mattress. Because it might just be that you are from royal stock and the mattress is fine. Fairy tales insist that this is actually a positive trait

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

Luckily, I’m also the type to be honest if you give me permission to be honest. So it might be as simple as a disclaimer like “an honest answer would be doing me a favor” (man, etiquette is so weird)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

Last time this happened, it was my parents, and they went straight out and bought a new mattress. I’m not trying to give anyone a chore

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/09/2026

“If your friend’s guest-room bed were uncomfortable, would you tell them?” sounds like a question they should ask on a “male loneliness epidemic” survey. I don’t know if I’m at that level of candor with anyone

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 31/08/2026

Blog comment spam is getting clever! I can see how this one flew under the radar.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 26/08/2026

And, yes, I’m in catch-up mode here. Can we please space out the deaths of the national treasures

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 26/08/2026

The meanest thing anyone was willing to do to Dolly Parton was cast James Woods as her love interest in a movie. Don’t know whose call that was, but I hope they apologize to her as part of a daily ritual

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 21/08/2026

TEAMS: Look, I get it. You don’t want to be using Teams; you wish you were using Slack. Here’s a preset to make all my keyboard shortcuts match Slack’s. ME: Thanks! A pleasant surprise. But… how do I move up and down the channel list via the keyboard, like in Slack? TEAMS: I don’t know what that is

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 20/08/2026

My earliest years of web dev trained me to recognize “URL in address bar changes several times before reaching destination” as an anti-pattern. Even though now I see it half a dozen times per day, it’s been hard to re-train myself to recognize this as “normal and safe authentication flow”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 20/08/2026

I can start using this as soon as Apple tricks me into upgrading to iOS 26, so that’s a silver lining, I guess

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 18/08/2026

Give Faith No More another chance, Andy

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 13/08/2026

“Waste” in public budgets is a nebulous concept — rarely are specific examples given, yet dogma tells us it must exist _somewhere_

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 13/08/2026

“Always more taxes, yet nobody ever talks about cutting waste.” — someone who posts a lot on Nextdoor but apparently never reads anything from the 500 neighbors who also talk about cutting waste

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/08/2026

OK, let's see what the Nextdoor folks are talking about tod—

A line in an email client.

From: Your Southeast Pasadena neighbors
Time: Yesterday
Subject: TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/08/2026

If you try to log into something at work and it fails inexplicably, eventually check to see if you’re typing in an email address that belonged to you three jobs ago

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 08/08/2026

That feels like the sort of video I’d watch when I was at peak medication, personally

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 05/08/2026

Every single interaction on Nextdoor has a chance of provoking reactions like these: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpX...

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The Rudemans - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 05/08/2026

In no other community have I ever encountered such a sizable tranche of users that seem to have a baseline opposition to everything — as if they’re being made to use the site against their will.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 05/08/2026

Is this a “normal” thing to post on Nextdoor? Sure; I’ve read far stranger. Is this a “normal” thing to post on Nextdoor in response to someone else’s lament that a beloved local restaurant is closing? A harder question to answer.

A Nextdoor comment: “Somehow people will survive like they did in 1930 during the depression.” It has three positive reactions from other users.

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