As you may know, Netflix released an Exploding Kittens game, as they have a contract with the guy to make an Exploding Kittens show. The game was flaky as hell, and I figured out an easy way to steal another player's Defuse card. Between those factors and the cheap graphics, I deleted it and went back to the o.g. Exploding Kittens game, which is stuff fun.

Hello! You may remember me from LinuxPPC's greatest hits, here on Slashdot! And that little life-altering car crash that happened twenty years ago...

I've served as a Milwaukee County Supervisor, an elected position here in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, for most of the past decade. We need to adhere to open meetings laws. And as part of the County Board Finance & Audit Committee, we are in charge of making decisions on how to spend millions of dollars on contracts and spending and overseeing the $1.2 billion budget.

That committee has been meeting since 11AM today. Now, usually we have seven supervisors in attendance, along with the chief legislative researcher, a committee clerk, legislative analyst, committee coordinator, and a host of other staff from the office of corp counsel, comptroller, audit, etc. Additionally, we usually have at least 25 people (at least!) who attend to speak on items, either as a supporter or a departmental representative, etc.

Today, we had six members attending in person and a seventh on part of the meeting via Skype. More importantly, everyone in the room was seated at least six feet apart. That meant we had a comparatively empty room. I did have the option to call in via Skype. Hopefully this will not result in me being a Darwin award nominee.

I don't yet know how we will handle the next full County Board meeting in a week or so. Or how the COVID-19 situation will impact the swearing in of the next County Board and County Executive, which happens around May 5, with several weeks of transition prior to then. That said, we have really good people working in our local government. We'll make the best of it. Public health and safety is our highest priority. Hence we will look at everything we can do to preserve that and carry out our duties.

"Good luck -- we're all counting on you."

No pressure.

Again, I challenge you to set it up so you can outperform his amazing performance. And, I challenge you to out-fundraise him. See if you can raise $4,000, maybe $8,000 for childrens healthcare research. Do your best, champ. Show us what you got!

A man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is trying to play pinball long enough to break the standing Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Pinball Play of 30 hours 10 minutes. Heâ(TM)s using the Extra Life gaming/DIY fundraising platform to webcast his attempt and raise money for Childrenâ(TM)s Hospital of Wisconsin. He gets a five minute break every hour, and yes, he is wearing an adult diaper.

So, my wife and are geeks. Well, I'm a geek; she's a nerd. When she was pregnant and we confirmed it was a boy, thus began the question of what to name him. We were both interested in something a little archaic, or possibly iconic. An online baby name generator suggested "Steele Rod." We weren't going to name him after Isaac Asmiov, as my wife thought Isaac Haas would be a tad too close to Isaac Hayes. Meanwhile, my daughter asked if we could name him Cudahy. (A real Milwaukee joke: "That way we know he'd be musical... he'd have a lot of bars.") One night, after ticking off a list of science fiction authors, I suggested Ellison. My wife remembered Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka, the mission specialist who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger's last mission in 1986. A few days later, our science fiction baby was born with Spock ears and bearing the name of a curmudgeonly writer and an astronaut. I hope it's a fitting name for a bright, thoughtful, and as yet un-curmudgeonly boy.

One must beware of folding it too many times.

Privacy doesn't do much to ensure Google.

Hey, it works both ways!

I remember the end of the Cold War. I thought we would eventually start dismantling most of the nuclear arsenal that's cost trillions of dollars to build and maintain. (I'm not even going to mention the cost of cleanup at this point.) So why do we still have the massive stockpiles? I understand that Russian nukes are a problem. I understand that Putin is not the nicest guy in the world, to say the least, and may not be that amenable to reducing his stockpile. But god knows the Russians will need to save money. As do we. Our roads and bridges are crumbling, but we still maintain these ICBMs... for what exactly? It's up to Congress to change this. I say it's time.

Chris Hemsworth in drag for Avengers 2.

Oh, you mean when the robots shut us down for daily backups. I for one welcome our data-conscious overlords.

I'm a Mac user, you insensitive clod. And it's funny, but continual saving by a recently purchased Chromebook prevented me from losing anything when due to its hyper-frequent crashing. It's a defective unit, nothing to do with Chrome OS. Suffice to say that soured my slight migratory experiment; I'm typing this on my trusty MacBook Pro.

If this strikes a chord with you I would recommend listening to the first episode of A Life Well Wasted, chronicling the (initial) death of Electronic Gaming Monthly. http://alifewellwasted.com/200...

Milwaukee alders are very powerful in their community and on the city council. What's different here is that Milwaukee is the largest city in the state. It's the state's economic driver. So what happens here has resonance.

What may not be so different is that here, the taxi scene is dominated by one company with a de facto monopoly made possible by previous city action. Ald. Bauman is interested in expanding the choices available to consumers. Hence this action.

I serve on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. That body has been maligned so many times it's not funny. One of my colleagues was just elected as an alderman. But that's another story.

Meanwhile, I've got this open data resolution that I'm working on...

In case you hadn't heard of it. Machete Order

Nonsensical statement involving plankton.