Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

So tired of tech nerds being defined in 2026 as like...LinkedIn bros obsessed with company status, prestige, interviews, and overworking to prove themselves. I call this norovirus of the soul, because it makes me want to puke my guts out and have excruciatingly painful explosive diarrhea at the same time.  Tech bros used to be either bespectacled math nerds or gamer-weeb hybrids talking about compiler optimizations and dependency injection.  There's obviously still the latter, but the former crowd are annoyingly loud. LinkedIn, r/csMajors, r/cscareerquestions, pretty much all of those need to be avoided like the plague. I need to keep drilling until I find actually serious discussion and increase my own skills until I can hang with that crowd. I'm even getting kinda grossed out by my own GitHub bio because it feels somewhat performative, but then again, it's not like I am like "achieved all 12 OKRs this quarter and increased throughput by 87% - " 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮  ...

21 hours awake. 1 waiting for rope drop. 16 in the parks. 1 after close. No naps, no breaks. Straight up.  5 am wakeup and core. 5:30 am run. 6:30 breakfast. 6:40 off to the park. 7 security. 8, rope drop Space. Park Hopper with LL, at DLR and DCA. 24 rides (1 repeat, so really 25) and 1 parade completed on a Saturday. 7 snacks/meals. 3 souvenirs.  I normally cannot do this. But at Disney, I can. And I love it.  Immersed in a world of magic, stories, and romance. I never want it to end. My cousin bailed at 8-9 pm or so. I kept on trucking until the bitter end.  I'll get 5 hours max sleep tonight. Sucks, but that's why they invented white monsters. And yes, SX basically took SP in a chokehold, dunked it underwater and held it there, and said not today, Satan.  LROTN was a front row ride on Space. My feet hurt, I'm beyond exhausted, and I'm utterly at peace with the world. Not for long. But for right now.  Wake up, dead boy.  Enter Adventureland.  -...

No else-if statements Find call is ordered backwards (legit wasted half the day on debugging when I was just accidentally reversing Find calls)  FeatureSetByName  forces you to hardcode strings , yet it doesn't even fail until you try to actually call the rule . Like it passes evaluation.  This language is a bastardization of computer science. Maybe I'm breaking my rule of "I love all things code", but again, I still enjoy the work I do in Arcade. I just think the language itself was poorly designed. 

ok, back to work 

Here's a cultural thing I have been thinking about.  I love roller coasters. I also love Disney. But, they appear to be two totally separate communities. Here's why I notice this:  Disney adults (for lack of a better term) enjoy theming, immersive experiences, hardcore brand loyalty, food. They will do things like runDisney even if they are not runners, because they have to do everything that is Disney. Many are also animated film lovers. There is a subset that will also go to Universal or maybe Dollywood. Some may describe it as "cheating on Disney". Talk about Cedar Point and watch their eyes glaze over. If they show up at Six Flags at all (unlikely), they will be too scared to do most of the rides.  Roller coaster enthusiasts will count credits, travel across the country or even the world, understand science and physics and engineering (in some cases, like the IAAPA crowd) or just be there primarily for the social aspect but still be quite well-read about parks and...

Turns out, keeping a theme park blog up to date with trip reports is actually pretty exhausting. I can do it, but I have to do the reports RIGHT AWAY, not piecewise. I haven't been, so I'm almost a year behind -- and probably will just fast forward to modern days.  But there's so much more to do with it. I want to write park guides. I want to discuss engineering, science, history, art.