We will have been together for 23 years this November. Since I’m 45 years old, that means we have been together for more than half my life.

Time flies when you’re having fun.

Also, I can’t believe our marriage is now old enough to vote.  

As you can see in the screenshot above, there is a “Vitality” bar at the top of the screen. It is what makes the Slack dot green, yellow, or red. The vitality level keeps decreasing as time goes by, and your doing certain tasks — as the manager — at the bottom half of the page will bring the vitality level back up. It can be anything from typing a certain phrase into a box, typing nonsense into another box, inviting your employee to a meeting, or writing a “CC: CEO” email.

When the vitality level reaches 0, it means that your employee has abandoned their workstation. You are then asked to fill out a performance review to submit to HR.

Then you are met with your own performance review. I got a rank of “S” which I am assuming stands for “satisfactory.”

Did you read what my review says? The “asset” (aka the employee) is deemed defective, and I have “successfully externalized the cost of failure onto the disposable component.” Pure heartless, corporate talk. I love it.

Via Reddit.

It can be quite addictive to keep going, to see which lines you recognize and to see which ones catch your attention. Pretty soon, it’s 2 A.M. and you suddenly have a hankering to read The Hobbit.

Be sure to check out the site for more famous opening lines! It can get repetitive at times, but you’re sure to stumble upon some gems and find inspiration for your next read.

Via Reddit.

Via Reddit.

While Wednesday’s launch went off without a hitch, the crew did encounter some problems onboard the spacecraft. First, the toilet malfunctioned. The fan was reported to be jammed, which meant the astronauts could use the toilet for number two but not number one. Fortunately, mission specialist Christina Koch managed to repair the high-tech toilet with the help of mission control.

Then, yesterday, the astronauts encountered a computer error and asked for help from Mission Control because they “have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.”

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can’t figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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— niki grayson (@nikigrayson.com) Apr 2, 2026 at 2:06 AM

I don’t know what’s funnier, that they installed Outlook on the computers onboard Artemis II, or that it inevitably malfunctioned.  

But wait, I’ve seen this before…

This was such a great show. I was really disappointed when Netflix cancelled it after only two seasons.

Titled CSS is DOOMed, the classic game Doom was recreated using CSS — more specifically, the rendering is done in CSS and the game logic runs on JavaScript. You can play the game on your browser right here.

Leenheer goes through the process of creating this project and some technicalities behind it in the article. I tried playing the game and despite a few lagging glitches here and there, it really is some impressive stuff. The fact that the rendering was done in CSS is pretty unbelievable, and only goes to show how far this styling language has come.

Go give the game a try yourself. And, if you’re a nerd like me, read Leenheer’s article and look through his code on Github.

The m.ph Le Skin Weightless Serum Foundation purports to be a serum foundation (as I’m sure you can tell by its name) and it contains a couple of skincare ingredients: 2% niacinamide and hyaluronic acid. Personally, the inclusion of these ingredients does not excite me much, as everything seems to have niacinamide and hyaluronic acid these days and for all we know, these relatively cheap ingredients were added just so the label “serum” could be added to the foundation.

That being said, they’re not dealbreakers either and the “serum” part of the foundation provides a nice base for those of us who are looking for light, dewy coverage.

The foundation comes in 35 shades and I was happy to see that there was a fair golden shade, as many companies assume that fair complexions only exist within the cool range.

As stated above, coverage is light and dewy. It can be built up to medium without looking cakey and with primer and setting spray, the foundation lasts the entire day on me which is about 10-12 hours. It does not separate but can transfer with pressure. Even at the end of the day, the foundation looks relatively fresh and just somewhat glowy.

As you can see if the photo above, the coverage is light and luminous — just the way I like it. It is the perfect base for everyday makeup. I love how it is so weightless and lets my natural skin shine through while leaving a slightly blurred, evened-out finish.

Makeup companies have been knocking it out of the park with complexion launches lately, first with the Carolina Herrera foundation, then the Outside In Silk Serum Foundation. I also recently tried the new NARS Natural Matte Longwear Foundation, but found it a bit too thick and heavy for my taste. The new Rare Beauty foundation is launching tomorrow and I want to give that a go too, so we’ll see how that fares.

Via New York Feature.

How loyal of a Knicks fan am I? Look no further than this tweet, featuring the starting lineup from the season we were 17-65:

But 21 days passed with no updates on the Where’s My Refund? page. And once those 3 weeks had passed, we got a new message on the WMR page:

Okay, so I had read about the staffing cuts at the IRS. That’s what must be contributing to the delay, right? But after another week had passed with no update, I did some digging. I discovered that you can look up your tax transcripts online on the IRS.gov site to get a better sense of what the IRS is doing with your return. And I saw on our transcript a “570 Additional account action pending” code.

In other words, our return had been flagged for review.  

The week after that, the transcript updated with another code: “971 Notice issued CP 0005”.  According to some on Reddit, this combination of 570 and 971 codes is about the worst thing you want to see on your transcript because your return is under an extended manual review, and they give themselves 60 days to do it. Even after the 60 days are up, they can choose to extend that time — some report not receiving their refunds for over a year!

As you can see if the screenshot of my transcript above, the date next to my 971 code is 3/16. They set that date 2-3 weeks in the future, and send out the notice of the extended review on that date. (And it’s true. Today is 3/16 and we got notices, both online and via letters, today.) And it is from that date that they give themselves 60 days. It states in the notice that if we contact them before the 60 days are up, they will not be able to tell us anything.  

I actually called the IRS when I first saw the 971 code on my transcript. I asked them why we were chosen for an extended review, and they couldn’t tell me why. They said we were “just chosen.” After some more digging on Reddit, the only reason I could think of is that our refund this year is higher than previous years. (J got a large bonus last year which led to a larger withholding.) A high refund, in addition to an early filing date, most likely triggered something in their system.

I can only hope that their review won’t take too long. It sucks because we can really use the money right now, and they just had to do this in the year when they’re already short-staffed.