Just Joshin' #51 (Eggs, Ikes, Chips)
Family Photo: Eggs
Lawrence with his eggs...and chocolate bunny
In Brazil's Easter tradition, children get chocolate eggs. But calling them 'eggs' only works if you think on the scale of an ostrich...a Brazilian Easter egg can be more than a pound of chocolate.
Calvin and Lawrence did two easter egg hunts this year - one at church, one in our backyard. Both featured the American-style, reusable plastic eggs. We put chocolate in some eggs, filling others with erasers and coins and stickers. This seemed like the prudent nutritional choice, as long as they didn't eat the non-edibles.
My theory was it didn't matter what we filled the eggs with, that hunting for them was its own prize. This seemed vindicated after Calvin and Lawrence spent 10 joyous minutes scouring the backyard. As they sat down to open their eggs, Calvin cracked the first one, "Look! Stickers!" he cried out, further confirming my theory.
Then he continued: "Womp, womp...well, maybe the next egg has Kit Kats,"
I don't know where he learned that sad trombone noise. It's probably my fault.
Dad Joke: Ikes
Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) is probably the right amount of famous. Think about how hard it must be for Steve Carell or John Krasinksi to go places. The right amount of famous is people sitting next to you on the plane watch your show, but also people sitting next to you on the plane don't recognize you.
Rainn Wilson’s Instagram story
You should also know there is a new addition to Presidential Portraits You Didn't Ask For. In addition to mullets and rappers, there is now: Muppets.
34. Dwight Eisenhower pic.twitter.com/HovHXlC9FP
35. John F. Kennedy pic.twitter.com/gk9iYKqqI2
April 8th 2023
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I like Ike.
Highlights: Chips
I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory by Virginia Heffernan
It's well written.
Like a dutiful valet who exists only to make his aristocrat look good, TSMC supplies the brains of various products but never claims credit.
“Nobody can control TSMC by force. If you take by military force, or invasion, you will render TSMC inoperative.” If a totalitarian regime forcibly occupied TSMC, in other words, its kaiser would never get its partner democracies on the phone. The relevant material suppliers, chip designers, software engineers, 5G networks, augmented-reality services, artificial-intelligence operators, and product manufacturers would block their calls. The fabs themselves would be bricked.
2.5 hour podcast discussion on TSMC, if that's more your thing.
iamJoshKnox Highlight
Luana and I had a miscarriage at the end of last year. I've been working on this essay about that experience for a few months now. Writing everything out has helped process my feelings about what happened.
I think a best-case scenario would be meeting others who have been through similar experiences, who might say “yeah, you’re not alone; I feel some of these same things too.”
Until next week,
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