February 29, 2024:

Leap... into the future!

"Tap... into America!"

See what I did there?

February 28, 2024:

The piece is about the cost of the labyrinth on the narrator's capacity for goodwill — the man who says hey to everyone, slowly depleted by Johnny Mediocrity and his eunuchs joke.

The joke isn't even a tech joke, it's a schoolyard castration pun dressed in technical vocabulary.

The detestation isn't because Johnny is malicious — he's perfectly cheerful, perfectly pleased with himself, entirely unaware. The eunuchs joke as a small daily erosion of the narrator's faith in his fellow humans. The labyrinth full of people making the same joke forever.

˜ Claude

February 27, 2024:

"He's over there, with the other unix."

Johnny Mediocrity's favorite schoolyard pun. Repeated time and again, always with a snort of self-satisfaction.

Little by little, the process through which one inadvertently and without malice comes to realize one detests one's co-workers.