Buy a 3d printer and sell shit on eBay.

So - that’s why it hurts so hard to get hit by one!

In other news, Spain still has a King and Queen.

The fuck???

Scroll past the Imitation Intelligence summary to the actual links.

Actually the best tires of all: stay the fuck home where it’s nice and warm and work online in your socks and bathrobe.

Telltale sign that a French onion soup recipe is really Belgian: if it’s written in Belch.

If you get an office job find out what the work policy is on snow days. Plenty of employers will let you work from home without question even if it’s a job where you would normally go in. For me any place that doesn’t would get a hard no. It means they DGAF about you.

Confederacy of Dunces, read by Artie Johnson. I’ve read and listened to it at least a dozen times. Johnson really puts a lot into his reading of it.

Depends on difficulty. I make most things. but a labor-intensive dish like lasagna I’m happy to buy frozen.

ASCII art is the best art

Yep, that’s Imitation Intelligence for ya.

I really like the UI a lot better than reddit. So far I’m finding the single-page app architecture works really smooth.

Yeah I like the lack of cumulative karma scores, which I think will disinterest a lot of people who see discussion forums as a competition.

So far it seems to me like the troll instance here is much lower. There are definitely reddit-esque people here who will reply to comments by demanding that you refute their ludicrous misinterpretation of whatever you said. But overall I think there’s much less hostility.

Yeah there are some dumbed down minimal function “grandma” phones that just make calls and maybe have a panic button that calls 911. I think one is called a “Cricket” or something similarly cute. But they have operating systems and I doubt that one would work for 20 years.

DDR always makes me think of my daughter’s friend who had absolutely no dancing skill. When they did DDR the friend would stomp her way through it like she was killing cockroaches. It was kind of cute but I always had to suppress myself.

Was driving my young daughter to school and she threw up her breakfast all over herself. So I quickly pulled over, grabbed some paper towels and a spare sweatshirt that was in the backseat, opened her door and pulled her outer layer up over her head and off. Right then a car swerved off the road and pretty much skidded to a stop on the shoulder ahead of me. As I wiped the remaining barf off my daughter I could see the woman in the car totally scoping me out in her mirror and with a phone to her head. I just ignored this until we were finished and I got the sweatshirt on her. At some point she must have realized nothing Amber Alert worthy was going on because she left.

After retiring early at 62 I found I don’t eat nearly as often as when I was working. Bowl of cereal in the morning and nothing until around 3pm, then either a small snack and dinner later or something bigger and just a bite later. Definitely no 3 meals a day routine. I didn’t have a physically strenuous job, just software development, but it seems like I needed to eat more. Stress maybe. Used to be when I got hungry I also felt slightly unsteady, like low blood sugar or something. But now if I get hungry I’m just hungry. I’ve learned that if I ignore it nothing bad happens - which almost feels like a superpower. I was never all that heavy but I’ve lost about 15 lbs and am stable within about 5 lbs of my high school weight, and I feel great.

When I think back to when I marveled that one of our office’s 8Gb nightly backup tapes fit in my shirt pocket - EIGHT GIGABYTES - in my POCKET!!!…

In the future Gen ┐ will whine to their parents that their cerebral implant is only 100 terabytes.

But there’s so much room for ACTIVITIES!!!