Thank you! You’re nice.

IPA is either isopropyl alcohol or India pale ale. Best to be sure of which alcohol-relevant situation you are in before deciding which to apply.

When I used to do computer repair for work I had a hard limit against working on stuff from a smoker’s household or office. Not only am I too asthmatic to enjoy spending time in such a place, but the thick sticky crud in every nook and cranny of the machine made any hardware job far more trouble than it was worth to me.

I’m still willing to occasionally be the “computer guy” for certain friends and family, but smokers can figure something else out because I’m not touching it. (And yes, weed smoke counts.)

Snatch.

I want to get off Mr. Bones’ Wild Turnpike.

What if there’s a QR code on the card? Then it’s basically the same amount of work as getting that NFC tap.

I feel like a business card is something physical to hand people so they have it to look back at later. If you’re just looking to NFC tap your contact info onto people’s phones, why wouldn’t you just use your own phone to do it?

This reminds me of something tangentially related. Sometime around the turn of the century I worked at a small business where some vendor came in to solicit interest in his business’ services, and left a working CD-ROM business card. That mildly impressed the manager because CD-ROMs were still pretty fancy and nobody there had seen a business card like that before, and when run the card had some simple Flash-like slideshow thing with a little video clip or two about their business (which was still impressive when you couldn’t really have embedded video clips on your average dialup-friendly website.) Around a week later that same vendor returned asking for the card back because “they’re pretty expensive to make and I want to give it to my next prospect,” and the manager’s impression of him went from mildly impressed to thinking this guy was too hilariously amateurish to bother engaging with.

Hacker Kevin Mitnick had a famous metal business card for his computer security firm which was a set of lockpicks. The lockpicks really worked if you knew how to pick locks.

No, this is the Krusty Krab.

I use paper business cards all the time. They’re fun and cheap.

Also, plain boring unimaginatively-designed business cards are so ubiquitous that if you’re using a design that’s at all interesting yours will easily be way ahead of most of the other business cards people will get.

NFC cards are far more expensive than printed paper business cards.

Fans of Christopher Eccleston in Doctor Who also know this scenario well.

Heavy breathing in a red-light district.

Note that you can go in totally fresh storyline-wise. The main plot mystery is mostly the same, but the hints and solution of the mystery were totally changed in the adaptation and have nothing to do with what’s really going on in the original version.

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My wife, Eleanor.

Matthew Holness has continued to do Garth Marenghi stuff post-TV series. You can actually read some of the novels Garth Marenghi wrote, and they’re just as good (by which I mean awful, in excellent ways) as you’d expect them to be. He’s even on a book tour right now!

I loved Life on Mars, and Ashes to Ashes was one of those rare sequel/reboot things which really added to and honored the original while still being interesting on its own and expertly continuing to develop and explore its world. Great stuff!

If you liked the American version check out the original, it was so much better.

I enjoyed it in the past, but lost all ability to after it became known what a piece of human shit Graham Linehan is.

Pretty much all of the cast have done better things without him which are more worth watching.