+1 for xkcd

Donnie Darko is an upside down version of “it’s a wonderful life”

'I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don’t come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.’

A traffic jam when you’re already late

Have you looked into bone conduction headphones?

Fidelity goes up (!) when you plug your ears. I use them in server rooms and on my bike (sans the earplugs).

Aftershocks is a good brand, basically anything with a titanium band.

Man, Star Control 2 was my favorite game to introduce friends to during the BBS days. Two player melee over a shared keyboard! The music in SC2 was top notch MOD/XM music back when trackers were starting to form a genre. Beeps on computers were the norm but you could hear a drum track over the internal PC speaker in this game. IMHO Tunic is the only game that came close to the wonder and awe of exploration and discovery. Absolutely a masterpiece.

Babu’s game room has my favorite YouTube review. I’ll let the bot pipe the link

https://youtu.be/3klJJ5mBDKU

Everyone says ‘listen’ but I would suggest one way to act on that advice. This is more of a general parenting advice for small kids (or all kids?).

Let them choose what to do. If their interested in soccer, give that a try. If they want to learn about ants, let them observe, guide them through the thoughts.

Play is dictated by their interests, not your expectations or dreams. This way there is much less struggle, save for the times you really need, and learning and play get tied together.

Wow, collapse OS is quite the rabbit hole. Makes me think of the bootstrapping work described in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_the_Sky

Shout out to the Ti-8X users and anyone who remembers zshell.

I doubt this announcement is going to affect the calculators, but it’s amazing to see how many things still run off this technology.

A poignant quote here

"It was a disaster so bad that a new word, Waldsterben, or “forest death,” was minted to describe the result. All the same species and age, the trees were flattened in storms, ravaged by insects and disease — even the survivors were spindly and weak. Forests were now so tidy and bare they were all but dead. "

Last I heard Iran was aware the weapons it sent were going to be intercepted. Kinda a saving face thing.

Listening to Ryan from https://www.ryanmcbeth.com/

While I find the Canadian tuxedo slightly dubious male fashion advice, I enjoy the conversation and would also like to know

Why is the website blank white when I open it in mobile Firefox?

https://youtu.be/Oly8f4h5C78

I’m saving this comment. Brilliant synopsis of the great mustard wars. Let’s hope AI doesn’t learn from this. 😉

“Create dilemmas not problems for your adversary” - RyanMcbeth

It’s really neat to think of Usenet as ‘federated’ considering that’s a new term for most of us.

My preferred options are: Binsearch, astraweb, and newsbin

You get what you pay for, a bargain IMHO

Outlaw Star needs to be in here somewhere…

https://youtu.be/5_-Ac68FKG4

What eating the Rich Did for Japan

Irish data protection office

I had to look this one up.

https://www.digitalguardian.com/blog/irish-data-protection-puts-google-notice-data-privacy-again

edit: that’s from 2020 about google, not chrome