My brain always wants to conflate Pinter with Samuel Beckett for some reason, I think because I was reading both at the same time in college.
Specifically Beckett’s play “Happy Days”, which I always want to attribute to Pinter even though I know better.
“Ok, I mean, sure, we sold the Nazis punchcards, but seriously, what could they do with them?”
Should be required reading for anyone in tech. Bonus - great early history of punch cards and IBM.
In this room alone… 3 phones, 2 tablets, a smart watch, a Steam Deck, Xbox One X, PS4, Roku, Smart TV.
Don’t ask me to count all devices, I don’t have that kind of time. I just changed the batteries in our alarm sensors… 28 of them.
Media. Comic books, books, movies, and video games, in that order.
Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus:
Critical thinking.
US, in theory, unlimited PTO, but here’s the problem in the US…
PTO is up to your employer, and while my employer is very generous, my wife’s is not.
So I can’t really take a holiday. I’d LIKE to, I have time available to take, and places I’d like to go, but it’s not like I can tell my wife “Sucks you have to work, anyway, going to Vegas! See you next week!”
We fought the same fight here a few years ago to get municipal power. FUD is a powerful adversary, we lost. :(
In the Dark Tower movie, Idris Elba was hopelessly miscast as Roland.
But he would have kicked 12 kinds of ass if they did a faithful adaptation and cast him as Cort.
Hellboy is great, but it’s not anime and that’s not it. :)
“Look out! He’s got a gun!”
Nobody got this? Really?
Akira, just before the cops gun down that guy in the street.
There’s also the old saying “lookin’s not cookin’!”
You need to know the temps with the grill lid closed. ;)
They even have wireless ones now!
Had this happen with an Xfinity bill. Repeatedly wrote “no such person this address” and sent it back, no difference. Called Comcast and explained it, no difference.
Finally I just opened one and found out they had changed the SERVICE address, but not the MAILING address.
So I went online and filled out a change of address form:
It cost $1.10 to do it, but was worth it. All their mail was then routed to that service address.
I’d go back and preserve all the missing Doctor Who episodes. :)
Shrimp and fish are a little different since you need to be sure they’re done. There is no “medium rare” for shrimp. :)
Well sure, he’s got to be retired by now.
As someone who changed a flat by touch on a dark road at midnight… a good flashlight and/or lantern.
I’m a bit bummed as lemmy.one was my introduction to the ecosystem. :(
OTOH, when they were having server problems, I set up a kbin account, but left it when it became clear I could only use the kbin app to access it. Looks like that’s shut down now too!
8TB on my own NAS.