My alarm went off this morning and I found myself muttering “I don’t wanna get up, I’m a Toys R Us kid”
That thing where I see that some Thing isn't proceeding properly - but if I step in to improve it - or even identify the problem - it will inevitably become My Thing as reward.
I already have too many other Things, so I'm not eager to charge into the breach.
Like, nice box you got there. Did you get that from LeMarchand?
Yeah, yeah, I can totally see how you can twist that and the other thing.
Yup, I could absolutely solve that for you. What? Oh, no, don't hand that thing to me. I'm going home now.
@zkat I keep playing with vanilla JS and web components lately in toy projects and I keep thinking "wait that worked fine, what's the catch? I forget why this was complicated"
Story idea: a poltergeist tries screwing around with an ADHD'er who lives alone. Moving objects around, opening the cabinets, the usual.
After months of this, the poltergeist realizes the ADHD'er has been blaming themselves for all the occurrences
It's only when the poltergeist starts helping the ADHD'er that the real fright begins
(but then that settles down and they become weird friends)
@adrienne If I were holding, say, a live grenade or a bouquet of venomous snakes or a cylinder of cobalt-60 - I might have to hand it to him
re: being middle aged is gross
@c0debabe @thegibson @benbrown Is a long cable semi-equivalent to a flared base? 🤔
@packetcat I owned a Daring Fireball t-shirt that I literally wore out after years of wearing it. Was one of my favorite things.
But, either he became more of an Apple apologist or I became more of an Apple antagonist - in any case, I can't really read his stuff anymore.
@randomgeek @packetcat I haven't really kept up with what he's been writing about politics, but I think this "Native Apps Are Part of the Web" thing was one of the last things before I dropped his RSS feed. (oof, 2014?!)
At the time I was like, sure apps are a part of the web like the Disney monorail is a part of the US highway system
https://daringfireball.net/2014/11/native_apps_are_part_of_the_web
@grmpyprogrammer @jrconlin I have seen this done before
Did anyone around here listen to the 7th Son fiction podcast by J.C. Hutchins from back around 2006?
Been re-listening to some of it and I really miss that era of podcasting in general, and this story in specific
Looks like the episode links on his site are broken, but the podcast is also available over here
https://www.scribl.com/browse?page=1&bf=all:ebooks:audio_ebooks:podcasts&search=7th+son&ac=0
7th Son is a pretty neat action/adventure story about cloning, brain uploads, and body swapping. Kind of an earlier fellow traveler of the Orphan Black genre
But really the main thing is I don't know anyone else who really got into it, so it's a weird kind of nostalgia nobody I know shares
Eventually, when the author got the story repackaged into novel form, I got Tuckerized as an Air Force pilot in the text because I'd sent him a bit of fan mail (also I think because I'd pre-ordered the book?). So that was pretty neato!
@BathysphereHat I haven't finished Persona 5 yet, but yeah that bit felt real weird to me
I just laughed like Skeletor: orange filament arrived, just in time for spooky season shenanigans
@skeletor now I also need to get blue & purple filament 🤔
@thegibson this makes me want to scarf down both pills
One of many LinkedIn nitpicks: They're really good at getting new chat windows to appear across all currently open tabs, but they're terrible at making the close when dismissed on one of those tabs.
I mean, the obvious solution is that I shouldn't have any LinkedIn tabs open but alas