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Not to get too Matt Damon or anything, but I’m an unapologetic Weezer fan. And I’ll say that I think they released their strongest album after Blue 20 years into their career with Everything Will be Alright in the End.

As a 50 year old, Pinkerton has become so cringy and uncomfortable to listen to. I won’t say it isn’t still a great album, but ugh.

2009, pls.

But I guess with the end caps from 2006.

a) I think there are plenty of hints at ADHD in your post. That doesn’t make you dumb, it just means your brain is wired differently that most people expect.

b) Dropped out of my classes half way through my 1st semester for computer science. A few years later, I got an associate’s degree in “New Media Production” or something. Building websites. Hated working with a client for my final project. Went BACK to my original school for a few more semesters. Still never completed my bachelor’s.

I’ve been with the same company now for 20 years in a slew of roles that have led to me being a Salesforce Administrator. For me it’s been about wanting to know more stuff, working hard, and taking opportunities as they come along. I’m not career driven, but hell if I’m not going to apply for positions that I know I can do and will make me more money.

Now I have a kid who is 19 (with ADHD) who just finished her first year of part-time community college and definitely didn’t pass all her classes. She’s moving to Florida soon to work in the Disney College Program. I wish she put more focus on school, but I suppose that’s how my parents felt too. She’s smart and a hard worker, and I’m sure she’ll figure it out eventually.

As a person disgusted by mushrooms, I don’t trust you and believe you may be a Big Mushroom plant.

Hummus. I don’t like mush. But then I ate some and it is fucking delicious mush.

Yup. Supervisor in a call center. Guy didn’t like what I was saying and tried to pull the "My dad owns <local budget oil delivery service>!” Okay, good. You still aren’t getting what you want AND I won’t be buying my oil from your dad anymore.

This was years ago and I found out recently that the company has been folded into one of the larger full service providers who I do use. I can only hope that they were bought out and I haven’t given their family a penny since.

I haven’t looked. Not long ago, I decided to just ditch Casa entirely. Moving all my containers out and rebuilding them took me a week or so. There were some apps that I missed something or other on and had to start fresh with. Luckily nothing too critical.

Between Homarr, Dashdot, and Dockhand, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

The only thing I appreciated in the article was that the judge said that a fetus wasn’t a person.

Book 5 is my next read. I try and stagger them with other things to draw it out some and make sure I don’t burn out.

Travel. Sure, it’s not usually thrilling travel, but 4x a year to central Florida, out to San Francisco for Dreamforce, and 1-2 visits to client sites each year is still nice when you’re otherwise WFH.

A customer also has to activate Free Roll, which leaves the vehicle in Neutral without applying the parking brake.

Oh good, they came up with a stupid new term for something that people know, understand, has been around for well over 50 years.

Sorry, I know I shouldn’t, but I need to clarify. Are you saying that Michael Jackson was killed because he was exposing pedophiles?

Mostly music for me. 35ish years of CD purchases, modest vinyl collection. Bootlegs (though digital these days).

Some books, mostly just favorite authors/franchises.

I also have a decent enough GameCube collection.

While I can’t relate to the money aspect, I too am extremely conservative with potion use in games!

Right. The point isn’t to challenge themselves. The point is to kill.

Edit: obviously this is not the sole reason people hunt. Talking specifically about those who feel the need to over equip.

IDK. I’ve been married to a former coworker for 25 years and things are going okay.

Work is a huge part of people’s lives and where adults tend to meet new people. I understand why you’d say it, but I just don’t think disqualifying anyone you work with as a potential partner is practical or even a great idea.

ON THE OTHER HAND… I did move to another state with a woman I worked with and that ended after just a couple of months when she started seeing another coworker.

So maybe you have a point.

It was the best of times, it was the w… nope. Just the best.

Back in the olden times, before the WWW came along and the internet exploded, you’d fire up your modem and dial into other computers. Bulletin Board Systems.

They would typically host some local forums, files to download, private messaging, and some online games. Larger ones might have a chat room. As time went on, networked forums got popular. Mostly text interfaces, but ANSI graphics and menus were common.

It was really the best.

Setting one up to be accessible via telnet is a fun little project. Install a couple of doors (games) like Legend of the Red Dragon, Pimp Wars, Usurper and just have fun.

Down and South are not the same thing.

You could run a BBS! Synchronet and Enigma both have Docker images available.

It’s really the epitome of a pointless endeavor, but it also gives you an entirely new kind of system to learn, tinker with, and customize.