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Nothing valuable, but I discovered a cache of Matchbox cars, coins, spoons, and small plastic toys all in a small spot in my yard when I first moved in. Seemed cool imaging the kids playing there years prior. Building tunnels in the dirt to drive their cars through and accidentally burying them for me to find later.

Where do you buy from?

Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:

• It’s set in 2021
• His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a “doubler” to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
• The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
• One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
• The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
• The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.

The fetish stuff is all created by people who can’t experience ASMR and just assume it’s what being horny feels like. Sad really.

Muse for the Simulation Theory tour. Marching bands, lasers, smoke cannons, Murph… it had everything.

No “Roger Rabbit”? Pshhh…

I don’t like developers getting blamed for what is often due to being rushed to arbitrary deadlines from management. But, I will say I agree with the article in that a large portion of the development toolbox is completely fucked. The last 15 years of most business development has basically been this:

• Let’s implement cool JS frameworks that don’t really work with the browser natively!
• Let’s execute browser code on the server and server code on the browser!
• Let’s transpile code to artificially improve upon native languages and make our JS frameworks easier to code. We need a transpilation tool!
• Let’s take “DRY” way too far! Everything we need should already be in existing code packages we can combine together. We need a package manager tool!
• Uh oh, it’s too hard to start projects. We need a scaffolding tool!
• Uh oh, we now have too many packages. We need a bundling tool!
• Uh oh, our development environments are now too complicated to setup. We need a virtualization container tool!
• Uh oh, we have too many virtual machines. We need a container management tool!
• Uh oh, deployments are super complicated now. We need deployment automation tools!
• Ok, NOW we’re setup to code 20% faster, but we need 3 new DevOps employees to support all this.
• Oh yea, we’re “agile” now too. I think that means we fire our QA testers. I’m not sure. We can’t agree on what being “agile” even means.

Not saying it’s all bad. Mostly good ideas that have gone off the rails.

When the chest hair grows back, it’s going to a whole new level.

What, you think I don’t have any friends? Sigh. You are mostly correct. But I have this one.

He’s been renting for years. He’s definitely moving. All clear.

Obama’s comedic timing there was spot on.