Valentine Angell

I’m an 80’s boy, and a documentary was made about my rock stars and their drinking habits (among other things).

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

As an extra aside, I can’t imagine that Lemmy spent any day sober since leaving Hawkwind until the day he died. When he was told he was sick and needed to stop drinking, he gave up whiskey and started drinking a case or more of wine every day. God, I miss Lemmy. 😁

I’ve been WFH/Remote since 2018. I will never go back to an office/cube farm.

So much time is wasted working “in office.” I get more done as a remote worker, as I don’t have to be distracted by people walking by and making “polite conversation.” I also don’t have to deal with “meetings-that-could-be-an-email,” because they will really be an email now.

Cities are going to hurt a lot with the loss of “the office,” but remote work will win in the long run. It’s way more economical and will grow profits in the long run, if the bean counters do REAL math.

… and it hasn’t even been a year yet. 😟

In the GNU/Linux world there are two major text editing programs: the minimalist vi (known in some implementations as elvis) and the maximalist emacs. I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by RichardStallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. – Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1998)

Wow, a very, very, very (XL very) way of saying the obvious that Mozilla is fucking the users. But of course, if you’ve been following Mozilla development for the past few years (nearly a decade), this is not a surprise or anything new.

It’s sad people think this is a new development, which shows why it is able to happen. Users aren’t paying enough attention. But isn’t that always the problem?

Fun fact: carbon steel cookware has less carbon (around 1%) than cast iron (average 3%).

I love cast iron and enameled cast iron cookware. Thanks for showing off your pretty workhorses; they’ll be good to go for generations.

That said, I added a 10" carbon steel skillet to my arsenal. It’s been a game-changer. If you come across one, add it to your rotation.

If “Everbody Wants to Return” why has it been ten years since its “finale”?

I’d love more Hannibal, but also, why more Hannibal? It was a great series. Why dilute it? The conflict is real.

Can we pay his “source” extra to make this “favor” happen sooner? Like in the next 72 hours? Asking for a friend.

Why all the downvoting?

Sounds like Google kinda sorta, almost, maybe, might get why users are upset that sideloaded apps need to be developer-verified. But at the same time, it seems they are still in a self-built echo chamber.

Users need to keep putting pressure on Google to stop their nonsense.

In the late 80s and early 90s, Wendy’s was the best for dumpster diving. You could get a basketball-sized sphere of ground meat out of the trash around 2-3am. Peel off the outside inch or so, and you’d have meat for days.

Dominoes dumpsters were another source of awesomeness back then. It was a very different time.

This is how you ensure a military caste ousts you from office. sigh I’m afraid for the future. 😐

I don’t believe you. I really don’t believe you.

I’m in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.

The first time I encountered “ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce,” I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is “too much”.

I live in a very weird state.

She’s amazing! Why is she getting shit on by the fans? She could be Hollywood royalty. She should be a superstar.

I hope he doesn’t. He’d be more of the same, pre-tRump. We don’t need more of the same; we need very successful new. And very left, non-maggot new.

The GQP doesn’t give a fuck about kids; they only want to fuck kids. It’s well past time for all republicans to face the consequences.