They killed Archer Blu-ray releases after 6 seasons. Stranger Things, 2. Bojack Horseman, one. Haunting of Hill House and Good Omens only got standard HD, not 4K (at least initially, haven't checked recently).
I'm more than happy to buy media for things that I enjoy. Much more likely than I am to keep streaming subscriptions active.
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. It brings me back. I can smell the independent movie rental place, the one with the low ceilings and the wall of NES games. Simpler times.
Lawnmower Man (read the book first, then watch the movie, then go WTF did I just watch)
I'm not sure that one gets back around to being good. Nailed the WTF part though. As a corollary, you can do the same with The Mangler. I saw the movie first, thought it was unremarkable. Then I saw it in one of the King short story compilations and was curious to see what they changed. It's even shorter than Lawnmower Man, like two pages. And they made it into a whole damn movie.
they are sprawling complexes built smack dab in the middle of the suburbs with NO amenities or public transport within walking distance.
One of these behemoths went up near me, after a nightmarish yuppie shopping center had already been established. (It's "walkable" but also "drivable" and doing either makes you feel like you're going to get aquatinted with the other against the will of all involved. But yay amenities?) The only way in or out is via one moderately trafficked road and one extremely congested highway. But hark! A train station! Within walking distance! Except the train station was built decades ago and only designed to be accessed from the other side of the tracks. It's all fenced off. The only way to get to the train station is by driving a quarter mile through the shopping center to the highway, getting on the highway for a quarter mile, going into the shopping center next door, and driving another quarter mile through that shopping center. Then you can park and wave at your neighbors. Theoretically you could walk or ride a bike... but there's no pedestrian lanes on or along that highway.
Indeed. In my case, I fought through managerial malaise and turned the entire process on its ear. But even after the approach proved its worth, they refused to put a dev resource on it. It became my problem 24/7.
Remember kids, being good at something outside of your job description means it's now your job. If the boss refuses to compensate you for it, slap it on your resume and find someone who will.
I have seen critical enterprise applications run in VBA in excel.
I wrote one of them. It replaced periodically writing down application outputs on paper and sounding the alarm if something went pear-shaped. It wasn't my job to develop software but I didn't want hand cramps to be my job, either. I had vague ideas about how to do what I wanted to do with Excel so I poked at it and googled until it worked. More than a decade later, I'm no longer there but that freakin spreadsheet is still running 24/7, being proudly showed off during tours of the facility.
So, a little backstory... kbin bugs out a lot when trying to post to a federated instance. Error messages when things went through fine, no error messages but nothing shows up on the host instance, error message with nothing on the host but still seeing upvotes/interaction (???) from my profile page. So I finally got around to creating an alt account and posting the above. The concept was a literal shower thought, the image put together while I was falling asleep, and the title after I had already fallen asleep multiple times and dropped my phone on my face. (I seriously couldn't think of anything good and went with the next semi-coherent thought.) Thanks Stamets for the template!
Well it says "all Men." Explicitly excluding women and children. Of course one can argue that that the literal text wasn't what was really intended by the founders. That would be "all White land-owning Men." 250 years later, that intention is still writ large on American society, even though we like to pretend that "they obviously meant 'all People.'"
Here's hoping the California legislature can override that veto.
I dunno, all this hubbub seems pretty inconvenient. I bet he also got really mad a time or two. That's enough consequences, right? I'm sure he's learned his lesson.
Chapter 4, "Soft Punishments For Soft People: The Big Meanies Don't Play Fair"
Paul suggested that the U.S. is secretly planning a European Union-style merger with Mexico and Canada.
This kind of shit is a pet peeve of mine. Some version of this tripe has been floating around the right for 20 years if not more.
Step 1: Invent some ridiculous premise and declare it an existential threat
Step 2: Rile up your base
Step 3: Produce exactly zero evidence
Step 4: Move on to something else for a few years, occasionally reminding people about Step 1 (but glossing over Step 3)
Step n: Bring up the nonsense from Step 1 and declare that it was only defeated thanks to your unwavering determination to stop the demonic leftist commie liberal socialists
It's bad comedy, but it works on the credulous when it lines up with what they already believe.
Til all are one.