Forrest Gump, hands down.

It’s a scan of both my passport and Bahrain work visa. Not posting for obvious reason.

Right on red
And T.J. Birrya y Mas in Missouri City, Houston

ReVanced ❤️

A survey conducted means someone paid for it. I’m having a hard time believing anyone but Elon himself being willing to pay for this survey.

A block of blue cheese and a beer.

When I first started driving, it was with manual. And it really helped once I realized two things:

• Being shitty at gear shifts won’t make me fail at the final test. Instructor told me as much. If I wear out the clutch and cox up the engine through repeated stalls, that’s my problem - I can torture and destroy my car through ineptitude, as long as it’s done in accordance with road safety.
• Getting used to the clutch is half the battle. Not clutches in general, but the specific one you’re driving. Once you get used to know how insensitive or sensitive it is, the rest will be a lot easier. With time (and not a whole lot of it, actually), you’ll be shifting gear without having to think much about it, just like the rest; right now you’re struggling with you many areas that require your focus. As you practice them, you will do all of them without thinking about them.

I still need a while getting used to new gearboxes whenever I’m using someone else’s car.

Oh, and a tip: be sure to memorize the gear positions, and while standing still with the engine off you can practice shifting from and to any gear without looking. That’s one less thing to pay attention to.

I had to google ctrl shift windows, l, and…

It kind of makes sense: I bet the type of person who actually use this hotkey is the same kind of person who reposts motivational corporate shite every 10 minutes.

Go away, Sam Altman

I hear the summoning words are “latent heat”

The music varies a lot. Everything from Adam Young, via Hiromi Uehara, to Dimmu Borgir. The common thread is that it has to be instrumental and not annoying.

That’s my career in a nutshell. Most people remember how everything went to shit in both 2008 and 2020. Both of those years, economic turmoil coincidentally gave me huge career boosts.
“Yeah, we’re downsizing. But you can have this position instead…”

Cryptonomicon. It’s not really a short book, but it’s easily digestible as it has clear divisions where it is suitable to take a break.

The way the WW2 plot and the 90’s-plot intertwine is so much fun to read, especially since the 90’s characters are descendants of the ww2 characters.

And of course GEB Kavistik would grow up to be a pretentious cunt…

Love that book

Total War: Warhammer

…because a friend suggested it, I gave it an honest try within the refund grace period, and it wasn’t my kind of game.

You forgot the proto-indo-european example for “I’m no linguist, just uninformed observation”

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Currently going through a huge backlog of torrents as I’m temporarily stuck on a ship with satellite internet not suitable for streaming.

Started with Top Gun: Maverick. Surprisingly good movie, except I found the writing for the plot-mission to be a bit lazy.

Then I saw Seven Psychopaths. It was OK. It had some funny scenes and plot twists, but summa sumarium I’d call it a pretty average movie.

I’m currently going through Rick&Morty season 6, as I’ve had it in my backlog for ages.

After this I’m not sure what I’ll watch next, but I’m considering New York Undercover (a 90’s cop show) that I found interesting 25byears ago. I’m curious if it holds up. I also have a bunch of 30 Rock that I haven’t seen yet.

Oh, and I also have Season 1 of Six-Four, a series I know literally nothing about. I downloaded it mostly to have something to seed, so it could be great, horrible, or something in between. Time will tell.

I’ve been on both sides of this dynamic. While it can be summed up as depression, I want to put it in the words I felt: Her world feels very small right now. Because it is very small. And she’s holding on to what little remains of it that isn’t inside her own head.

The solution is “simple”: The depression needs to end. I’m not the one to tell you how this can be achieved for her, but I can tell you what worked for me:

1. Does she realize that she’s depressed? I sure as shit didn’t. And that only made ut gradually worse.
2. What does she like to do? It wouldn’t surprise me if “nothing” is the current answer, but is there any hobbies, old or new, that she could pick up (again)?

Gorillas on steroids. How bulky can these magnificent already bulky beasts get?