It took me a long time to switch from Cakewalk to Reaper for this very reason. With a little time and practice I learned to love Reaper’s streamlined interface.

Bah, just repackage those intrusive thoughts slightly and now you’re a Hollywood scriptwriter!

3 Body Problem vibes.

I do love Technology Connections. When I was a kid, my uncle had a pinball machine in his game room and we would play that thing for hours on end. It was really fun seeing Alec crack one open and give us an extended tour.

Guessing 2/10. Real name is very common. I’ve made plenty of shitty and dumb comments over the years, but it would simply be embarrassing and that would be it. I don’t hold any important or public positions.

Good grief that link is a long list of gatekeeping BS for frikkin’ hotdogs. I hate ketchup on a hotdog, but it doesn’t bother me if someone else likes it. Why try to boss the world? Let people enjoy things.

The Brother PocketJet series of printers might have a model you like. I have never used one of the PJ printers, but I’ve had good experiences with other Brother printers.

That sort of thing was common at this shitty bank I used to work for. People would fart around and stretch out tasks just to spend more time in the office pretending to be at “work”.

Performative nonsense that drove me bonkers. Especially when I wanted to finish up a task so I can go home, and they’re hanging out at my desk bending my ear with small talk.

Don’t know if it would work in your scenario, but I will use Delayed Send on an email when I want to get my thoughts down right now but don’t want to bother the person I’m sending it to until a better time.

Breakroom at my father’s office had snack and soda vending machines, and also a change machine. My younger brother and I discovered the change machine was faulty, and would dispense way too much change for a dollar bill. We fed it every single we had (4 or 5 dollars between us) and got back $20 or so in quarters, nickels and dimes. This was in the late 1970s. $20 was a lot of money, especially to a couple of dumb kids. We thought we’d hit the jackpot.

I am interpreting the top half as play fantasy games all day and not actually live in olden times.

This is why some places like Michigan State University and Ohio State University use “desire path planning”. That’s where they observe where people walk and then install (or move) the sidewalks to match those footpaths.

At my job we’ve learned that anyone above director level simply will not read beyond the first sentence of a fucking email. So we have to write them these orc-like one liner emails and pray they understand whatever it is the fuck they need to understand. They have zero nuance or patience. They just want to grunt and point.

A modern version of the court jester. I like it.

Gus Johnson Working Man vibes.

Awesome movie!

The Fisher King.

Unfortunately I think most people have family or at least friends like this here in the post-truth world.

I think what depresses me the most is that once the MAGA leopards start eating all of our faces, they will still do the mental gymnastics to blame all of the MAGA-induced suffering on “liberals”. Even though the Democrats have basically zero power (and are right of center) they will still blame “the left” when a gallon of milk costs $18 and is full of dangerous bacteria.

Having a dedicated smoker is next level. You can smoke on a regular grill and get decent results. But having a purpose-built smoker is better, IMO.

Yeah, it was weird. Most restaurants had a non-smoking section because allowing people to smoke everywhere was the norm. Leaded gasoline. Little kids playing with real fireworks. The 70s and 80s were a wild ride of irresponsibility.

It wasn’t all bad, though. It was cool being a kid at times. Playing outside almost every day until dinner time with the other kids in the neighborhood.