That movie had no business being as good as it was.

In a similar vein, rain now prompts thoughts of “oh fuck is there a leak anywhere?” Instead of enjoyment, haha…

Wife and I have both finished the book and absolutely loved it. Thanks again for the recommendation. Here’s to books 2 and 3!

When I’m senile? Ice cream sandwiches. I’d have forgotten I’m lactose intolerant, God be with the poor soul taking care of me.

I’m so glad that you posted this. I had a similar experience. My personal goal is to ask some things only twice, and then suck it up and move on.

The girl I dated in high school broke up with me when college started. A few years later, we were talking again, and we were in the friendship fog. I asked her out again, she said no. That also hurt like hell, but I told myself I’ve asked twice. Time to move on.

I actually recently found a journal entry from that night - “It feels like I am king of the friend zone with her, but holy shit it feels so good to have that cleared up, and now I know I have a solid friend who I don’t have to worry about dating potential”.

After that she was the first female friend who I didn’t constantly have a thought of “…but what if?”, and that was incredible.

Over 10 years later, she’s like a sister to me - she was my best ma’am at my wedding, and I was a bridesman at hers. (my wife likes to poke fun at the imbalance here, but we had a small wedding haha)

The website suggests it does. I just remember it served me well when I needed it.

I haven’t used this in many years so I can’t vouch for the current state, but I’ve used synergy to share the same mouse and keyboard across multiple computers. I think this should enable your 4 monitor dream - 2 externals and two laptops.

You’ll also likely run into a situation where a single laptop can’t drive 4 monitors - keep that in mind.

EDIT: I don’t know why you’re targeting 3 laptops in the future, but I would heavily suggest looking at framework laptops. They’re upgradeable, modular laptops where you can buy new motherboards to upgrade. Once you do upgrade, you can actually use the old Mobo as a desktop machine.

We were using Skype… Dark days.

I have not and I’ve now purchased the book - thanks for the recommendation!

I’ve only read Ted Chiang’s exhalation, but one of the stories was the biggest thinker I’ve seen, and another was an emotional gut punch (in a good way)

The ratio of lasting impact to content length of his short stories is insane. He has no business having such compelling works being readable in a lunch break.

Another vote for Pratchett! I’m an economics fan, and making money happened to be my introduction, but there are far more common onramps.

My personal suggestion for getting a feel of Pratchett’s writing these days is monstrous regiment - technically in the discworld series, but it’s very standalone, so you get the flavor of the writing with little of the need for additional context.

I use letterboxd for movies, Goodreads for books. Haven’t found one for tv shows.

Yup, base model, $30 or so sonicate gives that “fresh from the dentist” clean

I’m more worried about third party candidates pulling a macron. They typically have much less history to point to for consistency in policies, they have already received GOP aid, and Jill Stein…

How else do you get multi device sync?

My current solution is to use syncthing to handle syncing the files, but I have to debug a permissions error that pops up.

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I think she had some art on the sides - you ever see those white vans/chucks/Nikes with stuff drawn on them? I forget what it was, but it looked nice and looked like a labor of love.

I’m sorry that you’ve had experiences that led you to this conclusion :( that’s a lot of bullshit that nobody should go through. You’re a person with your own very valid emotions that should be expressed, not an idea of someone’s “man” that they’ve built up in their heads. Fuck the ones that try to force you into their template.

I don’t have a very diverse dating experience. I’ve only had a handful of relationships but they were all with decent people, and I’m still friends with all of them - in fact one of them was my best ma’am at my wedding.

The good ones are out there - don’t settle for less and I wish you the best of luck in meeting them.

Likely assigned male at birth

Fuck those people who expect you to have no emotions. Red relationship flag if I ever saw one - they didn’t think of you as a person, just an idea.

One of the most impactful things my wife said to me was “it’s okay to not be okay”.