Triangle messed with my mind more than any other movie I’ve seen.
Great film. Melissa George is excellent in this, best performance of her career. Just such a tight well-played little gem; one of my favorites, both because it’s so capably written and because the protagonist, Jess, is not a fool — even if she does make mistakes because she doesn’t understand what is happening.
One of the few I will probably watch again.
To greatly paraphrase R.E.M., 🎵we’re all bozos…sometimes.🎵
For the millionth time, ain’t nobody at damn work your friend. With very, very rare exception. They will drop you like a used cleaning rag the moment you lose your utility. Trust me on this.
What is the “worst” belief you hold, and why?
That there should be some sort of general knowledge and cognitive test to vote. If you’re 10 and can pass it? Fine, you can vote. If you’re 35 and can’t — nope, get the hell out of the polling station.
I recognize the problems this has but still want it anyway.
Gf of 3 months is going on a 2 week trip with a guy friend. Am I right be uncomfortable?
If someone wants to leave you, they will — trip or no trip. I’d be fine with this if my partner wanted to do something like this, just as my partner is fine with me doing something like that with any of my women friends.
In fact, have been discussing another (perhaps longer) trip to visit an overseas woman friend. We probably won’t stay in the same hotel room but it’s possible we will as she doesn’t have much money, she doesn’t like people paying for things for her and it’d save her a ton if we did that. (And she wouldn’t see that as me paying for something for her as I need a hotel room anyway, as we’d be traveling to a third country to hang out since it’s easier for both of us for a variety of reasons.)
People worry about secondary effects and ignore the primary issue; that’s just a general truism of humanity I think.
December 25th 2023 SW Wisconsin and the grass is still green. These are the things that bother me.
Climate change hitting hard. In North Florida as well, the phenology is completely different now than when I was a kid. Butterflies are now found all year and the flowers bloom through winter. That never happened when I was young.
Fun times ahead.
On the futility of reading 52 books in a year.
That few? Buddy, I’ve read 52 books in two weeks before. 52 books in a year is nothing. This post is laughable. Even though I read much less now, I read 200-300 books a year still. Sometimes more.
Don’t put your clown shit on me.
Yes, absolutely. Some people will tell you differently, but they are wrong: networking is a core skill for sysadmins. If you aren’t really strong at networking, you absolutely cannot be a good sysadmin (or system engineer, or DevOps engineer, or whatever nom du jour they are rebranding it with today).
More than once I have been unable to promote one of my own team because they have refused to learn or get better at networking. That meant I cannot include these folks in many projects where networking is a core skill because they won’t be able to complete the necessary tasks without tons of outside help. I know networking ain’t easy. But I don’t (and they won’t) get paid 5x the median salary for doing shit that’s easy. If it were easy any mook off the street would be earning that much green.
Learn networking. It’s one of the few skills that’s quite future-proof and has a really great ROI.
Because she’s the best, my partner got this for me for Christmas.
If you need KVM over IP but don’t want to pay the absurd prices charged for any standard solutions (because they are considered enterprise-class gear) the BliKVM works great. It’s about $800 cheaper than the commercial ones with actually decent quality. And it is faster than all those I’ve used too.
It only supports one machine of course, but one virtualization box (with about a dozen VMs on it) is all I’ve got at home anyway that really needs KVM over IP.
The BliKVM is a bit fiddly to get going but once you do it works a treat. Recommended.
The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close.
Certainly sad. I loved reading those mags during the 80s and 90s. Though I would not want to go back, in many important ways it was a better world — though I do like the quick access to information now. RIP to Byte, Antic, Compute!, PC World, PC Computing, PC Magazine and all the others I used to read during the 1980s and 1990s.
In real ways, they taught me the foundations of what I know now. It was a very different time. Again, as I’ve written about many times before, optimism for the future and the possibilities of human flourishing were still in the air then, and believable. But we allowed corporate greed to destroy what computing was for a while and could have still been now.
Check out this article from the June 1982 issue of Antic. I remember reading this one from back then because it blew my mind that such a thing as getting a newspaper on a computer was possible. That felt so different. Now I dread when something new is released as it’ll be like Firefox or worse (usually worse).
Then, everything got noticeably better all the time. Now it’s just the opposite. I miss the feeling of the era even if I do not miss the relatively-primitive tech.
This Xenophanes quote is one of my favorite of all time. Says so much with so little, and is as true today as it was when written thousands of years ago.
I’m always curious about what absurdly smart people from ancient times would be like to talk with. And I want to show them what we’ve discovered since they were alive.
Working in retail or on helpdesk, you see the absolute worst of humanity. It really makes you jaded because you realize just how many comically stupid but insanely entitled people often are.
Not that everyone who calls or uses the helpdesk is stupid (for what I have direct experience with), but even though many have tried I just don’t think it’s possible to defend someone who has used a computer for 15+ years and doesn’t know the first thing about it. No, for the millionth fucking time, you don’t have to be technical to know how to find your Start menu or to know the name of the application you use to do your daily work. This lack of knowledge and comprehension is more akin to someone who has driven since they were sixteen having to be told every time they get behind the wheel of a car what the brake pedal does and how to use the steering wheel.
Retail and helpdesk just expose you to the absolute worst of humanity. No one should have to do more than a year or two in either as both just make you hate everyone.
I don’t even notice so it’s not an issue. If she has nice muscles though I will most definitely notice.
And so will my partner.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
