I just automatically hate anyone who likes Gödel, Escher, Bach. Such an atrocious, insanely-bad book. Just utter trash. Fake intellectualism and clownish in every aspect.
Month: February 2024
Jayond
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Once
I said Jackie Brown was my favorite Tarantino film, but I might have to change that to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s incredibly hard to truly make a film feel like another time — with all the requisite foreignness and the lack of assumptions we hold today. Quentin does that effortlessly in Once. I can count on one hand the other films that manage this.
Also, the entire cast is so incredibly good throughout. Margaret Qualley, though, just blazes on the screen like the tail of a close comet on a moonless night. She has more charisma than should be allowed by law.
Quentin’s magic power is getting the very most out of his cast. Very few directors seem quite able to pull that off. He takes actors who are mediocre elsewhere and just lets them (makes them?) shine.
Just such a good goddamn film.
House
Lovely. Where the hell did they find that old Sabel, though? It sounds great.
Wilhelmine – Solange du dich bewegst
My brain is too tired to German tonight, but I like how cheerful the song is and Wilhelmine’s performance.
Rose Colored Boy
Hayley’s acting performance there is just as good as her vocals (both great).
Old Newman
Her French pronunciation is very bad, but the rendition is still great and just what a cute personality. Tracy Newman is still alive, too.
Min Admin
How to properly deal with your very first big fuck up?
Admit it, communicate the issue and get the team working on it, if you have one.
But another point: In my field, if you’ve never brought down production or caused an outage, you probably aren’t doing much — and nothing useful. In IT sysadmin/operations you’re touching live stuff nearly all of the time. Unlike developers, we don’t have test environments because there are some things in infrastructure you simply cannot duplicate to even do a test.
So you’re not much of a sysadmin if you’ve never caused an outage. And I would not trust you because it means you have no experience no matter what your title might say.
RDA
You’re probably eating way too much protein.
This is absolute bullshit. The RDA for protein is far too low, even for sedentary people. For anyone who lifts or does any sort of regular exercise routine, most should be eating 3-4x the RDA.
I mean, I expect this sort of clown shit from Vox — but this is a new low. Wonder who paid them to write this?
Mar No Go
Sadly, Margot did not show up so I guess the wedding is off.
Drat. She seemed really into me!
Needed More Training
My mom wanted to kill me as a baby?
My mom was different and more consistent. She wanted to kill me as a baby and as a teenager.
Fortunately, she had poor combat knife skills.