Had a coworker try to convince me of the value of AI by showing me how it used syntax he'd never seen before to solve a problem. It just seems like it could have been "Hey, I found this useful example on Stack Overflow and learned a new technique" instead of "I got the rat to do it for me."

I know it's been years now, but it's still real weird that there's a recurring Batman villain named after a Momus song

What are the odds that Mac Barnett settled on the 94.7% figure because he wanted to reference Theodore Sturgeon's quote and then (being a Pomona graduate and all) decided to cram a 47 in there?

Research question: Trying to remember a circa 2000 dot com ad featuring a boy band style musical number that (in my memory) took place on a residential street. Anyone remember what this was an ad for?

10yo just called me "Online Man." Might be her sickest burn yet.

EVERY PUMP TOPPER FRAME SHOULD UTILIZE 1 STANDARD PUMP TOPPER AND 1 SUPER PUMP TOPPER. INSERT STANDARD PUMP TOPPER IN ONE SIDE AND INSERT SUPER PUMP TOPPER IN THE OTHER SIDE

I don't know if anyone else read Sam McPheeters' novel, Exploded View, but he nailed this ten years ago with extreme accuracy

I know it's just because I was the right age, but this feels like the peak of American indie cinema. I'd prioritize Simple Men, Gas Food Lodging, and In the Soup. Cool World and Memoirs... are two of the most disappointing films I saw in theaters, so that's a hard choice, but maybe skip Memoirs.

So, I had to stop using this site after the election for reasons, but I think I've managed to cultivate the correct level of hopelessness to handle it again. Between blocking, muting, and unfollowing, I think I've managed to get things down to mostly talking about movies and music and books.

Gee I wonder why there are so many hardened antifa & anarchist black blocs in Oregon & Washington state almost like there's even more incredibly violent fascist terrorists there or something www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/u...

It always amuses me to see Jim Woodring's name prominently displayed in the credits of the worst cartoons ever made (in the case of this morning, Lazer Tag Academy)

Letting my mom come visit (extremely stress inducing) the week before the election (also extremely stress inducing) may have been a bad idea. I feel like I haven't slept in a week and my knee is the size of volleyball.

Not a single Wendy's on Arrakis

Some thoughts on Biden-Era Cinema willsloanesq.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/b...

Maybe he's preparing to go war with the Bushes, given that the hydrogen infrastructure was a key part of W's economic plan

Surely, I'm not the only person who has ended up with "Garden Party" stuck in their head after all this Madison Square Garden talk today

To be fair, we went through a similar phase in the 70s when DPs thought technology (in the case, high speed film) was good enough they didn't need to light nighttime shots anymore. The Hardy Boys was as unwatchably dark as anything shot today.

Dumbest self inflicted injury of the week: spraining my hand attempting to spin three tennis balls around in one hand like Jareth the Goblin King

Saw a half dozen flags at half mast today. No idea who they were for, so I'll just assume Donald Miller from Borbetomagus.

I've been reading a horror anthology, and I've finally figured out why I tend to avoid anthologies. It's very hard for me to give up on things, so I usually make myself slog through every story. This one had a story I disliked enough to skip, but just finished another I wished I had.

Man, rough year for famous Pomona College alums. Someone should go wrap Richard Chamberlain in bubble wrap.

Take me down to Tautology City, where the grass is grass and the city is city.

You get into an inescapable cycle where you watch I Saw The TV Glow which makes you want to listen to The Pink Opaque which makes you want to watch I Saw The TV Glow which makes you want to listen to The Pink Opaque which makes you want to...

I hate waking up from dreams where I'm just starting college. Aging thirty years in a minute is an awful way to start the day.

For every three classic films you buy on Blu-ray, you should be forced to buy one NEW low-budget indie film on Blu-ray.

I've been watching the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! series early in the morning for the last six weeks or so. I ended up watching the sixth and seventh installments this afternoon while under the weather and am now having an extremely hard time coming back to this reality.

It clearly got cold faster than anticipated this year, judging by the bear that apparently tried to tunnel into our hot tub last night by eating through the cover. Not sure if this was before or after they chomped on the outdoor furniture.

A totally normal potato and definitely not some kind of subterranean larva

Yes, I will definitely trust your Medium article after seeing this graphic. Tell me more about sending tokels to my cokels server! What do I need to know to set up my clorent clever?

Ah, Brimstone. It's always fun when a series explicitly builds its premise around the number of episodes they'll need to go out into syndication.

A Prescription To Ruin Your Life "Frank was a faithful husband, professionally successful, devoted father [] spent hours playing online poker. One day he went out to buy grass seed and came home with a new car [] convicted of possession of CSAM."

8yo is going as a custom character inspired by @kaydavault.bsky.social's Star Knights, and I've been tasked with building the non-fabric parts of her costume. I am pretty crummy at woodworking, but I think the staff is turning out okay.

The kid has a stronger need to rewatch things than I do, so we're watching The Scream Team for the fourth October in a row. I am now very distracted trying to figure out if this is shot in the same town as In the Mouth of Madness.

This is pretty fun, though I had to drop down to top two before I found matches

Well, this matches up with the ycombinator post the other day about how every job opening is immediately flooded with ai-written resumes that don't actually match up to the experience of the candidate. I really don't want to get into doing this, but maybe it's the only option these days.

I've been looking full time since March and the only places that have gotten back to me are places that pay $0. I've probably applied to about 300-400 jobs with zero interviews, despite 25 years of experience. At some point, I gotta find some other kind of work.

We went to a Christmas Day screening of Django Unchained with a ton of children in attendance. Some crying, some running freely in the aisles. We ended up bailing after about fifteen minutes.

You will be shocked to learn that "very mindful, very demure" has been fully incorporated into Ren Faire performances

I think it's interesting how many responses to this I've seen have been "I saw ______ and I was the only person in the theatre." Do I follow a disproportionate number of misanthropes? (These people are not wrong, btw. Seeing a movie in an empty theatre is the best)

What are the Halloween movie equivalents to Die Hard? I want some non spooky movies that are incidentally Halloweeny.

One of these days, I'll be able to make a cake without a voice in my head screaming "Extra sugar extra salt extra oil and MSG" but today is not that day

We are now apparently ten months into watching terrible Saturday morning cartoons every week. Today's installment has so far included The Popples and this gem.

This covers most of high school for me, so I think it's safe to say it's pretty much exactly what I think of as "pop music"

Made the mistake of listening to Shitmat while doing dishes tonight and now the 8yo has become a big Shitmat fan

Nothing like opening Nextdoor for the first time in months to try to find info on a magic show for my kid only to be confronted with someone's multi paragraph screed about why we need to implement caning in the United States

I don't think I've heard this song since 1995

What are the least scary/violent episodes of The X-Files? Are there any I can watch with my kid yet?

I think one of the worst aspects of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (of which there are many) is seeing what I assume was a solid recreation of a set from the first movie but so massively underlit they might as well have just shot in a black box

I love gladiator flicks