Got dang*

As someone who rescued Micah by immediately shooting the Sherriff of Strawberry and his buddies in the face, much to my sibling’s utter shock when they were letting me try RDR2 the first time, I’d say the reverse is also true.

YYYY/MM/DD hhmm, 24 hour clock gang unite!

(We also support our YYYY.MM.DD and YYYYMMDD compatriots)

This is a Once in a Lifetime romance.

Do it! Heck, take a friend and some garbage bags and make it nicer for everyone (if you are up to it).

I feel a lot of us would benefit from more time in the bush.

Everyone else here has good tips to get started, so I’ll just say - do it! Even if you suck it’s fun as hell.

It’s been 16 hours since you’ve posted this. I can only hope you’re near the bottom of a looooong staircase at this point.

(Seriously, don’t sleep on this one - a lot of people get turned off by the experimental structure stuff but it’s 100% worth reading at least once)

Remember: happiness has to be fought for.

I watched a few good playthroughs rather than playing myself, but do yourself a favour and go into it as blind as possible.

I kind of found the book sort of teaches you how to read it if you pay attention to the structure in the first few bits. But multiple bookmarks can help.

I remember some rumour that an early version was web/hypertext based, which would’ve been interesting to experience.

I still have very little evidence that anyone other than hypertext narrative writers and English Lit grad students actually read (traverse) hypertext narratives these days, though.

Enjoy :)

https://youtu.be/tYImMlPaSwQ?si=BOi8E9cnRYtNLy1q

I love that this is what they call their band.

I also desperately need to watch this movie again.

I’ve only heard the burnt toast thing in relation to a patient Dr. Wilder Penfield treated for recurrent seizures, where she would smell burnt toast before an episode. This led to developing the Montreal Procedure for epilepsy treatment.

Obligatory Heritage Minute link: https://youtu.be/pUOG2g4hj8s?si=KcjNhMEwIL4ywkkY

Brief info article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1525505018301677

To be fair, there’s still an element of what you can/can’t control as a people manager. Depending on the job, you can control the training your people get, the cadence of check ins, the deadlines/milestones they’re supposed to meet, etc.

You can’t directly control the people, and if someone doesn’t take any of what you provide re: support for them to do the thing despite your efforts, you can’t control that. But in turn, you can control performance improvement plans, 1-on-1s to figure out if there’s an underlying problem/cause that can be addressed, or failing all else, elements of the process that eventually show said person the door.

Doesn’t mean that all of this isn’t stressful as fuck, or that you’re not subject to downwards pressure too.

This is all an aside - I’m legit happy you’re doing better working for yourself!

Vaguely related: As a flappy-headed Canadian child, there was some web 1.5 proto-social media site for kids that advertised on tv. I distinctly remember one of the characters saying the phrase “Do you like Limp Cookie?” in it.

I hope this comment keeps the memory of a company obscuring a band’s name referring to a cookie a bunch of dudes jacked off onto, while retaining the exact same connotation, on children’s television alive. That is all.

[Bonus points if anyone remembers wtf that website was]

I feel like there was a very short window where PCs were just easy enough to use that most people had one, but the OS experience was just complex enough, with things breaking frequently enough, that you had to learn some basics out of necessity.

Like , I’m a 100% not an IT guy - but I know all sorts of shit that seems like it should be common knowledge, but isn’t. Any time I manage to get something in our IT and software environment functioning at work, or explain the chain of events to some catastrophe based on evidence in our software logs, and I get talked about like some kind of wunderkind, it is frustrating more than anything else.

I’m not some IT genius, I’m your average asshole who knows some basics about the tools we use in 99.9% of the work we do. Chances are if there were more of said assholes we wouldn’t run into the problems I address in the first place. But admittedly, perhaps some of that knowledge/ability to think that way comes from having to figure out shit like why my DOS game wouldn’t work in 1995, or what the fuck that purple monkey Mom downloaded a few years later was actually doing.

Ugh - sorry, this turned into a rant, this kind of shit has been top of mind recently…

All of this is one reason why I find myself using ‘fellow humans’ as a form of address. Yeah, it sounds like you’re an alien overlord in a skin suit, but it’s 100% inclusive.

That and (to get all hippy about it) it’s a consciousness shifting exercise - refuse divisions when they’re not necessary for a specific discussion, think at the level of shared humanity as the default.

I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.

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