I don’t think my office is ever going back. My manager is getting ready to move to another state. I have a bunch of new coworkers I have yet to meet in real life, and might never meet as the company isn’t likely to ever have social events ever again. Theoretically we can live like kings on a beach in Costa Rica,…

No, because then we get stupid shit like Marine Le Pen running for president of France on a platform of trying to get the wearing of Muslim head scarves in public places illegal. The electoral pendulum swings both ways. Also, I like how our Bill of Rights lets me know exactly who the idiots in our society are, because…

If a passenger leaves a kilo, does the ‘it’s not mine’ excuse have any validity?

things went exactly to plan: The driverless vehicle stopped, then tried to find a better place to stop a little further up the road, where it would be safer for a traffic stop to take place.

At least I know that thing is a prototype, from the camo paint and the coverings hiding its design/imperfections especially on the track. I’d think they’d want to have a showroom quality prototype if people are going to get to be up close with it and take pictures. It’s just a bad look at a minimum.

My sister’s reactions when her kids tell her what we did, on my uncle’s-day-out, is always entertaining. I think her head is going to explode, but she lets me have them because her head is going to explode if she doesn’t get a break every now and then from telling them to be careful.

I don’t know, I thought ‘draw-bridge’ was enough of its own warning, like the 99.999% of the Grand Canyon that doesn’t have railings to prevent people from falling into it.

Young, minority, who can’t afford legal counsel. Guess Texas is telegraphing exactly who it is they want to bring to heel with their anti-abortion laws.

Damn, you’re hard to impress...

Yeah, ‘the studio is nervous’ is usually code for ‘we’re about to fire this person if they don’t at least go to rehab.’

So Adam West’s Batman show never once used the Bat Signal. When the Commissioner had a case only the Caped Crusader could take on, he’d call him on the Bat Phone. He could also reach him in the Batmobile which also had a Bat Phone.

Separate weeks in January nowadays, but the AVN’s got started by running concurrently with CES.

CES is an excuse to network, get funding, and party in Vegas.

My aunt died of ALS last month. That’s a real autoimmune disease. Every nerve in your body stops working while you slowly suffocate to death. Alopecia is bad luck. Nothing to slap a man over, or do more than groan at a bad joke and move on with your still gorgeous face, body, dress, family, many more years, and…

I thought staged, until he was yelling ‘keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth’ from his seat. ABC/Disney aren’t going to be happy.

I was like ‘lowest denominator’? Did Edison sell his lightbulbs to light whorehouses and opium dens first? Was Ford’s first assembly line for joybuzzers? The Wright Brothers totally wanted a way to better shoot pigeons.

The closest I’ve come to a Souls game is Sekiro, and its menus are a piece of cake compared to Elden Ring. There is so much going on in those menus that I am a bit turned off from going deeper into this game. I’m sure eventually the language of it all makes sense but this is the only game to ever make me feel this dumb…

Games can look amazing on the Switch even with distinctive art styles that hide performance limitations (Zelda BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2). Game Freak gives zero damns about pushing technology when they have the most profitable franchise in the history of the earth. It looks like a Game Cube game.

George R.R. Martin: Ugh. FINNNNE! I’ll finish the Winds of Winter.

Californian here: High speed rail is the latest greatest bridge to nowhere in our state’s history. Billions going to contractors, advisors, and lawyers. All to overpromise, underdeliver, and set back the schedule constantly. Initial estimate for the project was $33 billion in 2008, now it’s $80 billion. Phase 1 which…