This is so...I mean...like...the instructions are down to the _foot_. It reminds me of Douglas Adams’ thing about the toothpicks.

This is how you can tell I’m an amateur: the most I’ve had to interact with concrete is to either drill and bolt into it, or use a Ramset to nail into it.

Mortadella: the meat which you can pay a lot for, but no matter how much it costs, it still tastes like bologna with cigarette butts embedded in it.

I don’t think it would work on concrete. Who nails into concrete by hand?

Everyone I know used to do it. It was both a way to show off and a way to get things done quickly, and every new summer guy (usually the kids of the full-timers) who came on board would be made fun of until he could do it.

You start a nail by jamming the nail into the claws, swinging down to set it, spinning the hammer on the upswing, and driving it home.

It seems like motorcycles should just bounce off a guy named “Stig Broeckx” without doing any damage whatsoever. Did he tell them who he was?

Reminds me of the (probably made up, but believable because that OS was a god damned tank, for all its faults) story of a Novell 3.1.2 server that actually got walled away somewhere and just sat there working fine for years.

It’s always true that life was cheaper in the past, and it’s always true that everyone goes through times where they hate their situation, work a job they hate, or whatever. Some people use it as fuel to improve, some people complain about it.

Ah, the LaserJet 4. I wonder how many thousands of them are still out there happily printing.

Oh boy did you miss out over on the “work your passion” article.

MIllennials also think they’re owed everything for nothing and have it the worst.

Mindless drone. Good one.

When I’m using the phone for navigation that’s what I’m using it for. If I get a call that starts a little ways before a fork/exit/side street/building/whatever in a place I’m not familiar with, I like the app to tell me what lane to be in and etc. as I get closer. It’s not an unreasonable request. If it was stupid…

But that’s....what a map app is for. Are you serious? You can’t be serious.

Starred for “recontinued.”

Does it allow you to take a call without switching away from the maps screen so you don’t, for instance, miss your god damned exit while some jerk talks to you on the phone?

I kind of want to dismiss you because the only thing you don’t suck at is constructing straw men to knock down, but I’m not really a believer in the whole “dismissing” thing.

I dunno who you’re replying to; if it’s me, you’re either stupid or acting that way, because I specifically said to use your off time to pursue your “heart’s desire,” not to just skip it. Plenty of people read, write, draw, and learn musical instruments that way, but the odds of any of them being good enough to make a…

I’m not bitter. I’m a realist. If you think it’s smart or realistic to hold out for work that you’re passionate about, you’re _not_ being realistic, and are probably either young, dumb, or both. At least one of those you can grow out of, so you’ve got a 50/50 chance if you don’t fuck up too badly in the meantime.