related step: restrict all access to external communication devices…

it also helps that around 60-90 min in, you'll have a pretty good idea how blasted you are, and hopefully realize that you shouldn't be driving if it's adversely affecting you in any way.

ehh, I spent the majority of a trip playing Rez HD on an xbox 360 in the wee hours of the morning, going for a walk when the sun came up.

mushrooms are quite lovely for hanging out in and around nature.

also, good tunes and an interestingly varied setlist!

makes sense. we have pretty significant tax breaks / incentives for manufacturing plants here in Canada as well, although they seem to be few and far between due to the political landscape these days.

I think I meant to put 100 000. not caffeinated enough to verify whatever I might've typed in a haze as of yet. :)

I've never noticed anyone hanging around to observe their relative performance, but yeah… people canvassing with clipboards for donations tend to be far more aggressive than the market research folks, in my experience.

I think I need more caffeine.

the movie was so bad I couldn't watch more than ~40 min of it…

I like Netflix because it has enough content. in Canada, we're severely lacking in comparison to the stuff that's available south of the border, but it's still more than I could ever reasonably watch.

idk much about that sort of thing either, but I suspect it's just the juxtaposition between relatively ordinary / on the fringes of celebrity type guy (Jeffries) being thrust into a scenario that more famous or powerful people may be familiar with — being able to mostly do whatever you want blatantly with relative…

I read an interesting essay type thing that I think someone linked to in one of the comments — framed as a "winner's history" in terms of different eras of rock and roll.

I remember thinking "why does this moderately amusing one-note premise for a movie have such a long runtime?"

gotta say, actuaries and people who can sift through all that "big data" nonsense seem to be in super high demand, due to the ridiculous amount of digitized information and the scale at which some of these businesses operate.

it gets even funnier when you glance at the way that high end luxury items are marketed…

I'm envisioning the premise of your commercial being something like this.

I think I got a gift card for our major national chain by answering some inane questions for a marketing research company for some tobacco brand…

one of my best friends leaves his TV on constantly, usually set to some sports channel. it's more or less background noise to him, but the commercials make me want to stab myself in the face.

the one thing I wonder about is those drivetrain warranties that seem to come standard on a lot of vehicles nowadays — the 10 000 KM / 10 year variants.