This is the end state. No human refs to mess it up in the first place. A phalanx of cameras and a (nearly) infallible AI that gets all calls exactly correct in realtime.  And they’ll either have to change to rules or the game will change significantly because there’s some degree of cheating the rules on pretty much…

Agreed. You don’t need a whole showroom full of goodies.  A cheapy tire inflator, a folding shovel, some old boards and a high lift jack have been sufficient to extricate myself from anywhere a lapse of common sense (the most important thing to bring) has found me. Oh, and the snatch strap has helped a couple of other…

Why? Because I’m frequently holding significant portions of a 1/2 million line, 30 year old, modified to hell and back, system in my head for debugging. A single moment of interruption can cost 30 minutes as all that context vanishes. But maybe I should just wear the “go the F away beanie” or something. Or I know, if…

You’re a military-grade moron. My son goes to a state school. It’s about $20,000/yr if you live on campus (off campus is similar, you’re just paying half of that to some slumlord). That’s a $10/hr full-time job (and that doesn’t consider what is lost to taxes and any other expenses caused by, you know, being alive).…

I too am a (senior) programmer. And it destroys *my* productivity when everyone just immediately bugs me instead of figuring stuff out for themselves. When we had actual offices, people knew that an open door meant ok to come in and a closed door meant “something better be on fire”.

What’s over/under on the Wests figuring out that they can start a “religion” like L Ron and make extra mad bank?

Say what you will about Panda, but a couple of weeks ago when my food was quite late in coming, they refunded the entirety of our family’s bill (4 people).  That kept them off my “never going there again” list.

No, but I still have them in my bathrooms because I have neighbors right across the street, and they don’t need to see my large and unsightly ass.

Amateurs. When I was young and dumb and in college (synonymous really), I dressed as a baby and tongued a goat to win ISU Dairy Industries’ Milkman competition. Still have the trophy 35 year later. Worst part was using Tide to get all the vaseline out of my Kewpie Doll hairdo. That was a F—ing mistake.

Are A-Rod’s finances such that he can no longer afford curtains?

Can somebody explain who the F she is?

Why on earth does a FWD car have wheelie bars?

Wow, what an asshole move!

That’s rather like blaming WWII on painters.

This is just wrong. A relative handful of people at the top (whatever year they were born) are the ones who scuttled pensions for everyone (of whatever “generation”). Now you’ve got the tail end of the “boomer” generation shared shitless that they will outlive their savings, (and the R’s will finally finish the job of…

That obviously varies from person to person. Even with noise cancelling headphones, I am way less productive in cube land than when I had an actual office. The only way I manage any sort of productivity is to find nooks away from people to hide in.

What I found amazing was how little room he had before the ramp to get up to speed.

Came for the Christmas Vacation gifs, left sad.

Is there evidence that the intern was female?

$300 for a factory coolant tank, and their first thought wasn’t “it would be like $30 at the salvage yard”?  Take away their Jalop Card.