we have this for almost any convo, even with my parents. but we stopped doing it with my mother in law. her phone made it hard for her to tell if she was in the group channel or the private channel to just my wife... one too many missent texts on her end that i really didn’t want to read. 

But reviewing games is not a scientific pursuit. You’re never going to find a perfect A/B test to quantify what makes one game good and one game bad. The Division is a creative work and reviewing it in exactly the same time frame as another creative work won’t give a clear scientific answer about the goodness of these…

that was the only part where i said a suggestion out loud. “What, OJ? No brother, this is time for vinegar”

One thing missing from this convo is how hard it can be to hire your replacement. It’s much easier for my boss to just keep bugging me about something that’s late then find a new employee, train them on all the arcane stuff we do and then get them to complete my task. I mean, I’m not getting a raise this year, but I…

My wife and I started this shortly after we started dating when we would lose each other in thrift stores. Then the iPhone came along with its Tweet ringtone that is an EXACT copy of our whistle and now we frequently get confused by people who don’t have their phones on silent. But we still use it all the time. We…

Same here, I was always in charge of my ortho appts. My parents didn’t even know my old ortho retired and was replaced by a new guy until their check got returned one time...

But these systems still exist today and as a parent I’m going to prepare my kids with what I know. THEY will develop the new norms and understand them (and hopefully teach me about them), but it’s not like cash is just suddenly replaced by mobile payments overnight. It takes time and parents should do what they can to…

So they’re sending us to the early ADs in the Roman empire and we’re not going to have to outrun the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius while jumping from building to building? What’s the point?

Jacques Tati films are French, but silent-equivalent. Almost exclusively image-based story telling, short vignettes around a common theme, maybe a little more adult but not offputting. Plus, their just beautiful:

What about the daycare nap? I’m a commute napper thanks to a train ride, but my wife works close to home. I’m encouraging her to go home and take a nap between getting off work and picking the kid up from daycare. We aren’t paying by the hour and I get home in time for pickup anyway, so she has a solid 60-90 minutes…

If even 25% of Montana went wonky, would anyone really notice? I feel like one limited part of the state could practically go off the map and no one would notice, but I feel like the cult would do as cults do and keep up outside appearances while dominating its victims day-to-day lives on the inside.

I think Trackr may actually already do that? It can alert you if your phone and the tracker are separated on a per-tracked-item basis

The pros of being the last stop on the line are many, but fear of this is the tops.