I’ve always wondered about the Unix time problem. As incredibly durable and forward thinking as Unix ended up being, did they just not think that through? Was it one of those “I’ll be dead by then so it’ll be someone else’s problem” decisions? Was Unix not expected to become as popular and long lived as it has? Or was…

For all the havok the digital revolution wreaked on the music industry, it was especially hard to feel much sympathy for them at the time. Singles were truly inescapable back then. When radio and MTV were the only way to hear new music, and new artists only get added to the rotation every month or so, it was easy to…

That and all the mislabeled, misspelled, and WTF ID3 tagged content that was all over the place. Something like 9incNalesfukulikananmal.mp3 would end up being a Gravity Kills live bootleg or something. I could never decide if it was trolling or if people were really just that incredibly ignorant of what they were…

I also remember Radiohead being pretty inescapable at that time. They also managed to be the unifying pleasure of several otherwise disparate cliques of musical taste at my high school. Even if they didn’t have Billboard chart domination, topping out in the mid 20s is only a failure if your only comparison is Madonna…

Mine was doing this for almost a year before I found a fix. Under the console, directly under the EJECT button, is a rubber foot/stopper/thing. Word on the ‘net is that it expands enough to trigger the EJECT button right above it. So I removed it and have not had any beeps or unwanted disc ejects since.

I started feeling this back when the Xbox 360 and PS3 were released. The excitement of seeing the technological advancement rendered in amazing new graphics was getting significantly more incremental than it had in the 90s. And now that is just more so. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still gonna end up getting a PS5 once the…

This movie released when I was 17 and one of the first things that struck me about this movie and something that gets me every time I watch it again, is that this is the only teen movie of the time (that I saw, at least) that just nails what teens were wearing at the time. There’s so much to love about this movie and…

I can’t see it either. I’d guess it’s being served from a domain I’ve got blocked.

I second using a phone as webcam. The cameras in our phones have been spectacular for years now, so even if you’re pulling an older handset out of retirement, you’ll get a major improvement over your laptop’s built-in and you won’t have to pay a dime.

I second using a phone as webcam. The cameras in our phones have been spectacular for years now, so even if you’re…

Perhaps there are a few people that take video games just little too seriously.

While I won’t flat out refuse a cookie sans milk, I do strongly prefer a glass of milk with most of my sweets, be it cookies, cake, or most other dessert dishes. Also with many breakfast foods such as pancakes or french toast. Honestly, there’s not much I won’t gleefully pair with milk, but with anything sweet, it’s…

We put cheese on just about everything unless it’s dessert. Although our top dairy engineers are working ‘round the clock to find a way to add jack cheese to an ice cream float.

Everyone still has the right to fly the flag. Please note, this ban is not being mandated or enforced by any level of government, but by a video game. Video games do not grant or deny rights. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

If you believe COVID-19 is a liberal hoax, I can’t help you or your kids. If you think Costco requiring a mask infringes on your rights, you are blatantly ignoring the rights of everyone else, and I can’t help you.

If a man can’t get the positive recognition he deserves for blinding journalists, crippling children and the elderly alike, and still finding the time to dismiss lynchings as suicides, then what’s even the point?

What it must be like to be constantly reminded that almost every artist that’s created anything worth remembering thinks your politics are trash. Like, you get Kelsey Grammer and that’s about it.

I’ve been seeing several people reporting from the various protests talking about the tear-gassing and pepper spraying as something that they seem to be getting accustomed to. Like, it still sucks, but it’s happening so frequently that it’s not wholly incapacitating anymore. I’m gonna guess that’s not great for long…

I love how fondly remembered this ultimately disposable movie is. I’ve yet to meet anyone over the age of 35 who doesn’t laugh when I say “I’m right on top of that, Rose!”

I think that part of the problem as well is that the scarcity is driving more hoarding. Households sending in every member separately to get around rationing, or going to get more even when they’re stocked up because they see the empty shelves as evidence of a broken supply chain and it continues the cycle.

The entertainment industry is notoriously fickle and plenty of people have watched their careers sink for less. Nobody deserves a career as an entertainer and there will always be an endless pool of younger, brighter talent ready to take his place and do whatever it takes to hold it. Including not getting drunk and…