The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

As a teenager at the same time, Seinfeld fit better with my absurdist sense of humor.

But I totally agree that they were products of their time.

I was in my mid 30s when I found out that you could hold some button when continuing after game over in Super Mario Bros to continue in the world you died.

We just got gud and abused the turtle shell stair 1up.

Yeah, it seemed like a disturbed old lady hurling abuse and calling the cops on everyone in the neighborhood, especially the kids who were playing in an empty yard, that she did not own, next door to the woman's apartment. The kids had permission from the owner of the land and he even played sports with them there.

There's video of her trying to get the cops to trespass a man out of the parking lot while they interviewed him about a prior complaint she made against the kids playing.

Smoking everywhere. For anyone who wasn't around for the 70s/80s/90s, everything was tinged yellow and smelled of smoke. Car/plane/train seats had built-in ashtrays. Restaurants had smoking sections separated from the non-smoking sections by waist-high walls.

I have asthma and it sucked. Not sure if I grew out of it as I got older or if there's just not a miasma of smoke around everywhere, but it rarely bothers me anymore.

Mexican restaurants in Hampton Roads also serve a "white salsa" that's made out of miracle whip, garlic powder, oregano, milk, and crushed red pepper. Growing up you got a little bowl of each with your complimentary chips. Once I moved out of the area I realized it wasn't Mexican at all and no one else does it.

My dad's a retired civil engineer and I got to see how all this worked when he did one back in the day. I got to see the individual sections being built and then got to walk through the tunnel after the sections had been connected and before they were ready for traffic.

He forgot the most important variable in that equation, and it's time. I continually have to remind clients of that. You can throw more people and money at a problem but you can't get 9 people with uteruses to give birth to a baby in 1 month.

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I grew up there. Up until like 2000, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was Lee-Jackson-King Day.

A few years back, I handed out candy for friends while they took their kids around the neighborhood, and a group of kids jokingly asked for potatoes. I obliged and grabbed them each a potato from the pantry.

When my friends came back, the potato house was apparently the talk of the kids in the neighborhood.

It honestly depends on the person asking. There are people who aren't complete morons where a call is a valid way to quickly solve a problem or exchange info.

But I sent a guy an email asking a simple multiple choice question, he messages "quick call?", calls, shares his screen, shows me my own email with his written response in reply, and reads it to me.

Yes. The current count is 610.

Jon Stewart just discussed some of this on The Weekly Show podcast with Heather Cox Richardson as guest. Discussing whether the metrics that define economic success are outdated and also how poorly any of Biden's "successes" were shared by his White House and the media. It was all framed much better than this article.

My mother loves to tell the story about taking me to meet Papa Smith at Hardee's. I lost my shit because Smurfs were supposed to be tiny, not 6 feet tall.

I'm in my 40s and we have this one. My wife loves it.

My first job in IT 20-some years ago began swapping their CRTs for LCDs and I got to take home a Dell rebadge of a 19” Trinitron. It did 1600x1200 at 75hz. It had a fantastic picture for gaming. I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it.

Bosses when the IT dept is furiously responding to an outage: What do we pay you for?

Bosses when everything is running smoothly: What do we pay you for?

Must...resist...distro...hopping

I've been comfortable on Bazzite for a couple years now but this is giving me the itch.

Round here we call that Antipasto dinner. I'll stack a bunch of pickled stuff, meats, cheese, fruit, veggies, and crackers or bread on the cutting board and let everyone make a plate. It's fast, the kids love it, and it can be as simple or as fancy as we want.