brianary

@brianary@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan Dare by Art of Noise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers Always Innovating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always called Word documents and PDFs “dead-end formats” (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there’s no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to impress the honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that computer, and it was much more than a calculator, unless you mean a modern programmable one. This one could be programmed in BASIC. It also had a receipt-sized printer you could get.

  youtube.com/watch?v=NQheo52J3BM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned this from Professor Moby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

  Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly “unskilled,” that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

  bookshop.org/p/books/…/9836607?ean=9781250808318

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Aquaman movies were laying some groundwork for the Warlock comics to maybe be included, which is a hollow-earth reality. It’s too bad they did such a terrible job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handy temperature conversion scale.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zero is freezing

  10 is not

  20 is pleasing

  30 is hot

  40 frying

  50 dying