brianary
@brianary@startrek.website
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Dan Dare by Art of Noise
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 4 weeks ago:
I guess the chicken and egg may have appeared at the same time.
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on We are stardust. 2 months ago:
I learned this from Professor Moby.
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 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.
- Comment on Peak Fantasy 2 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 3 months ago:
Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 7 months ago:
Zero is freezing
10 is not
20 is pleasing
30 is hot
40 frying
50 dying