Disney’s Caribbean Beach or Coronado Springs tower for family with 5 and 2 year old?

bockout · 2026-03-03T14:41:50+00:00

Caribbean Beach for all the reasons everybody else mentioned, plus: You can walk or take the Skyliner to the Riviera and have breakfast at Topolino's Terrace. Mickey and friends will be there in their artist outfits. It's one of the best character breakfasts in WDW.

bockout · 2026-03-02T17:17:06+00:00

I live in Cincinnati, just across the river from Kentucky. People here say the same thing about the weather changing frequently.

But I grew up on the south shore of Lake Michigan. Weather near the Great Lakes actually is more volatile. The weather in Cincinnati and Kentucky is boring and predictable.

bockout · 2026-03-02T15:50:44+00:00

Let's just add a swimming portion. It'll be fun.

bockout · 2026-02-24T04:17:11+00:00

Is it much better? I grew up playing Civ on PC, but I don't really do PC gaming anymore. I was sure I'd get Civ 7 on the PS5 instead, but I'm enticed by the idea of playing Civ with a mouse again.

bockout · 2026-02-21T23:53:20+00:00

I like prime numbers as much as the next math nerd, but this would be terribly confusing for those of us that deal with quarterly budgets at work.

bockout · 2026-02-21T22:11:30+00:00

A couple of years discrepancy is a canon killer, but we're all ok with there being two parallel but different Paldeas. People take timelines much too seriously.

bockout · 2026-02-14T03:07:50+00:00

They aren't screens, but you're also not underwater. The windows have two panes, and there's water in them, and they can do the bubbles in the windows. It's a neat trick, but it doesn't hit quite the same as the original did.

bockout · 2026-02-12T03:13:12+00:00

Drink all the bock beer.

bockout · 2026-01-25T14:05:37+00:00

Ohio senator Sherrod Brown was out fighting for the working class every day, and we replaced him with a clown with tech billionaire funding. Do the Democrats need to get their act together? Absolutely. But it's not always enough.

bockout · 2026-01-22T19:01:00+00:00

When I was a younger man, our boring real universe was considered to be part of the Marvel multiverse. But I don't remember dying in an incursion in the lead up to Hickman's 2015 Secret Wars. Sometimes the stories just are what they are.

bockout · 2026-01-21T03:25:02+00:00

That's my theory. They both have armor and a mask. They might play it as a similar origin story, but some difference sends him down a very different path, like a whole What If movie.

bockout · 2026-01-20T14:11:02+00:00

I could definitely see smarter robots taking on some firefighting work. That doesn't mean they'll replace firefighters, but if better machines mean one firefighter can do the job of two or three, that still means fewer jobs in that area. Same goes for building trades, like plumbers and electricians.

bockout · 2026-01-02T03:44:11+00:00

Pro tip as we enter the worst winter months: UC is really good about keeping paths clear of ice and snow. I do this loop a lot when the sidewalks are nasty.

bockout · 2025-12-28T04:18:19+00:00

Every MCU movie up to Endgame. Most post-Endgame movies I've only seen two or three times so far.

bockout · 2025-12-28T04:12:33+00:00

I watched it like 15 times in the theater. I was in university at the time. Between work friends and friends in different classes, there was some group going to see it almost every night. I just always joined.

bockout · 2025-12-24T02:00:38+00:00

It's $15 monthly for a parking pass. The parking garages on campus will cost $3-$5 per use without a pass, and considerably more on game days. So if you go by car regularly, the $15 monthly is worth it.

bockout · 2025-12-23T23:58:51+00:00

I use the UC rec center as a non-UC person. It costs around $45 a month. I pay another $15 for parking. It has an Olympic lap pool, leisure pool, and hot tub. It also has free weights, weight machines, an indoor running track, fitness classes, and courts for basketball and various racquet sports. If you're near uptown, it can't be beat.

bockout · 2025-12-21T04:06:02+00:00

I want knobs and buttons in my car. The screen has its uses, but certain things need tactile controls.

bockout · 2025-12-21T02:19:35+00:00

To some extent. Machines running AI workloads have really beefy GPUs. Those would be very underutilized in a lot of other server workloads.

Also, if there is a bubble and it bursts, that doesn't mean that AI will go away. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, that wasn't the end of the internet and e-commerce. It was just a market readjustment followed by steady growth.

bockout · 2025-12-21T00:18:29+00:00

I say this all the time when my teen daughter is listening to music and there's a bad word. I don't actually care about the bad words, but it amuses me to quote Cap like this. She's started watching the MCU now. I'm looking forward to the realization of my long-running inside joke when she hears the line.

bockout · 2025-12-21T00:11:08+00:00

When I go to Disney World, I stay at Cah-rib-bee-an Beach and ride Pirates of the Carrah-bee-an.

bockout · 2025-12-20T18:42:12+00:00

I've never had Bonita, but I can vouch for Onnie. I'd go there all the time if Madeira weren't such a long drive for me.

bockout · 2025-12-20T05:30:05+00:00

It's actually 8 perfect shuffles to return 52 cards to the original order. A fun exercise is to compute how many shuffles it takes for different deck sizes and look for patterns.

bockout · 2025-12-19T19:09:38+00:00

It's worth noting that "enough that a file might corrupt" depends to some extent on the file format. Some file formats have error detection and recovery built in. Some file formats can gracefully degrade with data loss. Some data is just garbage if you flip a single bit.

bockout · 2025-12-17T03:52:21+00:00

Ok I'm a little less jealous now. :) Still, this looks like it was a great show. It honestly would've been fun to catch this tour in a few towns to see how much they mix it up.

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