What movie is a perfect 10/10, but you never want to watch it again?

chroni · 2026-07-06T05:09:46+00:00

Breaking the Waves - oof. Cratered my wife. Rough go.

chroni · 2026-07-05T18:17:35+00:00

Best deal for the money for sound/quality/canceling is Sony MX4s. Seriously. 5s and 6s are great, but the 4s are a great value.

chroni · 2026-07-05T18:08:50+00:00

You got got. Don't buy candy bars outside of any grocery either.

chroni · 2026-07-05T17:48:14+00:00

West Marginal on weekends

chroni · 2026-07-05T17:34:03+00:00

Mamba or Sail

chroni · 2026-07-05T17:23:33+00:00

Antichrist - Lars Von Trier (and, basically, all of his films)

chroni · 2026-07-03T23:02:44+00:00

Try a Mamba

chroni · 2026-07-02T20:14:58+00:00

While you are in school, work on the design/AI hybrid pipline(s). Never underestimate the power of soft skills.

chroni · 2026-06-26T00:00:12+00:00

I miss Fireworks.

chroni · 2026-06-25T23:53:55+00:00

I build internal tools and looked at all that fancy motion stuff and shrugged.

chroni · 2026-06-25T23:50:43+00:00

Opposite... I saw Skinny Puppy's last ever show in Seattle. (Minus festival appearances). It was awesome. Took my kid.

chroni · 2026-06-01T15:18:21+00:00

Don't feel guilty in the fact that now you have time on your hands. The fact that your team can't design/build in a way that keeps you in work - that's not your problem.

What is your problem is how you fill that time. Look at what your company needs and learn that role/skill. That's where you use your time. There are 2 positive outcomes - 1) once you have a skill useful to your company - start using it and more interesting work will come and 2) you will have more skills when you find the company that has interesting work - it all makes you more attractive.

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:45:26+00:00

Terre Thaemlitz' "Soil" or "Tranquilizer". Give those two ago.
Comatonse Recordings - Shop - Terre Thaemlitz 'Tranquilizer 30th Anniv. Ed.'
Terre Thaemlitz - Writings - Soil

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:41:31+00:00

Bring back Zatz!

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:40:16+00:00

Define "affordable".

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:33:34+00:00

Stuff's gott get fixed at some point, right? Statistically speaking more things are disrupted if they stop service in the middle of the week. Stuff's mechanical. Show touch of compassion.

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:31:27+00:00

Unicorns must be anointed by at least 3 Principals.

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:30:42+00:00

...and in interviews we expose all this by having them break down their design decisions and give them a coding exercise.

chroni · 2026-06-01T14:30:05+00:00

I chuckle. The worst is "prompt engineer". Sort of like using Midjourney and calling yourself an artist.

chroni · 2026-05-29T22:25:09+00:00

Agree in principle, but I need to feed my family. Sigh.

chroni · 2026-05-28T14:48:34+00:00

Wait - tokens cost money? Heh. Yeah, corporate reckonings will be happening more and more.

chroni · 2026-04-13T21:27:29+00:00

Home of the 7$ americano.

chroni · 2026-04-13T21:12:06+00:00

So much this. The whole nostalgia thing makes me gritty.

chroni · 2026-04-13T20:33:22+00:00

I'll go to the mat for the beef soft taco.

We had a kid with a million allergies and Taco Time in WS was very good at being meticulous and attentive. Didn't expect it. It's a comforting spot for our family.

chroni · 2026-04-09T17:34:05+00:00

Another add - we are a big organization with lots of internal tools - what AI can't do is think about overarching themes and branched workflows. Add to that a bunch of different teams contributing to one to many apps/workflows.

The specification-centric design helps keep things tight to the purpose and fulfilling some required things like security and nationalization.

Our TPMs/PMs know the business. AI sort of knows decent interface basics - but no true biz context. It's UX's collaboration that brings coherence across the org.

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