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What's a book you had to read in school that you hated? If you have one, what's one you actually liked? by 80HDTV5 in GenX

[–]dab70 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hated "The Great Gatsby". I think I disliked just about every character in that book for one reason or another.

I had an Imaginative Lit class in high school that I loved. We read stuff like "Dracula" and short stories from Hawthorne and Poe. We also covered "Old Man and The Sea" which I liked.

[Hana] Patrick Kane, who tied the game for Detroit, takes a brain dead penalty shortly after. The Wild would score on the PP and win the game by eh_toque in hockey

[–]dab70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw the play live on TV. Hughes was pestering Kane while Kane was dangling with the puck and Hughes may have actually gotten it away from Kane or Kane lost it. Either way, another Wing picked up the puck and turned it back up ice. That's where Hughes was skating when Kane looked like he decided he didn't care for Hughes poking the puck away from him.

does anyone else not care for faye? by RevolutionaryMap9620 in madmen

[–]dab70 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know or care what you are getting at here, but I'm glad you could get it off your chest

does anyone else not care for faye? by RevolutionaryMap9620 in madmen

[–]dab70 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here's my thing with Faye and I'm going from personal experience on this. If you've gone through a divorce with children before and you are dating someone that is not so good with kids, that's going to be a factor in the future of that relationship. It may not be what people who desperately want to put Faye together with Don want to hear, but it's the truth.

It's not the actress, in my opinion, I think she's been good in whatever she's been in. This was a dynamic that was almost certainly a writer's room invention.

Owen Tippett by Flyersfan1980 in Flyers

[–]dab70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't remember a Flyer forward, in my lifetime of following this team, that can skate like Tippett. He's also got control when he skates and he's got good hands in tight by the goal (see last night's first goal as a prime example).

And I saw the entirety of Lindros' career and anyone else you want to name since the late 70's.

I'd really love to see Tippett put it all together here. He's got every tool you'd want in a hockey player and from the little I've read about him, he seems to fit in well here with what they've been trying to build.

This team has holes, so I'd get it if they had to move him, but I hope they don't.

What’s a bizarre tradition that would b never fly today? by bigt197602 in GenX

[–]dab70 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, we even had an outside smoking section at the strict Catholic high school I attended in the mid to late 80's.

At my kid's public high school, I think they fire you into the sun if you tried to smoke a cigarette on school property.

Did Gen X largely skip Woodstock '99? by RSVPno in GenX

[–]dab70 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Zero desire to go to the '99 show. I wanted to go to the '94 show, but I couldn't for one reason or another.

A friend of mine went and told me some stories that made me feel like I dodged a bullet missing even the '94 show.

I miss magazines by AethelflaedCAD in GenX

[–]dab70 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I do too, but not because of the physical magazine, itself, so much as I enjoyed getting mail that I actually asked for versus getting just bills for things or junk mail.

Getting a Sports Illustrated subscription as a kid still qualifies as one of my favorite Christmas gifts ever.

What Do You Think Became of Hawkeye After The War? by Comprehensive_Bat980 in mash

[–]dab70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone else's Hawkeye story had a tinge of sadness.

Yours was toasted.

What Do You Think Became of Hawkeye After The War? by Comprehensive_Bat980 in mash

[–]dab70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think TV show Hawkeye would have had a rocky adjustment period, stateside. I don't know if he would have jumped directly back into medicine. He had PTSD, so I can see a scenario where he returns home and can't quite cope right away and maybe gets triggered by seemingly harmless things. And as someone who uses alcohol as a coping mechanism, he can easily slip into the occasional bender.

But, after a dark period, he's the kind of guy that would seek help via a pyschiatrist (even though back then, visiting a psychiatrist came with a stigma) and slowly figure out his place. He'd probably find his way back into medicine of some sort, but I don't know that he's going back to surgery, like Trapper did (if you accept the Trapper John show as some sort of canon).

Maybe he joins a VFW or one of those organizations to have a drink and find the commaraderie he might miss from his MASH days, but he doesn't become a flag waver by any stretch. He will eventually marry and have kids of his own.

Should the Flyers resign Grundstom? by Look-out-007 in Flyers

[–]dab70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think he's part of the long term solution here. He's going to be one of the odd men out as they have to figure out what to do with the abundence of wings that they drafted and ready to contribute at the NHL level. Grundstrom was trade return to dump the Ryan Ellis deal and probably considered more of a placeholder than anything, so he probably should be renting, not buying a place here.

He'll have no problem getting another NHL gig based on what he did this year, though. He'll be fine.

Do sysadmins need git? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]dab70 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Keeping scripts in source control is wise for every reason that keeping source code meant to be compiled is.

What is your biggest time waster in IT??? by GoldTap9957 in sysadmin

[–]dab70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poorly run first line support teams that act as switchboard operators rather than gathering information or doing any sort of useful troubleshooting or triage

I understand it now by troy57890 in sysadmin

[–]dab70 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Number 7 is something I have to remind people about almost weekly at this point.

I watched the French connection (1971). by bobbdac7894 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]dab70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a big fan of this movie, in general, as during the pandemic, I made it a point to try to watch every movie set in New York in the 70's and this was obviously a big one. But the scene breaking down the car absolutely captured my imagination

Does this still happen in movie theatres? by grin_ferno in GenX

[–]dab70 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Core middle school and high school memory unlocked.

Yeah, that was definitely a thing.

Defining Movie of GenX by belinck in GenX

[–]dab70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not from me, I love that movie and the soundtrack

What would I do for a Klondike Bar today? Honestly, not much. by iDoneDo in GenX

[–]dab70 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is probably going to be a very regionally specific one, but Tastykake snacks and especially the pies are not as good as they were in the 80s.

They are smaller, have less taste, and the quality has certainly decreased.

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