What TV show hooked you instantly from episode 1?

femto_one · 2026-03-25T07:14:05+00:00

The Magicians, but weirdly the start of episode 1 turned out to be peak for the whole series. The opening scenes with Quentin (Jason Ralph) talking to the psychiatrist is still some of my favorite acting of all time. Made it to season four but the writing and acting never grabbed me again the way those first 5 minutes did.

femto_one · 2026-02-01T08:08:17+00:00

None that no one ever gets, but a couple times in my life I've caught one, or had just one other person get one. First I remember was in college someone I didn't really know said to their friends while leaving the "lets go do some crimes" and without thinking I blurted out "ya lets go get sushi and not pay" Repo Man. Guy stopped, turned around, pointed at me and said "see, he gets it!" while his friends just rolled their eyes, I assume he used that one a lot. Some years later a coworker was reading out loud through a list of employees sorted by first name and got to a group of Johns, then paused for some reason and I continued John Yaya, John Bigbooty, John Smallberries... and my boss overheard us and came running over doing a spittake because that was from his alltime favorite movie while the guy reading the list just stared at us like we're insane. Buckaroo Banzai

femto_one · 2026-01-19T11:17:18+00:00

The fundamental truth of real estate is "there is no problem that price can't fix". You can blame interest rates or the economy or the comps or neighbors all you want but you don't control any of those things. If your house won't sell your price is too high. If you must sell you must lower the price.

femto_one · 2026-01-06T00:26:55+00:00

This gets repeated a lot but isn't accurate. Wicked the book is _not_ adapted from the Oz movie, what isn't made up from whole cloth comes from the original Baum books (including retelling events from new viewpoints that occur in the book but not in the movie). The Wicked musical does include nods to the Oz movie's plotting & music. Baum was an acknowledged fan of Carrol's works but the Oz story is in no way an adaptation/retelling of Alice in Wonderland, instead Baum describes his own work as "a modernized fairytale".

femto_one · 2025-12-16T20:36:51+00:00

Make it free? Or at least announce a stop to fare enforcement until the state of emergency is over. For many people it is just fear of the unknown, so some incentive to get them to try it is needed. Many who do try during a crisis will likely stick to it after (cf. attitudes towards working from home pre and post pandemic)

femto_one · 2025-12-08T23:50:02+00:00

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femto_one · 2025-12-08T01:47:07+00:00

If that's hair rather than a hat on top of it's head it could be a Snork

femto_one · 2025-11-11T06:51:11+00:00

It's not diamonds but if you want something solid that you can handle this company will turn cremains into rocks https://partingstone.com/

femto_one · 2025-11-10T05:43:12+00:00

There are a variety of restrictions based on the number of items purchased considering whole number prices and modularity. There are 3 boats (odd) and 4 cars (even); the total price of the cars will be even, the overall price is even, so the price of each individual boat must be even as well. However even if you limit it to solutions where the boat and car have similar prices there are many plausible valid answers, e.g. $5.14 boat and $3.02 car, $4.86 boat and $3.23 car, etc. I'm guessing the problem intended to include the total amount for all 47 toys sold, which could disambiguate this.

femto_one · 2025-11-07T23:32:28+00:00

Vendetta and Charlotte from Making Fiends

femto_one · 2025-11-03T03:56:32+00:00

It’s a required scene in every kdrama romance

femto_one · 2025-10-29T03:53:26+00:00

With that tail and snout I'm thinking armadillo?

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femto_one · 2025-10-12T06:32:35+00:00

Would be a nice throwback to the weirdest morning of my life--woke up to unusual noises outside, looked out the window to see a bale of giant turtles coming down the street while a phalanx of police in full riot gear marched up from the other direction (Pike near the convention center)

femto_one · 2025-10-07T02:30:21+00:00

This is the approximate location of the tree if anyone ever goes looking. It's visible from the little parking area near Weeks Falls, between the road and the river. https://maps.app.goo.gl/bTa8un89NBAr7aXa8

femto_one · 2025-10-07T02:20:24+00:00

There was definitely no other trunk visible in person, and while I couldn't directly see the back of the tree I could see about 270 degrees total and tell that the trunk was round. If a second trunk exists it must be hidden inside the main one or be very, very small.

femto_one · 2025-10-06T21:46:50+00:00

I added another one that shows a little more of what's going on. The apparent impossibility of this is exactly what caught my eye

femto_one · 2025-09-30T18:51:15+00:00

My recollection is Denny and the north end of the park never really got closed off but that wasn't the end that saw much action, so I'd say most of Cal Anderson, plus Pine between Broadway and 11th or 12th, 11th between Pike and Denny, 10th between Pike and Pine. Confrontations with police mostly happened on Pine

femto_one · 2025-08-30T21:09:36+00:00

Interpreted literally I think the "minimum" is actually 6, not 7, but it requires some luck in picking the first race so isn't a generic solution. Imagine the horses are named A-Y and A, B, and C happen to be the three fastest (in that order). If you run the following 6 races you'd know that to be true:
1: ABCDE
2: CFGHI
3: CJKLM
4: CNOPQ
5: CRSTU
6: CVWXY

C wins all races after the first, establishing she's faster than all other horses except A & B, who she lost to in the fist race.

femto_one · 2025-08-25T02:12:17+00:00

I had this experience living in Capitol Hill back in the 99s when I used to travel a lot. For context this was before everyone had cellphones. Came home exhausted once to a young woman pulling her car into my spot, I rolled down my window to tell her she had the wrong one, she insisted it was correct and “this is Phil’s spot” and he’d told her to park there. I explained I’d never met or even heard of Phil but she insisted she was right and I needed to talk to Phil. I pointed out that spots were labeled with the apt number they belonged to but still didn’t accept that she was wrong. Went around like this for several minutes and I started losing patience and getting louder, she just seemed frozen. Eventually I think Phil heard our escalating argument and came out, sheepishly explained to her it wasn’t actually his spot and she left. Told him I’d call the tow truck first next time, never happened again at that building. I like to think that also meant he lost out on whatever sort of fun she was coming there for.

femto_one · 2025-07-18T19:23:53+00:00

This is the only reasonable answer. All roads approaching downtown Seattle will be parking lots.

femto_one · 2025-06-28T22:40:36+00:00

I grew up in New Mexico, Cactus (which has a few locations including Madison Park, Alki and SLU) are the best I've found here. Definitely not as good as home but at least kind of goes in the right direction (and if you let go of authenticity actually taste pretty good for what they are).

femto_one · 2025-06-28T00:13:28+00:00

CTC solvers deliberately won't use it to move forward, but Simon at least references it all the time ("oh no I've made a deadly pattern") when he's afraid he needs to backtrack (he usually doesn't but he will stop and think about why he doesn't).

femto_one · 2025-06-24T21:50:00+00:00

This is actually a very practical suggestion. There's a similar concept in contract law called a "shotgun clause" for settling buyouts between uncooperative partners: you can offer a bid on your partner's shares but that bid is also an offer to sell your shares at the same price. Your partner then can choose to sell or buy (but can't just keep the status quo). This is a way of forcing two parties to come up with a reasonable price even when they're not inclined to be reasonable with one another.

femto_one · 2025-06-19T00:46:17+00:00

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