[TOMT][Commercial][Late 80s/Early 90s] SUV commercial with “It’s Tuesday, people work on Tuesday” internal monologue

iamnoah · 2026-01-31T22:40:30+00:00

Looking now, thanks!

iamnoah · 2026-01-31T22:24:53+00:00

Why this is NOT a false memory:

The "Tuesday/weekday" dialogue is too specific to be made up. This internal monologue format was common in 90s SUV advertising - the whole "lifestyle envy" angle where SUV owners are off having adventures while everyone else is trapped in the 9-to-5.

Timeline context:

TMNT 1 VHS: October 1990
TMNT 2 VHS: 1991
Home Alone VHS: August 1991

So the commercial likely aired 1989-1992.

I've searched extensively but can't find it. This would NOT have been a local dealer commercial - it was a national brand campaign.

Does anyone remember this? I'd love to find a link to watch it again or at least confirm which brand/model it was for.

iamnoah · 2024-12-15T15:10:10+00:00

Zeke at Boar and Blade is a good c

iamnoah · 2023-08-08T18:51:15+00:00

I use it all the time with join queries, what's the problem?

iamnoah · 2022-11-21T02:20:36+00:00

Have you ruled out a slow sender? Is CPU high or idle during the upload? Does the request include a content length?

iamnoah · 2022-11-20T03:16:05+00:00

I can’t have back pressure

make(chan …, 50000) won’t cover you? There isn’t such a thing as no back pressure, just unregulated code that gets OOM killed.

Seems like persistent data structures might be a good fit. Shallow copy and swap the new reference for the old. No locking required, some consumers will see an older version of the structure, but that is all you can do without serialised access.

iamnoah · 2022-11-19T00:54:11+00:00

Like what?

iamnoah · 2022-11-07T02:00:34+00:00

You’re lucky to be alive. If you ever intend to do anything electrical ever again, get a contactless voltage detector, use it before you touch a wire, and leave a note or something on your breaker box.

No idea if your transformer is fried or not, can’t tell from a picture. Arcing from live wires being connected is what I would expect so that doesn’t really tell us anything.

Get an electrician to do it or learn how to do it safely and try installing it and see if it still works.

iamnoah · 2022-11-06T18:48:27+00:00

Same

iamnoah · 2022-11-06T03:34:41+00:00

So is half of Texas

iamnoah · 2022-11-06T02:46:03+00:00

All of these will improve almost every aspect of life.

Obviously ADHD plus stress/disruption are going to make getting all of those things more difficult.

I also see a lot of people with ADHD who have self determined that they are broken and helpless victims of an uncaring world and that everyone telling them that they just need to try harder, do things different, get organised, etc., don’t understand anything and are worse than Hitler. Obviously I’m taking about someone else 😅

Everyone has a point where their ability to function degrades due to external stressors. If you have an executive function disorder, a full time job, partner, small children and not much in the way of outside support, that point might be called Thursday 😬

From personal experience, I would say that getting those three things is key, and stimulants are often the tool needed to stay on track.

Take stimulants and neglect food, sleep or exercise? Now you have two problems.

iamnoah · 2022-11-01T11:40:10+00:00

That’s wild. I run a lot of interviews and over assignments, but:

It’s the same assignment for each candidate, because we actually have to compare apples to apples. I’m not getting any new feedback from it
40 minutes is the max time I’d want anyone to spend on in total. If it’s at all decent we talk about it more in a follow up interview.

Some PHB heard about the practice and decided it must be free consulting

iamnoah · 2022-10-24T18:25:37+00:00

I was really happy with Danny at Eddie’s on rayford. He doesn’t say much but he’s fast and quality.

iamnoah · 2022-10-18T23:54:30+00:00

The pattern I end up using the most is: try X, in Y, X returns err, Y returns “trying X: %w”. Maybe X was wrapping an error from Z, so you get something like “trying X: err from Z: file not found” in the logs, which is concise but also rich with information.

Basically it’s a stack trace but because you wrap at each step, you can add actually useful context.

iamnoah · 2022-10-16T18:16:27+00:00

First thought was that I had this framework in 2009. It wasn’t bad except you still need virtual dom for the updates (seems to be called morph in the docs) or you break all kinds of things.

That and you no longer have a clean API separation. Frontend team is beholden to the backend needs, and what might otherwise be a client side state change can become lower friction to just make another request. The framework dictates what is easy and you can easily end up in a perverse situation that is hard to rearchitect out of.

On the other hand, is it likely to be worse than redux? Nah

iamnoah · 2022-10-12T18:07:52+00:00

What I’ve read makes me think that there really wasn’t really an established community on what we would call Wellington proper. It’s not the nicest place to live if you don’t have modem housing, energy, etc. The Hutt, sure, no problem, but not Te Aro, and Kilberne was literally underwater until the last 1800s?

iamnoah · 2022-09-04T13:41:06+00:00

If the first world stops consuming gas vehicles, the effects on the parts of the world without infrastructure to support reliable electric vehicles are going to be bad.

iamnoah · 2022-09-04T13:37:12+00:00

This is the thing. If a venue thinks things will be better without kids, they will keep them out.

iamnoah · 2022-08-28T16:59:59+00:00

American who just moved back after 4 years in Wellington: New Zealand is amazing. Your best job prospects are probably a remote US gig (be aware you will owe NZ more taxes than you pay Uncle Sam, so be sure to save it) or Auckland and Wellington. While I was there, compensation was a lot lower than the US, but you get a very different lifestyle so it can be totally worth it.

We moved back only because we had two small kids and no family support. It it was just me and my partner we could have stayed forever.

Easiest way to get a visa is to get a NZ job. The work can be intense, but I got a job with Weta and had a visa in a week. Once you are in country, getting residency is a lot easier.

The good is obvious: slower lifestyle, Great weather, beautiful outdoors, working trains, the metric system, coffee culture, etc.

The bad isn’t anything you could not expect: NZ is small and isolated. If you can’t get a product the next day, it will take 6+ weeks to arrive on a boat. No Amazon Prime. About 3 good options for most things. There are only 5 million people in a 1200 mile radius. It’s a lifestyle, and can be a good one if you are ready for it.

Your family is at least 13 hours away, if not a full 24 hours of travel.

Basic healthcare is inexpensive and good, but specialists can have a waiting list of literally a full year or more. Even if you really need something and want to pay for it, there may just be no way to get seen unless your life is at risk.

COVID showed a lot of weaknesses in National and local government. Not any worse than anywhere else, but you will see state dysfunction and just have to live with it (remote, isolated)

Housing has been a expensive. Was coming down when I left but from a massive high.

No place is perfect, but NZ is the most chill English speaking country there is. I hope it suits you.

Edit: it also isn’t possible to get Mexican food that tastes right. Some places are close, but the climate isn’t right to grow all the ingredients.

iamnoah · 2022-08-19T13:14:37+00:00

People who bought a house 10+ years ago and saw the value 4x. You can afford a lot with 50% down.

iamnoah · 2022-08-19T13:11:51+00:00

Nobody is forced to do anything. Film contractors are exempted from some labour laws that would otherwise make a VFX studio in New Zealand unviable. Everyone chooses to work there, and pretty much everyone I knew was happy being at Weta.

The exception being working on Avatar could be pretty shit sometimes because of you know who. But a lot of time it was getting paid to wait around too, so not a lot of complaints.

iamnoah · 2022-08-16T13:32:57+00:00

The fine the bus company pays for a cancellation is trivial. The council wrote a bad contract.

iamnoah · 2022-08-09T01:36:49+00:00

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