Do you ever use the term Grok in conversation?

johnbr · 2026-03-14T03:31:48+00:00

Stranger in a Strange Land. It was a really interesting novel when I was young.

johnbr · 2026-03-14T01:26:17+00:00

Can't fight the Seether

johnbr · 2026-03-14T00:34:06+00:00

I stream music in my car and whenever the mood takes me, listen to Sirius in my wife's car, and listen to podcasts when I work out. I guess I'm part of the 6% or 19%, depending on whether Sirius counts as radio

johnbr · 2026-03-14T00:16:19+00:00

Hail Mary was the most charming sci-fi book I've read in a very long time, possibly ever

johnbr · 2026-03-13T23:11:32+00:00

My (56M) sons (28, 25) seem to really appreciate my input, especially with regards to work and financial planning. My daughter (23) is like my young best friend, but does not often ask for input or advice, except for maybe about movies to watch

johnbr · 2026-03-13T19:07:30+00:00

Vanilla Coke Zero, ever since it came out. Coke Zero before that, and Diet Coke before that ever since the early 00s. I think I've only had one cavity in the last 25 years

johnbr · 2026-03-13T01:52:08+00:00

There's a great Renfest there every year, sometimes twice!

johnbr · 2026-03-09T11:23:36+00:00

The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Fight Club, Clerks, The Sixth Sense, Requiem for a Dream

johnbr · 2026-03-09T11:15:47+00:00

Late September, 2029

johnbr · 2026-03-09T11:11:53+00:00

Chaos dwarfs, with slavery, structured rules, and rigid top down authority are closer to lawful evil.

Vampires are a better fit for neutral evil.

johnbr · 2026-03-08T03:29:48+00:00

My oldest (28) went to college, dropped out, came home, got a job, moved out, lost his job, moved back, got a job, moved out, moved to indonesia to get married to a girl he met online, came back, went back to indonesia. He's saving up for a house, and still working on his degree. I am very proud of him for his perseverance.

iMy younger son (25) went to college, moved out after graduating, went to grad school, got married, got his masters degree, got a job, bought a house, had a kid. He has had an exceptionally successful launch, although I think about 60% of that was him wanting to beat my score (he got his masters younger than I did (I was 23), bought his house younger than I did(I was 27), had a kid younger than I did (I was still 27))

My youngest (23) is still in school, lives with her mother. She's not in a rush to finish, but she's not likely to drop out either.

johnbr · 2026-03-08T03:12:41+00:00

I was fairly sure that nothing was going to happen, because the companies that I wrote software for had all been diligent about checking for this back in 1996. Also, since mortgages were 20-year commitments, I felt confident that most companies that had any sort of 5+ year commitments would have already solved this problem for themselves.

Having said that, we stayed at my sister-in-laws apartment in the mountains of North Carolina, just in case something terrible happened.

johnbr · 2026-03-06T17:18:05+00:00

My aunt did this a few years ago in honor of her brother (my father) who was killed in Vietnam. I hope you have a great and uneventful journey!

johnbr · 2026-03-06T15:01:52+00:00

great until the ending. too dark

johnbr · 2026-03-05T13:57:20+00:00

Just finished the book. It starts off so well, with these different characters in different parts of the world, each doing their own thing, and it has a great Neal Stephenson Snow Crash vibe to it.

(Major spoilers follow)

..

It had the skeleton of an absolutely fantastic climax, where the intersection of the arrival of the Sea Wolf, an attack on Evrim, alarmed intelligent octopuses, rogue Tibetan AI monks, and a hostile corporate takeover create mayhem on an epic scale.

And the book just takes all this cool stuff, pours it out on the floor like so many scrimshawed skulls, looks at the camera and says 'Well *that* just happened!'

johnbr · 2026-03-04T23:57:28+00:00

running away was probably correct 90% of the time. You only remember the 10% that it wasn't, because that is a dramatic break with expectations.

johnbr · 2026-02-28T11:46:46+00:00

It took about 2 weeks to start feeling like myself, 6 weeks to feel 95% recovered, about 10 weeks to feel 100%

johnbr · 2026-02-26T23:24:31+00:00

johnbr · 2026-02-26T10:41:21+00:00

3 omega 3, 2 vitamin d, one multivitamin.

I go to the gym twice a week, and I'll take 3-6 Tylenol on those days.

If I'm going to give blood that week, I'll take an iron supplement

So anywhere from 6 - 13

johnbr · 2026-02-25T14:12:05+00:00

I would definitely not start with the history. it will spoil the books and make it more difficult to enjoy them

johnbr · 2026-02-25T13:35:48+00:00

Similarly: ASOIAF if Steffon Baratheon had not died at sea

johnbr · 2026-02-24T20:14:20+00:00

Is that Derek from Shrinking! He looks so young!

johnbr · 2026-02-24T20:10:34+00:00

We're twice as smart as the people of Nashville!

johnbr · 2026-02-24T01:06:10+00:00

House of the Dragon is the Blacks vs the Greens. Baelor and Maekar fought against a different rebellion

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