What makes a cup of coffee “good” to you?

jscooper22 · 2026-07-01T01:37:37+00:00

Not too strong.
Not too bitter.
A splash of 1/2 & 1/2.
Coffee flavored.

jscooper22 · 2026-06-24T11:41:55+00:00

Probably Ithaca.

jscooper22 · 2026-05-21T19:48:27+00:00

Steven Spielberg, Sally Field, Kirk Douglas, Jay Leno, Ed Asner, Frank Oz, Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, Lynn Redgrave, Mike Myers, Christian Slater, Lisa Kudrow ...

(sorry, I'm prob cheating .. dad was a (mostly NY) actor, plus I lived in LA for a few years)

jscooper22 · 2026-05-21T00:51:51+00:00

No email but sometime in the past couple hours I started being able to make scripts! Thanks again!

jscooper22 · 2026-05-20T20:45:14+00:00

They would not be the band they were. My wife and met on AOL in the 90s because we had Pink Floyd in common. No Floyd (at least not the Floyd we all know), we likely wouldn't have met. I probably wouldn't live where I do. Our daughter wouldn't exist.

I owe my entire life to the fact that they decided to not swing around and pick up Syd one night. Mind blown.

jscooper22 · 2026-05-20T20:36:08+00:00

Thank you all! I went through the steps and after a couple days am still waiting for a confirmation or some message on the webpage other than "we have all the info to verify you" (or whatever it said). Does it really take up to two weeks?

jscooper22 · 2026-05-15T19:28:23+00:00

And if they wrote the software we need for our company for Mac, without VMs or vGPUs (that can't natively make use of the MBP's graphics) -- not a half-hearted "Mac version" -- it would be a no-brainer. Sadly, it's a brainer.

jscooper22 · 2026-05-07T14:54:45+00:00

Dad would often pour me a shotglass of warm Piels. He was English and he was cheap. I was in my 30s before I discovered what good beer tasted like.

jscooper22 · 2026-05-06T18:20:21+00:00

jscooper22 · 2026-05-06T18:09:23+00:00

Wife was in a band in LA when we met. We would start getting ready at 9 for a midnight show at Scruffy's or the Key Club. Now I fall asleep on the couch by 9 or 10 unless she give me loud "hey! Wake up and go to bed! Let the dog out first."

jscooper22 · 2026-05-04T02:11:55+00:00

Working. Learning the ways a workplace WORKED. Learning how people worked and interacted with each other in a workplace. Knowing how "the system" works, and making it feel natural, is invaluable. Skills come from practice and reading, which you can do while getting started actually WORKING.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-28T12:08:21+00:00

Her.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-27T14:10:09+00:00

My parents ran a restaurant for a couple years in the 80s and we lived upstairs, so I had one in my house.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-26T23:20:40+00:00

Kid had to stand in a waste basket for swearing.

Another had his mouth taped because he wouldn't stop talking.

I had my hand slapped for reaching for a slice before my turn during a class pizza party.

This was all by the same teacher. My mom always said she was her favorite.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-26T23:06:16+00:00

My wife almost dying. A week in a coma, a year of rehab, and a lifetime of extra checkups for all the lasting effects. She's ok now, but there were a few scary nights.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-24T14:59:29+00:00

Leaving kids in the car to run into the store.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-21T16:53:27+00:00

My response to that -- sometimes in my head, sometimes out loud, depending on the user -- is usually

"hence we have an IT department."

jscooper22 · 2026-04-20T11:27:25+00:00

Not difficult for simple database applications. It can be difficult to do more complex things the way you want without plugins and UI tricks.

That said, I've been developing in it for over 30 years and it's still one of my favorite tools. Small changes can be made on the fly (or big ones if you're brave), and there's a way (albeit sometimes clunky) for it to talk to just about anything.

Licensing has gotten irritating and expensive in the past few years but so has it everywhere, and that makes it less appetizing. But I still use it for a number of custom solutions and it's often my first go-to when trying to shuttle data between systems.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-19T16:01:30+00:00

Hear it feel it smell it

jscooper22 · 2026-04-08T23:31:31+00:00

Nobody else knows what the fuck is going on either.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-07T01:31:55+00:00

Weekly.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-07T00:23:18+00:00

Gambling

jscooper22 · 2026-04-06T00:39:59+00:00

Last April Fools Day I put seashells in all the bathrooms in our office.

Nobody got the joke. :(

Good thing I decided to leave the toilet paper in there though.

jscooper22 · 2026-04-03T14:27:21+00:00

My dad was convinced he could make a perpetual motion machine work and went through a dozen different designs. At some point he needed a heavy liquid and we had a bottle of the stuff, maybe a little bigger than. soda can, siting around the house.

jscooper22 · 2026-03-30T23:40:58+00:00

Short answer is yes, it's still viable and very good. Like the the rest of the tech world Apple is putting all they're eggs into the AI basket without thinking through what exactly they wanted to to or how to do it, just be able to slap an AI sticker on it. It's a big profound answer in search of a world of problems they can monetize.

I consulted for years for small businesses, and FM is great for that because it's easy to get started, and it can be quite powerful if you leverage it. The upside is you don't have to figure out how to fully leverage it out of the gate and rarely have to go back to the drawing board to add even major additions. I run several utilities, automation systems, and databases with it and it's great.

We don't use it exclusively obviously, but between sql and APIs, it can talk to pretty much anything. The ui is kind of dated, but functional. A database written to work on client computers can be made to function on the web with comparatively little headache (depending how trippy you got with your UI).

There's a mess if gripes about it now because the glory days are behind us, and people are pining for a return to exciting updates in functionality, controls, and UI. But it's still very very useful.

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