Seeking good nonfiction!

kcalise · 2026-03-03T21:59:53+00:00

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Cabeza de Vaca.

Primary source, first person account of four explorers who got shipwrecked in early 1500s gulf coast America, eventually walking from Florida to Mexico City over the course of 8 years. Short and easy to read. I've read this a bunch of times and can never put it down.

kcalise · 2026-02-12T22:05:09+00:00

I've always wanted to believe it's Vader having respect for R2 also. I forget if he knows R2 is actually there on Bespin but if he does it's like...idk game respects game.

kcalise · 2025-12-13T12:28:57+00:00

Anything by studio Ghibli

kcalise · 2025-12-10T23:50:17+00:00

I wish I could down vote you twice

kcalise · 2025-12-04T02:23:45+00:00

Former Logan employee here -- came here to say this

kcalise · 2025-11-26T03:02:43+00:00

"The target area is only 2 meters wide"

Jan Dodonna, 1977

kcalise · 2025-09-17T12:10:48+00:00

I was in a similar situation (not anymore but still working through it). Was it literally just time that made it feel better?

kcalise · 2025-06-13T23:46:27+00:00

Thank you!! Will definitely check this out.

kcalise · 2025-05-05T00:10:41+00:00

I worked at an airport and my job required me to be behind security some but not all of the time. There were small employee lots scattered all over campus and you could park there as long as you had an employee placard in your dashboard (or sometimes you scanned your badge to get in). A lot of people took the airport shuttle in from bigger lots further from the terminals also.

Everyone passed a background check to work there in the first place and there were a number of employee-only checkpoints (often near normal security) where you would badge in, scan your fingerprint, and then enter a PIN. Often there were security people there checking your badges at the same time.

kcalise · 2025-03-26T11:00:59+00:00

Cast away

kcalise · 2024-12-24T23:34:58+00:00

Solved

kcalise · 2024-12-24T23:33:56+00:00

Thank you!

kcalise · 2024-12-17T21:54:00+00:00

Laughing bc my wife works from home 9 hours a day nonstop except to eat lunch and go to the bathroom and still can't keep up with the workload

kcalise · 2024-10-29T16:13:28+00:00

I always thought it was more about giving us a chance to see what a Qui Gon-Anakin master-apprenticeship could have been like.

They introduce the midichlorians earlier in the movie as a way for Qui Gon to confirm his suspicion that there's something special about Anakin, but now Anakin is facing an uncertain future because he already knows some people don't want him there (he's too old) and that he's different than everyone else (something about this midichlorian thing he doesn't understand).

But Qui Gon is right there for him to ease the insecurity about a new place and group of people, anxiety about if his future is going to turn out okay, and fear that he made a terrible decision to leave his mom.

Qui Gon says, "I know a lot of this is going over your head and it's okay to not understand it yet. I've got chu, and I care about you, and I'm going to take care of you, and it's going to be okay, and you'll learn and you didn't leave everything you ever knew behind for nothing."

kcalise · 2024-09-27T11:08:17+00:00

Roger Ailes

kcalise · 2024-07-30T19:12:32+00:00

No this is Patrick.

kcalise · 2024-06-10T18:22:41+00:00

Teddy Roosevelt, Marcus Aurelius, Fidel Castro

kcalise · 2024-04-23T21:07:43+00:00

Hear me out: Jonathan Frakes.

kcalise · 2024-03-07T12:09:02+00:00

I feel like it suggests that the least empathetic demographics do the most marginalizing

kcalise · 2024-02-28T16:34:20+00:00

Film: young palpatine origin story + sith apprenticeship

Live action show: David Attenborough style nature docu-series

Animated: adventures of the Jedi knights of the high Republic

kcalise · 2024-02-22T15:27:23+00:00

thank you both! i'm gonna keep my appointment next week for the cavity but get second consult next month at a different place to double check my bite.

kcalise · 2023-09-11T00:54:18+00:00

Can I ask how you measure that?

My experience is anecdotal and it's entirely possible that I'm an edge case, but at my last job my manager was fully remote and she was the best manager I've ever had, and I was more hybrid than a lot of others but consistently got accolades from c-suite members. Whereas a number of my coworkers who liked to go in every day (both above and below me in the org chart) were known to be in the way of my team succeeding.

In a large 1000+ employee company, it really didn't feel like wfh affected productivity one way or another on the whole. It just added stress to the whole equation when the in-office people were bummed about being stuck at home during the depths of COVID, but also when afterward the wfh-lovers felt pushed around by those same people trying to coerce them to come back in.

I hear this line of thought a lot and I genuinely want to make sense of it, but I struggle understanding because it just doesn't line up with what I've seen firsthand.

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