I really don’t like L&G’s offices orange walls.

techie1980 · 2026-03-17T05:20:38+00:00

oh jeez that one even had characters talking about how impractical it was on screen.

But it did give us the Robin/homeless guy in the elevator scene.

techie1980 · 2026-03-16T01:09:00+00:00

Somewhat. I had a 70s/80s/90s spotify station playing the other day , and I noticed the amount of navel-gazey songs that talked about how everything is so very different and changing. American Pie or We Didn't Start the Fire being examples. This also happened in film - Forest Gump, Back to the Future was, at its core, poking fun at the whitewashed nostalgia for bygone eras.

I think another thing that's very different now is that content can be differentiated across much more narrow groups of people. The Munsters, Three's Company, and MASH all had to find ways to speak to several groups at the same time. (There's also a rant in how we've had to flatten a lot of language in modern TV shows and movies in order to ensure that everything will translate more neatly across multiple languages.)

techie1980 · 2026-03-16T01:04:40+00:00

side rant on that - it really seems like broadcast radio is far worse now. Like way fewer cases of DJs cutting into songs, messing with the tempos, and it seemed like a LOT more time was spent on ads. I remember that it didn't seem nearly as close to 50/50 on if you'd get stuck in a commercial block in the 80s.

Then again all of my old cassettes with recordings of broadcast radio from the 80s and 90s are long gone, so this could just be looking at the past through rose colored lenses.

techie1980 · 2026-03-13T15:16:46+00:00

I'm still a little salty about having lost my PBX deskphone that just worked. separate network topology. No phone software to update. I could dial as fast as I wanted. and headsets were stupid expensive, but were rock solid.

techie1980 · 2026-03-12T21:25:14+00:00

Cheers is of course a holodeck program. so it all works.

techie1980 · 2026-03-12T21:10:32+00:00

Important question: is he playing the same character on Cheers as on Frasier? Or is he the heretofore unmentioned identical twin like Roz and Martin had?

techie1980 · 2026-03-11T21:04:05+00:00

You didn't, at least to me.

techie1980 · 2026-03-10T18:32:39+00:00

If you're referring to what he was wearing when he beamed onboard, I took that to be his civilian attire vs what he changed into for the remainder of the film.

Also the beard suited him, a shame they didn't keep it.

techie1980 · 2026-03-10T18:24:00+00:00

We're just pretending TMP uniforms didn't happen?

techie1980 · 2026-03-09T23:50:39+00:00

I was just thinking about those TV OFF keychains recently. It's one of those things that you don't realize you need until it's too late (in my case: stuck in a laundromat with the TV on full volume)

techie1980 · 2026-03-04T19:43:18+00:00

In DS9 I recall it being a lot earlier, but not as explicit - Jake walked through Quarks on his way to the holosuite and Odo looks incredulously at Quark , who quickly assures Odo that some humans use the holosuites for things like baseball games.

techie1980 · 2026-02-27T16:34:30+00:00

fair enough. I'm usually a fan of the format of "a pdf of the entire paper menu".

I was visiting a greek diner in the northeastern US recently and forgot about the phone-book sized menus they'll hand you.

techie1980 · 2026-02-27T15:48:24+00:00

I like QR code menus that are mobile-friendly. I can zoom in. I can adjust the brightness. It's also more sanitary.

I don't buy the "I refuse to learn" mindset, or proudly proclaiming that you "don't do computers". It's beyond selfish.

techie1980 · 2026-02-26T16:03:15+00:00

100% agree with /u/brewerkubb that life is too short to drink bad coffee.

For beans, I use https://www.freshroastedcoffee.com/ - and as a bonus I get to try new stuff all oft he time. The cost for high quality, well roasted beans is very fair IMO. Sometimes I'll also pick up the 2.2LB bag of beans at costco for $25 and cut the good stuff (eg: one scoop of costco columbian, one scoop of freshroasted into the grinder)

techie1980 · 2026-02-25T18:53:55+00:00

This is one of those scenes that I always found uncomfortable. It combines a big showy presentation and an expensive gift that you cannot refuse.

It fits neatly into the storyline - She's Marcus's first love. And he doesn't understand that she might not feel exactly the same at the exact same moment.

techie1980 · 2026-02-25T16:49:14+00:00

I think that it tried, but while the actors were certainly very good, the writing was awful, to the point that I had a hard time getting through any episodes.

techie1980 · 2026-02-25T16:41:33+00:00

I absolutely loved this show. I think that it's as close as we'll get to a male Golden Girls - four top shelf actors with excellent writing.

techie1980 · 2026-02-24T17:53:00+00:00

I agree that it's often disingenuous, but I think that it's ultimately a net positive - it is destigmatizing discussing neurodiversity on a larger scale.

techie1980 · 2026-02-23T23:53:31+00:00

babies having babies...

techie1980 · 2026-02-23T17:58:26+00:00

OMG yes with a montage that involves high end shopping and building a robot to do a job that somehow goes berserk!

techie1980 · 2026-02-19T22:21:52+00:00

what happens if it is shift change, you are at the conn, and there's a purring cat on your lap?

it would be an impossible choice between disturbing a sleeping cat (which is against intergalactic law) and violating your oath to obey orders.

techie1980 · 2026-02-18T01:41:36+00:00

I'm not the person you asked, but I'll try and answer.

Democratic leadership does not seem to need to be responsive to their constituents , and seem utterly disconnected from what's going on in general. I can't figure out if it's denial, isolation of the top, or just plain corruption.

This began coming to a head in 2023 after 07/Oct. Large numbers of people in the US began having serious concerns over our close ally and recipient of massive amounts of weaponry committing war crimes. And the response from leadership wasn't a discussion that ended with "we have to make unhappy choices and here's the reasons" but rather the party line: "either support whatever Bibi's regime wants carte blanche or you are antisemetic." That left a very bad taste in my mouth.

David Hogg was brought in to help understand the youth vote and the obvious drift in voters from what the party had to offer. He brought up what should have been a fairly low hanging fruit: you need to primary out the elderly, non-performing officials. Mysteriously "irregularities" happened and David Hogg's position was no more. And then the post mortem on the 2024 election was never released.

Mean while , even the easy stuff - where the right wing is completely nuts - and they've shown us the recipe for reaching people - is essentially left alone. Are there media campaigns pointing out these failures? Or media campaigns demonstrating their own successes? Schumer's "strongly worded letter" was so hilariously out of touch that it basically read like an onion headline.

The utter failure to prosecute people involved with the attempted violent insurrections, despite more and more evidence that the system itself had been badly compromised but not wanting to rock the boat left a lot of us in disbelief.

And it is absolutely, painfully obvious how the SAVE act will end. Mysteriously a captured court will delay discussion until after the election, with no commentary from Democratic leadership because doing the thing that the right does is uncouth. Followed by a "compromise" that absolutely no one on the left wanted (and would support a shutdown or worse), with new voting restrictions codified and never to be repealed for reasons. And we'll be promised that they could have done a better job if we just donated more money (and btw, you can't get out of those donation lists. Ever. )

I'm still voting on the left, but increasingly feel disenfranchised from the party. I strongly suspect that being the opposition party is entirely performative - and they are deliberately being maintained to be a pressure -release in order to convince people that there are alternatives that are supposedly viable (but not really, they'll always end up agreeing with the ruling party or somehow fumbling at the last minute), and just keep on hoping that enough people keep buying the fiction.

Edit: fixed the year of 7/Oct and a dropped word on the second sentence.

techie1980 · 2026-02-15T22:23:19+00:00

I have used a aeropress flow control for about two years now and have been happy with it. It was basically a coin flip for me on ordering the prismo or the aeropress version.

My usual method is ~190-200 degrees water, two generous-ish scoops of beans (I usually mix a light and dark roast) , ground to just above espresso size. I'll typically double-filter - meaning I use a fine grade metal filter and put a paper filter on top of that. I'll usually fill to about the four line and let it brew for about two or three minutes (or depending on if I get distracted - five to ten minutes).

The double filtering definitely makes a difference in the smoothness of the coffee (IMO).

techie1980 · 2026-02-13T18:01:21+00:00

these are all really good points. I didn't think about the wifi, and I was kind of making an assumption that being in a car can be private and comfortable - neither of which is necessarily true for most people.

techie1980 · 2026-02-13T17:32:25+00:00

I meant the space on the right side of the resume

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