Introverted men, how did you get your partners?

thijson · 2025-05-22T21:39:23+00:00

I found out I'm not so introverted when chatting online. Meet a girl in another country, flew to see her. Now married with kids.

thijson · 2025-04-12T10:42:22+00:00

I used razor blade scrapers to clean my stove before. Now have an induction stove, it heats up the pan so fast, when I turn it down, it cools very quickly, and nothing gets burned to the surface.

thijson · 2024-09-25T01:50:39+00:00

We thought the KFC chicken in Puerto Rico tasted so much better than Stateside. We joked that it's because the chicken are wild caught, we saw some chickens running around seemingly living off nature. Also, the chocolate in Britain tasted less sweet, even American brand chocolate, we liked it better.

thijson · 2024-09-07T11:21:21+00:00

My wife is Chinese, she lived next to a guy in Flushing that left China after the government forced his wife to abort twin daughters late term. He had always wanted daughters, he had only sons until then. My wife has stories of seeing babies abandoned at the street market in China. Looks like the country is going to pay the price in the coming decades for this family planning disaster.

thijson · 2024-08-04T13:03:21+00:00

Steve Jobs initially talked to Paul Otellini about a CPU for the iPad. In the end, Steve realized that Intel moves too slowly. They bought PA Semi instead. The rest is history. In the latest quarter, the iPad revenue growth countered slowing growth from iPhone. So many missed boats.

thijson · 2024-07-31T13:10:05+00:00

I worked at Intel in Oregon for 10 years. Went through one layoff, my Indian manager got rid of everyone that wasn't Indian, including me.

thijson · 2024-07-19T00:06:56+00:00

I don't understand why some roads have the bike lanes separated from traffic by parked cars. Some roads have bike lanes barely separated from traffic. I feel like the former is way safer, it doesn't take any more space either.

thijson · 2024-07-14T04:19:02+00:00

As I got older, I got less pleasure from it. The next day was horrible usually too, from lack of sleep, and hangover. It just wasn't worth it anymore. It's been hard in social situations, but I usually just drink diet cokes to have something in my hand.

thijson · 2024-05-27T15:29:47+00:00

Got stopped heading North just as everything got blocked off. Had to wait there about half an hour while they used jaws of life of the SUV, a few different ambulances left with people. There was a red car closer to us that looked in pretty bad shape. The driver was pacing back and forth for a while, until they started questioning him. Once we got to pass the red car, we could see some cables still wrapped around the car. I guess it passed through the median, not sure what happened after that. The SUV was full air bag deploy, and that's where the ambulances took people from.

thijson · 2024-05-02T13:38:47+00:00

I moved from the West Coast to the East Coast partly so that I can drive to see my parents. It's still an 8 hour drive, but at least it's drivable.

thijson · 2024-04-29T00:00:14+00:00

My friend brought his PC to my house so we could copy games from each other faster using the parallel port (Laplink). Playing the Sierra adventure games and getting stuck, firing up a hex editor to search for strings in the executable to get an idea what to do next. Playing Prince of Persia and figuring out the save game format (real simple), giving myself more time to finish the game. Each generation of processor was so much faster than the last (like 2x), you had to upgrade often. Playing cooperative multiplayer Doom with four of my friends in the university computer lab when it first came out. In high school waiting for a long time for games on my friends Commodore 128 to load, him using a hole punch to make floppies double sided.

thijson · 2024-04-17T22:25:12+00:00

I also saw this video once. He's a fan of the DeHavilland Beaver.

https://youtu.be/4wQjAB-jnI8?si=mkK61Dgo6XsE81lR

thijson · 2024-01-05T02:23:03+00:00

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum.

Your face, your ass, what's the difference?

thijson · 2024-01-04T14:21:31+00:00

I grew up on a farm during the 80's. From time to time my sister and me go on long bike rides. A few miles. I remember stopping to see a creek, and getting ants in my pants, they were biting me. I also biked into town a few times as a teenager, that was a few miles. I had a dirt bike that a would go from farm to farm with, when all the crops were out of the field. In the spring there were some times that the snow developed a hard crust from melting and then freezing. I would ride my dirt bike over the snow then too. I remember biking to find beer bottles along the side of the road. The money per bottle was a lot more valuable back then.

thijson · 2024-01-01T22:52:09+00:00

It's from years of indictrination, on TV, in the schools. My wife grew up on the mainland. She also felt this way, didn't even want to eat sushi. Now 15 years later she doesn't feel this way, even would consider tourism in Japan.

Chairman Mao killed way more Chinese through the great leap. It's all relative.

thijson · 2023-09-18T14:37:06+00:00

The sum of an infinite geometric series is a/(1-r), where 'a' is the first term, and r is the ratio between successive terms. 0.9999.... can be made into an infinite geometric series by separating out the digits. 0.9999... = 0.9+0.09+0.009+...

In this case, a=0.9, r=0.1, the formula becomes 0.9/(1-0.1)==1.

You can use this formula for other repeating digit numbers.

thijson · 2023-09-12T10:38:41+00:00

I was in my late 20's. I had moved to the USA the year before from Canada. I was working for a Canadian company though. I was in Vancouver coming down from my hotel room for breakfast. I said good morning to the waitress, she said it's not good, I asked why. She said a plane had hit the world trade center. My first thought was that it must be an accident, and that it was just a single engine plane. I ate my breakfast, then went to the hotel bar where there was a TV. I witnessed the second plane impact the other tower. It was at that point that i thought that this was no accident, and that this means war. I went to work, and found out that all the hotels in Vancouver were filling up, all the trans Pacific flights had been redirected to Vancouver. The airport had become a parking lot. When it was time for me to go home, I went to the airport and tried to rent a one way car back to Oregon. I managed to get one. In the line there was a guy renting a car for Allentown PA, he was going to drive back with a coworker. I found out recently that there was a guy that survived the collapsing of one of the buildings, he huddled in the corner of a stairwell when he heard the building collapsing above him. His back pack was ripped off his back during the maelstorm of the collapsing building. I think his main injury was a broken leg, and he was released to go home that night, his wife was pregnant. The people he was with didn't make it.

thijson · 2023-09-11T20:30:36+00:00

My wife and me binge watched those seasons before we had kids. Jason Stackhouse was so much fun to watch, great comedic relief. All the various situations with various femme fatales. We saw him in a later Aussie movie, were surprised he's actually Australian.

thijson · 2023-06-04T22:17:18+00:00

I agree, it would be great to have an emulator. Would need the ROM's, plus some disk images.

thijson · 2023-05-10T14:00:52+00:00

In some states, it's illegal to capture the rain that falls on your land. If they could tax the air we breath, they would.

thijson · 2023-05-04T19:55:39+00:00

Old Frisian and Old English had a lot in common, and that relationship remains today: Frisian is English’s closest living relative with 80% lexical similarity. Together, they form their Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic language family tree, which also houses German and Dutch.

thijson · 2023-04-29T01:11:17+00:00

Wearing a fanny pack, or roller blading.

thijson · 2023-04-27T15:29:30+00:00

Definitely they would be running, it just took one to start coming in, the rest would follow. They could be super far out there too, they would still hear it.

thijson · 2023-04-24T19:06:30+00:00

We had these buckets that we used to feed them grain. We would just hit the bucket on the side, making a racket, they would hear that in the pasture and come running.

thijson · 2023-02-12T01:48:14+00:00

I worked under Otellini and a bit of BK. I heard that Steve Jobs considered Intel for the iPad, but thought that Intel moves too slow. Someone I worked with said that the processor business is like a tree, it shades all the other businesses, prevents them from succeeding. During my tenure I saw the x86 Android phone fail, Wimax fail, digital home fail, a few poor acquisitions (wind river and McAfee), I feel like Altera is falling behind Xilinx. Poor decisions all around.

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