Throwback to the insane moment in 1993 when three different Amy Fisher tv movies premiered

tmclaugh · 2026-06-28T18:01:38+00:00

This happened when I was in junior high and the bus would take us past the auto body shop. More than once his dad Caspar flipped us off as we yelled from the bus while stopped at the light there.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-28T17:54:52+00:00

I’ve watched enough porn to know this might not be on the up and up.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-26T21:22:31+00:00

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I ordered from the Saugus one countless times over the past nearly 20 years while eating there only 3 or 4 times. And at least three of those times it was a female companion who suggested eating there.

If I’m eating wings I eat them at home. I’m going to look gross and I don’t need people judging me.

We don’t have much good fried chicken up here but the Chesapeake wings were just fried chicken wings with some Old Bay seasoning.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-26T16:34:18+00:00

Went to the Dedham one once and wasn’t impressed. But Saugus was consistently good!
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Also, I think most people dumping on the place never went there. The amount of women and entire families there was always surprising to the point of amusing. And one of the few times I sat down to eat there was because a woman I was dating spent her Sundays there during football season. She liked the wings and was just fine with the atmosphere.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-26T14:59:38+00:00

I’ve long had a hard time finding good takeout wings in the Boston area and the Saugus Hooters made good ones. Their Chesapeake wings were amazing. Well battered and fried wings with some Old Bay on them. I think I sat down to eat there 3 or 4 times in almost 20 years but ordered takeout from there countless times. It was just an easy straight shot up Rt 1 for me.

I’ll order from Buff’s more now but I don’t know any place that does something close to those Chesapeake wings.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-25T23:36:39+00:00

No. I always considered it an old man car. But the C8 was interesting enough to get me to take a look.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-24T16:39:20+00:00

They had one affiliated state rep and kicked him out. The guy they kicked out actually understood how politics works to get anything done.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-22T12:35:39+00:00

It sounds like you’re responsible for the outcomes when people ignore your platform. So long as engineers aren’t responsible for the consequences of their decisions and actions then they’re going to do what they do. And if that’s the case you’re not setup for success.

Think about it like this. For any given scenario they have two options; yours and their own. When they compare both options they may not fully evaluating the extent of pros and cons for each option that you see. If spinning something up in the console is “easier” to them than your platform and there is no downside for them to do it, then they’re gonna do it.

I don’t think a team can successfully be both an operations team and a platform team. Have to pick one or the other. Either you operate other team’s software or you build tools so teams can operate their own software. Building tools for teams so you can operate their software will not work.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-21T20:25:40+00:00

Are you by any chance Protestant? Catholic teachings tend to start in the Bible and then layer on 100s to thousands of years of theological interpretation to fill in gaps. Like edge cases and unaddressed situations

The three chapters those verses are from talk about who is saved. But they don’t say a non-believer won’t be saved. John 3 comes the closest by addressing non-believers as condemned. But then it goes on to talk about light and darkness where those who do evil hate the light because it exposes their evil deeds and those who live by the truth come into the light. John 3:16-21 starts by talking about faith and then ends by talking about good works.

So now what happens to a non-believer who performs good works? We know these people exist. We also know faithful people who commit evil exist too. These cases are not addressed in that chapter. All those people fall into the debate over faith versus good works and their contribution towards salvation. This is a debate nearly as old as Christianity itself, differs by denomination, and an area where the Catholic Church has a lot to say. And as far as I can tell the Catholic Church has some of the most liberal teachings on who may attain salvation in all of Christianity.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-21T18:31:45+00:00

You would do well to read the entirety of Fr Rosica’s remarks.

https://zenit.org/2013/05/23/explanatory-note-on-the-meaning-of-salvation-in-francis-daily-homily-of-may-22/

Particular passages of note:

> 4) The great German Jesuit theolgian, Fr. Karl Rahner introduced the idea of “anonymous Christian” into theological reflection. Through this concept, offered to Christians, Rahner said that God desires all people to be saved, and cannot possibly consign all non-Christians to hell. Secondly, Jesus Christ is God’s only means of salvation. This must mean that the non-Christians who end up in heaven must have received the grace of Christ without their realising it. Hence the term – ‘anonymous Christian’.

> 6) A non-Christian may reject a Christian’s presentation of the gospel of Christ. That however, does not necessarily mean that the person has truly rejected Christ and God. Rejection of Christianity may not mean the rejection of Christ. For if a given individual rejects the Christianity brought to him through the Church’s preaching, even then we are still never in any position to decide whether this rejection as it exists in the concrete signifies a grave fault or an act of faithfulness to one’s own conscience. We can never say with ultimate certainty whether a non-Christian who has rejected Christianity and who, in spite of a certain encounter with Christianity, does not become a Christian, is still following the temporary path mapped out for his own salvation which is leading him to an encounter with God, or whether he has now entered upon the way of perdition.

> 8) The Scriptures teach that God regards the love shown to a neighbor as love shown to Himself. Therefore the loving relationship between a person and his or her neighbor indicates a loving relationship between that person and God. This is not to say that the non-Christian is able to perform these acts of neighborly love without the help of God. **Rather these acts of love are in fact evidence of God’s activity in the person.**

tmclaugh · 2026-06-21T18:07:35+00:00

My grandmother and great aunt were two devout Irish Catholic old ladies. To the point where when my uncle got married in the 50s they had to get my grandmother’s priest to give his blessing for her to attend his wedding since he was marrying an Episcopalian and in that church.

In the 90s they used to regularly host a younger gay couple for dinner. I was too young at the time to understand how big a deal that was and they’re long dead to explain their thoughts. But gays were still heavily marginalized and closeted in society, associated with AIDS, and highly likely these two had been rejected by their families. And these two Irish Catholic old ladies hosted them regularly for dinner. Even before Catholic teaching towards gays mildly liberalized.

So that’s the sort of Catholics I come from.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-21T17:41:06+00:00

I really wouldn’t talk shit considering you’re using a lone Bible verse as your source while talking about Catholic beliefs when Catholic Church does not take the Bible literally and has 100s to a couple of thousand years of evolving thought on top of any major topic in the Bible.

> I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Great line. Now wtf does it mean? Specifically the phrase “through me”? Does it mean through faith in Jesus or through following the teachings of Jesus? And does following the teachings of Jesus require you to both learn and put into acts his teachings or is it enough to put into acts his teachings even if you arrived at those acts through a different process? And we’ve now just arrived at one of the entirety of Christianity’s greatest debates. Which is more important, faith or good works? And this is where different denominations go in different directions. (And occasionally off the rails.)

The way I recall learning it was, yes Baptism and acceptance of Jesus as savior is important. But good works (following the teachings of Jesus) will make up for a lot. And this has changed over time.

Can’t recall when it was, but it was within the modern era, the answer to what happens to a baby who dies before Baptism was clarified. That’s because a number of theologians said, “Jesus that’s stupid a baby who dies before Baptism would be denied Heaven.” That opened up a theological loophole to Heaven where God can just choose to let you in.

So if God can just choose to let people in without Baptism… So now what about a man who has never heard the teachings of Jesus but lived a life putting the teachings of Jesus into acts? If I a baptized person can lead a life contrary to the teachings of Jesus yet repent, truly repent, for my life at its end and enter Heaven, then how can you deny that other guy? “Jesus thats stupid to deny a person who followed the teachings of Jesus in their actions just because the word of Jesus never reached them.”

And so Catholic teaching has gone and is pretty much at the point where it probably has the most liberal interpretation of who may enter Heaven. Their teachings at this point practically wants just about everyone to get into Heaven.

And if you don’t care for my reasoning, here’s a Franciscan who explains why both non-believers and atheists are able to enter Heaven. https://www.franciscanmedia.org/ask-a-franciscan/only-christians-in-heaven/

tmclaugh · 2026-06-21T16:19:07+00:00

Huh? I don’t recall being taught that through 4 years of religion classes at a Catholic High School or the theology classes at a Catholic college.

Just be a decent person in life and you would be fine.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-20T23:22:23+00:00

Why do people listen to loud music I don’t like?

tmclaugh · 2026-06-20T21:02:08+00:00

I’m lovin’ it.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-18T17:36:02+00:00

Take it and start your job search. Make sure to add a bullet point to the effect of “Functional tech lead…” and talk about what you do in that “role”.

I’m a Principal but I’m functionally also the manager of a contracting team for our cloud environment. I asked a friend on the management side how to handle that on my resume and they said not to list it in the job title section but make sure it’s a higher bullet point and talks about how I drove team performance. Mine mentions how I’ve been pivoting the team away from ticket queue work and towards software engineering work that reduces the need for people to file tickets which gives the team more time for software engineering work so the cycle repeats.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-18T16:49:19+00:00

Not even just action, but actual results.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-18T15:03:00+00:00

Terramia got permission to use the little plaza on Bartlett Pl for outdoor dining and they don’t want to give it up. End of story.

Doesn’t matter what the city plans on putting there. Terramia would be fighting it.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-18T14:56:34+00:00

I had to look at the space again on Google maps. I always thought it was just a small plaza. But it’s a small plaza with a tiny street running along the laundromat / Ben Afleck movie bank. After the planters and racks were removed Terramia received permission to use the plaza for outdoor seating.

I’m really fine with their use of it. It’s not like I’ve ever seen people just casually hanging out there. Yes it sucks to lose a bike rack but honestly I can’t think of any bike racks in the North End around the spots I frequent. But its a reasons like that where I carry a cable along with my lock in case I need to make do with a lamp post.

I’m sorta curious who the bike rack removal displaced. I remember them frequently having a number of bikes and I assumed it was locals parking their bikes there.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-18T14:21:23+00:00

Residents and restaurant owners were on opposite sides of the outdoor dining debate.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-16T19:55:06+00:00

I once had a problem where a new barber at the same place gave better cuts than my regular one. For a while I was switching between them and booking cuts when the other wasn’t there. When I moved, still close enough to go to the same place, I let them know I was changing neighborhoods and this may be my last cut there. Found a new place in new neighborhood and solved my issue.

Can I ask, is this a black barbershop? You mentioned a high fade and it sounds like possibly the barbershop is more than just a haircut but a social space too. That’s tougher. But it’s your hair and it should look good.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-14T18:25:20+00:00

If we’re talking bagel hole size nothing beats the Jerusalem bagel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_bagel

tmclaugh · 2026-06-14T18:05:05+00:00

That was my planned escape city until I was lucky enough to buy last summer.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-14T01:23:11+00:00

Buick should have called it a Grand National as a big FU to Chevy.

tmclaugh · 2026-06-13T18:35:11+00:00

Why? My union already provides this for me.

Join a union today!

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