A year ago today I was at San Diego Airport and saw this tile for sale at one of the shops. For the rest of my life, I will regret not purchasing it.
That sad moment when you realize it may be time to throw one of your favorite T-shirts into the rag bag.
Las Vegas, with 150,000 vacant hotel rooms, has the homeless sleeping on the ground in parking lots. - Mario Koran at The Guardian
That time there was a Communist revolution inside the online game Runescape - Emilie Rākete at The Spinoff
“… armed with both the revolutionary science of Marxism and dragon battleaxes, the RuneScape communists were militarily undefeatable. Within three months, the communists controlled 95% of Server 32.”
Joe Biden is getting a pass on sexual assault and misbehavior allegations
Arwa Mahdawi at Common Dreams: “For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real.”
Joe Biden said that. The same standard should apply to the accuser against him.
OpenTable will allow people to reserve shopping times at supermarkets - Taylor Lyles at The Verge
Trials in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Good idea.
I’m due to make another supermarket run in a day or two.
You shouldn’t use Zoom; it’s a privacy disaster. - John Gruber at Daring Fireball
I agree … but I gotta be honest here; I’m following the course of least resistance and using Zoom anyway.
Gruber advises using Zoom on the iPhone or iPad, where you must use Zoom. I’m going to think about whether I can somehow elevate my iPad to give me a good camera angle on Zoom.
Similarly, I’m very active on Facebook despite strong misgivings about its business model. Path of least resistance. It’s where the people are.
High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups
Scott Tobias at The Guardian: High Fidelity is the story of a self-centered jerk who learns to become less of a self-centered jerk.
Also, this: “One of the film’s most insightful and endearing qualities is how much it’s willing to poke fun at Rob, Barry, and Dick’s record-clerk arrogance without belittling their passions entirely.”
Love this movie.
Didn’t even try watching the new gender-crossed TV series. I am not offended by the gender-crossing. I do feel like the main character is a male archetype, and doesn’t work as a young woman. But if they can make it work, that’s cool.
It’s just the TV series did not look appealing to me. And the movie already exists – it is perfect as is, it cannot be improved.