Years ago I went on a date with a beautiful woman. We had been talking online for months but this was our first in person date. We went to a bar near my apartment. Afterwards, she was feeling a little buzzed, so I suggested we watch a movie before she drove home. Looking through my DVD collection she immediately chose this film. We had a wonderful night sharing our love of the Beatles.

A year later, I recreated that first date. When we got back to the apartment we now shared. I asked her to put on this movie, which I had hidden an engagement ring in. It’s been 18 years and we’re still together and still loving the Beatles.

Watch out for his gland thing. Apparently it’s no joke.

There are plenty of people who go out there and take their picture on the X where he was shot. Although I do get some enjoyment from watching them quickly realize that it is actually a very busy street and drivers will not slow down for them.

Wow! That is a ton of great information. I totally get I could just down a ton of carbs and call it vegan. Luckily, I have an awesome wife who takes care of all my other meals, and she makes vegan dishes probably 3-4 days of the week. Breakfast is really the only thing I have to come up with on my own. I’ve never been the type that can skip it. My focus at work will be off all morning until I eat. She regularly sleeps later than me, and skips breakfast a lot.

Also, I’m totally onboard with the doing it for the animals and the planet. If it wasn’t for our kids we probably would have completely made the switch now. We’ve been trying to introducing more to them, but we do have some picky eaters.

I wish my cat would do cute things like that. When she wants to eat she just sits by the door and gives me a death stare. Then if I don’t notice her after a bit she’ll tear around the house like mad while making the fox em noise from Robinhood Men in Tights.

One of my favorite Wikipedia entries comes from this song. This entire passage just cracks me up.

“Spirit in the Sky” makes several religious references to Jesus, and Greenbaum himself is Jewish. In a 2006 interview with The New York Times, Greenbaum told a reporter he was inspired to write the song after watching Porter Wagoner singing a gospel song on TV. Greenbaum said: “I thought, ‘Yeah, I could do that,’ knowing nothing about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song. It came easy. I wrote the words in 15 minutes.” Greenbaum had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Junk Band.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_in_the_Sky

Put Richard Simmons on either side and you have 25 or 6 to 4 from Chicago. That solo has no right to be as fire as it is.

Don’t remind me. It’s only June and I’m already sick of the heat

Blue Powerade slushy from Sonic on a hot summer day is the GOAT

There is a version of Macbeth from 1979 with Ian McKellen and Judy Dench. It’s not really a movie but a recording from the Royal Shakespeare Company. It uses minimal sets and just the actors standing in a circle. My wife is a huge Shakespeare fan, but I had no real interest in watching it outside of making her happy. But it was amazing. The acting was absolutely incredible. I’ve never seen anything else like it.

Also, is worth knowing when not to optimise. Code you can read is code you can maintain, and some optimisations are not as readable.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. So many people want to equate the number of lines as a sign of how well it’s programmed. But all they really do is chain a bunch of stuff together that makes it harder to debug.

Right-click, inspect, delete element

Just like there is no Blues Brothers sequel and Terminator ended after T2.

My dog stopped falling for this after I got her to chase me back into the house a few times

This is the thing I love the most about the younger generations now.

• Boomers: If you don’t like it do something about it
• Gen-X: nah we’re too nihilistic
• Millennials: sorry we’re too busy trying to survive on the scraps you left us
• Boomers: that’s what I thought

Now:

• Boomers: If you don’t like it do something about it
• Gen-Z/Alpha: okay!
• Boomers: no, not like that!

I think this is a fake quote that somebody made up for an Internet comedy bit

You can tell by the pixels

I’m not so sure on some that. There is a reason Gen x was also called the latchkey generation. We pretty much had no parental support. Either because both parents worked or were single parent households.

Prior to the 70s, dual income families or single parents were the exception, not the norm. As this changed rapidly through the 70s and 80s, child care and support systems did not evolve to keep pace. As these have become the norm, society as a whole has had a chance to catch up, which could be why you see more dads stepping up. Or most likely a combination of this and what you said.

At least in my case, I am aware of how absent my father was and how it affected me, and I chose to not be that way with my kids. I’d like to think others feel the same way.

I saw a really good demonstration of this once, but I can’t seem to find a video of it.

Basically imagine a rubber tube with 4 balls equal distance apart from each other.

–0–0–0–0–

If you stretch the tube from both ends all of the balls move an equal distance apart.

----0----0----0----0----

There is no one ball that is the center or the starting point. However if you focus on one ball while stretching it will seem like the others are moving away from it. But in reality they are all moving away from each other at the same rate.

Confederate battle flag had flown outside San Francisco’s Civic Center since 1964 as part of an 18-flag display intended to symbolize the various stages of American history, according to contemporaneous news reports.

In case you are like me and wondering why there was even a Confederate flag flying at San Francisco city hall.

Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag/