Looks like coal’s back on the menu, boys! (Ugh.)

Ben: “Well – finally some peace and quiet.”

I’ve always thought a Jedi could do amazing things with a blaster. If they have to have a light saber, then just put the blaster in their other hand. Best of both worlds?

(Or just stop your enemy’s heart with your mind. Or use your super-fast running abilities to jab a fork in your enemy’s eye or something.)

“Don’t worry Anikin, I’ve set my saber to ‘joy buzzer’ strength.”

Soccer? Football? What does–

Oh! You mean fútbol!

… or, we get lots and lots of 2D, sidescrolling, pixel-art games with anime tiddy cover art.

👍 💯

Meanwhile, “Bare with me” means that the local nudist colony has a referral program.

I was talking to someone the other day who was really gung-ho about carbon capture technology. I listened patiently, and then asked: “You mean like trees?” Which set him off talking about using genetically modified algae for carbon capture, which is a neat idea, I guess, but the impression I got was that there’s just no money in planting more trees so he wasn’t interested in them.

endless maze of irrelevant facts

oh on I’ve been turned into an AI :(

I picked up an ethernet card the other day, but it stopped working a couple of hours after I installed it. Overall, it was a net loss.

I mean, if your server is using samba to share: net use * \homeserver\share {password} /user: {username} /persistent: yes /savecreds

“Seeking: Someone meticulous who can really test me, and doesn’t mind when I go multi-user.”

Meanwhile, in tech giants’ boardrooms across the country:

If it has an Xbox-style, controller-first interface, and its cost is subsidized by future game sales, that would be interesting. But at this point the Xbox division seems like they’re just phoning it in these days.

Worried this will just be another expensive, “us too!” handheld PC with poor battery life.

“Have you tried installing Linux on your computer recently?”

“WTF is a computer?”