Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

Bruce Sterling’s Involution Ocean

The most humorous was the long ad in front of the Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up video. They killed the Rick Roll…

SI for short, you know Sports Illustrated…wait what were we talking about?

Weird question. I would say some annoying game reviewer to whom I neither remember their name nor the game being reviewed…

Go to an Asian market and buy better Ramen. The good brands have three packets, soup base, flavored oil, and chili…

Though everyone else’s recommendations are much more healthy.

It will run, the frame rate will just be a bit low as you have to manually plot each frame from the output, say a frame every hour or two…

Cute but totally fake…

Bugsy Malone

Movie is quite good but I think the music/singing is a bit better than the acting…

Toss up between the fine conical strainer and the microplane…

Sounds like a lot of people will be full of shit. Literally instead of just metaphorically…

Of what, rust?

More Roy…

Go full Batty…

https://parks.tualatinoregon.gov/events/pumpkin-regatta/

Tualatin specifically, which is a small city in the Portland Metro…

Ocean Beach is right on the Pacific, very strong currents and huge waves compared to the Atlantic, especially during storms. I suspect it would not work as well. They do the same Christmas Tree thing at the New Jersey shore though…

Having lived right there, like maybe 8 blocks from where that picture was taken. “Sahara” is not far from the truth. It’s all sand, and salty sea sand at that. When it was the highway, sand removal was constant as winds are strong at that beach. A lot of it is steep dunes you have to climb up and down to get to the beach, not all of it has an ocean view. Erosion is prevented by cement sea walls you see on the left side of the picture as well as the fore mentioned dunes. The walls are taller than you might expect. I don’t know if they still do it, but they used to bring in heavy equipment all winter and move tons and tons of sand from the northern part of the beach to the southern part in front of the zoo, then the currents would bring it right back north. When you live in the Outer Sunset district, getting to the rest of the city can be a pain. People there shop a lot in Daly City just south and the Great Highway was super convenient to get there, so I can definitely see both sides of the argument.

I thought it much more interesting than the more famous “Crash” movie…

All over the place, they just don’t get indexed high in search…

It’s not a matter of privacy or safety. It’s a matter of how does this technology benefit me? So far, that’s none at all. I live in a place of low crime, so it’s ability to keep me safer is minor if at all. Police abuse it and the upper classes seem safe from it. I do not see any benefit in it’s current form. Lock it down behind court orders without general police/organizational access and maybe? But I’ll still vote against it…

Costco is a huge market so it has many suppliers. I bought a bag a month ago that matched this post: a noticeable amount of empty shells. The next bags were fine. Probably just a wave of product from one supplier.