In the old days, Last.fm was good for discovering music I might like based on what I listen to.

Nowadays I have this method (hear me out) that consists of drinking a bit too much, listening to favorites on YouTube and opening multiple tabs with what I suspect are good suggestions. This leads me into multiple rabbit holes where I occasionally strike gold.

I’m learning Python. Not bad, but I prefer C.

Down.

foot-pounds

Oh, you Americans and your silly made-up units.

If you are in a hurry, try Up.

I loathe gyms, they are usually full of smelly obnoxious people.

The alternate I found is putting on running shoes, headphones, and go outside.

True, but living in a country where the majority of cars are still manual I can tell you that that myth still stands.

We have electronic injection engines, you can stop with that neutral crap now.

The IBM Thinkpads with butterfly keyboard.

Or the Psion Series 5, but that’s technically a palmtop.

If it was for me I’d welcome with the darker mood, but the game was for my kids.

“Everybody hates you when you’re 23” said some wise punk rocker.

There are a lot of idiots in the world, and some of them are old.

Old people may seem angry because they’ve seen a lot of crap and it just keeps coming in new, unexpected forms.

That reminded me that Sonic Unleashed was the only game I ever got refunded.

I bought the game to play with my kids, expecting a colorful and fun Sonic game. I quickly realized it was quite different, much more violent than I expected. So I traded it for Sonic Colors, which was a bit more kid friendly.

Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.

The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.

Being young sucks.

Being old is not so great, either.

Being dead sucks more, so… yeah.

You can choose any colour, as long as it’s black.

I have the end credits of both Portal games in my playlist. I think we can agree those are some of the best credits in gaming history.

Queijo (pronounced ‘keijo’)

Boring flat dark design interfaces.

I miss the CDE colour scheme. The BeOS funky 3D icons. Buttons that look like buttons. Tabs that look like tabs. Now everything is just flat, bland and monochromatic. It’s sad.

This. You have to load a whole ******* web renderer context so that developers can more easily add “features” like emojis and animated gifs to a ******* mail client. Same thing with Teams.

It’s all so woefully wasteful, slow, painful. But it’s OK, we now have loads of RAM, fast SSDs, multi-core multi-thread ultra-fast CPUs anyway, and gifs really are a must-have in modern corporate communication.

Just get out of my lawn.

I can confirm those numbers, I once was touching the terminal when a call came through. Shocking experience, would not recommend.

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