I don’t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

I’ve been sitting like that for a week now. 👌

Krita is such a horrible crashy mess - most of the time all I need is good old MS Paint (plus free rotate) but I after two decades of Linux I’ve yet to find a paint app that doesn’t overcomplicate everything with layers and selectors and modes. 😭

I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to “fight the nightmare monsters” which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I’m totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you’re cutting onions ya bastard)

I’m using personal calling cards, so not in a business context. Mine only have the few pieces of information I can trust to never change (name, phone, email) and are made to look very vintage - but have a QR code with the same info on the back, because I know that people want digital.

My overall experience is that it’s very convenient in the moment, and leaves an impression of a rare and slightly quirky exchange. I’ve never had a negative reaction.

Oh boy, story time. This was six years ago (and a machine translation of what I wrote back then).

My daughter doubts that the tooth fairy exists.

She mentioned this today on the way home from school. Then we had a little chat about how “believing in X” versus “X exists” relate to one-other.

I then asked if we could find out if the tooth fairy exists? We could, for example, set a trap: then we could see for ourselves! My daughter thought that was too cruel and anyway, imagine if something happened to the tooth fairy? All right, but we can make something that won’t harm the fairy … but no, she doesn’t want the fairy to get caught. Fine, then we can put the tooth on a plate of flour so we can see the tracks? No, because fairies can fly! Then maybe we can make a little “roof” so the tooth fairy has to land and crawl? Yes, that was accepted.

…But how big is such a tooth fairy really? I have to admit that I’ve never considered that … have you? I made a roof out of a plastic container, but my daughter thought that a fairy is definitely smaller, so we settled for a corner of the roof - yes, now the fairy can’t fly under!

I’ve also talked to her about whether “no footprints” means “the tooth fairy doesn’t exist” and whether “footprints” means "the tooth fairy exists (or whether there might be fairies even if there are no footprints). So now we’re waiting anxiously to see if we can see any traces tomorrow! (Hint: yes, there are traces: you can see that the tooth fairy has been on her knees and tried to reach the tooth, but couldn’t. So there’s a small letter instead of a coin.)

Oh yes, how we lie to the coming generation… Forgive me, daughter!

The following day after school, she had brought a friend home and I casually asked if she’d checked on the trap? She had not! They both raced up to her room and I could hear the shouts of glee. They definitely believed in the tooth fairy! But also, my daughter was somewhat distraught and wrote an apology letter for having teased the fairy and ask for forgiveness. Such a sweet kiddo. Still is.

Rude.

Also, I should be sleeping, not scrolling…

That is disgusting.

For what it’s worth, I never have less than hundreds of tabs across dozens of windows, and I don’t think I’ve ever pissed in a bottle.

Also, it’s not about bookmarks, I have a ton of those too - many of them with keywords for power querying.

And they got disqualified from the Oscars “because they cheated” – the following year there was a brand new nomination category for computer generated effects…

When the fuck did you compare? Uh, wording, but whatever.

And “hellpers” on the cover, tee hee.

That last one is fun. Look at it for long enough and you’ll realise it’s actually a colour photo.

Or battery life. I could care less if the new phone is 0.64mm thinner, spend that volume on extra joules instead.

Sincerely,
those of us who remember pda’s with 14- or 25-day battery life.

As a divorced dad, Bluey is painfully sweet. I love that show to bits and it saddens me that my girl will soon no longer want to watch it as she gets older.

🥲 Those family dynamics.

Does the flight sim in Excel count? If yes, then that.

Otherwise, Day of Defeat (Steam mod). Still somewhat peeved that it never got the same recognition as CS.

This is quite an accomplishment. Kudos.

For my family, the biggest hurdles by far is a mail/calendar combo that works as well and supports sharing etc, and how the hell to migrate out of Gmail when so many of my emails have several labels which won’t translate cleanly into IMAP folders. I wonder how you tackled those, or how you compromised.

There’s a lot of humour in there, but this:

CSCI 3300: Classical Software Studies
Discuss and dissect historically significant products, including VisiCalc, AppleWorks, Robot Odyssey, Zork, and MacPaint. Emphases are on user interface and creativity fostered by hardware limitations.

I’d take that course in a heart beat. I’ve read some of Atkinson’s ideas and thoughts, and the man was deeply sane.

It must be decades now that my LinkedIn background banner is a screen shot of Zork source code.

I’m using Sync (on android) and it’s quite pleasant. No ads, does what it needs to.

I just tried it. There’s ads on every screen. Bye, Boost!

You go from being sad to just not caring. That very much does not make you happy, but it might make you stop complaining.

There’s a comic where the doc then says “good enough!” and that’s supposed to be funny. Ha ha ha. Same reason I stopped reading Dilbert: it’s not really funny when it’s an accurate account of what really happened.