My father noticed this movie existed, and he asked me “I wonder what the premise of the movie is?” And my immediate reaction was “Here’s an IP we haven’t monetized in awhile.”

Was anyone asking for a new Beverly Hills Cop movie? The first one was pretty cool, 40 years ago. The second one was okay, the third was basically self-parody, then 30 years went by during which I think the brand devolved in people’s minds to being the Axel F theme (which still comprehensively slaps) and “Remember when Eddie Murphy was edgy?”

My father then turned to the computer, started looking up the cast (he’s the kind of guy who, while watching a movie, will see someone walk in and then talk over the movie “That’s Fleeg Fleegerson, he’s Glipper Glunderdung’s ex husband, he played three insensitive racial stereotypes on a black and white cowboys and indians show I grew up with.”) and he goes “Someone Someoneson plays his daughter…I wonder if she’s black keyboard noises, pause while the page loads Yep!”

Boomers, man.

If it’s a brewpub or similar, I tend to go for darker beers. And since the “All Craft Beers Are IPAs Now Act Of 2018” was signed into law I have just stopped going to brewpubs entirely.

If you’re going to open a bottle or can for me it’s probably going to be cider, though I notice the ciders that bars tend to stock are trending in an acidic and heartburn inducing direction so I don’t walk in there as often anymore.

I’ll order a neat bourbon unless it’s hot/I’ve been working hard then I’ll order a whiskey and coke.

If you want to get into cocktails, I can think of a couple ways in.

1. White Russians. Pleasant sipping cocktail if a little heavy because of the cream.

2. Crown and coke. Crown Royal is technically a whiskey. Many of its fans don’t identify it as such, and neither do many whiskey fans. A shot of crown stirred into a glass of cola will present as a glass of cola with a little bit of an interesting flavor added. From there you can graduate to bourbon and coke, Jim Beam or Jack Daniels are common enough and pair well with cola. If you survive this long, maybe try this experiment: order a whiskey and cola, and then a rum and cola, find the differences in those flavors.

If you’re up to those shenanigans, maybe try going to a bar on a Tuesday afternoon when it’s a little slower, talk to the bartender tell them you’re wanting to explore cocktails and see if they’ll mix you smaller portions of a couple drinks like that, so you can test A and B. You would be amazed what that can do to open up your palette. If I handed you one glass of neat scotch, it might as well be a goblet of gasoline. If I hand you two glasses of different whiskies you’ll find some flavor in there.

I don’t mind swapping the vehicle shop for the wood shop. I often walk in the house after a long day smelling very lightly of oak.

Old Spice’s “wolfthorn” scent reminds me a lot of fruit candy. loke orange flavored hubba bubba or something.

gonna smell like that anyway.

good taste.

Each time I tell this story, I try to make it shorter and more terse.

Circa 2012 or 2013 I bought a Raspberry Pi as part of my ham radio hobby. With that I learned a little bit of Python and Bash, learned to type sudo etc, and kinda liked what I saw. Meanwhile, my Win 7 laptop died right as I was going back to school, so I bought a new laptop. This new laptop had two problems: 1. it came with Windows 8.1 and 2. it was a lemon. For most of the first semester going back to school I had no reliable laptop. The only modern supported computer I had was that Raspberry Pi. And for most of a semester that’s what I did school assignments and email on until I finally bullied Dell into replacing that lemon Inspiron they sold me outright.

So by the time I got a reliable x86 laptop in hand, Linux felt more normal to me than Win 8.1 did. So I fully switched.

That was 10 years ago now, and for the last decade I’ve heard Windows users do nothing but piss and moan about the new holes Microsoft has found to fuck them in.

The crossfit down my local stroad* does that. On the one hand, I find it kind of funny that they’re paying a gym membership to run up and down the sidewalk next to a five lane highway, on the other I think it’s an advertisement tactic; used to be you’d see the whole “congregation” but now it seems they only make the women who forgot to wear sports bras to class go run on the sidewalk.

I haven’t flown in ten years, so…yeah.

Are geriatric names coming back? Are we going to have a generation of Gladyses and Eustices?

It’s fun fucking with boomers by calling 24 years ago “the turn of the century.”

Being able to engineer is by itself something that can even exist in genetic memory, instinctual.

I don’t think this is the case. There are creatures that instinctively construct, like ants and beavers, but their constructions are more an emergent behavior from simpler rules or systems. Their behaviors have evolved, the ants that dig slightly more efficient nests were more successful and went on to reproduce more offspring colonies.

At the root of engineering is the sentence “If I do this, then I bet I can get this to happen.” That behavior is unique to humans. It takes a lot of forebrain to do, and to develop that forebrain took a very successful omnivorous, multi-strategy primate.

Speed runs of the video game Super Mario World for the SNES are divided into a lot of categories, some allow glitches, some don’t. Glitchless runs are just about playing the game as intended as efficiently as you can. The absolute fastest run though, Any%, involves a trick where you perform a glitch that allows you to write arbitrary values into RAM, effectively reprogramming the game on the fly to trigger the end cut scene. This is called Arbitrary Code Injection. Now you’re playing a different game by a different, more abstract set of rules called 6502 assembly.

Upright bipedal gait with knees that lock, dexterous hands with opposable thumbs on highly articulated arms not significantly used for locomotion, binocular, tri-color vision granting great depth perception, the ability to sweat to stay cool for long periods of time under moderate exertion? All of that is just gettin’ gud, playing the game of evolution exceedingly well. Sometime between tying a knapped flint to a stick to make an axe and digging the first irrigation trench we arrived at that level of Arbitrary Code Injection. We’re not playing the same game as the other animals anymore.

Engineering predates what we now call science by millennia.

It would be so much fun to take Star Trek and only change how they talk about the shields. Instead of “raise shields” make it “pull up our pants.” CHANGE NOTHING ELSE.

guillotines are renaissance era.

The operating phrase there is “in my kitchen area.” Kitchens are heavily influenced by the practical demands of life so they remain fairly well optimized. Surface, cabinet and drawer space in kitchens is always helpful. I have a hutch-like microwave stand that stores my cat food, my bartending and coffee accoutrements and some lesser used kitchen tools. My soup crocks, a keepsake growler and a couple other vessels live on top of the microwave.

On the other side of the wall from this is a decorative cabinet full of generational clutter I am required to maintain because “It was your grandmothers.” The second my father is no longer able to check, that cabinet is going elsewhere.

I’m a millennial and a woodworker, and I kinda need to rant a little.

I hate dining room hutches/cupboards.

My parents asked me to design and build a cupboard for their dining room. As I started looking around on the internet for design ideas to mash together into something that fits their whole deal, I started noticing a pattern. There are three kinds of pictures of hutches on the internet:

1. The cabinet is empty floating in a white void or has a few props on it in a sparsely furnished room, for marketing the cabinet itself.
2. Grandma’s old cabinet full of floral print china that may not have once ever served a meal in 70 years.
3. A diorama of basic bitchery, typically hosted on Pinterest, featuring distressed white chalk paint, several pieces of Rae Dunn crockery, a word like “Gather” made of scroll sawn wood, and a ceramic pig.

I cannot find any photographic evidence that 21st century Americans use dining room hutches to store things they regularly use. And I fucking hate it. It’s nothing but a trophy case to consumerism. “Here’s the thousand dollar cabinet we keep dishes in that will NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES touch food.”

It’s one facet of my “household furniture has cancer” belief. I’ll show you another of those facets:

There will never be an antique computer desk because no one really makes new heirloom computer desks. The woodworking traditions that gave us things like the shaker table and the morris chair kinda died during WWII and are now practiced the same way we practice jousting or flint knapping: something something living history. When PC’s became widespread in the 90’s, you see three kinds of computer desk arise:

1. Just a table someone already had that doesn’t have enough room so there’s another table next to it and stuff on the floor.
2. An abstract stack of laminated particle board slabs held up by steel tubes designed for the purpose but still didn’t have room for everything.
3. A stack of laminated particle board slabs designed to look like an executive pillar desk, a weird combination of a pillar desk with a dining room hutch, or an armoire for some reason.

Then the laptop era happened, then the phone/tablet era happened, now look back at what PC gamers are using with their monitors and towers: A wooden slab with metal T shaped legs.

I could say the same for other electronics-related furniture such as television stands. No notable crafts movement has emerged to fill the needs of 21st century lives, everyone buys flat packed particle board crap that is meant to look like one kind of furniture while being something else, like an “entertainment center” that looks like a credenza or the aforementioned computer desk that looks like an armoire.

I hate it, and I plan to take to my table saw and do something about it.

Don’t you understand? Every post on Lemmy must be about this!

I use multiple workspaces for different workflows. CAD software, reference material, etc. on one workspace, email, Slack, Trello etc. open on another.