I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.
I’m not posting a Snopes link or whatever, but it was Mussolini who allegedly got the trains running on time, and he didn’t anyway. Improvements to the Italian rail system were begun under the previous government, and actually the trains weren’t particularly punctual under his regime anyway.
Ah, the open-mouth reverse blow! But will it be enough to save your palette and tongue from the burn?
Ah, a classic! For today’s lucky 10,000: http://www.longestjokeintheworld.com/
“Yeah man, I’m fluent, says so on my CV!”
“But it just says ‘Fluent’. Fluent in what?”
“What do you got?”
I’ve absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.
She lost that dump truck ass the feather duster form had, change her back!
My big brained billionaire coyote boyfriend wants to invite a roadrunner into the mix but I haven’t worked through my feelings about casual polyamory yet and also I am a ghost bigfoot
I agree with the general sentiment, I don’t think friendship is lesser, but I’d like to see an example of a healthy romance that doesn’t involve friendship.
I guess assembler is sumerien then, only still written and understood? And cobol or fortran? Linear a and b?
Check out this great looping animation version that I definitely made myself!
Wow, hadn’t thought about that one in a long time. I thought it was an old Scott Hanselman blog and I was correct! I’ll have to reread it, been years now.
I’m not sure there’s much why to it exactly. I feel like a small fraction of people I’ve met in life were truly passionate and excited about the work they did. Most had some passion for an art, or a hobby, or for their kids very commonly, but people who really want to grow and master their craft are somewhat rare generally. Most folks just want to do well enough to keep their jobs and then go home to whatever they actually care about.
Consider that to go on a site specifically for programming questions and then take a survey about it, you have to be the kind of person that cares about getting their code “right”. The majority of programmers I’ve met would only go there to copy-paste a quick answer, and those people have all moved to asking chat-gpt for code now.
I dunno, I think John K managed the worst of both worlds.
In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s concept for a Dune film from the early 1970s, each house has their costumes and architecture designed by a contemporary artist. Giger was the designer for the Harkonnen, and several of his ideas persisted beyond the failed film.
The Harkonnen Castle
A Harkonnen chair
I assumed Villeneuve was calling back to those designs.
I’ve been wanting to get a pipe Garfield tattoo since first seeing this. It changed me. Made me better.
I’m definitely getting my blog going regularly again… next year…
Blame Camus