Just finished my annual Far Cry 2 play through, and it was as chaotic and random as ever.

Gin, I’ll drink Malort before I touch gin

Pulled over on the highway in Chicago. This just when phones started being hot spots, and I got an emergency service call about a software glitch, had to write and upload a fix from my car.

I take great pride in my work. The results are appreciated by the whole company. I’m lucky that now I’m on a small team of good people, but that isn’t always the case.

I tend to ignore the dead weight when it’s there, because I know I’ll get my part done, and if I have to work extra to pick up the slack, I’m not shy to draw attention to it.

My whole chain of command knows what I do, and not being in management, dealing with lazy ineffective people isn’t my problem.

Focus on you, talk to management about the issues you face, but don’t point out others failures, just let it be implied.

Always felt the cosmic inflation theory was a place holder until we better understand the early universe.

For snowboarding and skateboarding I’ve always used the Clip by Sansa, works in any weather, pretty damned tough, and if I lose or break it, at $32 I just dont care.

Circumcising a child.

Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I’m guessing my original N64.

This isn’t a problem, as it is well known that Adobe Premiere is not designed to modify video.

Once took a trip to Alaska to visit a friend. He was so excited to show me real mountain snowboarding, and boy did he have a surprise for me.

One night had a real good dump of snow, and he took me off trail. We’d been keeping it pretty mellow, with me being the more experienced rider, though only had done the midwest.

We rode into this mellow canyon, must have been a river bed or something, like a natural half pipe. Just got into a rhythm carving back and forth, following him, pushing higher and higher slashes on the walls.

Then, on one frontside wall, maybe 20 foot high, I look over my shoulder, and the world fell away. The whole thing dropped down into a steep wall that had to be 100 foot high. Powder up to my waist, almost in free fall, we ran down like bats out of hell.

When we hit the bottom I flopped down, completely covered in snow, and couldn’t stop laughing and grinning for a good 5 minutes.

I’d say 1975 was a damned sweet spot for me. Medicine had advanced literally just enough that the life saving surgery I had at birth was a success. I had access to but was forced into the tech and comms revolution. Was right in time for the second wave of skating boarding, and got to be in on the very ground floor of snowboarding.

I honestly can’t think of a better time to have been born.

Multiple times in my career the thing I had trained for basically stopped being a thing, or became such an easy thing it wasn’t going to be much of a job.

Being at the wrong point, either too early or too late, in various tech waves almost felt like my super power.

Wasn’t until I turned thirty that I picked the right tech at the right time, and for 20 years have had a great career in an industry that is just as valuable today as when I started.

Programming turned out to be a major component in what I do, and while I’ve seen AI spit out some reasonable code in the more popular languages, I can’t see it replacing what I’m doing before I’m too old to care.

The question was how to annoy people, a car slowing down while being tailgated without brake lights annoys people.

I can down shift and slow down without activating my brakelights.

This is one of the many reasons I love my manual transmission

Now this is a stream I would enjoy watching. I have the KSP platinum on PS4, I know exactly how difficult this is.

In fact, since it’s his big fantasy, let’s see a Duna return trip.

I bailed over the whole API thing, bacon reader was reddit for me.

Now lemmy is the only social media I use, and my life is better for it.

I assume they mean in addition to the cars.

Android doesnt, my S8 can no longer be updated and many apps are beginning to no be supported. I love this phone, all the new ones are way too big.

Love my S8, though there are apps I can’t run anymore because of how old the OS is.

Still, I’m keeping it till it dies.