It’s not an extra life, it’s another health point. Red mushroom, not green mushroom.

I also have a Synology NAS. It’s okay. I got a mid-range two-bay one. I could be happier with it. Also, I heard that they’re going toward requiring their brand hard drives, so I’m not buying another one.

Now, when that containership a few years ago wrecked and containers full of BMW motorcycles washed ashore…

One actual reason I can think of is they haven’t passed customs inspections. There’s a reason they ask you if you have any fruit or vegetables when crossing national borders, or even some state borders in the US: To prevent the spread of invasive pests. All there need to be is some Brazilian Screaming Mites on those bananas and no plants will ever grow on the island of Britain again.

That tracks.

I’d say Alec of Technology Connections has increased in quality. Started good and got better.

This is the LockPickingLawyer, and today we have a-

lock spontaneously performs an impression of the bluesmobile at Daley Plaza

…in any case, that’s all I have for you today…

The oldest single player game I keep going back to is Super Mario World on the SNES, Copyright 1990.

I will occasionally play games older than that, but the SNES is where my actual nostalgia begins.

Ahoy. video game documentarian. Makes 1 or 2 very high quality videos a year and has done so for years.

Vorta. Qt based front end for BorgBackup.

Justice for Dress Pants Robot Man.

Accurate, though also we just studied a lot of old miserable works in high school? Almost all works from the 1800s or earlier where everyone is horrible to each other, plus Shakespeare and Chaucer, which almost aren’t the same language we speak today.

Probably “Native Linux apps are made in Linux-only bullshit by useless neckbeards, and probably only run in the terminal. Real actual apps like Discord made by a for-profit corporation have to be made cross-platform.”

And what did we get for it? If you search “chrome install” in Edge it pulls a Janet, all like

I’ve had a few creatures put down. My grandmother’s dog was in such bad heart health she couldn’t really move around anymore. When the creature shakes and whimpers under the strain of standing up, and sometimes just randomly screams in pain, it’s about time to make that difficult trip to the vet.

My old cat Spice lived to the ripe old age of 18, and then she had a saddle thrombus. Essentially a blood clot blocked her aorta where it forks to her back legs. Her back beans turned cold and blue, she couldn’t walk right, she was obviously in distress, so we rushed her to the emergency vet where we were told at her age she probably wasn’t going to survive any treatment, and that she probably had about 3 more horribly painful hours to live. She was actively dying, it was a question of how long do we let her lay there gasping?

I let it get about that grim before it becomes an option.

He also did a video where, Brityank that he is, flew to America, and drove a Tesla from California to somewhere in the Mid-West, purposefully outside of the supercharger network. He doesn’t drive much in England, says he’s not that interested in cars, but likes the Tesla for being “a computer on wheels.” Which is reason number 3,447 why I don’t want one.

Three of those come to mind immediately:

“I hope this is a children’s suicide…video.”

A guy having his head run over by a three-wheeler 20 times in a row. Twice.

A guy falling shoulder first onto a wooden crate 20 times in a row.

Might I suggest Clickspring. It was actually AvE who turned me onto him. Clickspring aka G’day Chris Heah is an Australian man who makes soul-achingly beautiful videos about clockmaking. He’s on a very long project of building a replica Antikythera mechanism, from which has already emerged some serious academic research.

Especially for a show that was really about the interaction between two friends. What you really tuned into the Modern Rogue to see was Brian and Jason screwing around together.

I’m pretty sure I was tricked into reading Anthem, along with Animal Farm.

End of 8th grade, several of the other students were talking about these two books, how the first day of 9th grade at the big scary high school there was gonna be a test on these books, so we had a summer reading assignment.

It didn’t occur to me that precisely half of us had signed up to take literature class in the Spring.

So I borrowed a copy of them and read them…for no apparent reason.

Animal Farm is basically The Soviet Union For Dummies and Anthem is basically That Other Book Ayn Rand Wrote.