For the record, I agree with your example and personally won’t eat/buy The Lord’s Chicken™. But do you really think you’ve changed anyone’s mind? Probably not. All you’ve accomplished is making yourself feel morally superior. You don’t like something? Fine, more power to you. Don’t buy/support the thing (you should see the ever-growing list of companies and subsidiaries I won’t buy from). But also don’t slide into the DMs of other people’s lives and shit all over what little brings them joy. Why is this hard?

Go for it. You don 't even have to credit me. I consider everything I post to be public domain anyway, double-so if it’s used for good.

10 years ago, I’d snooze until the last moment and then rush to get ready on time. No idea why; just couldn’t force myself out of bed.

Today (including, literally, this morning) I’m awake at least 15-30 minutes before my alarm goes off. Wake up ritual is basically:

• Pee
• Put coffee on
• Let dogs outside
• Have coffee on the patio while the dogs do their business and play
• Answer any texts/messages that came in after I went to bed
• Check the news and weather
• If time allows, read a chapter of whatever book I’m on
• Start getting ready for work

I think the change was realizing those extra 20-30 minutes of sleep (if I could even get back to sleep at all) weren’t going to make me any more awake when I do have to get up. Then it was just a matter of figuring out how to use that time effectively.

Bonus/Derivative meme, and I don’t know why this made me laugh so much:

Apparently I still have some curating to do on my subscription/blocks. It’s not about any one specific person - just the Debbie Downers that pop up.

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Yeah, I was in that situation. Hard copies were limited to used paperbacks for $150. Yikes.

I ended up buying the audiobook and high-seas’d the epub which I’m reading. I refuse to buy DRM’d ebooks but I do want the authors to get paid, so I compromise by buying the audiobook (which is a bit more expensive than the DRM’d e-edition) and acquiring the epub by…other means.

Not so much “watch” but I’m about 1/3 through Andrew Robinson’s “A Stitch in Time”. The way it’s written, it’s the perfect book to pick up and read when I have a few spare moments.

My saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it’s difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.

Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).

Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.

Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet

Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.

Oddly specific, but have been there.

Also they lazily copied …

In film school, that’s called an homage. /s

I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

1. There’s a secret science place where science happens
2. At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
3. The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
4. The secret science place blows up in the end

That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

It’s from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).

• Does it have USB-C video out?
• Do you plan to run any custom ROMs / Can it run custom ROMs?