First and last. Radeon 9600xt

That makes sense. That’s why physically bending my harmonica never worked! I still don’t understand mechanistically how moving your tongue in your mouth changes the vibration of a reed, but I’ll work on that part.

Edit: found it!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13714801_Acoustical_and_physical_dynamics_of_the_diatonic_harmonica

Do you actually bend the harmonica? Or is it just messing with the hole using your tongue?

If you get a + shaped tire iron, you can simultaneously pull up on one end and step down on the other, increasing your torque and keeping the nut properly engaged.

How is Tuesday Christmas optimal?

All the biking I’m not doing. If no one is home, my obligations are fewer so I should go for a bike ride.

Who you have sex with matters more than how you convinced them to.

There are books I started and did not finish that I do not remember. However, there a few that I finished but hated. The worst was:

Reverie - this was a lgbt book club thing in Libby. The protagonist was a whiny incapable teen that never redeemed themself. I kept thinking it would get better and it never did. Things resolved because magic, so poor/lazy writing.

Doom had a great mod community, and Simpsons Doom was my favorite mod.

I’m not 50 something, but I got some of these games from a 50 something.

Sorry, I meant Red Alert.

Command & Conquer, Tie Fighter, Simpsons Doom, Quake, Portal, and DDR.

Warcraft 2 and Starcraft 1!

I have a 4 day work week and love it.

More effective is a massive understatement. Now they can precisely measure effectiveness and adjust their strategy in real time to maximize output. They have increased effective effectiveness several fold. The cat is out of the bag, even if we try to roll this back the googles of the world know the data is there and can’t not harvest it. Our best strategy has to combine regulation and monopoly busting, break these companies into smaller ones that have less power to comb through big data.

For a good read on this, check out The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuniga.

Wall Street. Shorts, bulls, bears, options, it is all euphemisms for gambling and everyone else suffers for it.

You have your preference, I have mine. An underdone cookie is gooey and melty but still brown around the edges, best of both worlds.

I’ve had pizza with mozzarella, lemon, olive oil, and arugula on it. So good.

Here’s a list of things I used to jerk it to

I drink coffee on my porch with my wife so we can identify birds and say hi to all the runners and dog walkers.