RattlesnakeJake

Having grown up with VeggieTales, I still find myself defaulting to "Rack, Shack, and Benny."

Is it out of beta yet?

> ...what's actually causing it.

I'm not sure a smartwatch could do anything with my chronic diagnosis of "Having a toddler kicking my ribs at night."

> In early testing of the new format, Reddit found that free-form ads outperform all other ad types in average click through rate (CTR) by 28%, along with increased community engagement when comments are enabled.

What they don't mention is that the comments are usually making fun of the ad, because it's Reddit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729057 is my answer. HN is the one website where I don't have to wait 10-20 seconds for the content to load.

> ...that's pronounced "vur-SAYLES"

Indiana has one too. I found this out when my wife kept using that pronunciation while touring the namesake French palace on our honeymoon.

No copy/paste & no apps were the main criticisms, given that Windows, Palm, & other "less-powerful" devices from that era had those features.

Not that anything great came of it, but Fossil was doing the full-featured "smartwatch" thing long before anyone else:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Wrist_PDA

My teenage self wanted one of these so badly, but my married self is glad I never had the opportunity to be seen wearing one.

I've dreamt of something like this, but with a smaller ball and a case made to fit in the middle of my 90's-era Microsoft Natural Keyboard. It would be less annoying than a ThinkPad's Trackpoint nub while offering the ability to do occasional mouse movement without my hands needing to leave the keyboard.

I don't know what I'd use this for, but the pictures are hitting that part of me that loves grayscale Palm devices really, really hard.

The domain is fine. It's just a play on the developer's name that ends up looking sketchy.

It's more due to the fact that you can only buy it in tiny amounts "because some people use it to make meth." As far as I know, that restriction predated the show by several years at least.

I've been stuck on Trevor Mahlmann's wicked shot of an Atlas V launch for a while now:

https://www.tmahlmann.com/photos/Rockets/United-Launch-Allia...

Having said that, I did get some neat shots of Niagara Falls while on vacation last week, so those are slowly taking over a few of my devices.

I pull out a TI-83 once a year to check my math on paper tax forms. The history display is nice to have.

But that's it. Otherwise, it's either the built-in app on my phone or Spotlight on macOS.

Took me a second to realize this wasn't about 60's era NASA.

Time management. I don't know how anyone can build a system for juggling:

- Continual questions/mentoring/working sessions with Junior Devs

- Random "{{github_ticket_num}} ASAP" messages from the boss

- Troubleshooting requests from other teams who never catch that the problem is always on their end

- Four status update meetings a day

- My own deliverables

A two-sided frame for a pair of posters my late grandfather brought back from Israel in the '60s.

I like them and they remind me of him, but Grandpa glued them to either side of a sheet of OSB. So if I want to hang them in a way that a) Doesn't look tacky and b) Won't damage them, I have to build something custom.

I'm not convinced anyone's really concerned about it. It only gets this much coverage because it lets the parties fling poo at each other for political points.

Oh, that's just because I'm off this week.

Personally, I like to take food with a few grains of salt.

2013 MacBook Air with 4GB, and I still ask the same question ten years in.

My parents had a pair of these for a while! We called them the "Bee Gee Chickens"

Same. I got so tired of the Red Cross phone calls that I changed the phone number in my profile to their customer service line.

> My handwriting looks like Graffiti after all the years.

Same! I used it as a form of shorthand throughout college.

Snarky answer:

  - Some cool rocks
  - Whatever non-synthetic petroleum products are in the garage
  - A mid-2013 MacBook Air (at least according to its manufacturer)

Serious Answer:

  - A bakelite safety razor from the WWII rationing era (somewhere between 1941 & 1945, given what I can find on the manufacturer)
  - Some broken pieces of pottery my grandfather swiped from ancient Jericho on a trip in the '60s
  - A vintage Canon SLR camera used on the same trip

1) Dialogue is mixed too quietly these days 2) Thin LCD TVs have bad speakers, and I haven’t gotten around to researching soundboard yet 3) My kids talk through everything and I can’t hear over them

1. I’m a solid Monopoly nerd. I like the way it strikes the balance between skill and luck.

2. I’m uncannily good at Mad Gab, with the downside being that no one will play it with me anymore.

Gotta’ be one of the various Palm OS devices I used to carry. The OS and its apps were so simple, fast, and graceful. And it came from the era when devices tried to differentiate in weird and creative ways (My favorite: The CLIÉ NR70 and its successors).

* 2012 MacBook Air running macOS Big Sur. Used for general purpose web & document editing stuff these days.

* ~2011 Acer C710 ChromeBook running Ubuntu 21.10. Used for trying distros and development projects if I need a Linux base.

* Self-built Desktop PC - Core 2 Quad w/ 8GB RAM running Windows 11, somehow. Used mostly as an archive box due to the large HD and connection to an external backup drive.

And my wife has some Dell laptop she bought in college. I don’t know much about it because I haven’t had to do much to it besides put in an SSD.