“Caribbean pirates are BACK on the menu, boys!”
And then pixelatedboat hears a conductorless orchestra for the first time…
grimaces and puts their hands on their hips
“…Not my fucking tempo.”
The Roku box was one of the good ones… about ten years ago. Though maybe this is just a TV thing. TIL Roku makes actual screens.
In the past few years especially, I’ve seen so many unshakable “good ones” go bad. Some, in the worst possible way.
A part of me thinks he knows what he’s doing.
Every Christmas they find another fragment of that person and their house underneath the snow.
Oil rig drillers?
Deathwing wouldn’t stand a chance.
As a teacher, I’ve come to the realization that almost everyone wasn’t hugged enough as a kid.
It breaks my heart every time I realize I’m the first person in a kid’s life that believed in them or told them that they were smart.
Weighted blankets are used for a number of health reasons.
People who have a lot of stress or struggle falling asleep at night benefit from them as well.
cups side of face in my hand
Say it ain’t so!
The resulting lights display is great, but the carbon footprint and the bad blood between neighbors is not.
My personal favorite is the Christmas decoration wars.
Where’s Amos when you need him?
Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.
That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.
When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.
And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!
Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.
Wow, really? They’re each other’s doppelganger. And they’re both on YouTube for their comedy work, bizarre.
(I stand by my previous statement.)
One of the best lines from Armageddon:
“Sir, the override. It’s been overridden.”
“If this is your first night at Mozilla.social… you have to fight.”
board room filled with parasites
“Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!”