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  • I have yet to see F4. Reviews have sounded pretty middling. Most people are vaguely positive about it but with some criticisms.

    I enjoyed Thunderbolts a lot, but it’s a character story. For as powerful a character as Sentry is, this was a very small movie in a good way. If you enjoy character work, I think it’s the best of the three.

    And then there is Superman. Maybe it’s just because I haven’t seen a good Superman movie in over 40 years, but I really loved this movie. It’s got heart. It’s got big characters with great chemistry. It is a little bit camp, but it understands and respects Superman. It’s not afraid to slow down for a couple of character beats, but there is a stopwatch running the whole time and it is a little relentless. Plus the music incorporates John Williams’s theme and I loved every note of it.






  • I’m a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.

    I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just… doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won’t regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.

    Of course my back and joints couldn’t keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn’t have wanted to get swept up in that.














  • Food for consideration:

    1. Blocking people makes the place more pleasant for you, which makes you a more pleasant person to interact with and the people you respond to will tend to reflect that.
    2. Blocking people denies them interaction even in their less acerbic comments, making the place less fun for people who are so inclined.

    Since becoming a parent, I’ve learned that sometimes self-care is caring for others because it helps us keep from being ground down to our worse selves.

    That’s not to say more can’t be done, but don’t discount the effectiveness of starving negativity of air.