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After the Superfish scandal Lenovo went on my “never buy anything from this company” list.

This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.

I had this game as a kid. Although it looked good, the gameplay left a lot to be desired.

Anyway, another great article from Fabien.

Did you include the Deuterocanonical books?

I used to use my Dreamcast to browse the web. I had bought the keyboard and mouse peripherals to play Quake 3, and they worked with the browser. Back then I would use a variety of free dial up internet providers. Once the free trial ran out I would have to find another. This was in addition to the Internet that my parents were paying for.

I also considered recommending Solitaire.

I personally enjoy playing Free Cell with a deck of actual cards (although a video game version is just as fun).

Here is my list, I won't go into too many details as to rules or anything like that. I recommend checking out the links below to see what the games are like.

Two Players:

- Backgammon: This is my favorite "classic" game. I think it is _way_ more fun than chess. Especially if you play it with the doubling cube. Backgammon is easy to learn and it is common across many cultures.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2397/backgammon

- Lost Cities: this is a card game for two players that does not require any reading, aside from numbers. The game is very simple to learn but has a lot of depth and it is a lot of fun. I usually recommend this a good game for couples.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/50/lost-cities

- Battle Line: This is like Lost Cities but a little more complex, it has great depth.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/760/battle-line

Four Players

- The Mind: This is a four player card game that won game of the year back when it came out. It has no words at all. This game is extremely popular and the game play is very easy to learn (even easy for a kid). It requires all players to work together as team.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244992/the-mind

- The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine - This is also a four player card where you play as a team and there are no words. This game involves trick taking, which is gameplay mechanic that I was not familiar with before I played this, but you grandpa has probably played a card game in the past that does this (Bridge, Spades, and Hearts).

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/the-crew-the-ques...

Single Player:

- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases - This game is entirely made up of reading words. It is a very clever game that is kind of like a choose your own adventure. You get multiple cases to try to solve and you have to try to beat Sherlock Holmes. It can be frustrating but also rewarding. I would recommend getting it in grandpa's native language.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2511/sherlock-holmes-con...

Please cite sources for those claims.

I tried using gimp on Mac to do some extremely basic stuff. I just wanted multiple layers to make a little mock up at work. Gimp’s mental model is unintuitive to me, I got so frustrated trying get anything done. I gave up and bought acorn for Mac to make my basic little image.

If you want some more Cartoon Network nostalgia, enjoy this VHS recording of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcQH5bF1LI

I didn’t need the minivan until the third kid appeared. I would have stayed with a sedan as long as possible.

As I get older I prefer the text on my screen to be bigger than usual. Most websites tend to have super small fonts for some reason.

For coding I much prefer fonts that are bold and easier to read. Who actually likes these whimsical cursive looking comments or super thin looking fonts?

I ended up with "Roboto Mono" btw.

And I'm over here using Graphviz like some caveman.

“ And I realized my setup instructions weren’t documentation. They were a wall between my product and the people who wanted to use it.”

Assuming this was written by a human, I think it is time to retire saying “this is not x it is y”.

The moment I see that I think the text is AI generated and I lose interest.

Jq's syntax is so arcane I can never remember it and always need to look up how to get a value from simple JSON.

Overplowing is what created the dust storms of the Great Depression Dust Bowl era.

How does this compare to AppleScript?

Looks like grainydays on youtube can finally stop chugging flaming hot mountain dew everyday in the hopes that Kodak will bring back Aerochrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5KBQd_DkQw

This afternoon I was getting the oil changed for my car, and while I was in the waiting room the Amen Break started playing from a nearby speaker.

This is great, your final line summarizes my thoughts as well. When it comes to matters of faith your average Redditor and Hacker News commenter will heap scorn and derision on religious people for accepting things blindly without any proof, yet they will blindly accept what other people tell them is true, or now what an LLM says is true.

If Netflix had won they would have shut down HBO Go, oops I meant HBO Now, oops I meant HBO Max, oops I meant Max, oops I meant HBO Max.

What is the story behind the name?

This takes me back to the MapQuest era, printing out directions and reading them while driving.

When I was a kid I sent a letter to Snapple telling them that they should make Snapple flavored popsicles. They sent me a nice letter telling me it was a good idea. I have not thought about it since. But I wonder if my letter directly lead to this disaster:

"Disaster on a stick An attempt to erect the world’s largest popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film — but much stickier."

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8321110

I tried Zork 1. I got stuck immediately. I saw a house, went to it, read what was in the mailbox, but couldn't open the door. Now what? I never played the original Zork but if this was D&D there would be a little more information to go off then just "you see a house and there is nothing you can do there".

I used to dislike AppleScript but now I enjoy using it. The turning point for me was when I finally bit the bullet and read a book on the subject.

AppleScript’s human readable language lulls you in this false sense of security that you can wing it and everything will just work out. This is simply not the case, it is a very quirky language and it helps to read a book to get the right mental model.

The second thing that helped was getting AppleScript debugger from Late Night Software. They recently decided to no longer develop it and release it for free on their site. It’s worth getting if you haven’t done so already.