Happy Thankgiving, everyone.
Condescension
Telling someone they’re voting against their own interests is incredibly arrogant and ignorant. Incredible because the people who do it don’t believe they’re doing it. They just think they’re smarter than everyone else.
Spy Movies
Can I get a spy flick where the CIA/NSF/whoever isn’t the bad guy?
There’s no question anymore. You know who’s the bad guy all the time. The last movie I can recall that broke this trope was Patriot Games, which was followed by Clear and Present Danger where–guess who!–someone in the CIA is the bad guy again.
For a genre which prides itself on twists, there sure aren’t any.
Finite State Analysis
Z transforms are weird.
I Desire Tacos
I still have no tacos.
American Liability
An awful lot of law is based on the notion that someone would rather not get hit by a car than get hit by a car when it’s someone else’s fault.
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If you want to win the lottery, you have to play.
The lottery specifically is unwise. But to win, you have to play.
Red Flags
I was listening to Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, thinking, ‘This is why dude broke up with you.’
The happy songs are full of red flags and the bad ones, oh puppy.
Video Games
I should make one. Easy money, right?
Reaction
Social media seems to reward reaction more than anything else. I wonder if that’s common across all human interactions and I just don’t notice it, or it’s a social media phenomenom.