The Troys Are Back In Town

me when I move back to the midwest

"What are your personal and professional goals for the next five years?"

I love how the two things we learn about MacReady in his intro is he's drunk and willing to destroy computers that cost over $5000 in today's dollars if he loses a single game. Imagine he'd pour scotch into the vents of Steam Deck every time a Balatro run went south, like, ten times in a row.

It's just about sundown, time for my annual Halloween tradition; turning off all the lights, watching The Thing, and trying to experience MacReady's perspective by getting just as drunk as he is.

god, what a cool era

Descriptive Titles movies that promise to be about a thing, and then are about that thing

not quite literal enough, it would need to be called The Beavers That Are Zombies Now or something letterboxd.com/troyponce/li...

Question for everyone who worked remote and was told to return to office, how much time did they give you between the announcement and when you were supposed to report in?

Remember when the UFC booked Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera so Strikeforce scheduled Kim Couture vs Kerry Vera just to ride whatever wave of attention the first one was getting? Phenomenal Scott Coker thinking.

adding it to my letterboxd list of movies with descriptive titles, the Hobo With a Shotgun types

even with the caveat that retail politics is inherently performative to some degree, Zohran seems like he also genuinely enjoys each of these things. It's not standard campaign event to kiss hands and shake babies, he acts like every corner of the community is essential and deserving, as they are.

an MMA media guy got on the phone when I called out their unvarnished praise of Anthony Johnson. He said "we all make mistakes, I make mistakes" and I asked "are your mistakes striking the mother of your children so hard you knocked out their teeth? Is that maybe a different category from mistake?"

Reddit post: I understand the whole hit on the wife thing being a deal breaker, but it’s kinda weird that him having a messy breakup with his girlfriend is where people are drawing the line. I saw the embarrassing videos of him arguing with his girlfriend when they came out, did I miss something else? Like it was a bad look, but if you combed through camera footage from my home you could probably make a compilation that made me look like a dickhead too.

I can't believe what people are willing to say about themselves sometimes. The "embarrassing videos" are habitually cornering and threatening her, screaming psychotically, and spitting in her face.

You do that too, huh? You think that's what's behind every other household's closed doors? Alright.

Just learned my 8ish year old nephew is regularly ignoring my mom when he's at her place to read the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection I bought him. He's gonna be alright.

"Don't go in room 237." Ok.

I would spend the winter at the Overlook Hotel simply enjoying the mountain views and making a variety of braises and hearty stews in their commercial kitchen.

I'd wager about 70% of emails I get from my manager are spoofed fake phishing emails sent by IT to trick employees and make them do security training, which doesn't make it easy for actual communication to come from my manager.

"Five gallons of onions" hell yeah
"That's two gallons of mint and cilantro" hell yeah dude
"About 4.5lbs of yogurt" hell yeah brother

YouTube video by Bon Appétit The Man Who Cooks Biryani for 300 People on the Mumbai Streets | Street Eats | Bon Appétit

Let me introduce you to my favorite piece of media this year; Guy Cooking 80lbs Of Biryani in a Big Pot youtu.be/UfhVuZyhIxA?...

Appreciate that you have a code about what counts here

@highlightt.bsky.social another one if you're keeping records wgntv.com/news/recalls...

seriously, it's like going into an interview and confidently saying you do not regularly use critical thinking skills

Organic Organic Marketing Manager Clear Are you located within the United States? * Yes No How many years of experience do you have in an SEO specific role? * Less than 1 1-2 2-4 4+ How often are you using AI tools (ChatGPT, etc) in your day to day work? * Rarely (maybe once or twice a week) Moderately (just about once every day) Heavily (ChatGPT is always up on my browser, and a significant amount of my thinking, writing, and other work is supported with ChatGPT) - Super user (Airops, customGPTs do my job for me. And I’m always tinkering

I get the feeling this question on a job listing is to weed out people who haven't heavily adopted LLMs, and three years from now they will ask the exact same question and want the opposite answer.

Maybe we're stuck with him but I can see situations where we won't be. I'm skeptical about his fundraising holding up. He's also been bleeding staff and volunteers, especially after sending NDAs to all of them last week.

that's the thing, the primary isn't even for another 8 months! And it's ranked choice voting, so even if he doesn't drop out, a new progressive candidate could take the Mamdani/Lander approach from the NYC primary and cross endorse each other without splitting the vote.

I'm wishing he's got the longevity of that red bearded guitar man who lasted like, two months. Godspeed on the seafood business dude, but you're not the guy for this.

if nothing else, I do not want to have to pay attention to yet another guy who is this fucking whiny

Bill Walton would be so happy, I'm glad he never got to experience this joy.

LG ThinQ Microwave Oven is done cooking. now

Got a new microwave. Not sure this is a necessary feature.

I mean, it would have different beneficial functions in theory, but the evil stuff is the priority for everyone putting money into it.

Every government, law enforcement agency, and benefactor of mass surveillance or espionage does!