That arcade shooter in Blades of Steel

The only reason why US agencies have my fingerprint and biometrics is because of visa and TWIC applications. I still prefer doing things the analog way when entering.

Being a foreigner crossing the border is annoying enough, even if I’m the “right” skin color entering legally. No need to have a shitty AI conclude “daymn he ugly” and deport me on a whim.

I served in the army with a Muslim guy as one of my closer friends. He had some days that required special considerations, and while these considerations were not a problem by themselves, finding out when they were needed and planning for them was something I could never wrap my head around.

Nickelback is an alright band. Far from my favorite, I just don’t get what all the hate was about.

In fact, I’d go as far as saying that their first album is pretty good, and I like it. Except from that song which is severely overplayed and mediocre.

Would she have preferred it if you made a “happy” moan instead?

Security screening in Equatorial Guinea. Turned out the hotel had booked the president and this riffraff offshore crew at the same time. This was fine provided that we were OK with being searched for weapons or anything deemed suspicious.

Full pat down plus luggage search, nothing too major. A coworker of mine had a pair of binoculars confiscated, that’s all.

I misread your post. I thought you had a story similar to having a family poop knife

Standard US Dvorak, but with the modification of using Caps Lock as Compose key so that I can type øæåØÆÅ when I need to.

I made the switch in 2011, but I never bought into the typing-speed claim. Typing speed be damned, it’s just so much more comfortable this way.

Background:
I grew up with scandinavian keyboard layout in the 90s, but then two things happened almost at the same time:

• I fucked up my msdos config, resulting in me having to use the default US layout
• I became interested in coding.
  It didn’t take long to notice how much better US layout is once you need access to {, }, and @, so I became familiar with it. For a long time I swapped bac and forth depending on what I was doing. Then one day around the time when Walter White blew up Gustavo Fring it dawned on me out of the blue that qwerty was somewhat cumbersome, and I would most likely be using a keyboard recreationally and professionally for the rest of my life, so I might as well try to see if I could get used to something more comfortable.

Downside: Took me a while to get used to it. 6 months or so. A little more than that and my typing speed was up to what it used to be.
Upsides: More comfortable, Nobody wants to borrow my computer, and shoulder surfers have NFI what my password is based on what I’m typing.

By hiring me as an Unfluencer. Say you’re a marketing rep working for Adidas, and you want people to view Umbro as totally uncool; Hire me as an unfluencer, and I will start shilling for Umbro, and my mere endorsement will make Umbro so uncool that everyone flocks to Adidas instead.

Do tell

I guess it could be both.

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Not really approaching the topic of religion in any way (as far as I recall), but Bill Bryson - “A Short History of Nearly Everything” is a neat book, especially if your knowledge about the world is grounded in religious teachings.

Basically it goes through a lot of the scientific knowledge we have today and tells the story of how it was discovered, focusing on giving answers to “how we know what you know”. It’s a bit oversimplified in many areas, but it’s still pretty educational, entertaining, and at times pretty funny. The part about Henry Cavendish (18th century chemist) is hilarious.

Unfortunately I barely have the mental bandwidth to handle a girlfriend, four kids, and two cats.

And I can see in strong winds. An eye injury in 1998 fucked with my tear ducts, so I don’t get a runny left eye, ever.

I just replaced my car, mostly due to upkeep costs. But while I can manage the car loan as it stands right now, once my grandparents’ house is sold, almost all of my share will go into the car loan.

The severance obviously won’t last forever (6 months-ish), but I live in a “socialist hellscape scandinavian country” (Glenn Beck told me so, I didn’t know how awful I had it until I accidentally watched Fox News in 2008), so even if it takes me a while to land a job I’m not too worried. Plus I have plenty ty of c9ntacts in my current field of work, so even if things were to go to hell, I’m sure I’ll land on my feet.

Not a whole lot I can do beyond what I already have done for unrelated reasons:

• mortgage is on fixed interest.
• car loan is mostly funded by some extra money I have coming my way.
• employment contract is pretty solid and includes a hefty severance package if ended prematurely.

Mail, torrentleech, Element, WhatsApp, and whatever I worked on last time I had it open.

EDIT: Upon checking, it was all of the above. The “whatever I was working on” was the user manual of my car.

Texas Instruments has entered the chat

Foxcon nets to catch jumpers in the US when?