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In like, 2005-2010ish I remember there being these awesome online games through sites like Mini Clip. All disappeared from the internet....

Whenever I have to do a captcha where you must select all tiles with bicycles, I know I can just click through super fast, but I feel like that might make the website suspicious, so I purposefully slow down like “Geez, this is a melon-scratcher!” or click and then unclick a tile like “whoops, silly me, thats an umbrella...

Those bricks take time.

Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?

The world fades into the background as your thoughts envelope you, and if you’re a musician imagining your music, maybe it’s closer to that than I’d have thought. =O

I love hearing about unique takes on game mechanics. Someone recently convinced me that limited inventories are kind of abused currently and that unlimited inventory systems would give more player choices.

Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this...

I’m seeing posts about beef stroganoff. Why.

If you are at work in the middle of the night when the clocks change, do you work an extra hour in the spring and one less in the fall?

There are some brands of bicycles that can cost more than the down payment on a car. Why? Surely making a bike lightweight and reliable isn’t so difficult that it warrants that price? Is it just the brand name or maybe it has to do with customization options?

Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

I’ve heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.

Is anyone aware of techniques or research on this?

Can someone post hate comments so I feel at more normal?

For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

Suppose you win 100 million. What do you actually do with it? Banks only guarantee 250,000. Do you have to invest it? Is there anywhere you can just let it sit and draw interest?

A blue rubberduck with an Australian flag and the text Australia printed on it, positioned on a white cup

I’m pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I’m pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn’t have a term :-)