It’s just easiest. I don’t like pepperoni, or bacon, or sausage. Don’t like olives or banana peppers or jalapeños. Mushrooms are disgusting. Cheese is just easiest to order from most pizza places.

There are things I like on pizza. If we go to a place like MOD, I’ll get chicken, spinach, roasted garlic, corn, broccoli, red onion, balsamic glaze, ricotta… my pizzas get pretty heavy there.

But at most pizza places, especially with other people, it’s just easy to get cheese.

I can’t believe how good they sound for the money. They are worth carrying around a USB-C DAC for.

Very nice. I love Cinnamon. I use the Eleganse theme, I’m a sucker for transparency.

As an engineer, I suppose I should be offended by this. But I realize that it is based on “emotions,” a type of internal sensory experience some humans have on a daily basis. This is not logical, and shall be disregarded. End statement.

Even if it is feasible, I still encounter twice as many people as I want to on a daily basis. I want to live on Solaria, from Isaac Asimov’s The Naked Sun.

I always tell my wife that if they found a secret warehouse full of old Aztek parts and pumped some new ones out, I’d get one on the spot. I loved that car.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

I need NX. If we could get that working, and if IT let me have Linux on my work PC, I would be so happy. My CAD station runs considerably worse on Win11, and the drivers for my favorite spaceball don’t work on it.

What is Phil Swift going to do with that chicken?

• Pajamas shouldn’t leave the house.

• Unique names and unique spellings of names are terrible. There should be a government approved list of names to choose from.

• Religion is the worst thing humanity has made up.

• Waterworld is a fantastic movie.

• Linux > Windows.

Nah. It’s fine. I ended up taking an extra year to get my BSME. Nobody has ever once questioned that on my resume. Luckily, a few of my friends continued on to graduate studies, so I still knew a few people that last year.

Probably because people above the waterline don’t know Mozilla exists, and people below have seen how things have been going lately.

Oh, the one where the wife finds it is such a good one. With crazy updates. But that’s not the story. It’s the one where the guy parks the jar in the rear. But when the pressure is too much for the jar to bear, it implodes. The man must then handle the gruesome task of removing the shards.

I don’t know. I live a good female lead. Ripley, Furiosa, Marge Gunderson. There’s so many, that’s just the first three that come to mind. Half the time when I’m playing Fallout, it’s female characters.

There are definitely bad female leads in things, too. Just like there are bad male leads. Like, Borderlands 3, basically unplayable. I never finished it. And I really want to be clear, the characters aren’t bad because they are women, they are bad due to poor writing. That game had such potential, but it felt like the script was written entirely by highschoolers.

I have quite a few. My wife’s favorites are Versace Eros, Versace Dylan Blue, and Dior Sauvage. My personal favorites are Mont Blanc Explorer, Mont Blanc Explorer Ultra Blue, and Viktor Rolf Spicebomb Fresh.

Honorable mention to Azzaro The Most Wanted.

Liar by Big Klit

Yeah, she definitely crossed the line that time. It was probably the most mad I have ever seen her. I can’t remember if that was also when she slapped me, or if that was something else. But really, those were the worst instances and the other 98% of my childhood was very good. And we really do have a very good relationship today. I don’t think I deserved it, or any child would deserve that. My schooling was just a hotbutton issue for her, and I pushed it really hard that time.

My mom was very strict with me as a child, but I don’t think it was narcissistic. She was very focused on my education. I had to do well and get a good job. But it was because she wanted me to have good health insurance as I have had chronic health issues from birth. I have a good job now, my student loans are paid off, and she was right about me needing good health insurance. Our relationship is lovely now. But I’ll probably always remember the time that I skipped a homework assignment and she spit in my face.

I’m so glad I haven’t bought an EA game since Battlefield 1942.