Same here, I’m a computer engineer trying to do 20-30/week. So far the only places that will even talk to me are where I formerly worked full time.

I’ve had multiple people suggest that I simply agree to work full time and then just not, but I’m not sure if those folks realize how stressful that can be.

I wish you luck in your situation!

I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!

I Circe what you did there!

I remember once opening the door to a garage (with a gravel floor), hundreds of the little guys immediately dove in to the gravel. It was… fine. I was… fine.

Conversely, I was at a snake petting zoo and they had an arachnid room. There was a big ol’ scorpion there covered with it’s babies taking a ride and it was honestly very cute! (This was thousands of miles from home, so that helped too.)

In summary: Scorpions… sometimes?

Aw, I remember coworkers had gotten corn and onion pizzas as a treat the first time I visited my remote office in Taipei (from Pizza Hut). I believe there were also shrimp pizzas, I felt very special 😊

But yes, alas it seems rare here in the US!

I’ve been obsessed with it!! The cooking is amazing and I love the philosophical bits that are woven through everything.

Are you worried the cooking focus might take a back seat as the current storyline proceeds?

I believe it is Paper Cassette! And yes, I feel very old.

Oh, I had no idea Shortyz was forked, I’m so glad there’s a maintained version thank you!

You are reminding me that I used to keep a copy of Nesticle (for DOS!) on an AOL floppy, along with a couple of ROMs. I saved the fancy Imation Disney disks for my data 😅

Thank you for the flashback!

For me, the loss of AskHistorians was/is/will be the worst. There’s so just much important knowledge there, they’ve changed how I see the world (and I assume that’s true for others as well). I really hope they figure out a way to save some of that, but it won’t be surprising if it just fades away… Just heart breaking.

I hope we can rebuild some things here, but AskHistorians definitely felt special.

But unfortunately you can’t start it again.