officemonkey

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by officemonkey 6y ago
Like most Scientology celebs, he was carefully taken care of by the church. I doubt he was ever aware of how shitty they treated his staff.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Corea's touring group was all sourced from Scientologists. It allowed him and the church to manipulate his staff. A colleague of mine helped on an overseas tour and accidentally incurred a $18,000 cell phone bill (international roaming
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I'm surprised about the relative space. I once toured a Los Angeles-class sub (sorry, no photos) and I never felt I had enough headroom. Seeing all that open space in "workout area" and the "lounge area" and a lot o
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Australia has done remote instruction for decades. It boggles my mind that we are not borrowing existing and proven educational technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air
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by officemonkey 6y ago
BZflag, the tank game, is named after "Battle Zone", the original Atari tank game.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Don't forget Notch. He took his money and bought a mansion and became a DJ. TBH, if I made a pile, my interests would change dramatically. And running a successful company would not be nearly as validating.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
See, this is the main problem about buying new technology. The device is marketed as a graceful solution for all your "paper needs." My principle need for a tablet has always been ebook consumption. The ebook readers on Linux I&#x
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Does the ReMarkable have an ePub reader? My existing ebook collection is mostly DRM-free ePubs.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I've just deleted every Adobe app from my phone and tablet. I'm not going to trust this corporation.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Not recent, but very good: "Cowboy Bebop." It's good anime SciFi that works on many levels.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I thought Provenance was a lot weaker than the rest of the Ancillary series. It was still good though. The 2018 Hugo novel field was REALLY good. There wasn't a klunker in the group. My favorite was Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ne
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I got a sublet for a fantastic price from a AirBnber who wanted to get out of a zero-income property. 40% off the market rent. Oh, and because he didn't actually live there, he left everything. Dishes, pots, a bed.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
"We didn't get our cut" should only apply if they add value. What value does the App Store provide Hey?
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by officemonkey 6y ago
No one has ever hired me based on my college grades. The first job I had checked to see I graduated from college. Every other job has been based on experience and my record of performance.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
From 2009: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/frenc... My favorite quote: "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Trad clarinet isn't terribly difficult compared to post-bebop jazz. Pee Wee Russell and Benny Goodman were probably the best at it in the 60s. I don't think I have any post-1930s Mezzrow recordings to make an assessment.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Mezz Mezzrow was a Jewish C-list Jazz clarinetist from Chicago that was active during the depression. He was also a successful marijuana dealer to the Jazz community. He married a black woman, moved to Harlem, and called himself a "vol
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by officemonkey 6y ago
It _started_ even earlier. In 1948, Strom Thurmond ran for President as a Dixiecrat (Democrat for Racial Segregation), which is one reason why Truman v. Dewey was so close. In 1952, Robert Taft wanted to run for President using the "so
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by officemonkey 6y ago
There used to be steam-powered and battery-powered cars in the early 20th Century. There was an Edison-Westinghouse war in electricity distribution. Typically, a consensus is reached based on technical and economic limitations. For example,
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Goodreads. Duh.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I WANT TO GO TO THERE
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by officemonkey 6y ago
One alternate way to do a book club: 1. Meet every 3 to 6 months. 2. Everyone bring books to swap. 3. Everyone bring a list of books they really loved. 4. Each person takes turn talking about the books they loved while sitting around a dini
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I stopped using Grubhub because the majority of my purchases were to the same neighborhood Pizza joint. I just phone it in and literally cut out the middle-man. It takes two extra minutes.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
The Ottomans controlled Greece during that time. I don't think it was the Greeks that didn't give a damn.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Yes. And since the Greeks still have many of the acropolis marbles in their museum, it's fatuous to assume that they couldn't protect their own heritage.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Half of the marbles from the Parthenon survive in the Acropolis Museum. In other words, the Greeks know what they're doing. The Elgin Marbles were taken when the country was owned by the Ottoman Empire. I really wish you would do some
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Considering they were looted from the Parthenon in Athens, which is still standing, I would say "yes."
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by officemonkey 6y ago
I always used to say "On that side of the desk" and point to the interviewer.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
For example, the word "balls" have many uses that should not be censored, yet it is always expurgated.
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by officemonkey 6y ago
Y'all just need to load up a fresh Realms server in Minecraft. The tweens in my house figured this out weeks ago.

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