Thanks Hank. This is the last picture I took of my Dad, while he played chess with his grandson one last time.

I was watching this, about to pass out, and realized they still had 30 seconds to go 🤣

Crazy Mary? 😅

My dad had the Gaea trilogy in his library and I devoured it. Such an incredible world

This is the other part of the fuckery that people don't get about the US system. It's not just that it's hyper expensive, but also Byzantine and susceptible to this kind of thing. Suddenly you get a bill because the ambulance was out of network and you owe $15,000 dollars. Not a typo, three zeros.

Yep. It's Goodharts Law in action. You have to stop making what you enjoy and start making Content, which then must be optimized to an increasingly meaningless metric.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...

Incredible the algorithm brought that back up then. I got some research to do, those guys looked like a blast!

I always thought this summed it up best theonion.com/tubi-ceo-com...

Parents would walk in, literally unplug the Atari and tell you go outside till the street lights came on. So we played kick the can, built forts, hide and seek till dark completely unsupervised.

Nah, I got friends who are 5yo than me, pure genx. They didn't get AOL chatrooms, ICQ, BBSes, geocoties, Napster, the browser wars, any of that. They were partying on MTV when that was going down, cuz they were teens and college kids. That changes something in your worldview