Ehh. What’s the average age around here? I’m guessing it wasn’t the youth that migrated from Reddit.

I like that the alien has 4 fingers. Fitting!

My hometown was in Canada’s top-ten communities in decline for years. These days, it’s got two-thirds the population it used to, the streets are full of deer, and quite a few farmers’ fields have turned into forests. Almost everyone my age that I knew moved away long ago. Going back is always shocking.

Looks like a job for a regular flathead and a grinding wheel.

Teaching is very rewarding, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that some days I really want to never see a child again.

I’m an ESL instructor in South Korea. My situation did not happen overnight. I’d worked in quite a few different private and public schools before this opportunity presented itself.

Early periods, kids are tired. Late periods, kids are distracted because freedom is near.

I can’t imagine watching it more than once. I’ve just been trying to forget about it for the last fifteen years.

Yes! Self-employed, four-day work weeks, 4-6 hours a day. Enough money to be comfortable and to put some away for later. I have to clean the place by myself on that weekday off, but that’s fine. Cathartic even.

It is truly amazing how they managed to make an hour-and-ten-minutes feel like three hours. I (barely) finished watching it, and couldn’t believe how little time had actually passed.

Not animated, but trust me, if you’d actually watched Manos: The Hands of Fate, you would not have enjoyed it in any capacity.

Haha! Thanks. I don’t know about that. Some of it was actually fun. Recording on a plane was surprisingly cathartic.

Sorry to tell you that my particular location is pretty much irrelevant. Centipedes and roaches are just about everywhere. The further north you go, the safer you are.

We’ve got some pretty big centipedes around here, and they’re one of very few animals I slaughter ruthlessly without remorse. I have a hammer for the express purpose of braining them. Fuckers don’t need an excuse to bite you, they just do. And, they love bedsheets, clothes, etc. Ironically, we also have house centipedes, and they get a pass. They’re hideous, sure, but anything that eats cockroach eggs (another one I kill without remorse) is A-OK in my book.

As someone who does audio production as a hobby, and recently made an album using mostly Android, I can tell you that audio routing in Android is an absolute nightmare. Basically, Android (at least my Android devices) doesn’t give you access to any settings at all, it just assumes that you use the default settings of whatever you happen to plug into it.

I had a problem where I’d plug in my DAC, and it would detect it and start using it, but it failed to work in the app I wanted it to work in. It took me something like two days to figure out I had to plug things in in a different order in order for them to work properly. Just infuriating, and something that would be simple to fix if they’d just give you some super simple audio routing options, but NOOO, they just have to assume that no one knows what they’re doing and try to do everything for you.

Absolutely. I’m an ESL teacher in Korea, and getting my students to use prepositions properly is a significant portion of my job. The difference between something like “He is coming to you.” and “He is coming for you.” isn’t obvious at all if you think about it, but there are definitely proper and improper use cases for them.

Other Tragically Hip albums have some standout tracks, but the only album of theirs I really enjoy beginning-to-end is Fully Completely.

Quite possibly. I don’t think I’ve ever had any Bluetooth device work without hiccups. My old earbuds used to disconnect or lose pairing all the time. A couple of game controllers I have only worked intermittently for years. My phone is always losing connection in our car. I’ve ironed out some of the problems, but I’ve never had Bluetooth just work for me.

Hear hear. I’ve been using the same cheapo Mackie CR4 monitors for nearly a decade now. It’s not like a $1000 pair is going to sound much better in my room without a bunch of baffling or whatever.

I just wish he’d gotten tired of his Moog Grandmother. Haha!