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"Are you there, God? It's me, Svenllama." The same Svenllama from the other site, still driving around Massachusetts apple orchard country in an old Honda, listening to the JAMC and rooting for SAFC.
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How did I get into a highly specialized field marked by egregious managerial bias towards hiring from fancy schools and consulting? I got lucky. I'd previously worked for a company that had an opening requiring familiarity with their business more than pedigree or expertise.

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@imgarysuarez.bsky.social "Three hours 'til pancakes."

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Running for governor of Rhode Island just so I can demand a parade of frozen-lemonade trucks.

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I shouldn't have eaten that second bowl of pasta because it will make running very unpleasant.

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I had a boss once who was a combat veteran. In the corner of the whiteboard in his office he listed the initials and dates of death of everyone he served with who died by suicide after coming home. Every couple years another person would appear on the list. As you were.

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Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.

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Well, well, well: Not so easy to win a playoff series when your opponent doesn't play like crap and have their best player doesn't blow out his Achilles, now is it? #Knicks

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I've been having intrusive thoughts all evening about what a bravura performance Steve Carrell would give if he played King Lear.

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@imgarysuarez.bsky.social Deli Haus, January 1998.

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If I was one of this guy's constituents, I'd be hopping mad. This guy doesn't have the makeup for the job, irrespective of his views. www.nytimes.com/2025...

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Pulp Fiction, 1994. Directed by Quentin Tarantino

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Myst (1993)

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A win today and Sunderland are back in the Premier League. #HawayTheLads

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I have just learned of the existence of Autogrill. The Europeans have beaten us at our own game.

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What if all these fakakta Wes Anderson movies were happening in the same cinematic universe?

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This is an outstanding April Fool's prank from the BBC. youtu.be/41i_CxDqoIA...

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a black metal band with donald duck on vocals

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Frank Black, just before the Pixies reunited. I think that's my median concert experience.

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The rolling stock for the model railroad layout I'm building in the basement is 50% B&M, 50% New Haven.

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This is my version of the biker jacket with the pill on the back from Akira.

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The liberal Joe Rogan was NPR's Car Talk

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Tom Cruise, it would seem, gets it.

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Martin Scorcsese's The Royal Tenenbaums.

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I convinced an employer to hire a packaging engineer once. They justified their salary 5x over in cost savings in the first year on the job and facilitated a massive reduction in Scope 3 GHG.

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They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

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The goddamn PHONE COMPANY invented the most badass analog synth you'll ever hear.

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I was 22 when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out, deep in a quarterlife crisis. The part in "Poor Places" where Jeff Tweedy sang "My voice is climbing walls / Smoking and I want love" as he strings come in still his me just a hard at the age of 45. Draw your own conclusions.

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Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades; further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it.

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Twitter-like posting sites are so stupid. Someone will post a surreptitiously-taken photo of a random woman and say "if she looks like a softball catcher, the dome is next level." And then 876 people will like the post. What the fuck are we even doing?

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"Screamadelica Supermarket / I can no longer shop soberly."

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If I hadn't been there myself, I'd say that Britain wasn't real. youtu.be/jl-bvyEyHqY...

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"Designed by Peter Saville."

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I wonder if the people in Deee-Lite still hang out every once in a while.

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If you listen for it, every 1970s Beach Boys song contains a disturbing moment where the singer declares that, despite his suicidal ideation, no, he will keep going and will not take his own life today.

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L to R: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher.

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Hell yes.

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[The Money for Nothing video, but it's Strong Bad and the Cheat]

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The Knicks are giving America the one thing it truly craves: the opportunity to rejoice at a Boston team experiencing a humiliating defeat.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Pop Seeds" is basically Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing" turned sideways. Outstanding stuff. One of the big surprises of the JAMC autobiography from last year (great read, BTW) is that the Reid brothers are huge Van Morrison fans. www.youtube.com/watc...

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