Recent content by prabe

I actually timed them, like with a stopwatch. I could see being a couple seconds off, but even seventeen seconds seems like a lot of user error. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I remember messing around after hours in the studio I was working at, trying to make thirty-second things that sounded...

Huh. That was one of the ones I clocked at thirty seconds, when I did. Sixty seconds would be easier.

There's a local organic chain we go to that's similar. At one point, sometime around 2001, I clocked a bunch of the opening credits sequences for hour-long shows, and they were all like exactly 30 seconds. I remember seeing something much shorter shortly thereafter, I wouldn't be surprised if...

I can see going back to checkers being a loss-prevention thing, but most of the places around here that have self-checks, don't have them set up well for people to take carts through, so there's probably also some efficiency being lost, there. But yes, standing in line behind someone buying 107...

Unrelated to the above: I know I'm always going on (and on (and on)) about different media being different, but there are reasons TV show opening credit sequences are like thirty seconds.

Without having seen the article in question, it's worth remembering that much of what gets called "stoicism" these days has little to do with the Stoics--same as much of what gets called "cynicism" has next to nothing to do with the Cynics. I can see how someone might look at what gets called...

A couple years ago, my wife and I went to the Black Hills (among other places in South Dakota) and made a point to see as little of the Heads as we could. There was one (very nice) scenic drive that made it impossible, but other than that we managed to avoid all the defaced (heh) mountains in...

Unrelated to the above ... Somehow I don't think you actually agree with that. I'm pretty sure you don't understand it.

My own leanings are toward Dr Pepper, though either Pepsi or Coke will do in a pinch. :LOL:

There does seem to be something distinctly dude-ish about the obsessions among some fan-bros with peat levels (in ppm) or hoppy bitterness (in IBUs). That said, my own carbonated beverage of preference is a Zero, not a Diet, and I do feel as though it's a preference based on the actual taste/s...

Unrelated to the above ... I'm not the only one looking at that thread title and getting a strong whiff of J. Jonah Jameson, am I?

As someone who kinda stopped listening to music for pleasure (after playing in basement and garage bands, and getting into recording, and ... and ...) because I trust neither my hearing nor my emotional responses ... I feel vaguely as though I agree with both Zeno and Achilles, here.

Hey, I've never once snarked on pineapple on pizza. Olives, sure--though I'd hope my referring to them as "non-food objects" was clearly a joke--but not pineapple.

Presuming a thing is awesome because it is popular (which the post you're responding to did not do) is the same fallacy as presuming it's terrible because it's popular, yes. On the other hand, if a lot of people are really enjoying it, maybe it's not as bad as all that, eh?

Look, if the interviewers are going to gay-panic like that I probably don't wanna work there, anyway.