I’ve been cutting my own hair for the last 14 years for this exact same reason. I still have the same pair of clippers too so I must have hundreds by now
I take notes and write up mini reviews on my laptop when I watch shows as its the only way I can follow what’s happening. Even with no distractions I tend to drift off into my thoughts....
OK I’m sold - I hear a lot of good things about OneNote but I struggled to understand the appeal on first glance. If it is good enough that you can find notes that far back then that could work well for me.
Btw Planner is great if you haven’t used it. It’s designed as a collaborative tool but I use it mostly as a way of keeping track of where I am with various tasks. I put it in my startup folder so it comes up as soon as I log on. I’ll make checklists and basically talk to myself via card comments. Comments are timestamped and are forwarded to outlook so it’s a better way of logging things than my usual method of digging through old Outlook messages. It has a couple of shortfalls but its really keeping me sane at the moment
Yeah i’m the world’s worst listener and I absolutely hate it so I’m always trying to find ways to fix it. I can watch entire season runs without knowing what happened. I’ve been known to go to the cinema and leave without having paid attention to a single thing. I’ve listened to literally hundreds of podcasts but don’t bother any more because there’s just no point. Five minutes at best and my mind goes elsewhere.
Ironically if there’s something else I’m trying to focus on and there is a TV or something happening in my peripheral I often can’t tune it out… lol
Tried that but I forget the planner exists and inevitably lose it so I stick to cloud-based apps now. ToDoist is my go to for personal checklists and planning now
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
I went back to Windows a few years ago because I needed audio production software but would go back to vanilla Debian in a heartbeat if I needed a PC for anything else.
I switched to I3WM later on with my Debian PC and that was godlike too
i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...
Not dead but definitely on life support. I really do miss old forums. Reddit / Discord / Fediverse don’t come close to the old community feel. Facebook groups aren’t so bad sometimes for that but then the content is organised terribly. Say what you will about forum search engines but I could always rely on being able to enter a keyword or two and get what I was looking for.
A lot of forums I frequented were actually pretty well organised with subforums. It just isn’t the same these days.
Also web forums were the absolute best for petty drama. I do miss that in a weird way. Always that one angry gatekeeper flaming everyone.
I’ve been watching 80s TV in realtime for the last 7 years on a 35-year delay. Started in 1982, it’s 1988 now. Here are my thoughts. Wall of text incoming…...
I did actually have V on my list but never got round to it. I wanted to see the TV movie first but my partner is a hard-sell on that sort of stuff. I’ll have to find some time for it. Buck Rogers sounds like fun! One thing I love about that era is that they could produce the silliest shows and keep a straight face.
Now you mention sci-fi I just realised I didn’t mention Star Trek TNG in my post…
Good shout - I never watched Dallas or Dynasty but I feel like I’m ignoring a pop-culture touchstone with those 2. The amount JR is referenced in other shows I almost feel like I have seen it.
I watched the first episode of Magnum PI and was impressed by the quality. Never picked it back up for some reason though. I never watched Simon and Simon - think I was overwhelmed with hour-long detective shows at the time and a lot of them got bumped from my schedule.
Oh man Mike Post is a legend for the Hill Street Blues theme alone. He did the Greatest American Hero too. The 80s had the best TV Themes of any decade in my opinion
Yeah I totally forgot to mention TNG but I did watch it. First season has its moments but isn’t the best.
Still good to see though. Punky Brewster I didn’t get past the first couple episodes. It was cool but think I was fatigued what with all the other similar shows. Same reason I didn’t really bother with Webster at the time.
I think I had a look for Tracey Ullman but I don’t know if there are many episodes available?
Small Wonder must have passed me by. It looks dreadful! Hopefully in a good way though? I’ll check it out but I just recently got through Out of this World and that was pretty terrible. Sounds kinda similar.
Yeah it was my absolute top number 1 favourite show for a very long time. It’s one of those shows I can just throw on any episode any time and enjoy it. Cheers, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart Show, Newhart and Golden Girls are top 5 for that vibe. Like a warm hug
I dunno, it’s up there with Knight Rider and Airwolf in that it’s cool as hell to start with, but an hour long episode every week is a drag. My opinion anyway, but I feel like once you’ve seen a handful of episodes it gets boring. Someone else said the best part of those shows is the theme song and I have to agree.
I powered through those old KTMA episodes years ago. I will probably try and watch them again but I know exactly what you mean. I still love Joel though and I like the way he comes across in the early episodes, and the skits were good if I remember correctly. My biggest complaint with those is the movies themselves - there’s way too many Kaiju and puppet movies for my liking. 5 Gamera movies back to back is tough to say the least.
I’m looking forward to MST3K for sure. Who’s The Boss got lost in the shuffle somehow. Looking back there was a lot of debuts in 1984 and I couldn’t watch everything. Definitely one I need to revisit though
I did watch a few movies this years too but haven’t been in the mood a lot of the time. I’d already seen a lot of the ‘good’ movies from 88 so went for the lighter side a lot of the time.
Crocodile Dundee 2 Short Circuit 2 18 Again! Willow Funny Farm Hot To Trot Vibes
Of those Funny Farm was the one I enjoyed most. Short Circuit 2 is good Sunday afternoon fun if you can get past the horrific indian stereotype. Hot To Trot is straight up weird and Vibes was a struggle to watch. The others were fine.
I never watched Akira. I am a bit of a hard sell on anime sometimes but I always hear good things about it. I’ll put it on the list
Definitely need to watch a bit of Macgyver! I want to check out Miami Vice again sometime but my partner hated it. I do love the style and the music though.
Oh yeah I watched a ton of 70s sitcoms a few years back. Mostly Norman Lear and MTM productions. Stuff like All In The Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore and its spin-offs. Watch a ton of Happy Days in anticipation of watching one or two of the 80s spinoffs, but never managed to finish it and lost my appetite for any more of that. Lol.
I never finished MASH just because its one of those shows you have to be in the mood for. but I enjoyed it and finished the first couple seasons. I need to finish it sometime.
The laugh track thing is weird - after watching so many 70s and 80s sitcoms I tune it out. I think its not so bad when the jokes are actually good and its a live audience, but some of those early 2000s shows were so obnoxious with it.
Interestingly I think they released some MASH episodes without the laugh track. You should look hat up if you go for a rewatch
The way I look at it is that I’m more happy that we’ve progressed since than I’m upset about what people were laughing at back then. Regardless of who was on the receiving end the comedy was good and I will enjoy it without guilt. That being said if somebody made those jokes today it would be a different story
I know this will vary a lot, so hypothetically let’s say you currently WFH/work remotely at least 3 days a week. Your commute to work takes an hour max (door to door) each way. If you were given the choice of a 4 day week working onsite, or a 5 day week WFH (or as many days as you’d like) for the same pay, which would you...
I went back to 5 days a week in office in summer 2021. I hated it when I was told but now I’m glad it happened. I walk 2 miles each way to work. That walk is one of the nicest parts of my day. I get crazy paranoia when I can’t speak to people face-to-face, and I can maintain a routine. I appreciate I am lucky in my situation but I would take the 4 days and enjoy a long weekend where I can properly unwind
I would kill for some proper VST emulations of old home organs. As in ones that I could hook up a MIDI organ to and play with 2 manuals and bass pedals, operate an automatic rhythm unit, make registration changes on the fly, and has presets for whole organ setups. Hauptwerk is cool but doesn’t cater for the cheesy end of the organ spectrum, and the other organ VSTs are usually set up for single-keyboard use.
I think Arturia should get on it and release a full-on Grandma Organ V collection. They’d sell dozens!
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Techniques and Strategies For Maintaining Focus
I take notes and write up mini reviews on my laptop when I watch shows as its the only way I can follow what’s happening. Even with no distractions I tend to drift off into my thoughts....
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
What are your defining memories of computing in the old days?
I remember my dad bringing home a BBC Micro when we were kids. I knew just enough to get Chuckie Egg running....
An classic that every arcade had back in the day. What was the hardest level for you? (startrek.website)
Are Internet boards and Forums dead
i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...
80s TV Rewatch
I’ve been watching 80s TV in realtime for the last 7 years on a 35-year delay. Started in 1982, it’s 1988 now. Here are my thoughts. Wall of text incoming…...
Remote or hybrid workers, would you rather work a 4 day week on site, or WFH completely for 5 days a week, for the same pay?
I know this will vary a lot, so hypothetically let’s say you currently WFH/work remotely at least 3 days a week. Your commute to work takes an hour max (door to door) each way. If you were given the choice of a 4 day week working onsite, or a 5 day week WFH (or as many days as you’d like) for the same pay, which would you...
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