Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).

Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.

Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet

Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.

Also they lazily copied …

In film school, that’s called an homage. /s

I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

1. There’s a secret science place where science happens
2. At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
3. The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
4. The secret science place blows up in the end

That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

It’s from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).

• Does it have USB-C video out?
• Do you plan to run any custom ROMs / Can it run custom ROMs?

As a human being…also feeling a bit betrayed

The analog method of playing a MIDI file.

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That’s why I’m still loving the Minimal Phone. E-paper display is terrible for doom scrolling (though you 100% can if you want) but great for reading and doing phone/organizer stuff.

I’ll doom scroll on my laptop, TYVM lol.

I quit smoking over a decade ago, but if I had the opportunity to light a cigarette from the Olympic torch…I’d take it. Probably also use that cigarette to light the pilot lights on my water heater and then all my showers would be heated by the Olympic flame (technically speaking).

Life imitates art:

I know, right?!

Bench please.

Clearly we need MicroUSB-C /s

I say exactly what I want to say and fork anyone who has a problem with it.

If those are my two options…start looking for my projects on Codeberg I guess.

I had the same problem - the correct size blinds I bought were broken and had to return them and could only get a set that was 1 inch shorter 😠

Ended up moving the mounts slightly inward so the gaps were on the edges. The two smaller gaps on the sides were a lot less noticeable than the gap in the middle. Also ended up putting curtains up to cover the edge gaps, though it wasn’t strictly necessary. I keep them pulled to the side, and they’re purely decorative / to hide the edge gaps.