My saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it’s difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.

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?

That kind of puts the scene where Rick keeps reanimating in different universes in a new light. Forget the episode, but he keeps coming out of his lab in a different universe and they’re all fascist hellholes. He’s like “Is this, like, the default setting or something?”

Sounds like a Buddy Space Cop show, and I would watch the crap out of it.

More Expanse crossovers, please.

That makes sense! Wasn’t even thinking of that angle.

I think human parts are a hard no for me

I’m pretty confident we still have the kids’ baby teeth stored somewhere in a box of mementos in the basement (where all our treasured family memories / water heater are stored). I think that is my personal threshold.

As a human being…also feeling a bit betrayed

Glad you’re able to make that work. I get that and do miss the communal aspect but it’s been a real challenge for me in the streaming era.

I don’t think I’ve really had the communal feeling in recent memory except maybe when Game of Thrones was on its last few seasons, and that was only because I was late to the party and binged the first 4 lol. The rest of the time, it never feels like people around me are watching the same shows. And if we are, we’re all at different points so it’s a minefield of spoilers.

Same. And with some shows having 1-2 years between ten-episode seasons, I often have to go back and re-watch the entire prior season before watching the current one. Otherwise, I’m totally lost.

The analog method of playing a MIDI file.

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