Wierdly half squatting off the bench and then dropping back down to get the last rep from almost there to there on an arnold press is actually good form in a reverse-jerk technique i just invented, tyvm
Reading a business book about strategy that describes DEC’s downfall as a failure to focus on a single coherent strategy amongst 1) selling computers (boxes) 2) silicon fab (chips) or 3) consulting (solutions) and with hindsight I think we can all agree that it was 1a) selling colorful computers that looked really cool*
*this poster is too young to have ever seen one not in a museum much less used one
Figure 1. the front panel of a pdp-11/70 flush with rows of bright violet, fuchsia, and pink switches and buttons and red lights set on a black background over a wide row of violet, fuchsia, and pink keys in an off-white case.
13 years living in SF and 3 years into only ever sitting outside at places to eat and/or drink and I still under-dress and then sit facing the winer sun as if it ever helps
Figure 1. a picture of me squinting into the sun wearing a yellow hat, pink shirt, grey hoodie, and black jean jacket, phone in hand, with a round of beers on the table in front of me.
I don’t know many Verlaine stories but this one on Pushing Ahead of the Dame about Bowie’s cover of “Kingdom Come” on Scary Monsters has stuck with me since it was posted (there’s a similar story about Jimmy Page in the early 80s spending most of an invite on wah pedal battery fussing and not really laying anything down): everybody has off days.
Lol at this weird 😘 vehicle the everloving wife made with jr this morning
Figure 1. ECU tiny lego car on a very short wheel base, taller than it should be, with a blue roof, winking eyes, and a kissy-heart on a post on a turtet on top pointing straight up 😘.
Figure 1. am illustration of a blue hippopotamus, SWEETI POTAMUS, on aHungry, Hungry Hippos game, to theto the right of sweetie herself, who appears to have captured a large share of the green and red in-game food.