We’re losing so much humanity wearing masks. 50% of our faces’ cues are gone. I prefer to be on a video call than in person with masks on, by far. Yet physical proximity is nice too. After eight months in isolation, it certainly feels great at first. But then half your face is gone and I can’t really “read” you at all.
Also masks make our faces all wrinkly and stuff. Kids are really going to look like this soon.
Growing up in this paradigm, oh my god. I’m sorry y’all.
Apparently the world still loves 1970s detective show Columbo. It’s good! And like the article says, “Whereas series on streaming services often stretch out story arcs over as many episodes as is profitable, with a string of mini-cliff hangers, Columbo shoots its shot immediately: you see the killer, their backstory, motive and the deed itself within 20 minutes, before Columbo even arrives on screen.”
Grandma absolutely loved that show and I got into it with her, back in the days when the reruns were rerunning.
Another thing I hadn’t realized before reading that article is that Columbo happens in Los Angeles! I was watching this from the floor of a French countryside home usually during fall and winter, aka Grey Weather.
And now I remember that actually, sometimes exteriors with the very large, sunny Californian blue sky in the back and our detective in a trench coat sniffing around looked definitely off.
I kind of want to watch many episodes, giggling at murders.
There it is. Considering that there’s no stock as I already have been experiencing it for the past three weeks, it’s just going to be crazy this fall and winter. Oh my god.
The situation doesn’t look better with essentials like coffee and I imagine tea as well.
Bread is up 30%. (it goes without saying, if simple ingredients are hit, complex ones are going to be very, very expensive)
Dear future, uh, wow.
Shout out to my parents for taking care of their parents the way they did.
It’s pretty much impossible to do a better job.
From taking them in for a decade, to taking care of them in a retirement home as close as possible to the house, to visiting them as often as possible, they did it all with minimal bitching and constant attention.
Not an easy thing to do.
I talked to my parents yesterday and they told me that they were going to see grandma daily these days but that she wasn’t communicating anymore. Just nodding a bit and giving a smile.
Last night in the shower I teared up thinking about her, not really knowing exactly why. In the morning my sister’s email gave me the news.
She transitioned in her sleep at near 96, not bad. Not bad at all.
I loved my grandma. She was so sweet.
Wow, so glad this exists, thank you Maya (you can tip her here)!
I always wondered how those movies, which are hard to find even on the outskirts of the internet, would be preserved and I’m stupid because YouTube and one black lady was enough to take care of all of that.
I feel like all those movies should be in one zipped folder and shared to all, if I’m using my freedom of speech. Otherwise, yeah subscribe to everything and stream them all I guess.
Would love to see the 80s and 90s as well. And then expand to the world?
It is the ninth month of 2021. What
The irony of soft skills being indispensable is that we never get to show them when looking for work.
They don’t show up on a resume, a cover letter, nor a sound design or programming test.
They may show up in a chat or quick phone call but because time is limited and anxiety happens, this might not be the best display of said skills.
Personally it looks like I have great soft skills, able to glue with any team, in a very wide range of situations. But with the way companies hire I can’t never “sell” that, yet it’s a very important, sought after aspect of a candidate applying to a position.
Hiring and working seem so disconnected.
It looks like my Barilla Spaghetti n.5 are stuck on one of the 44 cargo ships stuck in Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
So 10 pounds of spaghetti on Amazon is now $50 instead of $20. I hate it here.
California is burning pretty badly, I know.
I try not to forget how right before summer last year a lot of conversations were going around UBI and the absolute necessity to set one up, the call for a new kind of society less based on profit and more “mature”, caring, etc. We can afford it (2016 article, the urgency is even greater now).
Then sports came back and that was a complete wrap.
I blame us, dudes. A few balls thrown in the air with different rules and we don’t know how to act.