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I always assumed the Tandy company that sold leather and the Tandy company that sold computers were different companies.

Turns out nope, they were the same. Tandy Leather bought Radio Shack in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation

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This is especially weird to find out today, because today I also found out (through randomly seeing a mention on Twitter) that the Michelin Guide to restaurants and Michelin tire company are the same Michelin, not two different Michelins as I’d always assumed

https://guide.michelin.com/en/restaurants

it fucks me up that when i first heard of michelin star restaurants i was like “the tire company??” and then i was like no that’s dumb it has to be a different michelin and then it’s just the fucking tire company recommending places to eat

— 🎄🦌 rhena-deer 🦌🎄 (@topntran) November 24, 2020

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Playing Minecraft with the kid:

Wife: “What are you playing on?”
Kid: “Windows 10.”
Me: “What *world*?”
Kid: “I don’t know.”
Wife: “Does that mean you don’t know, or does that mean IDK?” (He has a realm called IDK, because he didn’t know what to call it.)
Kid: “No, IDK hasn’t been renewed.”
Wife: *sigh* “Who’s on first…?”

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kid asked us to buy an external floppy drive so he can see what’s actually on the handful of floppy disks we still have 🙄

not that we’d have any use for it afterward

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Had to go in the other room for Duolingo. I’m back on German again & started a lesson on shopping, and every time the app said “verkauft,” my wife would crack up because it sounded so much like “fuck off”

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I find it kind of hilarious that ~2 years after Flickr got rid of unlimited free storage, they’re promoting themselves as an alternative to Google Photos as GP prepares to ditch unlimited free storage, because Flickr’s paid plan is unlimited, while Google’s paid plans “only” go up to 2 TB

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shelf-stable pepperoni should be called prepper-roni.

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In other news, the kid is watching a video of people playing Among Us where one of the players has his name. It’s weirding him out.

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Close call…the bottle of tonkatsu sauce in the fridge looks a lot like the bottle of caramel sauce.

One of those would not go well in coffee.

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Ah, the fun of looking all over the apartment for a phone that’s got an alarm going off in vibrate-only mode.

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I love how this file specification ends with a line that reads “EOFEOFEOF”

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Kiddo proceeded to Rick-Roll the class when the teacher asked for a song title

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Kid’s doing “Would you rather?” in class, and they just asked whether you’d rather swim in gravy or take a nap on mashed potatoes

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Another choice involved a turkey stuffed with candy vs. a turkey stuffed with cake.

I think it depends on the kind of cake.

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The kid has determined that a dual monitor setup is great because you can put YouTube on one monitor and a package tracker on the other

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totally misread “Three-axis gyro”

🥙 ^3

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I unlocked the secret cow level in Minecraft Dungeons. Leveled up twice while battling zillions of mushroom cows. Ended up getting killed by a freaking MOOSHROOM MONSTROSITY

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I was thinking the Mooshrooms would be neutral, like they are in the main game.

Nope. It was like navigating a stampede.

Oh, and some of them were enchanted.

Yep.

Enchanted Mooshrooms gone aggro.

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A bit weird to hear an ice cream truck tooling around as the sun sets before 5pm in November. Then again it was something like 80 degrees today, so 🤷‍♂️

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Ugh… I don’t want to get a voice assistant, but sometimes I wonder if it would be worth just recording the things the kid agrees to so we can prove to him that he actually agreed to them.

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Too much Among Us. Misread “sustech” as “suspicious tech” rather than “sustainability…”

IEEE SusTech

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