bus_factor

It's all centered around meetings it seems like. But my life is thankfully not.

TFW when someone has an "old-school" trick which uses markdown syntax.

The feeling is old. I feel old.

I actually used to learn names by associating the face with the faces of other people I knew with the same name. In the area I lived at the time, it wasn't uncommon to know multiple people with the same given name, so this helped quite often. Now I live in an area where there is very little overlap, and my brain seems to have fully abandoned that approach, even when I meet someone sharing a name with someone I know.

Thankfully, hearing someone's given name often jolts my memory and I suddenly remember the full name. That's at least somewhat redeeming after the initial awkwardness.

TIL I'm helping out by never changing my wardrobe.

Sidenote: I'm not face blind (I struggle with names instead), but I also sometimes struggle with recognizing people I only met once if I see them in a new context. Possibly because my brain doesn't fully commit people to memory unless I meet them at least twice. This is a problem, because people recognize me after meeting me once, and it makes for awkward second interactions.

That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.

No worries, that only happens if there's a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn't be a problem here, surely this thing won't generate any of that.

Watch out, Linux! Is this the year of GNU/Hurd on the desktop?

I'm guessing this is next to a golf course, and people try to keep playing the ball after it lands in the cemetery.

This article says the director was a friend of a friend, and "the first animated film made in Scotland" played on his national pride.

It also says I got the order wrong, and that he declined all those roles after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bizarre-story-sean-connerys-final-film/

Probably more muscular than the stalks pictured, though? Those are the legs of a skinny man.

I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?