Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

What's something you wish you had been taught before you became an adult?

Here's your biannual reminder that "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" does not, in fact, discuss the weather, so singing the opening line because it is snowing is nonsensical.

Drove past a pair of police cars parked facing traffic and an obnoxious distance from the curb.

I get that some rules are questionable (other equal-civilised places allow parking facing traffic) and that police are, arguably, above the law and unaccountable, but you'd think they could at least park against the curb and set a good example.

Shirts don't work either
https://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2591

Giving the grandparents of my children connected photo frames feels very much like the scene from Babe (1995) where the adult children get older generation a fax machine

If it weren’t for paper napkins we wouldn’t have so many dumb ideas going around

Been doing these link-emails for 200 links! https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/196-200/

Should do a playlist of my political opinions in song one day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Cmw1NHUig

When adding alt text, do you try to convey the point of the image or describe what the image is showing?

I might become an unironic RFC 1855 stan https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1855

Primary computer displays should be widescreen. That is certain. But so many things are designed to stack vertically instead of horizontally and I can't figure out why.

The eternal dilemma between trying to not let people put words in your mouth and hating to stick your neck out

Maybe the single best photo of my parents

Every time I use a gif that references something I like, I wish the recipient would get the reference but then I remember that the recipient probably wouldn't care considering they don't already know it.

But it bugs me every time because surely the recipient just thinks it's a random gif.

Sometimes I'll use a gif as a reaction or what-have-you that references a piece of pop culture that I want to reference.

Like I used a MKBHD thumbs up because I like MKBHD. But my boss will just see that as a random dude.

I don't know what to do about this.

I'm not a big MCU or Spider-Man fan but the idea of bringing in other actors who've played the title character for the multiverse concept was brilliant.

I love how there's a club where they core tenant of their club is not being part of the other clubs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

It's kind of funny that ? and ! are on opposite ends of a QWERTY keyboard, but I guess it makes sense. I still type the wrong one sometimes.

If you're not careful kids these days will never understand how great practical effects in film can be

We, as a society, have agreed that there are things we can't use to discriminate people, and that using those things in that way is bad. Some people seem to forget that throwing around accusatory labels ("you're sexist!") is a grave issue, as it hampers preventing the actual discrimination from happening.

I don't know why I didn't realise it until just now but TIL Carl Orff of Carmina Burana is the same Carl Orff of Schulwerk