Bruncvik

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[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

TV/movie: Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell, especially from the SAC.)

Video games: Nicole Collard (Broken Sword series)

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Electric Light Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Rubettes. Essentially the same as when I go running.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I have a 486, but with MS-DOS 6.2 and Norton Commander as a UI. Haven't booted it up for about a decade, though, but don't see a reason why it shouldn't work. My Win98SE computer (Pentium 100), on the other hand, is still my gaming rig. Don't need anything better for HoMM2, Master of Orion 2, and TES: Daggerfall.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

No idea why they'd want those tethered caps. My speculation (and that's 100% unfounded, so take it as you will) is that they are lobbying for something simple and cheap (tethered caps, plastic straws, etc), to blind people from the real environmental issues that are far more costly to tackle. Kind of like the plastic recycle logo, which is a total scam, but makes people feel good enough to not further question the big corps' recycling practices.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (8 children)

An EU regulation that was heavily lobbied for by Coca Cola.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Back when I was single and living alone, I did my share of nature photography, mainly landscapes and wildlife. Sitting for hours, waiting for the perfect moment, was my meditation. And yes, there were times where I just lived for the moment, rather than taking the pucture.

I saw the movie a few years after I settled down, and it triggered my only occasion where I questioned my life choices and wondered what might have been if I remained alone and unattached.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I'm being self-censored. Working for a very large corp that has a long list of topics I'm not supposed to discuss, and I'm pretty good at not talking about them under my real name. I'm quite certain that my anonymous comments may also be traced back to me, but the HR doesn't care about those.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980's fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love to see a movie based on Silent Running. But I'm afraid it's shaping out to be a documentary...

(The existing movie of the same name has nothing in common with the song, but it's worth watching anyway.)

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Last year, a middle aged gentleman stopped me on the street to ask me what time it was. I told him "half past one and ten minutes." Just came naturally to me (I also wear an analog watch, so never really can tell the exact minute). I still remember the confused look on his face, and I imagine he's been working really hard to convert it into minutes. That made me self-conscious about saying the time, and I noticed I never say time in the hours-minutes format. My kids will be the same, as long as they pick up this habit from me rather than videos and movies.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still have a Samsung Galaxy S2, which has such a cover. From the beginning, the phone would lose its back cover (and the battery would fall out) whenever it hit the ground, even just from a table. I solved it with getting a thin plastic phone case, and even after 14 years the phone works just fine.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

May 1995. Started with Gopher to access other university sites. My e-mail client was through vi editor. Eventually, I got onto the WWW with the Mosaic browser. Back then, I didn't know how to even use a URL. The browser defaulted to Yahoo, and I just kept clicking through categories and then on links that sounded interesting. Even later, I discovered Geocities, created my own page (learned HTML by exploring the code the WYSIWYG editor generated), and collected lots of swag sent to me by up-and-coming online stores and search engines for placing their button on my page. I miss those simpler times...

 

Waiting for 30 minutes to access the Web site of the Road Safety Authority, the Irish equivalent of the DMV. Too bad they don't have physical offices where I could queue personally...

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