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Ha, I thought I was being novel pointing out how convenient it was for solving the myriad problems that come with parenthood. I printed a bunch of car logos for my vehicle-obsessed kid to stare at, name, and futz with during diaper changing time and it has figuratively paid for itself in terms of mitigating piddling power struggles.

Plus I cannot express the collective relief my spouse and I felt when I was able to repair a poorly designed part on the malfunctioning coffee maker in an hour's time. We're solving the real problems here.

This will sound frivolous and ridiculous, but I have a toddler with constantly changing tastes and it's a nice way to be able to engage with and encourage their interests. For example, cars have been a huge deal lately, and being able to 1) print a bunch of logos for room decorations and 2) put the logos in areas that the kiddo finds onerous to encourage them to go there (e.g. How many cars can you name while we get changed for preschool) has been a life saver.

Plus it's nice to be the hero around the house when I can solve random maintenance problems with a quick search on Thingiverse or a couple of hours of designing and printing. Not sure it has literally paid for itself since I got one, but it has definitely be more useful than I expected and I would say it has been borderline indispensable for my household.

It's interesting to me that between this and Apple's news app that we're steering to a less-social-engagement centric model for news presentation. One new way to save myself from looking at the comments.

This looks like something Michel Gondry would've figured out manually 20 years ago with an 8mm camera and a paper cup or something.

That being said, it really does look amazing!

I would argue that at least DFW (and possibly the author) knew exactly what he meant when he said irony. I think maybe irony is misunderstood as necessarily being obvious and bald-facedly deceptive in a noticeable way. I think a lot of the problem DFW was addressing (and I very much agree with h here) that it's so pervasive that we don't even perceive it's ubiquity culturally, and that our modes of communication are so shot through with the stuff that we can't just break down and communicate directly. I could be wrong, but in that sense I thought he was frighteningly prescient. I may be (probably am) mis-reading you, but arguing that irony is important because irony was important doesn't quite work as a counterpoint for me in this case.

I must be a luddite, I prefer my pixilation like my soup: chunky :)

I don't know if beer has any special rules regarding it's taxation, but assuming it doesn't and knowing the beer craziness here in Colorado, I'm not too concerned.

Furthermore, if we finally killed our remaining blue laws (Only one location of any chain store can have alcohol in the state) I'd imagine the alcohol revenue would bump back up.

Did you have anything to do with bringing the the scarf that's for sale on attractmo.de to market? I got one for my wife and it's really beautiful.

Doubly so because Klepek is a hell of a games journalist. It's a really exciting time to be a fan of this stuff, no matter how casual.

Wow, posted by Dave himself. Hi Dave!

"A Furby is an evil robotic children’s toy wrapped in colored fur."

If only all technical reviews started this honestly...

Yes, but how many lines of javascript? It seems that's the metric above all metrics lately.

Totally anecdotal and only tangentially related, but I've been to Tokyo three times since 2009 and the change in availability of American craft beer as well as Japanese microbrews was honestly staggering. As a Coloradan, it was almost comical to see so much specialty beer from home so far away.

Soon after returning from my most recent trip, I happened to sit next to an employee of Left Hand Brewing (Probably the most weirdly ubiquitous Colorado beer I saw there that trip) during lunch, and it turns out some beverage exporter pays the freight on the kegs to and from Tokyo just to bring Left Hand overseas. I have to imagine this marks some sort of change in tastes and economics, at least in the big city.