It’s something I didn’t think about when they were always there and it’s something I continued to not think about when they were gone. Fireplaces.

When I moved from America to Japan 11 years ago, I never saw a house or apartment that had a fireplace ever again. And even though I grew up with one, and associate a lot of fond memories with it, I don’t really miss it and don’t think it’s necessary in a modern home.

The closest the Japanese ever had to a fireplace was a hearth in the common room for cooking. Those became extinct a long time ago and are now only found in the few larger pre-war buildings that still remain.

The headline makes it sound like people are scared to report crimes because they don’t want to talk to RoboMallCop.

Wow, I forgot about Silverlight.

Captain Barbosa enters the chat

Actual scene from For All Mankind.

This one is low-key kind of creepy.

Mitch over here passing out halos.

She’s the doctor that resuscitates truck victims. They all awaken screaming, “Nooooo!!!”

Oh, is this Doctor X the Anime?

Spider: “We’re gonna need a bigger web.”

“Here’s my Nolan Ryan rookie pog and here’s my Hologram Charizard pog.”

I gave the first series a pass when it was on, is this something worth binging to catch up for?

Add: Thanks for the feedback. Gonna hold my pass on these because of some icky plot elements as pointed out elsewhere in this post.

If there is no library, it shouldn’t be allowed to call itself a school anymore.

A melon of pure evil.

Yuna, to the monster that has her cornered: “Call an ambulance…”

Payne transforms into a healer and shields Yuna, Riku transforms into a healer and shields Yuna, Yuna transforms into a warrior and points two loaded Magnums at its head

“…but not for me.”

While USB is now needlessly complicated and poorly labeled for consumer understanding, at least it succeeds in being backwards compatible so long as the physical connectors match (and all you need is a dumb adapter to convert any connector). If you have a 3.0 port on one device, a 2.0 port on the other device, and a 3.1 cable, you get 2.0 transfer speeds.

HDMI has the same kind of “issue”. Whatever the specs on each component, throughput and features drop to the lowest common denominator when in use.

Typically, the side of the plug with the USB logo is “up”. There are exceptions.

Also typically, if a USB port is vertical, up is to the left. Again, there are exceptions.

A recent one I don’t see mentioned often: The Great Pretender

His only movie of the 2000’s was Pauly Shore is Dead (2003) which was about no one caring about him anymore.

Apt.

“Mozart’s Ghost! The hottest new site on the internet!”