Meth lab oompa loompa is the best new meme I’ve seen in a long, long while.

Thank you!

I’m a pretty pragmatic at heart, so I feel silly sometimes when realizing that I used fictional characters for inspiration to build myself up. I don’t aspire to be the hero of anything, but do want to be someone that is worthy of respect.

It’s almost embarrassing to admit, but TNG was a factor for me in finding emotional maturity.

I was a happy, naive child that was lucky to get to 8 before everything sorta fell apart. Parents divorced, sexual abuse from within the extended family by different people, having to toughen up at school due to the emotional issues starting to crop up, abandoned by a parent because of their addiction, and even the social pressure during the satanic panic (this was obviously the 80’s).

Somehow, I did manage to keep some of the happy-go-lucky and naivete, but otherwise I had a rough time reigning in my temper and sometimes would break into tears from being overwhelmed (alone, obviously, because I had to be manly).

When I got into watching TNG, I really admired Picard as a character template, and worked on some of my own self perceived character flaws, and why I acted the way I did. Essentially, looking for the causes and not the symptoms. It was the start of a growth that continues still. His morality and introspection as an archetype gave me hope.

A therapist surely would’ve been a better way to go about it, but those weren’t really much of an option for us back then.

I would take those and the adhesive rubber feet that you would get with switches and make coasters out of them to give away.

Scott Bakula is what I was thinking.

Oh no. No, no, no, no, put it back!

Wow! 10 years is a long time for an SD!

Backups are so easy on Raspbian that every couple of years I swap out the SD cards from the old set to a new one, and just keep the old ones around in case one of the new ones decide to croak out.

I must confess to missing the vastness of Reddit, but I’ll never go back. The company I keep here is better, by far.

Ones a vampiric blight on society, and the other is a beloved drag racing grandad from a 60’s sitcom.

Would it help if I said “please”?

*roll a nat 20

“Get fucked, shitbird. I didn’t buy your bullshit even when people thought you were techno Jesus.”

Me: *turns 51 in a few days

Also me: “fuck”

Yep. Duck those ducking duckers. I’m out.