If you were blindfolded and driven four hours from home, do you think you could drive home without looking for directions online?

Friends and I are developing two games:

The first one involves two friends blindfolding the third friend and driving them up to four hours away, removing the blindfold, and then making them drive home without looking at a phone for directions.

The second one involves one friend leaving a note with clues for the other two friends. The other two friends have to use those clues to find the friend -- wherever they're hiding in Los Angeles County

A selection of things I've been scolded for on here:

- Saying cargo bikes cost too much

- Polling people about whether they write til, 'til, or till

- Saying that too-extensive profile bios on here are like aposematic coloration, but for personality

- Referring to curry spices as curry spices

- Saying I thought the etymology of muckety muck is more interesting than the etymology of pecan

- Saying most computer users are normies and won't want to deal with Linux

- Saying that it's silly to think that using bluesky makes you better than people who use mastodon, or vice versa

- Not agreeing that Tolkien invented the concept of a character arc

- Posting a video of my wind chime made of nitrous tanks without a CW

- Saying maybe the tariffs on China could do some good if it means we buy less cheap junk

- Saying that community college classes are a great bargain

- Posting that the pope said something good about the dangers of AI

Maybe I'll keep a journal of all the things I get scolded about on here.

Thief tools kit. I don't know why he had a garden hose

At least I discovered a way to keep IT from installing annoying updates on my work computer -- there's not enough hard drive space left!

Firefox has suddenly started auto-suggesting a website in the url bar that I visited one time, months ago, instead of a website that I visit every day.

Of course, all the online advice says to do a thing that doesn't match the reality of how firefox works, so I guess I'm stuck with this.

I hate computers!!

I got a bunch of thief tools from a friend of mine tonight. He caught a homeless guy cutting the locks off some storage containers at his warehouse the other night. The guy ran off and left his backpack of stuff behind.

My friend called the police to ask what to do with the stuff. They told him they didn't want to deal with the paperwork of booking it into evidence and to keep it.

So, i got two cordless Makita sawzalls, a large pair of bolt cutters, and some other odds and ends. The guy also had a cordless angle grinder, but he took that with him when he ran off.

@joe @wanderinghermit I'm pretty sure they are illegal in some places

@wanderinghermit How do the new ones work?

I found a blind spot sensor from a Subaru lying in the road while riding my bike so i brought it home and opened it up to see what was inside

Radar stuff. That's what's inside

@mloxton @UsagiTsukino I don't know if anyone has catalogued and categorized them, but there are definitely distinct types of annoying guy.

Like, there are guys who want to talk to a woman so they can talk about themselves.

There are guys who have an imaginary idea of women being princesses, so they treat you like that.

There are guys who are so horny they don't listen to anything you say.

There are probably so many other kinds, but I would have to think about this some more.

@UsagiTsukino You just have to know the type of annoying guy you're dealing with

Did I discover a new way to get rid of an annoying kinda-sexist guy bothering me at a bar? Maybe.

Some guy was chatting me up whilst I was trying to read and saying things like, "Women! What are we gonna do with you?"

He was very persistent until I told him I just need to marry someone rich so I can stop working. He stopped smiling and within a minute excused himself and left.

@APBBlue it took me a second to figure out who, and then i realized exactly who because I gave him the boot from following me a couple weeks ago

The word audio dates only to 1934. The word video dates to 1935, and was modeled on the word audio.

It makes sense that neither word existed 100 years ago, but both are so ubiquitous now that it feels weird to think that both of those concepts were invented in recent history.