I'm not sure I have a coherent throughline as I ramble because I was stoned while I watched Hackers for the first time.
I have many thoughts, the first is, I had no idea how queer this movie is. Phreaker's such a fucking twink, would likely ID as Non-Binary with those kinds of outfits in 2024. I could easily see Matthew Lilliard's character as a burnout gay AuDHD Furry looking for a hookup at Furrydelphia. There's a dream sequence where Dade's in a Dress (the terms of him losing a bet he makes with Kate about halfway through the movie). The two guys who host the Hacker TV Show are definitely at...
The fact that Wawa has not discontinued the Pizza yet I think speaks to a level of commitment we have not yet seen from a chain that is not defined as a pizza chain doing pizza.
The strategy most fast food places use is to churn through menu changes frequently to try and get you to go "oh, maybe I should get that." Wawa sort of does this, but honestly every time I'm near a Wawa, I stop in and get something, usually a pretzel, occasionally a sandwich depending on how hungry I am. If there were one on my work commute route I'd absolutely be leaving 10 minues earlier & getting a coffee & breakfast...
So I spent all weekend rebuilding my website from the ground up using a new CMS I've never tried before, and while I was successful, it was really really obnoxious in several regards, many of those things I've laid out already, but there's a solution I had to figure out myself that none of the OctoberCMS forums, tips pages, or anything actually touch on.
OK so, some of the vending machines in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk say "fugazi coffee" on them. Fugazi is a hardcore punk band that came out of the Washington D.C. 80's hardcore scene, and shares some member lineage with Minor Threat. I don't know much about them otherwise.
OK so, I lost this website a few years ago to a Joomla update that went completely off the rails and trashed my shit. It was, quite frankly, so frustrating I decided I did not have the energy to fix it, so I just wiped everything and put up a placeholder page. Joomla, in the time since, has upgraded to a new major version. Joomla's ecosystem is built mostly around paid plugins, which mostly did not seem to work with the new version! Uh oh, you've broken the trust AND the entire plugin ecosystem! Time to find something new. I am not a web developer, I'm a database and ETL developer that knows b...