NOPper

I want to date older women. 🤷‍♂️

People say it never gets easier, but it does.

I literally quit for my wife the day we met.

I was a two pack a day Navy punk. Met her at a friends house with a large group of folks, and at some point she mentioned she could never date a smoker. On the way home I picked up a pack of patches and spent the next few weeks quitting. We started seriously dating about a year later and beyond the occasional cigar/cigarette socially while drinking (like once a year if that) I've been smokeless. This was 2006.

Why would I resent her for my choice?

Why would anyone have an issue what other people self-identify as? My name is Todd, but I'd like you to call me Steve. Does this impact your day?

Ask a Ninja apparently started up again a few months ago. I'm totally fine pretending the last decade didn't happen!

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who ever saw that flick. Concur there's some lasting life lessons in there. And space turtles!

I love these games, but the fan service scenes sprinkled through like that are cringey as all hell. At least I never knew about this one, I bathed my Snake regularly.

It doesn't work if you don't pre-print this out.

You'd be surprised how much can be done at the edge with current cameras. I'm not sure exactly how these particular ones are set up, but the other major players in the space (Axis,Bosch,Panasonic) all have pretty surprising levels of local compute dedicated to "AI", and leveraging external VMS platforms can exponentially increase capabilities. It's pretty idiot proof once set up, as it's aimed at desk jockies that monitor and report with minimal systems training.

Again, not this specific system but this stuff is far from sci-fi anymore.

Spray paint. Krylon makes "stained glass" paints. Something dark and thick like violet would be pretty effective.

I work in security engineering, including massive video systems. With any commercial unit made in the last 5 years and any software past entry level consumer grade this is a non-issue. Especially if someone is using descriptive visual search when pulling up video vs just scanning through every motion event.

Plus they gonk.