@melissa

The decline of office romances is the decline of American dynamism. Have sex with your coworkers early and often.

Dunno who needs to know this but it turns out that if you plug your American motor-based white noise machine into an outlet in France it will burst into flames Predictable, I know, but I’m so used to safe appliances and voltage-smart small electronics that I didn’t consider it

i tracked down this song once. learned a bit about its lore. later they did a radiolab episode on it

Telephone Hold music sounds really bad. Mostly because it’s mapping complex instruments to a human throat. Many phone lines these days use CELP, Code-Excited Linear Prediction algorithms. Music breaks down in weird ways when you turn a piano into…speech.

the original night manager is perfect i have nearly no notes 10 years later there's a season 2, and i have many notes warning, spoilers ahead

the child is riding his bike. he flies down a hill and falls. he gets back up and grins. i say, you might try going slower. he says, i'm practicing going fast