During lockdown in 2020. I started playing this little game called 'did this romcom age well?'. The idea was to watch a romcom that was at least a decade old and see whether it still holds. Here's an ongoing thread of the films I've watched so far.
I used to dream of becoming a writer as a young person but I ended up choosing a career in computer science. I now derive great joy from writing for its own sake, so things like this just make me sad.
Using gen AI to win a short story prize over writers with actual talent is truly one of the most embarrassing things I can think of. Literally, do anything else with your time.
beautiful but unfortunately i’m a 2000s kid and my first association with this lake will always be that it’s the spot anakin skywalker announced he didn’t like sand
There used to be a tumblr called ‘Crying in New York’. It featured a variety of stellar locations, my personal favorite being the Barnes and Noble at union square
best places to cry in NY
- the L train from bedford to 1st ave, or the reverse
- the F train, specifically between delancey and jay st
- the pier in dumbo facing manhattan
- central park
- grand central
- any corner in west village at 2am
- your building's laundry room
@udupendra Listen I once had a nightmare about having to solve a higher order differential equation at every mile of a 60k. This is a milder version of that.
me when i purchase a Springer Graduate Text in Mathematics which is well above my level.
*glances at the table of contents*
uh oh
*frantically starts flipping through pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh.
Reminds me of weekends in upstate New York where undergrads would head to parties dressed like this in such conditions. A bunch of visiting students from Florida were scandalized.