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  1. Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv

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    "Vandelay Industries. Kel Varnsen speaking. How may I help you?" Seinfeld is mine too. Sounds like I'm a little older than you, because I was a little kid when the show was still airing. But its...

    "Vandelay Industries. Kel Varnsen speaking. How may I help you?"

    Seinfeld is mine too. Sounds like I'm a little older than you, because I was a little kid when the show was still airing. But its an early TV memory of mine. I watched the syndication religiously as a teenager, but by the time I "got the jokes" beyond laughing at Kramer it had already ended.

    Its funny to say but Seinfeld massively influenced my expectations about what adulthood would be like. I moved to NYC at 18 years old for many reasons, but one of the biggest reasons was Seinfeld. Around that time one of my close friends was really into it, and we became experts at Seinfeld trivia, and won many free drinks competing in Seinfeld bar trivia nights all around NYC.

    I still watch the show all the time. Its my comfort show, the way "The Office" is a comfort show for a lot of folks. I can recite most of it from memory. I'm going to stop rambling now but the last thing I'd like to say is: I love the idea of your dad immigrating to the US and when people ask why, he just says "well you know, my home country had its positives and negatives, but... yada yada yada, now I'm here!"

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  2. Comment on What's your line? in ~life

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    Good for you. I'm constantly shouting out the danger of Sinclair to friends and family who genuinely don't know they're watching propaganda. Its very cool that you walked.

    Good for you. I'm constantly shouting out the danger of Sinclair to friends and family who genuinely don't know they're watching propaganda. Its very cool that you walked.

    7 votes

  3. Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech

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    I learned this decades ago, but I still regularly marvel at how useful this feature is to me: To switch between running applications, hold alt and tap tab to open a quick switcher. Keep holding...

    I learned this decades ago, but I still regularly marvel at how useful this feature is to me:

    To switch between running applications, hold alt and tap tab to open a quick switcher. Keep holding alt and tapping tab until the application you want is hilighted, then release.

    Works everywhere on every computer: Windows, Mac OS and Linux. I must have learned it when I was 16? So I wasted the first 15 years of my life.

    24 votes