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Broadway Grosses Analysis: The Holiday Boost Continues as Ticket Prices Soar
  • This applies everywhere. I was looking at tickets as a Christmas gift and ticket prices for touring shows in Toronto are crazy. All the big name shows coming through this year (Lion King, Wicked, etc) are about $140-$190 CAD for average seats. The lowest tier tickets are still $90 and that's for the seats wayy in the back of the balconies.

    Add in the fact that many people travel to come see these shows (I'm personally 2.5 hours from Toronto), so 2 tickets, dinner, and maybe a hotel is now getting upwards of $700 for a night out.

  • Removed from sale: Peter Molyneux's Godus and Godus Wars, never finished
  • I remember playing this game when it first came out as a mobile game. Super cool concept, but I also remember hearing the drama from the start. I definitely thought this game had been abandoned a looong time ago.

  • What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
  • So project management on a personal scale is really varied based on what level of detail you need. I've worked with people who have ADHD traits and they worked best with a very micromanaged day, like there is a reminder every 15 minutes to keep them on track (that's a generalization, but not far off).

    But if you're just looking for some broader structure to help organize projects you have to do, you can look at AI assisted planners to remove some of the basic breakdown work. You can ask ChatGPT to create a rough outline for some major projects, give it a time frame, and mention any other circumstances (work, childcare, only work 1 hour at a time, etc.), it will give you a decent outline to start with. You can then break it down further if you need to and refine the time line to best fit your own needs

    There are lots of 'personal project management' books that can help to break it down, also good youtube videos on the subject. There are 3 primary things to remember though:

    • create manageable goals, this might take some trial and error to figure out timing.
    • stick to your plan. Putting off a task because you don't feel like it defeats the purpose of making a plan.
    • if you stuck to the plan the best you could and it didn't work out, don't beat yourself up. Use it as a learning experience for next time you need to plan stuff out. Figure out why it didn't work and fix it.

    Quick note: reading/other resources won't hand you the answers, they will only help to provide and explain the tools you would need to be successful. Good luck!

  • What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
  • I also had the alias 2. I thought I was pretty hot shit with the fancy flip-both-directions phone. And I think there was a little display on the outside too, right? With the time and some other basic notifications?

  • What's an easy yet useful skill that everyone should learn?
  • Effective planning. It's very easy to say " I'm doing this today and that tomorrow" but how realistic is that? Know how to break something down into its component pieces and be able complete them along a schedule. It's basically project management, but for everyday stuff. It helps immensely to be able to tackle big projects and recognize that things are progressing even though the project still isn't done. Hugely helpful for stress management.

  • Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future
  • I really hope they're successful. The ideals they're working towards are great, but something I've learned at every point in life is that people like things easy. They like to be spoon fed, and the algorithms do exactly that. People need to want something different and that's where I fear the biggest hurdle will be.

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    Newspaper in 1924 writing to historians in 2024 , Casper daily Tribune , 25th march 1924.
  • If over the course of 100 years, nothing more newsworthy has prevailed to get people's attention, that the doom and gloom of a century ago is the same as it is today, it's saying something about the world in general that we haven't changed. Should we have changed in 100 years? I'd like to think so, but as I get older I know that's a pretty optimistic view of things.

    That author's paragraph out of context could mean a lot of different things which we can leave up to each viewer to decide.

  • What are you playing this week?
  • Not super old, but I'm working through Borderlands 3. I'm also playing through some old-ish games with my 9 y.o. like Portal 2, Supraland, Spyro remastered in an effort to change up his usual Fortnite/Minecraft/Roblox.

  • A cool guide on how to set up your work station
  • Random other info:

    • a headrest is unnecessary for the purposes of sitting correctly in an office chair. Headrests tend to put your cervical spine into slight extension if you're sitting straight up.
    • one thing you can't see from this angle is your shoulder abduction angle. Most office chairs are quite wide, so trying to use the armrests while you type can put an unnecessary amount of strain on your wrists. Ideal positioning for your elbows is directly below your shoulders, like where they would rest if you were standing up. Better for your shoulders and wrists.
    • if you're looking for a good ergo chair, I always recommend a used/refurbished higher end chair rather than a cheaper new chair. The higher end chairs (Steelcase, Humanscale, Herman Miller, Autonomous, etc) typically have replaceable parts and sometimes will still have a manufacturer's warranty depending on where you buy it.

    I'm a kinesiologist who has done a lot of office ergo work.

  • Found this lodged in my cat's tail. It was well healed over by the time we found it.

    See pics, found this thing well healed in my cat's tail. Came out with no resistance and no bleeding. Looks like a tip to something, but not sure. Cat is less than 6 months old. Thoughts? The grooves you see are from my pliers. It's hollow and seems to be aluminum or some other soft metal.

    Edit:

    Looks like this is pretty unanimously solved. Bit of backstory (not that you asked)- neighbor got got 2 kittens in May/June for his daughter. They're freaking adorable so whenever they wandered over to our house, we gave them lots of attention. They had been spending more and more time camped out on our porch furniture in the past month and then I found this just today. I'm going to talk to the guy and see what's up.

    I'm concerned they are only interested in animals while they're small and cute because last year they had a young dog that's no longer there, this is the second pair of kittens they've had this year (one of the first pair I still see sulking around at night, but I'm pretty sure it's feral now. No idea what happened to number 2), and now they have a new puppy again.

    Thanks all!

    Minor second edit: I made a mistake about their pets. The first dog mentioned above was actually the house next to the neighbors in question. Those neighbors had moved, which is why the dog is no longer here.

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