The cash registers are ringing, the beer is flowing and the tables are full.

So there is money to pay staff, right?

That's fantastic, well done!

Nah, if anything it will be noticeable in the palms and wrists, depending on the bike you ride and what tire pressure you're riding in the front. In my experience, long rides with less than ideal saddles tend to make the area between the balls and the anus sore.

Star Wars came out in 1977 and received six Oscars in 1978. I read somewhere that Moonraker was Broccoli trying to jump the SciFi bandwagon. It was a weird thing to do, but there are worse movies in the franchise.

Good movie. I also love the TV remake from 1997, starring Viggo Mortensen as Kowalski. Need to watch both again.

Hope you can obtain it, since it was made for TV. I managed to import a DVD copy ages ago.

Oh, okay. Cheers!

I still chuckle when I think about my buddy getting himself the new GTX 970 so his rig would be ready for the upcoming release of Star Citizen.

“I cannot imagine any reason Nvidia would be pursuing this beyond really needing every possible pipeline of every possible industry to be so overflowing with slop that they can keep investors convinced there will indeed be a need for more Nvidia products in the big slop centers being built with people’s retirement funds. This has nothing to do with games, it has nothing to do with game developers, and it has nothing to do with gamers."

That pretty much sums it up, I'd say.

The European mind cannot comprehend this.

Following the coronavirus crisis, sales had collapsed, making restructuring measures necessary.

How is that even possible? I get that their products aren't cheap and sales might suffer from macroeconomic factors, but I sure would have thought that lockdowns and work-from-home have fuelled their sales.

“My good friend Mr. George, I just want you to listen to what I’m telling you. I promise that you’re going to receive your package.”

I cannot help reading that to myself with a thick Indian accent. Been watching too much Scammer Payback, I guess.

I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.

I'd get dressed before photographing that thing.

Patienten-Selbstbeteiligung? Hab ich schon. Steht jeden Monat auf meinem Gehaltsstreifen.

A gaming GPU has cost as much as a console for a while now.

Couldn't even get the flag patch right.

“They want us to go to batteries!” he jeered. “We don’t have battery content. So let’s go to batteries according to these morons that were in our country.”

What is battery content? Does he mean the raw materials to make batteries?

I once received e-mails from Klarna that I suspected to be spam since they mentioned another person. At some point I decided to be brave and open the PDF that was supposedly a credit contract. Turns out the e-mails were indeed legit, just that I had received some Bavarian lady's personal data and details about a coffee table she'd purchased buy now, pay in instalments. I contacted customer support (which was hard enough) and told them there was a mix-up and that I would prefer not to receive someone else's personal details and information about their online shopping habits. They said alright, we'll see to it. A couple weeks later, I received more e-mails. The lady had apparently purchased clothes she couldn't afford to pay in cash. That's when I contacted Klarna again (via letter this time) and demanded for them to tell me what happened and to tell the other person that their data had leaked to me. Turns out that I had once or twice paid with Klarna in the past and they therefore had my mobile phone number from back then. I hadn't had that number for years after switching contracts and getting a new number, but it turns out that the woman in Bavaria had apparently been assigned that number. She used it for her Klarna payments and that's why Klarna sent her data to my e-mail.

Since I consider their incompetence a violation of GDPR laws, I made a complaint with German authorities, who handed the case over to Sweden. It's been two years and I'm still waiting to hear what happens of it. I still get regular "We're still working on it" correspondence from Berlin, though.