Stephen J. Carrington

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That's a hefty price hike across the entire line of Xbox products, including the games themselves! 🕹️ I'm guessing this must be related to the unpredictability & randomness of all those tariffs. Will PlayStation follow suit, with its US price-points? 🤔

https://www.theverge.com/news/659430/microsoft-xbox-console-controller-game-price-increases-worldwide

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide

Microsoft is increasing Xbox Series S / X console prices worldwide. The price increases will also hit controllers and even new game prices later this year.

The Verge

Playing through "Avowed" on Xbox right now. Having a great time with it. 🧙 The whole Living Lands scenario reminds me so much of the 1960 scifi novel "Deathworld" by Harry Harrison, tho. It's a pretty fun, fast & pulpy bit of science fiction reading. Y'all should check it out! 📚

#Videogames #BookClub #Bookstadon #SciFi

Updated meal locations available for 2/1/25:

#WCK will have free meals available in California for first responders and community members impacted by the Southern California #wildfires at the locations listed here:

https://www.wck.org/ca-meals 🍕

Share with anyone in the area in need of support. 🤗

#ChefsForCalifornia #WorldCentralKitchen

World Central Kitchen | Meal Distribution Sites: California Fires

In response to the Palisades Fires WCK is distributing free hot meals to the public at the following locations in southern California. For more information please check our social pages.

World Central Kitchen
cartoon by Mark Parisi
#books #BooksWorthReading

Heads up! Panic (makers of Playdate) is looking for a Web Services Engineer to maintain and expand our growing flock of Flask + Django web applications, and more.

The job is here in Portland, OR. We can also cover relocation if you're elsewhere in the USA. Panic is a small team with a lot of responsibility on each person, and we work best near each other. (Well, at least two days a week.)

Is this you? Or someone you know? Apply! (Or share!) 🙏 http://panic.com/jobs/

Panic Jobs

Panic might be hiring in Portland, OR. See what's available!

I stopped by a roadside stand that said lobster tails $2.

I paid $2 and the guy says: “Once upon a time there was a lobster...”

“Just one more game,” he lied, “and then I’ll get to work,” he further lied.

All these years it was just an honest goof!    🧅

“Why did it go on for this long, and this far?” said Goss in a press conference called shortly after the report’s release. “I’m as frustrated as anyone. You can’t read a single thing that’s been highlighted. Had I been there to advise [former CIA director] Allen Dulles, I would have suggested the traditional yellow color—or pink.”

https://theonion.com/cia-realizes-its-been-using-black-highlighters-all-thes-1819568147/

#Comedy #Satire #TheOnion #CIA

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years

LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.

The Onion

Problem was, the display panels & software were junk. Displays would break, flicker, catch fire, you name it. After putting up with it for 3 years, Walgreens is trying to get out of their 10-year contract with the display vendor. Vendor wants to keep the contract, of course, so in retaliation they remotely switched off all the displays in over 100 stores. 😆

I'mma suggest that maybe plain ol' fashioned glass doors were good enough for this?