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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Home Depot had an “escape room” section

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Christmas purchase of 2018, meet the Christmas purchase of 2020

This year’s purchase is less pricey than the 2018 one by a factor of 20 or so. Tap to view at full size.

Cyberpunk 2077 just arrived today, but I’m not playing it until Saturday evening. I’ve got lots to do between now and then, including writing content for the Auth0 blog, revising the Auth0 native mobile “quickstart” kits, teaching the final 12 hours of an online Python class for Computer Coach, and giving a remote presentation for mDevConf 2020, a mobile developer conference in La Paz, Bolivia.

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The Queen’s Gambit, but featuring games that don’t scare people away

Photo: “Beth” from “The Queen’s Gambit” playing Connect Four instead of chess.
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Are the from the director’s cut?

Thanks to my coworker, Auth0’s David Moses, for the find!

Photo: “Beth” from “The Queen’s Gambit” playing Jenga instead of chess.
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Photo: “Beth” from “The Queen’s Gambit” playing Monopoly instead of chess.
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Photo: “Beth” from “The Queen’s Gambit” playing Guess Who instead of chess.
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Photo: “Beth” from “The Queen’s Gambit” playing Operation instead of chess.
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Image of the day: Donald the Hutt’s reign comes to an end

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This one’s for the fans of both Star Trek and N.W.A.

Meme: Dathon (Tamarian captain from the Star Trek TNG episode “Darmok”) with the caption “Felicia, when she left the village.”

C’mon, there’s got to be some people who love both. It can’t just be me and Snoop Dogg.

(Seriously — Snoop has a Star Trek wall mural!)

Photo: Snoop Dogg posing in front of his wall mural featuring Star Trek ships in space

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From the “Remote work problems” file

Tweet by @PettyClegg: “my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting”
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And now I’m checking to see if the videoconferencing app we use at Auth0 (where I work) has a potato filter.

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“Existential Troopers”: Auralnauts’ remix of “The Mandalorian”

Photo: Still from “Existential Troopers” — The speeder bike troopers from “The Mandalorian”, in the scene where one of them punches Baby Yoda

Existential Troopers is Auralnauts’ latest Star Wars remix in which they take the classic “Stormtroopers” scene from the final season one episode of The Mandalorian and turn it from simple comedy gold in great philosophical comedy gold.

It’s a great premise. One speeder bike trooper has been thinking about how in spite of their superior numbers and technology, The Empire always loses. He even brings up the the topic of how the best-trained, best equipped army in the galaxy has such terrible aim and got defeated by “a bunch of weekend warriors and their pet teddy bears on Endor”. He’s reasoned out that it might be their destiny to lose, and existential hilarity ensues…

If you liked what Auralnauts did with Existential Troopers, be sure to catch my article spolighting another Auralnauts creation, Go To Sleep Baby Yoda, which takes scenes of The Mandalorian and The Child on the Razor Crest (the ship) and turns it into a sweet bedtime story, complete with catchy synthpop tune!