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This reminds me of a great scene from "Halt and Catch Fire". The lead engineer, Gordon, is supposed to be making dinner for his kids and putting them to bed while his wife is away, but he notices a small leak from the kitchen sink. He then drops all plans and next you see him under the sink. Marital problems ensue.

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Common in real life: Wife comes home and tells husband about shit gone wrong in her day. Husband interprets this as asking for help solving those problems and starts offering suggestions. No, he was just supposed to listen.

Woo! new tv show to watch

It's really good, both as a drama with great characters, and as a show about tech.

A punk sexpot supermodel rockstar with awesome hair programmer? Really?

But that got me thinking. Say they did it different. Realistically.

3 alienated schlubs. Fat. Bad skin. Brilliant and driven.

Would the show have worked with that? I mean, realistically?

Do people like that have camaraderie? And society? Is that realistic?

I mean of course I like to think they do. But maybe they don't. Maybe it would be like 3 Pak Protectors pinging each other across lightyears.

And maybe it would still work showwise.

The demographic would be like 10 people. I'd probably watch it.

Also, there's some good music. Was that Dead Kennedys?

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