Coding a Little Tonight

Me telling my wife I'm going to code a little tonight How long will you be coding for? I'll be in bed soon It's been 84 years. He exists now, only in my memory

A man in a formal suit tells his wife he is going to code for a little while, then promises he will be in bed soon. The clip cuts to elderly Rose from Titanic saying, “It’s been 84 years” and that he exists only in her memory, turning a harmless late-night coding promise into an exaggerated joke about disappearing into programming for decades. The mournful Titanic music makes the delay feel dramatically tragic and amplifies the punchline. EN: A man in a formal suit tells his wife he is going to code for a little while, then promises he will be in bed soon. The clip cuts to elderly Rose from Titanic saying, “It’s been 84 years” and that he exists only in her memory, turning a harmless late-night coding promise into an exaggerated joke about disappearing into programming for decades. The mournful Titanic music makes the delay feel dramatically tragic and amplifies the punchline.

It's been 84 years. Heaks us now, only in my memory.

• @ithueti / 11035 2023-11-28